The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-15
Said of Pensacola
and PenSacOianS
Senator Mallory Stood Pat.

Senator Mallory Stood Pat.
BY the grace of congress and the
energy of Senator Mallory, Fernandina
has secured 500, 900 for public build
ing and Ocala will receive $4,000 for
a like purpose These amounts we're
secured on the day congress adjourn
ed and in the final rush of legislation
an effort was made to reduce them
but Senator Mallory would listen to
NO compromise and held out for the
original figures and secured them after
a hard fight. This will be gratifying
to our people, and Senator Mallory is
entitled to great credit for his intel
est in the matter.-Leesburg CONNER.
cial.
The L. & N. Strike.
Pensacola manages to get little
OF everything that is going. just now
she has a strike on among the labor
ers on the bay. Help is being import
ed from Cincinnati and other places.
The strikers want $500 per day, while
the wages paid are $1.75. At the rate
new laborers are being brought in, the
strikers will doubtless be glad to ac-
cept the wages offered or else have to
hunt new field.-Marianna Times
Courier.
Mcvoy's Invention.
1t is reported that Vincent McVoy,
of Pensacola, who invented the vacuum
cup by means of which the ciearest
and best grade of spirits is obtained
% fro in q ~
disposed ofshis rights to naval stores
firm for about $4,000 with percent
age ON each gallon of spirits extracted
by his method. and that he has also
been given a position at $1,000 year.
Here Is one inventor who gets his re-
ward while he liyes.-Miami News.
A Living Issue. o.c
The COW in the streets is living
issue now in Pensacola, Live Oak and
some other cities, 1t is, difficult to
persuade some I 7dairymen that the
streets belong TO the citizens, not to
the cows.-Miltcn Index.
An Enlightened Policy.
The Pensacola journal speaks Of the
moonlight schedule" as "a delusion
and snare. 4tu says: when the
lamps are not lighted the streets are
generally as dark as Erebus, notwith-
standing the schedule says the moon
is due to shine So it was in Jack
sonville, formerly. with the street arc
light service, but a more enlightened"
policy seems to be in force now
Jacksonville Times Union.
Collection Of Garbage.
Pensacola has cut out the garbage
contract and the city is collecting the
garbage, as in Jacksonville. The citi-
zens express satisfaction with the re-
suits of the first night and day of the
city's Notwithstanding Times
Union.
Senator MaiIory's Return.
Senator Mallory has returned to his
Pensacola home for the summer, and
his friends throughout the state will
rejoice to learn that his health is
much improved.-St Augustine Rec
ord.
Up to the Washerwomen.
The Pensacola BARRIERS have organ
lied a union. We had thought every
thing that works were already organ
lied in that city. but it appears We
have another think coming. Let the
washerwoman follow suit.-Miami Me-
tropolis.
Enjoying" Strike.
Pensacola is enjoying" a strike OF
longshoremen, and the L. & n. Z. X.
Co. is bringing .laborers from Cincin-
natl and elsewhere to work on its big
export wharves. Foreign labor, If the
south can get hold of it. will be wei
come, in such cases as this, at least
st. Augustine Record.
In Hard Luck.
Pensacola is in hard luck; if it isn't
yellow fever it is something worse.
Now drainage contest is to be pull
cd off there between Messrs. Broward
and Beard. In July, too. We hope
the police will do their duty.-Levy
Times Democrat.
Pensacola Prosperity.
From the way Pensacola is expand
ing and prospecting, you would never
think that it was the victim OF a yell
low fever epidemic last year.-Tampa
Tribune.
The Coming Joint Debate.
Governor Broward and John Beard
of Pensacola will meet in joint de-
bate on the question of draining the
Everglades in a few days and the
problem will be ably and thoroughly
discussed. When the respective