The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-14
NEW ELECTRIC LINE
APPLICATION BEFORE PENSACOLA
 CITY COUNCIL.
Hinted That Project is n Step Toward the Connection of Mobile and the Florida City--Spongers
 Alarmed.

Pensacola. Fla, Aug. 13.--(Special.) An applicatfor for franchise for a street railway connecting the city with Beach Haven on Little Bayuu has been made, and if the City Council which now has the matter under con alteration, grants the request of the promoters, it is believed that the road will be constructed within a shert time. The applicants are not connected with the owners of the present street railway. The new men are principally Alabamians. heased by A. A. Eriscon. and they have been incorporated Dy the state under the name of the Bay Shore Railway and Power Company. In the application to the council they ask permission to enter the city from the west oming from Little Bayou, and run almost the length of the city on Gar den street which Is one of the widest and prettiest streets in the city. The road then will turn south at Alcaniz street and run to Aragon, thence east to Ninth avenue and south to the bay. 1t is stated that the company has ac- auired some very valuable water front property in the eastern portion of the city. As guarantee that they mean business the applicants have offered to the council if they grant the fran chise to post two thousand dollars with the city treasurer upon the ac- C0DIaHC6 or LnG OIQAl1it|G3 Ws4NA S%@s-&A be forefeited to the city should the road not be completed and cars in oper- ation within two years from date of passage.
 one of the provisions in the ordinance is that no steam cars. whatever, shall be operated along Garden street, and that no freight cars be hauled by the electric cars, thus effectually shutting ont any railroad that might be trying axtA- ha nj hv this naeans.
 It Is stated that the present move is only a start towards building an electric street car line to Mobile, and that as soon as the franchise IS passed by the. city council plans for its continuance throug the country 10 Mobile, which is only q short distance bv that route, will be made. Other statements are that the company. owners of the unimproved Beach Haven property upon Little Bayou, have sold numbers of lots under the guarantee that a street railwa would connect the property with the city, and in order to make good the guarantee and continue booming Beach Haven street railway will be constructed.
 annnmexs are Alarmed
 The hundred or more sponge fisher ,,,sn s5viS0 nave returned to the city on anco,ar,A znf the hurricane season are yraatIy stirred up over the arrest or sponger at Jacksonville by the govern nsent authorities. The government al leres that the sponges were taken outside the boundaries of the uniteo ststss' ar outside of the three mile shors. limit, and that therefore the snonges are subject to duty when brought in the same as If brought S.oro a foreign country. The local spongers say that if the men are con ytetea that 1t will almost prostrate the sponging industry in FloIlaa waters and in the guif. as mos. oh sns sronges caught during the past year ,,tsra taken more than three miles from shore. and that only small ones and yery undesirable punches are taken m shailow water, as they have been nicked over for years by tong sponsers and consequently there are few let' that will bring any price. should tne courts rule that duty must De pau Il