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...protect the "Gibraltar of America." From the military alone Key West merchants divided a $500,000 yearly payroll. Spongers from the Bahamas pried into the clear green waters with their long poles, brought up $375,000 worth of fine sponges each year. Shrimp fisheries boomed. And when Henry Morrison Flagler extended his Florida East Coast Railway on stilts across the coral keys in 1912, Key West was an important U. S. port handling cargoes that increased to $65,000,000 yearly...
Next night the Philharmonic-Symphony directors gave a dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria, proudly announced they had raised the $500,000 necessary to assure the Orchestra's existence for three more seasons (TIME, April 2). Contributors of more than $5,000: Harry Harkness Flagler, Mrs. Harry Harkness Flagler, Mr. & Mrs. Felix Warburg, Mrs. Charles E. F. McCann and Columbia Broadcasting System...
...Colonel had established a gaming place in St. Augustine, Fla., with his brother John, when Promoter Henry M. Flagler suggested that his budding social colony at Palm Beach needed a place to risk its money. Bradley's celebrated Beach Club was opened in 1898. In its 36 years, rare is the U. S. Big Name which has not applied for a guest card. The Beach Club is a large homey collection of white frame buildings on Lake Worth, not far from the yellow railway station where many of its visitors put their private cars on sidings. It is chartered...
...Vincent Astor organized a Women's Committee, opened her exclusive home for business meetings, goes each day to check on returns at campaign headquarters. Radio appeals have been made by New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, a longtime Philharmonic subscriber, by Mr. Flagler, Mrs. Astor, Mrs. Christian R. Holmes, Geraldine Farrar, Deems Taylor, Norman H. Davis. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, speaking from the White House five Sundays ago, said: "In helping to preserve the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra you will help preserve a sense of values, a spiritual outlook, a feeling for the good and the beautiful which...
...Damrosch Or- chestra. (His father made the Flakier fortune on Standard Oil. Florida railroads.) The Philharmonic's operating expenses will amount to $686,000 this season. Salaries for 108 musicians and three conductors amount to $438,861. Receipts are estimated at $545.826. Neither Mr. Mackay nor Mr. Flagler felt able to help finance the orchestra this season. Bank loans made it possible. The Leipzig Gcivamlhaits Orchestra is older. *When Toscanini sailed last spring for Europe a little pile of broken spectacles was found in the back of his closet...