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Show BUSTLLNU KKY WEST. WAft TALK AND FLAGS OP TWO NATIONS. Old Cllnry and )) Cohan retort Tlnst ' llvae Itlmro.loni freni lltrry Iloll.llnr In the Town lUrbor disked with Torprdoas. (Key Wett letter.) -5M1 ON D I T I O N S In Xr&$0S? Key Wool arc rooet fitllJlls-t I';u"ar ln oone- Lf.K to jV quence of the war. tfijM$i It I hard for a f vSfc3 atranr In the iVSS2Sl lown ,0 '1", Ju,t ft Bfe7S "hat normal con- Jr9ty P'ae Now very-.A;i, very-.A;i, thing I glten over " lo the army, the envy nnd the pre, l'cople of an lu-laud lu-laud city far remated from the Beetle ot operations hard!) realise what a correspondent nirnn when ho say the "war spirit run high " It do run high nt Key Wett. Uesldenl ot the town, of which It baa 15 "90, gather along the wharve and watch tho Incoming boat. Kroni live to ten pco (fie occupy tho obtervatorlee on the top ot Hotel Key West and Federal building build-ing Night and da) those people have their marine glatee and telescope turned out across the harbor, and for two or tbreo hour ln advance of her arrival ahlpa are announced to tho pop-ntace. pop-ntace. Deforo they can approach the harbor closer than len inllct they are overhauled repeatedly by torpedo boat and tho big government cruisers In front of Key Wett In front of every house In Key Wett nnd every (tore there, float tho flag ot the Insurgent, urmounted by the Star and Stripe, lt I a broad amertlon to make of a CUSTOM IIOl'SH AT KKY WBST. town of 25,000 people, but that It 1 absolutely true Is shown by tho fact that a ride about tha town ot two hour failed to disclose n bouto not so decorated. They are big flags, too, not the traall kind usually used for decorations. deco-rations. Tho town Itarlf Is clean and beautifully beauti-fully paved by nature The street look aa though naphaltnm bad been llald everywhere, but n disagreeable dust li raised by the rnrrlago wheels. However, this I "clean dint," brutbc oft costly and does not begrime face ar clothing. Out on one sldo nt the la- land I what I culled tho "bight," and this I almply a big liny but two feet deep with a coral bottom Whenever the enterprising resident withe to acquire ac-quire n corner lot he collect enough dirt and dislodged coral to (111 In enough ot the bay for bla lot. Aa n mnaequenco aorne lota face coral atreats, whllo the other three aide aro touched by water. Tbe possibilities ot war were brought forcibly before tbe resident of the town when the government leased a Urge convent and tobacco warehouse with the Intention of converting them Into hospital for tbe reception of lick and wounded soldier nnd rallora Work on the alteration ot these building build-ing will go steadily forward a rapidly na tho liberal exptndtture of money render possible. Out near the barrack bar-rack the colored troop aro In camp. Hut the acene of greatest activity 1 nt the wlinrveft. Ilverythlng naturally center abr i the naval station nnd the Federal I .g From the naval tu-tlon tu-tlon run a narrow-gauge railway, leading out to tbe coaling wbart In the harbor on a ayatem of long pile A rapidly a tha government teamcra bring aupplle and ammunition from Tampa, and other Southern porta they are placed In the elation, and whan needed transferred lo the ships of Admiral Ad-miral Sampson's fleet On of the Interesting things to be teen Is the laying of nines In the harbor. har-bor. Just where the mine ore anil whero the keyltoard I whlrh control the powerful explosives they contain no one knows, nnd yet everybody knowa. It la one nf those thing which the Chilian finds tn his advantage advan-tage to forget Not that any on threaten threat-en )ou with dire consequences for Inquiring Into such things but there Is n feeling prevailing that many thins should be forgotten na aoon a learned. Tha mine" are of several varieties, va-rieties, each having a tochnlcal nume, but, for landsmen, they are beat described de-scribed by alng that some of them are attached to the coral bottom at the harbor, some llnat on the aiirfnre. somo ar exploded by an sletrlc park ad other are exploded by contact. con-tact. A another protection from a hostile fleet, all of the Roverment buoy havo been mlsplaeed. and many bavo been taken from the harbor entirely. en-tirely. Only the experienced pilot, who haa wormed hi way for year In among the treacherous coral reef, can te I bow effective thla provision Is In the Inner harbor, cot far from the Government's man-of-war harbor, lie tbe priira which have bevn brought In by tbe fltL They make a gallant I array, and there wa much disappointment disappoint-ment and chagrin among naval men I when the newa of the Frrsldent'a proclamation proc-lamation reached Key West with the I deduction that all but the few last l rfsvw would hare to bo released Bach i I prim waa brought Into the harbor by 1' a "prise crew" selected from the crew of her captor. In the harbor they1 were turned over to tbe United Stale narshall and he placed a deputy In J,1 charge ot each, backed by a squad oC "j maiinea. |