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1664-47 Hotels & Tourism • • �4 I-115 1 22 MIAMI BEACH SECTION ° . MIAMI DAILY NEWS Pictorial Record Tells Good Story 'WORLD ANSWERSI FASTEST SPEED BOA Beach Progress Carefully Outlined CALL OF WM D F The i ,- pictorial record of Miami the Flamingo grounds in October, � e ';fi ' Beach development has been kept 1914. Consistently Good P r o . ` ! since 1914 in the office of W. E. Belle Isle in October, 1914, photo- grams From Beach t `' • t'I Brown, engineer for Alton Beach graphed from the site of the Flamingo, a;<r"z ,' ,� Itealt Co.,engineer Beach Bs Shore showed n little pavilion about 10 feet1• FansJ t ��$£q��:,k,'...k (. F^ # 1" ,,.. y y square, u flag pole. Auatruliau pines Please Radio et�.eY.�rX , ,, z 3` , '41 Co., Peninsula Terminal Co. and coconuts less than six feet high. r �'` ' ..., i f X13 •e.. • These photographs show strange • The first building operations on Belle 'Miami Beach and the bleetwood � ,` r.q" r r contrasts. .For example in 1914 the isle begun early in November,1014. In hotel have achieved international re• 4 ,"y r, Australian pines now towering high March,1915.the final lot staking was noon through the \VSIBF radio • r tit-S '" above shaded driven were three or four done on Belle Isle, and the concrete broadcasting station, on top of the r ` Sf`moi. • feet high. At the end of le1016, sea wall wan being built in April, .ay y. ¢' aaa 3f the only atructm-ea west of Alton Foal, 1915. 14-story Fleetwood betel judgrn r ' 'r;f' .'0',,,,•,.,e•:: rtr. r south of Lincoln road, and north of In January, 1111.., a large gr¢nd from the vest number of telegrams 3 9't={ yr. S Tenth st. were a large boathouse at stand for viewing boat races woo be• and letters that come into the Meet- • �} . Eleventh st. and regatta .;y fa .� } »• g grandstand. ing built near Tenth at. wood studio every day by the thou- F The first footbridge for golfers was Early in April, 1015,the east'shore sands from all parts of the western built over Collins canal in May, 1917. of Indian creek, opposite W. Fort).- hemisphere. From England, Canada. By following through this record, one first at., was still covered with the South America and the West Indies, is amazed both at how recently every- original swamp land growth. t thing hue been accomplished and bow not to mention the entire united much has always gone on at one time. Power mowers were used for the sagesStates, come congratulatory mss Following is a list of some of the first time on the Miami Beach golf sages bearing the strongest approval. • steps in development as shown by the'course in April, 191ru. The great success of W>fBN' is all pictorial record: Ground in the neighborhood of the the more conspicuous when one con: i •Work in 1914 when wooden Talbott residence at Tenth st.and Bin- aiders that it has been in operation • baWerk started were being driven at len cayne Lay ons first planted with grass ooh since Jan. 15. •t north of Collins canal. The only he in may, 1915. Commodore J. Perry Stoltz, owner FLEETWOOD HOTEL 1 vegetation on newly titled Belle isle •The J• ames Whitcomb Riley tree, a of the Fleetw ooi, says that the Ficus nitida, was planted in 1915 at great reception which has been ex• was newly planted coconuts, four feet high, and Australian pines less than a height of about three feet. tended byet radio tuna every where dueto tw•o feet high. A view from the top of the regatta the Fleetwood station has been �l9A'sipy o The wall was being built around the,grandstand in September, 1915, to the fact that'uniformly good pro. i Fisher i❑ April, 1914, and showed no buildings west of Collies grains have been given. Every tare,Fisher residence the Osius residence now stands, an.,south of Lincoln rd.and north of is given to having a top notch en• where th grass was beginning to cover Ninth at. and the tallest tree in this tertainment each night. A radio fan, the ground. same arca was siz feet.' 1I r. Stoltz says, is most critical and - extremely independent and once a The original bridge abutments for• Mayor Snedigt is house Fres being <. .;� ! the Alton rd. bridge over Collins ca- seated, in entirely It is said to have been bad or second rate program is pre- ''s nal had been built in May, 1014, but built of drift material from rented, the fan will remember and be ..dit y.:._ `,. no'bridge had been constructed. wrecked vessels. The Fisher residence at considerable pains to avoid catch. '.•:`.„ "�"°�!l '' Standing at the end of the Lincoln was completed the same montA: ing that station again. • rd. pavement at the present went edge Construction of the sea wall in The Fleetwood has been most for. , of the golf.comae and looking east front of the Flamingo hotel was uu• lunntely •shunted •in having the won- ' only one building was in eight in May,oder way in April, 1016. rlertul Fleetwood orchestra for each •-^ , a it evening's entertainment and in se. s� '-� • w 1914. Landscaping and improvement of � The first pavement on Washington Belle Isle was begun in June, 1016. curing noted entertainers to supple ay., north north from Lincoln rd. was laid At the end of July, 1916, the only mentg this organization thereby pro k s•: i :t the first part of May,1914. In build-atructures west of Alton rd. south of villin variety. \lr. Stolz saga that ` "�>m ule ing pavements at that time, ruck-wee Lincoln rd. and north of Tenth at. the demand has been for music that t�^t , 4,.,...,,,.,,..,..,;., ' loaded on barges or lighters near the were a 1¢rge boathouse at Eleventh at. may be classed as 'refined jazz." tt a^ < ,,.�,w ,, ;`. docks in Miami canal, and towed to and the regatta There is an especial aversion to the t '4'll, ; "• ' , .'-f�` I._ an unloading station on Collins canal g Krondat barbaric braying kind that is ,h �f The Snowden house and the Lincoln Prev- a <r `' 3' as+Mlii!!4P' a t near Jefferson et.and placed in small)hotel were under construction lu Oc• prev- alent in cheap dance traps, '�' t • • rare running on a contractor's narrow [ober, 1916. A great deal of the success of the ,1 i ;esu z 1, r. -, "a aY gang© railway to the site of the pro. station is attributed by Mr. Stoltr, ift 6. & r �"-jf posed road. hf}ami Beach's second swimming to the wonderful work of Jessie II. • A vast expanse of raw•,Smdeveloped pO°l was built is December, 1916 and Jay the announcer. Scarcely a mss- son J� ` ; .and'dune land was all there was on the Dutch w•indw•ill was built in Jan- sage comes into the studio that does i i .x `-.- r the Miami Peach golf course north of nary,1017. The casino was remodeled not mention the splendid announcer. �a+',, "s`;` Collins canal in May,1914. is July, 7.117. Inquiries as to who he is, and where if " ^ -°'f•.,rc" r.. f t In a picture taken from the east Work on the construction of the is he • end of the ocean pier at Lincoln rd. old polo fields started in 1017 and at going when the hotel closes, her Wood, who has invented the fastest b' • looking southward the neaten[ houses the end of the year the Australian pine cows r°gerer-v Jay, Mr. Stoltz nays. e in Mol', 1014, were at Twelfth and hedges were about 18 inches high. Bealizin that an announcer eau world's fastest trains, keeps his craft in these at Co6ina ay.,looking west from the east Construction of the east causeway make or break n radio bre only [ing hotel, at the aide, commands au ideal view of t end of Eighteenth St., showed only or•viaduct was well started in I way station and that there are only a fewho four buildings in an area along Bin- ary,,1D13. ine ra. \VMBF cothe country [eco are good an• ceyne bay front from Nineteenth et. nouncensiders itself Place the antennae at least 800 feet an audience �•, particularly fortunate in procuring in.the air. large audience to Fourteenth at. Looking south the HARDEE BOASTS t. view shows at the same date the re- this ingenuous young man. The station in operating on a ..OU,consistently g cantly built ocean sidewalk, Collins OF PHOSPHATE A year ago when the betel wan watt ay.,Lincoln rd.,and the nearest house, under construction .lir. Jay was en- power though the apparel us ixlgiver The t- with the exception of the T E.James' ygaged to install the broadcasting ata-capable of developing 1,000 watte.lnre received a Count• Has Nationally Important [ion and superintend its operations It is sending on a wave length oft there is a co residence at Fourteenth et.. is at Asset tinder Soil; 'l'welfth st. No buildings appear west and c vin constructed the msending vel veloped newh [erect ofc antennae de.'creasing ng num[ of Washington ay.and south of Four. Undeveloped and receiving stations de Miami amp veloped by the electric engineers of tune in on IT toenth at. at Cocolobo Cay in order that sono- the station is being used. It con- Mr. Stoltz .*! The first large amount of building TALLAHASSEE, July 25.—State munication might be established be-sista of a double antenna scheme and number of in. '.cSs f wits done along Collins ay. 'south of geologic map of Florida shows that all tween Cocolobo Cay and Miami for is.devised to increase the radius at'aince the elan • done st.in the summer of 1914. of Hardee county,with parts of three the convenience of members of the reception. about 5,000 u �: �' adjoining counties,lies within what is club. The success which \VM:BF hen During the broadcasting hours thr are answered r., • First grass planting over the south termed the"Bone ValleyFormation."achieved is the highest tribute to his Program is received iu the studio g the in' end of the Miami Beach golf course tninin was in the 1014. It is the only district in the state of ingenuity. and is listened to by an expert whose requires the n' ,'ft •' The west bank of Luke Pnnconat Florida that in so designated. It The antennae on the Fleetwood is duty is to observe any deviation in clerks. was a tangled mangrove swamp in means that this soil is underlaid with 250 feet above the ground and was reception, so that the apparatus may g atulati, the Coa r • June, 1914. petrified remains of prehistoric erected for temporary use this w•in• be adjusted. It is pointed out that on Jir. Stoltz i A sign in the parkway on Lincoln animals,in other words the phosphate ter due to the fact that it was cot• this watchfulness prevents the "fad- unselfish servir - i rd. announcer) in 1914 that Lincoln of commerce. As everyone knows,aidered wise to hurry completion as ing" which has been reatousible fo• rd. was.100 feet wide and one mile Phosphate is the base of all corn• the hotel was being filled with guests poor reception from some stations. long east and a-eat. It was a great mercial fertilizers and the district and the disturbance of further con. Fading is caused by the variation'of f $•.,,e�, achievement. In 1914 two dredges above referred to furnished 75 per struction was found to be irrndvbs. stove length which requires' the '. were pumping on the old polo fields, cent of the supply of this country,and nhle. As soon as the hotel closes closest attention in order to keep it securing the material from near the the united States produces nearly this season, two needle point towers eonatamt. • present Flagler monument. that proportion of the world's sup- will be erected on the roof of each Any one may install a radio send• Bermuda grass was first planted on ply. wing of the hotel arid these will ing station but it is difficult to get :4... - • •