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Letter from Ralph M. Munroe to Vincent Gilpin, July 6, 1918

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Title	Letter from Ralph M. Munroe to Vincent Gilpin, July 6, 1918
Creator	Munroe, Ralph, 1851-1933
Summary	This letter, from entrepreneur Ralph Munroe to Vincent Gilpin, a winter resident of Coconut Grove, contains discussion of wartime activity, the Dinner Key Aviation School, and labor shortage. From p. 1: "All that was asked for further than the Jersey Red paint was a proper fly swatter to keep off the eight or ten breeds of [airplanes] that incessantly buzz around..." From p. 2: "Have received almost positive assurance that the Aviation School will not be maintained after the war so feel better. Would now like to stop the evident graft in the ceaseless dredging going on around Dinner Key. Here we are skimping and paying double & treble prices for everything, and the blasted dredging company getting rich on thieving." From p. 3: "We are in great straits for labor. Camp work seems impossible. Am building chimneys with the help of an old English Boer War soldier. Can get a darky occasionally @ 2.50 per [day] to cut grass. Our boy Ed Bunyon was conscripted and is at Camp Wright, NJ freezing to death. All other labor is now at the new Army Aviation camp just this side of Cutler Hammock where they do as little as possible at highest pay so as to help the contractors earn millions on the percentage basis."
Note	Vincent Gilpin co-authored with Ralph Middleton Munroe the book "The Commodore's Story" an autobiography of boatmaker, photographer and Coconut Grove pioneer Ralph Munroe.
Subject	Munroe, Ralph, 1851-1933 Labor supply Dredging
Genre	Correspondence
Date Original	1918-07-06
Coverage Temporal	1918
Coverage Spatial	Florida. Miami-Dade county. Miami. Dinner Key.
Physical Description	1 handwritten letter
Repository	University of Miami Libraries, Special Collections
Collection Title	Munroe Family Papers
Collection No.	0409
Series	Series: I Correspondence
Container	Box No.: 1, Folder Title: 1918-1919.
Copyright	http://merrick.library.miami.edu/digitalprojects/copyright.html
Object ID	asm0409000001
Digital ID	asm0409000001
Date created	2008-06-02

Title	Page 1
Collection Title	Munroe Family Papers
Copyright	http://merrick.library.miami.edu/digitalprojects/copyright.html
Object ID	asm0409000001
Digital ID	asm04090000010001001
Date created	2008-06-02

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