Show southern Sout herx yort port Is blockaded attempt to land telegraph cable at miami brings about que queer situation M ill is in 1 1 THE mw united states warships blockade a united states port in time thre of peace geographic society official tells about place by JOHN OLIVER LA GORGE vice director national geographic society miami fla probably for or the first ano since the be stirring days of tae civil war wo we find a southern port blockaded by united states warships warb hips happily however it is no crisis brought about by an uncompromising delt demand ilind for tile lie integrity of state rights but to prevent a cable ship en beling the port of miami lie ile most southerly sout lierly city on the floridian Flori dlan mainland ind and large larget largest t in n the state from tile lie standpoint of population nestling beside the beautiful waters w of r biscayne nis cayne bay and separated from the atlantic on only v by the peninsula ot of miami bench beach the city has rapidly come collie into its own due to the strate strategic gic geographic location it occupies on the south atlantic coa const S t and I 1 it t gives promise DISC to rival jacksonville as a port of call when one realizes that one third of all the grapefruit in the states comes from n the county in ill which miami Is situated and blat one fifth of all the animal life in america north of P panama anama Is to bo be found in tile lie w waters a tars of tile the gulf serl stream am which laie lae the golden strand of miami 1 I ml beach in its front yard and with tile the great potential agricultural wealth of tile the r everglades ver glades at its back door small bouder that mindi lias has grown as blown by the hie list dinst census report 4 10 per cont cent rivals the riviera blessed B I 1 ced with a year round clin climate inte chat rivals tile the riviera with ever slowing mowing trade winds that temper tile the semitropical semi tropical sun 1111 miami a ml bid bids S f fair a birr tto to 0 take rank with anything of its size in tile the united c states slates for development along highly profitable and thoroughly businesslike lines it is not surprising that a telegraph coni company tinny desires to bring tle Bai barbados bados cables into miami instead of key key west a hundred odd miles south of this point but there Is some diplomatic hitch about En rn glands control of cables which has caused this practical ly unheard of situation of united states war inar vessels blockading a unit ed il states port in tile time thile of peace three years ago the lie money on deposit in the banking institutions of miami amounted to something like ilke 4 in tile the summer of to il in march alarea 1020 1920 to DOO and today the amount Is upward of moreover in permanent population it has grown in ten years from to 2 during tile the winter inter vi months there are nearly as many traffic cops on its well paved streets as there are in the national capital ten times its size one of the most important developments of miami bench beach Is tile the inauguration and completion of the alakl miami aquarium and biological laboratory laborn tory located at the beach terminus of tb the wonderful foot causeway stretching throe three miles in length lengal which Ilic ll spans biscayne bay connecting tile the city with the lie ocean beach beaches eq As A the scientists generally agree that all land animals came caine originally out of the sea thit the study of the myriad forms of life in the tropical sens seas will villi it is believed develop links between the lie sea and aind land animals that will add much to tile the worlds knowledge of this important question since the question ot of food fond ing bus been accentuated as an aftermath ot of the world war nar the eyes of economists turned to tile son sena I 1 Is liue haie to develop the possibilities ibi lilles of its innumerable fisli life jut just its ai the shoemakers child Is vilt without hout footwear so it was that there ans no aqua oQual ilum lurn or biological station on oil the entire atlantic in coast south of philadelphia and consequently no exten ive and adequately equipped bild situated institution to which tile tell ichthyologists of the country could con make pilgrimages and study at first hand band the wonders onders Nv of the fie fauna of the gulf stream heretofore tl these i e s e specialists p e e i al i st s in z zoology 0 0 1 og y ti traveled t 1 ve 1 e d to t llie 1 i e t aquarium lq u a r i ii n i at i t na naples p 1 e s I 1 italy ta 1 Y a and n d to other european institutions simply sh liely te cause there was nowhere noN here in the warm sells seas surrounding tle the southern part of our 0 own n continent a pa place ace where thy they at hand to pursue tho the mearis means have work their highly important 11 Port int entirely nn an ago two or month only ot a one of the of tuna v ne new v species in the world food I 1 fishes most mot valuable liy by the file director and ami described describe was va S located and it if of the miami ria mi aquarium aqua r um fishes of the horse those these great developed in ina a mackerel family can he be have nn an interesting commercial way wa y it will of lowering hearing on tile the problem e r ing the high cost of living |