The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-21
COWLES IN FLORIDA
REAR ADMIRAL VISITS PENsAcoLA
 NAVY YARD.
Plans to Make Inspection of Damage Done by September Hurricane
 Gulf Waves Wash Up span fgh Coins

Pensacola, Fla, Nov 2O.-(Special) | i-Rear Admiral William S.. Cowles, l chief of the bureau of equipment or | the navy, reach the city this morning
 to make q personal inspection or the Pensacola navy yard His arrival at I the yard was announced by salute or thirteen guns, which is the customary rear admirafs salute, and was the first lintimation Pensacolans had of the vislt lof the big naval chief. He reached Pensacola on an early morning tram and drove direct to the Palafox wharf, where he boarded a naval tug for the yard. and Is Bow the guest 'of Com ! mandant Bicknell.
 The Rear Admiral will probably re-
 main here until tomorrow afternoon as his visit is for the purpose of making q thorough Inspection of the navy yard. so as to inform himself of the damage by the hurricane of Septem- l Der, and what will be needed in his de- partment. The visit of the Admiral is the first since three years ago when ne visited Pensacola as captain or the tattleship Missouri, and 1t was during
 the visit of the vessel that the terrible explosion in one of the turrets occur
 rcd, resulting in the loss of ever thirty l lives.
 COEns washed Up By storm. | Fishermen while walking along the | Gulf beach on Santa Rosa Island du- | ring the latter portion of last week.
 discovered number of pieces of Span tsli coin, which had been uncovered by
 the hurricane and the constant wash | ing of the waves. number of the pieces were stuck together, as though they had been packed together fin some | box or can, and when separated had \ The appearance of having never been | used, not being worn in the least ana
 the lettering appeared very plain The coins bear the dates 17S7. 17SS l and 1773. The men after picking up
 half dozen of the coin made a search and discovered others but not more than a dozen were recovered. They | had no shovels or any instrument with which to make excavations, and con- sequently could do nothing towards | making a further search.
 l Some are of the opinion that the coin
 was not uncovered on the beach, but
 washed up from the Gulf, possibly from
 some old sunken Spanish wreck. The
 point where the discovery was made is about twenty-two miles from the
 mouth of the harbor.
 Train Will Continue.
 ! Announcement was made this morn | ing by the local Louisville and Nash vile Railroad, that the accommodation train leaving here at 5 o'clock and re- turning the following morning at 10 o'clock making direct connection with
 the Jacksonville train, will not be dis continued as announced. The service was inaugurated upon the request of
 the Chamber of Commerce. and when | the members of that body learned that orders hal gone forth from the
 head offices of the company to discon-
 tinue the service November 25, there
 was an immediate protest.
 It was cited that the business of the division so far as passenger traffic Is | concerned, has almost doubled during | the past year, and that the train is a great source of convenience to mer-
 chants in small towns who come here in the forenoon and can Eesurn in the afternoon. Added to the protest Of the Chamber of Commerce was that Of
 the United Commercial Travellers, who entered most vigorous protest over the discontinuance of the service, and
 the protests had the desired effect. New Freight Depot Promised. An immense forwarding depot, to be used exclusively in the storing of | freight for shipment, is to be erected | by the Louisville and Nashville Rail- road opposite the present big freight depot on Garden Street. The structure will extend from Chase street almost | to Garden, and will cover large area. The two depots will be separated by four tracks for the handling of cars,
 and will give the company here ade- quate facilities for handling the busi-
 ness. Recently the company made an eighty foot addition to the freight de- pot, but the Increase in business has made It necessary to erect an addi- tional building, which will be used ex- clusively for freight to be shipped, while the one now in use will be de-
 voted to receiving shipments.