The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-30
PENSACOLA ANDALUSIA
PROJECT FOR NEW ROAD<FPOM
 FLORIDA INTO ALABAMA.
Leo Lee, Sailor Held for Murder, is in Fair Way to Prove Innocence. New MayoraIty Candidate
 Has Announced.

Pensacola, Fla, April 29.-(SpecialO The City Council has now before 1t
 an ordinance granting certain rights
 to a few Pensacola gentlemen for the
 purpose of building a railroad line
 through, over, across and along certain
 streets of the city, such request being
 incorporated in the ordinance which Is
 made up of eleven long sections and
 which has been read the first time.
 published for the benefit of the pub
 lie, and which will come up for its
 second and possibly third reading at
 a special meeting of the council which
 will be held some day during the week.
 In its present form, the ordinance is
 fair to all concerned, and there is
 no doubt of the grant being made when
 coming to a final vote.
 This is practically the re-opening
 of a request for permission over a
 route inside the city limits sasked by some Atlanta capitalists some time
 since, but which request was discour- aged by the opposition on the part of property owners who even talked of taking out injunctions before they
 would allow work to be started. An in junction is something dreaded py any railroad company, and as soon as this sort of threat was indluged in. the project was dropped. Now, however, the enterprising local men at the head of this now proposition have routed their road over streets which are prac- tically unused and which would give the road a fine route through the clty and to the water front. In the light of the choice. 1t is presumed that there will be no great opposition to
 the measure when 1t comes up TOT tln- al passage, and this town therefore has A chance of receiving the benefit of a
 second railroad line.
 The proposition says that 1t is the intention of the projectors to accept the ordinance ten days after the flnai
 reading and passage; to so notify the
 city clerk and to place corps Of en- gineers in the field within two weeks after the acceptance.
 Within six months after the accep- tance the actual work is to be started, and with eighteen months after the ordinance is granted, the road IS to
 have been completed as far as Anda-
 lusia, Ala. All this Is in correct legal
 form, and leading attorneys say that
 there was never more correct ordl- nance drawn than the one now being considered.
 Simultaneously with the introduction and consequent first reading of the ordinance there arrived inN this city leading officials of the Central of Georgia Railroad and Sas people will talk, it is now rumored that this proposition is really nothing more than the effort of that road to find gulf outlet, as 1t has been known for some time that such was the intention of the road and that Pensacola was the point sought.
 There are now two fine railroad propositions which are being worked out in this city, but the plans are puarded with so much secrecy that it is difficult to get a line on them. Ger tain 1t is that the gulf ports are re- ceiving their share of attention from the railroad builders these days, and Pensacola Is not forgotten in the final windup. It is heard here that .--ere l is a plan afoot for the Central ns Ceoreia to continue its line through Pensacola, tapping Mobile and Gulf port. but there is not great deal oi confidence placed in this report