The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-03-25
An Ordinance
that Should Be Killed.

Last Sunday The Journal pub
lished for the information of the pub
lie an ordinance now penang before
the city council under which it is
proposed 10 grant certain rights to
certain private citizens 70 control q
part Of the city's water front prop
erty for exclusive wharf privileges
for q period Of 25 years, with a rental
o. 800 a year. In order to bring this
more directly to the attention Of the
public. The Journal again publishes
the proposed ordinance as follows:
AN ORDINANCE.
Entitled an Ordinance TO authorize
~ A Quina and J. J. Sullivan, their
associates, heirs and assigns, to es-
tablish and erect a wharf at the foot
OF Ninth Avenue in the City Of Pen
sacola, to the channel Of Pensacola
Bay.
BE II Ordained by the Mayor and
Council Of the City Of Pensacola:
Section 1. That NJ A. QUINA and
J. ]. SULLIVAN, their associates,
heirs and assigns, are hereby authorz-
ed to establish and erect at and from
the terminus Of Ninth Avenue in the
City Of Pensacola, a wharf extending
into the Bay Of Pensacola to the chan
mel Of said Bay.
Section .. That the said N. A.
Quina and J. J. Sullivan, their asso-
ciates and assigns, shall commence
said wharf within six months from
the passage of this ordinance: that
the body Of said wharf shall not be
less than twenty feet, nor more than
the width Of said Ninth Avenue; and
that the said NJ A. QUina and J. J.
Sullivan shall have the exclusive
wharf privileges.
Section. 3. That the said ". A.
Quina and J. J. Sullivan, their assO-
Ciates, heirs and assigns, shall have
full power to demand and receive
wharfage from all vessels, barges,
fats, lighters and steam boats loading
or unloading at or attached TO said
wharf. and for all goods deposited on
or taken from or over said wharf: pro-
vided, however that no drays, carts,
vehicles or pleasure carriages trans
porting goods or merchandise over or
from said wharf shall be CHARGED
wharfage on said wharf.
Section 4 That the said NJ A.
Quina and J. J. Sullivan. their asso-
ciates, heirs and assigns, shall in con-
KideratiOn Of the erection Of said
wharf, have exclusive free privileges
set forth in this ordinance for the
term Of twenty-five years, they paying
therefor TO the City Of Pensacola the
yearly sum Of one hundred dollars in
semi-annual payments.
Section 5. That at the expiration
az the said twenty-five years the CITY
OF Pensacola shall have the privilege
OF purchasing said wharf at such val
uation as may be determined upon bv
three srbitrstOrs, one to be appoint
ed BY the City, one by N. A. ouina
and ]. J. Sullivan, their associates.
heirs and assigns, and the third to be
chosen by the two thus appointed.
Section 6. All ordinances. or parts
Of ordinances in conflict with this or
oinance shall be and the same are
hereby repealed.
This ordinance belongs TO thai
class which the city council should
sit down upon without further con-
FiderstiOn. The city Of Pensacola has
now given away practically all of its.
water front With the exception Of
a small affair on South Palafox street
Il has no public wharf Of its own and
very few suitable places left where
one could be built.
The ordinance published above
proposes TO tie up for a period Of 25I
years ono Of the most valuable piecss
Of water front property which the.
ctty now Possesses. No adequate.
consideration is Offerel in return no
obligation is assumed bv or REQUIRED
81 the grantees to use or even build
the wharf, and no restrictions worth
mentioning are contained in the
ordinance itself.
II the city ever wanted to use this
property inside of the 25 years It'll
could not do so. If the entrance Of al
new railroad into Pensacola depended
on this street for an outlet. the CITY
and the railroad would both be att
che mercy Of the private owners oil
the wharf
No more city water front rights
should be transferred to private indi-
VidualS except where the public good
like IN the case OF a railroad or a !
steamship line-can be and win be
Eubserved thereby. In fact, the pub
lie good Is the only consiOe stioa- on