The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-17
REAL ESTATE CD.
IN It's NEW
QUARTERS
Hooton & Watson Are Now
Comfortably Installed
In the Big Blount
Building.

Messrs. Hooton & Watson have
moved into their elegantly appointed
Offices in the seven story Blount
Building, No. South Palafox street,
and cordially invite their friends and
the public generally to call and in
spect their new quarters, which viii
compare favorably with any Real Es-
tate and Insurance Office in the South,
or in fact, in any part of the coun-
try.
The Office is arranged very mucn
after the bank fashion, and has every
convenience for the large and increas-
ing business which the firm enjoys.
The wood work is of golden oak,
polished to high degree, and is sur
mounted with figured glass in front
and antique copper finish grille be-
tween the partitions. The Office is
divided into various departments, the
rental department occupying a large
space in front, and the insurance de-
paFtment having an ample space adj
joining this In this department is
arranged a number of roller shelves
for convenience-in handling the pol
icy registers of the fifteen Fire, Plate
Glass and Tornado Companies which
they represent. The manager of this
department is Mr.. L. K Clarke. The
two Building & Loan Associations, of
which Mr.. Thos. G. Watson is secre-
tary, have also been amply provided
for, so as to meet the demands of
this important branch.
There is a large steel vault in the
center of the office, where all the
valuable papers of their clients are
stored In the rear of the vault there
is a store-room where all of the Office
supplies, stationery, etc, are arranged
wanted.
Towards the rear there are two priv
ate offices which are occupied by Mr..
J. ]. HootOn, the senior member of
the firm, who has charge of the Real
Estate and Loan business, and Mr..
Thos C. Watson who gives his at
tention to the Building & Loan AssO-
Citations. In the front part of the Office
there is a neat corner set apart for
Mr.. S. c. Pinney, who attends to the
rental department of the firm. Every
convenience that can be devised has
been added to aid the systematic con-
duct of the business of this well estab-
lished concern, which has been in ex-
istenoe for over a quarter of CEN
fury in the name of its predecessor,
Thos c. Watson & Co, whose name
was a household word for many years
in this city, the senior member, Mr..
ThOs. c. Watson, having retired from
the business about a year ago.
The vestibule and lobby are con-
structed of Ceramic Mosaic thing,
with a marble base around the wood
work There are four wickets made
of the same antique copper finish as
the grille. The Manager, Mr.. ]. G.
Watson, is located where he can have
full supervision of the whole clerical
force. 1t requires a dozen men to
take care of the extensive business
of the firm, which is increasing an
nually with the progress OF the Deep
Water City on the Gulf of Mexico
This is the first Office to open its
doors to the public in the new Blount
Building and is in keeping with the
magnificent workmanship of the build
ing, which is considered the finest
structure of its kind in the South.
The large plate glass windows in
the front of the yoffice bear the sign
of the firm in Old English, gold letter
ing, the artistic workmanship of Mr..
A. A. Wrighton-
Hooton & Watson are agents for the
building in which their Office is stu
ated, and it will not be many days
before the entire building will take
on the life and business activity which
the first occupants manifested upon
their entrance into their new, up-to-
date and elegant quarters.