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4C Saturday. April 26, 1986 The Miami News On language William Satire, N.Y. Times Such good friends, in the abstract Miami: Ths way we were Seaboard ended rail monopoly Edward Koch, a best-selling author who as a city official, recently referred to a compa 258th in a series on early Miami. HOWARD KLEINBERG triot under investigation by hordes of leaky law-enforcement officials as a "close friend in the abstract." This is a new category of political friendship. One meaning of in the abstract is "apart from material its synonym is "theoretical," its antonym "concrete." An abstract friendship, take only four months to complete, Seaboard's first freight trains did not reach here until a year later, on Dec.

20, 1926. It was a welcome addition as Miami, still reeling from the killer hurricane of September, was in great need of all forms of transportation to bring building supplies to the almost-devastated city. (Miamians were further encouraged to cheer the Seaboard extension because they were upset with the FEC which, in 1925, had put a 60-day freight embargo on the city because of a heavy backlog of materials tied up at the FEC's Jacksonville terminus.) Before a Seaboard passenger terminal was built, a freight terminal was constructed at 1925 N.W. 7th Avenue. It was completed on Dec.

10, 1926. Seaboard still maintains an office in that building but rents out the other space. The day following the opening of the freight depot, Seaboard announced commencement of construction of a passenger terminal at 2206 N.W. 7th Avenue. It was announced that the passenger station would cost $240,000 and be seven stories tall.

Seaboard formally inaugurated passenger service to Miami on Jan. 8, 1927, when the Orange Blossom Special, loaded with dignitaries, pulled into the new terminal. It pulled into a temporary station on the site of the being-built passenger station. According to The Miami News, "a motorcade of 100 automobiles escorted S. Davies Warfield, president of the railway, to Royal Palm park, where he was accorded an ovation for having given Miami a major transportation link with the rest of the country." An irony was that Royal Palm Park (today's Du-pont Plaza area) was built before the turn of the century by Henry Flagler and the Florida East Coast Railway.

In 1967, after lengthy court battles, the Seaboard Air Line and Atlantic Coast Line railroads merged as the Seaboard Coast Line. The FEC abandoned passenger service in 1963 following a lengthy strike, leaving the Seaboard Coast Line as the sole mover of people to and from Miami over rails. The passenger station on N.W. 7th Avenue continued to be used by Seaboard, then by Am-trak until, it was decided in 1976, the old station was no longer acceptable. An Amtrak station was built at 8303 N.W.

37th Avenue and the old Seaboard station torn down except for its facade to make room for a state mental facility. NEXT WEEK: 'Having wonderful time, wish you were Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railroad had a monopoly on the Miami market for the first 30 years of the city's existence. Perhaps it was a just monopoly since Flagler's railroad created the city of Miami in 1896. Nevertheless, the competition didn't show up until 1927. The Seaboard Air Line Railway that unusually named rail company announced in December 1925 that it was going to extend its line from West Palm Beach to Miami.

The Seaboard's tracks ran down the center of the state, then over to West Palm. (The Florida East Coast's tracks ran the length of the east coast of the state.) For sometime prior to the route announcement, there was speculation that Seaboard would have to come to Miami via Florida's west coast. Seaboard had encountered right-of-way problems in Lake Worth, but said that it was determined to serve Miami, even if it meant coming in from Naples, which another branch of the Seaboard line served. While the December 1925 announcement of the route said that the extension would (From The Miami Daily News, Jan. 9, 1927) S.A.L.

TRAINS GET ROYAL WELCOME but that does not suggest partici- oatire pation in the sharing of material objects, such as cash and other valuables that could be construed as graft. Mayor Koch has used other words recently that bear investigation. In his defense of a policy of permitting his department heads to hire their aides without prior approval from him, the mayor explained: "I don't want commissioners to ever be able to say to me, 'I could not perform because you decided to give me "My recollection of Joe Palooka," writes a New York Times colleague, "was that he was dumb but honest. If that's so, Mayor Koch might be better off with palookas rather than what he's had." The American slang term palooka was adopted by, but did not originate with, the cartoon character of an amiable prizefighter drawn by Ham Fisher. According to Webster's New World Dictionary, the word was coined by Jack Conway, a baseball player and, later, a sportswriter, and is considered "Old aging slang words mostly used now by older people like me.

The Dictionary of American Slang by Wentworth and Flexner says that the coinage was ascribed to Conway (without a citation) by Abel Green, editor of Variety, for which Conway wrote until his death in 1928. The following year William Henry Nugent wrote in The American Mercury that "Palooka, now signifying a fifth-rate pugilist, derives from a pure Gaelic word." The Oxford English Dictionary's supplement dismisses all this and says, "Origin unknown," extending its meaning from pugilist to "any stupid or mediocre person; a lout." Its first use in print is cited in 1925; two years later, Dashiell Hammett, in Black Mask magazine, was writing about "a paluka who leads with his right." Despite the uplift given the word's meaning by the cartoon character, a palooka is still generally considered a punch-drunk or inept fighter, and Koch used the word correctly. When savaged by a right-wing civil libertarian for publicly calling a suspect in the case a crook (a colloquial term in use since 1879 to mean "swindler, the mayor explained that his prejudicial comment was no more than "a primordial scream of rage and anger" because he felt betrayed. He meant primal scream. Primal, primeval and primordial are all synonyms for "earliest, original, primitive, first in time," from the Latin primus, "first." The phrase the primal scream is from a 1970 book of that title by Arthur Janov, a psychologist who espoused treating mental disorders with primal therapy, in which patients are encouraged to re-enact infancy or express strong emotions by means of shouts and screams.

Apparently this is the therapy that Koch believes he engaged in by calling his friend-in-the-ab-stract a crook. 4 Most unusual of all the welcomes received on either coast, however, was that given the Orange Blossom special at Opa-Locka, the party agreed. Carrying out the Arabian motif of the new city's architecture, a band of Arabs on horseback and women in harem costumes enacted a realistic drama of the desert for the visitors as G. Carl Adams, "grand vizier of the empire of Opa-Locka," read the message of the caliph. Glenn Curtiss, to "Great Shiek Warfield and his noble guests." Women of the harem at Opa-Locka, in private life prominent members of Greater Miami social circles, so captivated some members of the Seaboard president's party that they did not board a train for Miami until the last section began rolling away.

last to be visited, seemed to have prepared the most elaborate reception. The late arrival prevented the party from enjoying the motorcade that had been planned through Miami Beach, Coral Gables and outlying districts of Miami, but many of the visitors arranged to spend Sunday on sightseeing trips. Some of the party expect to remain until Monday, although the larger part will return with the special train Sunday. At the Hialeah station on N.W. 36th a large archway of evergreen and flowers was built over the tracks and hundreds of automobiles choked the street approaches as the special train pulled in.

The welcoming ceremonies at this point were curtailed necessarily by the late arrival. Miami celebrated the formal opening of its second railway yesterday, following the arrival of the Orange Blossom special with S. Davies Warfield, president of the Seaboard Air Line, Gov. John W. Martin and a host of distinguished guests from a score of states.

Royal Palm park was crowded as the party from the four trains comprising the president's special arrived, and the entire city joined in the celebration of an event characterized by civic leaders as one of the most important in the history of Miami. Mr. Warfield responded to the address of welcome by Mayor E. C. Romfh, and Governor Martin paid tribute to the Seaboard president as one who has not only been one of Florida's greatest builders but has won a permanent place in the affection of all Floridians.

Lon Worth Crow, president of the Miami Chamber of Commerce, presided. Bombs burst high in the air and bands blared their welcome as the Orange Blossom special rolled into the Seaboard depot at N. W. Seventh ave. and 20th temporarily being used as a passenger station, at dusk, delayed several hours by the enthusiastic receptions accorded the party at each of the stations farther north on the West Palm Beach-Miami extension and along the Gulf coast, where the line was opened to Fort Myers and Naples Friday.

The arrival in Miami marked the end of a 688-mile trip through Florida, during which President Warifled and his guests had opened 100 miles of new road from Arcadia to Naples and 70 miles from West Palm to Miami. Each community seemed to have tried to outdo all others in showing its appreciation of the new transportation offered by these extensions Miami, the largest of the cities affected and the A -WW 'mtm I I III. I i IE 111 w4 ixl'Tr''-A Nil! LTWVi Senior forum Kent Collins A' Seaboard's depot at 2206 N.W. 7th Avenue in 1973 Insurance messages a word to the wise For the past few months, you have been with advertisements some threatening and i many tiresome for individual retirement accounts. Those ads told you to save now, get a tax break now and be rich in retirement.

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Jones is 65 and ready to retire. His wife is 62. Both are in good health. His company pension plan will pay him either $24,000 a year for life with no refund at his death, or $18,000 a year to him and his wife for as long as either lives. If they decide to take the survivor option of $18,000 a year, it costs them a premium of $6,000 a year.

"Mr. Jones has a life expectancy as an annuitant of almost 19 years in 1986. His wife, at age 62, has over 24 years. Assume both live to their respective life expectancies of age 84 and 86. At Mr.

Jones' death under the $18,000 annual income option, they will have received a total of $342,000 (19 years multiplied by Mrs. Jones will continue to receive the until her death in another five years at age 86. She receives $90,000 during this period for a total of $432,000 from the company pension plan. "Let's examine the other pension option Suppose Mr. Jones takes the $24,000 per year for his lifetime, with nothing to his wife at his death If he lives 19 years as in the previous example, they will get a total $456,000 by the time of his death.

While this choice produces $24,000 more income, Mr. Jones did not know how long he was going to live when he retired, and in either event, Mrs. Jones has no more income now that she is an 81-year-old widow. "If Mr. Jones has a fully paid-up insurance policy with a face value of $147,000, he could take the pension option because the life insurance policy would begin to pay Mrs.

Jones $24,000 a year at Mr. Jones' death. If she lives to her life expectancy of an-; other 10 years at age 81 (if she makes it to age statistics indicate she can expect to live an additional 10 years) this life insurance pavout would produce I another $240,000. This totals which is $264,000 more than the survivor pension option. This i is the sum of $156,000 received from the pension, plus the $240,000 Mrs.

Jones gets from the insurance policy as a widow. "Using today's figures, if Mr Smith is age 35 and a non-smoker, he would pay, beginning at age 35. a to- tal of $18,715 in premiums to age 65 when he would I then have the $147,000 paid up life insurance which will produce that $24,000 annual income for his widow at age tl The average annual dividend on this hypothetical paid-up insurance policy from apes 65 to 84 is approximately This would total $156,731 These dividends could he uj to buv ddi-i tional insurance or to supplement retirement income. I If were prt. the tjtal tf vantage of using Ml Ml t-ltl IfMifll l'tll4 OSTOM.

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