The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-17
WILL REBUILD SHIP
PENSACOLA NAVY YARD HAS WORK
 AHEAD.
Receives order from Department at Washington to Construct New Hull for Steamer RcsseIi of
 Engineering Department.

Pensacola, Fla, March 1s.--lspeciaL) ) --OhiciaIs of the Pensacola navy yard today received advices from Washing ton to commence tie construction of . new hull for the steamer Rossell. att tached to the engineering department of the army, and 1t is expected that the work will commences as soon as suit able material csn be secured.
 The hull Is to be of steel, and the cost including the installation of the machinery and boilers from the old vessel will be about s20.000. Tn fact, a new vessel will be built with the ex- ception of the present machinery, and 1t will be one of the first vessels of any size to be constructed at the navy yard in several years, although numer- ous gunboats have been rebuilt.
 The Rossell Is on duty at Mobile, and will come here when the new vessel is finished to have the machinery trans ferred The new vessel will be s6 feet in length, 20 feet in breadth, draw about seven feet of water, and have a net tonnage of about S5 Although there are now several hundred men cm- pioyed at the yard the construction of the new steamer will give employ ment to many other skilled workmen.
 state Fair Exhibit.
 Col. T. j. l.. Brown of Tampa, Presi- dent of the State Fair Association, has accepted an invitation extended by the Chamber of Commerce, to deliver ian address here at an early date upon the aims and objects of the State Fair with the end in view of interesting the residents and. farmers of Escam- bia County and have them send an ex, hibit to the fair. tN
 The county was not represented al the last fair. but number of Pensa. fa..m n a Aa a.~4.. turn spoke so highly of the event that considerable interest has been aroused and 1t is now the desire to have Pres ident Brown deliver an address and appeal to the planters to begin prepa- ratfons and planting now and make creditable exhibit at the.next fair. As soon as the date fs announced, notices will be sent out to all of the planters in the county inviting them to be pres ent upon the occasion.
 Sewer Work Backward.
 The Board of Bond Trustees of the city are not at all pleased with the progress of the sewer work and this afternoon the members discussed the matter for period of two hours. It was thought when the big contract was awarded that the installation of the sewers would have been completed by now, but this is far from sbeing the case. In fact not half 1.-the work has been finished on the sewers and none of the work toward building the storm drainage system, which is en- firely separate from that of the sew CTS, has been done.
 Some weeks since the contractors was ordered to leave the higher sec- ton of the city alone until he had completed the sewerage work in the business and thiclly populated lower sections, and all of the forces are now eentered on this work, but the amount of work being done isSanot satisfac- toryt Some months since the contrac- tor was. delayed for number of weeks on account of being unable to obtain ad material, but now there Is an ample supply of material on hand, and as other firms are getting plenty of labor there Is evidently no scarcity of labor in the city.
 The Bond Trustees are expecting of the contractor faster work in the fu- ture.