The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-30

that of Venice, is admitted by those
familiar with both. But how few,
even of your own people, are aware
that your city lies on a succession OF
elevations which afford most attrac-
tive residence places; that you have
hill after hill-eyen as Rome was
built on Seven hills-from the sum-
mits of which not only is good drain
age supplied, but also a constant pre-
valence of the glorious gulf breezes
which here abound and also, in
many cases SPLENDID view OF your
lncomparably attractive bay
Pensacole's Altituoe.
The New Orleans Mardi Gras is
the topic which most impresses the
people of the north. This is what
attracts thousands of tourists each
winter to that city Suppose 10000
of them go to New Orleans by the
Louisville & Nashville road and its
feeders. Say these are all visiting the
Coast Country for the first time.
Leaving Flomatpn they swing on west.
dip below Bay Minette. in to the
Tansas bottoms and skirt low-lying
Mobile; then spin through the slight
ly undulatipg country which lies d.
rectly west of that city after pass
ing about half of which between Mo-
bile and Scranton they enter an al
most fiat region which continues I'M
til they cross Bay st. Louis, after
which they complete their journey
across tracks, either supported over
the water by piles, or through the
marshes on made ground Do you sup
pose that one per cent of that 10000
visit Pensacola? What of the remain
ing $500? 1t is not perfectly obvi-
Gus that they returp to the north,
believing that your city is as the
others? That they think of Pensa-
cola as lying level with the waters
of the gulf; city of marshes. swamps
and bayous?
Here we believe lies your most
valuable possession. your strongest
colgn Of vantage, your greatest value
Just consider:
Pensacola, city of beautiful
homes;
Pensacola, the City of Hills,
Pensacola, and it's Altitude.
Are not these slogans of immense
value?'
Needless Expenditure.
Suppose your good people awoke
to the fact that it does not aid one
lota to their Commercial or industrial
prosperity to have an annual Mardi
Gras which, at least must lag vastly
behind New Orleans, and devote such
sums as they annually devote to cheap
| floats, horps, ETC., to wise and valid
advertising of the indisputable fact
that Pensacola lies, far and away.
high and dry as compared with any
other gulf coast point. Is 1t not plan
that you would get values running in
| to the hundreds of thousands of dol
| lars where you now only attain a
vast condition of discomfort through
ruffians tossing confetti or rudely
jostling unprotected girls and
women?
81 confidently believe that in this
matter of altitude, you Of Pensacola
have most valuable asset, and that
| in its wise and judicious exploitation
rests immediate advantage and that
it viii serve you far more valuably
than all other features you may adj
duce
ct do not mean by this that you
should plan an assault on your sister
| cities and communities. Each has
! its value and the whole must rise
and prosper as one The man with
a hammer has outlived his usefulness
| in this region, long since. But 1t
seems to me perfectly plain that we
will be able to impress the advantages
| of this city on the minds of our
northern readers much more wildly
and thus enormously to your local
advantage if We can succeed, even in
a small way and merely as a begin
ming. in calling attention to the ac-
cepted fact that you have altitude.
that your residence portion is 100 feet
Or more above the level of Pensacola
bay"