FLORIDA KEYS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1938, Page 26

FLORIDA KEYS

A HIGHWAY TO CUBA ; 'y\-h \'.i. i ..',":,— ,■ ■:''■-■,.'. :,. ■. A great hurricane ;in '1935; 'so damaged the. railway: built; at great expense down - the .Florida Keys to Key j West that the services was- sus-: pended and the line'eventually -abandoned. ; It was purchased for '.640,000 dollars by the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District, and bewme the- base of a motor . highway ' rapidly : nearing completion, an extension of the route running south through Miami. At present»,. traffic:. to Key::West is possible by paying three dollars in vehicular ferry fees, but soon a single dollar in bridge tolls ,willt enable,'a,.car. to .cover the/r.whole jburne^*under;;,.-i'ts-.-'- ■: own ■power. ; FromvK.ey"iWfest,;;td.I ':fi[avana is only1 ;l a -Jmattet^oi j9s"rtiiles/'bySsea, and ■tKis'-itVis hoped:'*d :cover^ by'-steamer ferriy;-, /From. CubaAtpf^utatain'iis' only anpthCT;; Wo>miles •fbyiVsea; :■,. andf it is hoped 'that/this alsb«willVeventiiially be s'er^d: 'by^stieamer;vferryir,thereby cut--ting^iZOO^milegNofl ■'the'Jjoverland :disitajice':from.the 'Eastern: i iStates of America:; to: Central /'America, Panama, 'arid: > eventually:: tHe;>South '■American Continent.'1 How soon this can; eventuate^ depends upon : the,; completion' of highways, projected iby -Mexico! 'America' is still looking forward :to the day.when the, whole: of the Americas will be cpnnectedupby, super-highways , leading from the Arctic, through to the Argentine, both east arid.west