The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-16
BY WILL T. STEPHAN.

Pensacola, May 15.-(Special Cores pondence.) ce.)-Pensacola Is waiting with strainea ear for the knock Of oppor- tunity. She has her lamps trimmed and her house set in order Tor the coming of Opportunity, which peni- trates seas and deserts ana whicn brings unasked greatness to individual to cities or to nations.
 The Panama canal Is building-and what is means for the deep water city may not be estimated. unless It means greatness and riches. every pro in his forecast of the future. IS U not the nearest port in the United, States to the Isthmus of PanamaY VIII not the waters of Pensacola say n sSe world, be it man of war or merchant- man? Then why should not Pensa- cola with confidence and assurance await the step ana ta the nomplr Hno's has been appointed and heraldedY
 Some ten years ago when the world Fair at Chicago opened In piaze Q. glory an artist gained fame and world wide appreciation by portraying Chica- go as vigorous young woman, an Amazon, but still beautiful, wearing girle on which was engraved the san guine mottEi Tse " TwH,tinr Mal City.
 So might now an artist portray the Spanish beauty of Pensacola, tip toe with anxiety for the coming or that which would raise her to a state of greatness of which even her fore fathers had never dreamed. He might show her flair to look upon, wlth he[ dusky hair coiled upon her neck' heT dark eyes lustrous with the splendor or th, evening star, her red lips illumined with fl tender smile of welcome, ner every pulse uuickened and alert for the footstep and the knock Of oppertu-
 rich legacy of history has come dn,yu to Pensacola. So opulent mas been this store of history and or traol- ton that much of 1t has been forgotten' out of richness and plenty. Spanlords, Frencbmen, Englishmen and American have walked her strets and called theIh each in his turn his own Ihe waIe1s of her bay have been reddened WIth the blood of half dozen nations Where n few days ago the magnin, cent fighting scuadron of the Unlteu States navy rode at anchor, siv.H ron that could meet and deIeat elthet The snuadron of Togo or the heet or RoiestVeDsky, there rode over two cen turies ago for three years the squaoton of the Spaniard De Navaroez' WaltIhs In Pensacola Bay the coming rom T Ine north of that splendid adventurer De- t;oto. who was decreed to die in savage land without again flashing his eyes on the vessels of his beloved spain. =. Y.o,,,,.s
 history older and more venerable than that of the old SPanlshl ,sa tOmn nois Hi St. Augustine is claimed by Peh,saGo11' s1o,.,n no skies so rosy with hope as those that are spread over her oday 5 port town with an enornQ,.s ,.s aI DusttiiSsS; sthirt1; foot channel, a city of over 20,OO0 peo- yie she has much to be proud oI. The present Is certain, the greater future " The canal. is to be dug and every; every; body is to be given square 9eat, Such is the announeed poi1lFSy p1FSye 9i transe oee cgTontinental goHgItl railroads will not control 1t. It viii be run for the beneht or b,Ilding of the United States. A great volume of business 'ill pass through the American canal cut through ugh ttne tss6e'qn tsade in the tn orient has been left wide open. The Philippine. Islands nave become aPpendages or the unitss1 m sa an open way to these vast markets through which the greater portions oi American, goods will ultimately synsao ti0%: oSr nv water through the canal than 1t can be sent overland by railroads.
 Ali of which means new states ,oo oi iean ports on the Gulf of Mexico, the the passage of American products. az; snch ports the pre-eminence of Pensa- cola fs urged and insisted upon here,
 Mayor Weltee Tuihs. A, greatest port leading to the the canal" al: said Mayor T. F. Welles. It's pre-em. thence cannot be disputed. In the frst place Pensacola Is. nearer Colon, -nearer the mouth of the canalt-tnan ThSs ThS railroad which ends at Pensacola wharf will be much nearer the east ern opening of the canal than any where else in the United States. Pen- sacoIa is much nearer the canal than MChiie or New Orleans.
 "NFoaeover Pensacola Is the greatest deep water harbor south of Newport News. Why, we have thirty feet or water right up against the wha-r. Over the bar through the harhor to N whraf landings there Is this same Genth. We have no big river empty ing into our harbor and It therefore we do not have to call upon the gov ernment gear after year t9 send ensrr its If The harbor practically takes care oi
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