The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-06-25
THE UPbU|LD|NG
OF PENSACOLA
Imperative that the Local Capital
ist Should Begin Work With
out Delay.
DEVELOPMENT IN INDUSTRIAL
LINES NECESSARY TO INDUCE
FOREIGN CAPITAL TO INVEST
NEW HOTEL OF PARAMOUNT
IMPORTANCE.
Editor Pensacola Journal:

Editor Pensacola Journal:
Under the caption, "One Industry
per Week." The Manufacturers Rec
ord has the following to say editorial
~, with reference to the activity in
the establishment of new manufactuT-
les in Nashville, Tenn:
Within $50 weeks ended June first
more than $50 new manufactures or
engagements of old ones have been
built in Nashville or close to its limits.
This record of one industrial improve
ment per week is expected by the
Nashville American to be surpassed
in the future, and it notes that Within
the past two weeks six new industries
have been located there, and that there
Is an urgent demand for at least 1000
additional mechanics AMI about 1850
more day laborers. Rejecting build
ing activity of the South generally, the
conditions at Nashville are rather
noteworthy, but are the natural re
suits of that city's advantages as a
manufacturing and distributing point
within easy access OF the raw mater
ials OF manufacturing.
In many lines there is no city in
America more fortunately situated to
the sources of supply of manufacture
than is Pensacola, yet the men of
means, the men with the largest prop
erty interests here. those men whose
fortunes would be enhanced more than
any others in PenSacola's DEVELOPMENT
as manufacturing center, are sitting
by allowing opportunity after oppor-
tGnlty TO pass beyond their reach in
the vain hope that some day Pensaoo-
las natural advantages will so impress
upon outside capital that
new money will rush in and develop
these resources for their benefit.
There are in existence certain relis-
ious sects who from time immemorlal
have predicted from year to year, the
coming of the millennium; but of its
real coming We are taught that no
man knoweth"
There are those in Pensacola who
from year 10 year, for two score Gears
and more, have predicted for Pensa-
cola greater things than the ordinary
human intellect is capable OF fully
grasping. The promises of the mill
enium prophets are predicated upon
fanatical superstitiOns, and have no
tangible foundation beyond the in
definite promise contained in Holy
writ; but as to Pensacola's possibility
OF development into great city. there
has never been lacking q single neces,
sary element; and there really doesn't
exist now a shadow OF doubt upcn
Pensacola's ultimate destiny. The
only questions at issue upon this point
are as follows: When are the money.
ed men OF Pensacola going to forsaka
old beaten paths which they have trod
all their lives; when will the men n,
means in Pensacola awake to the fact
that their anticipations OF an influx OF
outside capital into Pensacola have
always been and will continue to be
vagaries of contracted imaeinations
until they have demonstrated with
their own capital that Pensacola is
a good proposition" from every stand.
point; when will the men in every line
OF business here get together on one
common ground. leaving political con-
troversles TO be settled at the polIs
relegatlng TO the shades of the past
all Of their little petty differences ana
Jealousies, and as one man puu for
Pensacola's upbuilding?
First and foremost in this work
should be modern hotel.
W. c. JONES, Sec'y
chamber of Commerce.