Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-28
Reminders of the Spanish.

The Spaniards went out of Pensacola in
1919 but large proportion of the popula-
tion are descended from the original set
tiers' and II you will look through the d.
rectory you will find names that will re-
mano you of Castilian heroes and the
grandees of Andalusia Nearly all of the
streets nave Spanish names. The principal
business street is called Calafax, in honor of
a general who fought bravely to maintain
the supremacy of Spafn.x
lnere are many curious traditions. 1t is
pity that some person of leisure and lit
erary taste does not compile the reminis-
cences OF the venerable fIha bitants before
they vanish from lne earth. A stream of
water once ran through the center of what
is now the most active portion of the bust
ness section, and in olden times the washer
women used it for laundry according To
the customs that still prevail in Spain and
the Spanish colonies of South America to-
gay. Inc stream was private property; it
belonged TO benevolent Spanish lady, who
would not fence it in OF interfere in any
way with the laundry work of the com
munlty. When she died she wiled the
stream forever TO the poor washerwomen
oi fensacola For a generation or so their
rights were respected. but finally the growth
or the city made it necessary to abolish the
custom and the matter was taken into the
courts. AS the washerwomen had no Or
sanlzaton there was nobody to accept the
title to the property, which after a friendly
litigation was finally given to religious
order OF sisters who look after the poor.
Ihere is a good deal of money in Pensa-
cola, much of 1t having been made in saw
mills and specializing in timber lands. The
richest man in town is Martin Sullivan
who had a brother named Dan, now dead.
They came over from Ireland together when
they We're boys. Dan drifted south and
joined Walkers flibustering expedition to
Nicaragua. When that adventure ended he
returned to the United States and spent
much OF his time around Pensacola and Mo-
bile, working In the lumber camps. When
the civil war broke out he joined the con-
federate army. Martin, the younger BROTH
er, enlisted In the Union army at New
york and served through the war. After
the surrender, by some means or another,
the two brothers got together and Dan in
duced Martin, who had npney. to invest in
vast areas of pine land I'm southern Ala
bama and western Florida. The brothers
went into partnership to develop them and
both became immensely rich.
Some of the Buildings.
Pensacola has the most artistic church
have seen in the south. It was designed
in 1908 by John Sutcliffe, an architect of
Chicago, after the old Spanish mission type.
and is an almost perfect reproduction of
chapel In a Mexican Sity: Near by the
Y. III. c. A. of Pensacola is erecting what
Will perhaps be the handsomest building be-
longing to that association in the south. 1t
Is also designed after the Moorish school.
The cost Is met by private subscription, the
Late Mr.. Fisher having headed the list with
donation of $4,000
number of fine buildings are being put
up on the business streets and others are
contemplated. A contract has lust been