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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-09-23

20 formed with tamping roller One
.stretch of this peculiar class of hign-
way will be under construction within
a few days. The oiled roads of Cali
fOrnia have saved millions of dollars
to the farmers and fruit growers of
that fertile State in the last few years
by suppres5ing the dust that formerly
arose in binding clouds vita the pass
ing of every vehicle. Those dust clouds
floating to adjacent fields and or
chards deprecated the price of
farm produce and lowered the values
Of real estate to a startling degree.
The sprinkling Of oil was tried and
the dust was neId in check Then
some of the roads were plOwed and
the oil mixed with the earth and the
mass firmly rolled to a properly crown
ed surface. Splendid results followed
in most instances
Kansas has long been dust-ridden
and the oiled roads now to be built
there will. il is hoped. prove as bene-
fetal 10 the people of that common
wealth as the California roads have
TO that State
There is now in course OF. prepare
ton a comprehensive treatise on Dust
Prevention which will fall from the
presses Of the Government Printing
Office in a few DAYS. Following il in
few weeks will be a symposium en-
bodying the experience and the ex-
periments Of all state highway COM
missioners- park boards and city en-
Eineers who have done any work
along these lines. Their views and
findings viii be supplemented BY the
reports Of a federal Public Road E,x-
pert VINO has carefully examined the
methods now in use in France and
England.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-09-23

Uniquely interesting are a number
of the experiments now being con-
Quoted by the Office of Public Roads
of the United States Department of
Agriculture; one being the effort to
build a duSt-proOf road by combining
the heretofore little used blast fur
mace Stag with asphalt or tar.
This endeavOr is of the utmost eco
monte Importance, because if the
hoped-for success is ATTAINED, insight
ly mountains of Stag will soon dfsap-
pear from the vicinity of scores of
cities, and ready market will have
been established for vast quantities
of this material
For several years the scientists IN
the Office of Public Roads, as well
as in many of the more progressive
States, have been working to achieve
two great objects, viz, the utilization
OF by-pTOducts in road building and
the development of justices roads
Experiments already conducted indi-
cate that crushed rock combined with
tar OF asphalt preparations bid fair
to solve in a measure The dustless
road problem Exhaustive laboratory
tests have indicated that Stag in COM
binatiOn with preparations of tar or
asphalt may be made 10 serve as
substitute for crushed rock. Sections
of experimental road are now being
constructed which will subject the ma
terials to actual service test If the
results are 5 satisfactory as the pre-
liminary conditions indicate. the Stag
asphalt or slag-tar roads viii realize
the hope of the scientists for both
the utilization of by-DToducts and the
attainment of dusJless road. One
of these experimental stretches of
road is now in course of construction
at Chicago. under the supervision of
Chief Engineer Vernon n Pierce,
OF the Federal Bureau. and one at Bir-
mingham. Alabama. under the diTec-
ton of Mr.. B F. Heidel. First Assist
ant Engineer
The road at Chicago viii be of Stag
and asphalt; that at Birmingham of
Stag and tar The greatest skill and
care will be used in putting down
these short stretches and they will
then be carefully observed during the
trying months of winter IF in the
spring it has been eStabIisc1 that this
class Of road remains firm does not
rut, sheds water and makes but little
dust, vast step forward will have
been taken in road building, and =
never-fai1ing market viii have been
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GOVERNMENT EXPERIMENTING WITH
NEW MATERIALS FOR ROADS

created for blast furnace waste
Besides this activity In Stag experi-
ments, the Public Roads Office is also
busy at Newton. Massachusetts. with
special asphalt preparation. never
before tried. which tne director and
his EeUtenants hope may prove eff
cacioUs as dust binding surface ma
teria1.
More unique than this, however. the
ohlce IL preparing at the same place
10 lay a stretch OF what facatious
writer's are almost certain to label a
Candy Road" In all fights Of fancy
it is probable that nobody except a
scientist would go so far afieId in
research as TO adopt mOIasses as A
road building material. but that IS
exactly what has hCen done here and
Assistant Chemist Provost Hubbard
OF Director Pages scientifi~ CornS is
leveling a half mile stretch of road
near Newton, and in a few davs will
De IN active supervision Of the LAYING
OF the first molaSses road of history
This mOlasses is the almost useless
by-prodUct of the great cane sugar re-
nnerles or the South. and the beet
sugar refneries of the West and
Southwest. It is sickfshIy sweet.
nearly as black and as thick as tar
and almost as powerful as a binder.
Having always been a waste product
1t can be bought at a lower price than
coal tar and in greater quantities.
When the quantity and the sticky
consistency of this material was called
TO the attention of Director Page 2
number Of months ago, he conceived
the Idea it might aid in solving the
always difficult problem u G"g1y
roads He sent for : sGpD-y for IabC-
m nn4 Il
Hubbard to conduct them The moIas-
ses was blended with oils and lime
water; was mixed with rock dust. with
earth and with sand and tiled out I'M
der heat and under water. II bebav-
ed so well and held out such promises
for ideal roads that the practical test
Of real road was recently decided
upon
Stag as the useless by-produ.J of
the blast furnaces and ~noIasses" as
the useless by-prOduct If ne sugar
rehneTies may in a few years revO-
lUtiOnizs country road Building: create
q demand for more extended roads in
the states where those prod .fcTs are
most easily TO be had. and aid MIL
lions TO the wealth Of the country by
putting a cash value on hitherto waste
material.
While experts are laboring with
these unique material experiments in
East. South and Middle West. anoth-
or scientist also from the Office Of
Public Roads. is engaged Al Inde1e7-
dence, Kansas, in trying to devise a
method of constructing oiled roads
analogous TO the methods which have
produced the famous oiled roads OF
Southern California He Is mixing
heavy oils. possessing pronounced as
p1altic bases with natuTs' soil and
sand and compacting the preparation
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-09-23
NEWS AND VIEWS OF
OLD NEW YORK TOWN
BY Glen Guernsey.

New York, Sept. 22.-"'Look away.
look away, Dixie Land"
Just forty-nine years ago, on the
night of September 10, 1859, Bryant's
Minstrels, then at Az Broadway, New
York, sang this song for the first
time. 1t was an instant hit" and
the "coTrOding touch of time" has not
since robbed it of its pre-eminence
During the war, and ever since, the
melody of Dixie" set to varying
words, has been the one song of the
South, and scarcely less popular in
all other sections of the country Yet
1t was written and had its premiere
in the metropolis.
The author of Dixie" was Daniel
Decatur Emmett, who was born in
OHIO on October %. 1915, and died
in his native town of Mount Vernon
on June %, 1904. He began his ca
Feer in a country newspaper Office.
He soon abandoned the trade of com
position to travel with circuses and
sldeshOws. He organized the Vir-
g1n1a MinstTels in 1913, and after a
successful season in New York took
his aggregation to London, where it
was stranded on the rocks of public
Indifference. Early in his career ne
composed many songs, among which
was old Dan Tucker" a rag-time
classic of the old days.
1t was in 1857 that Emmett entered
the employ of Dan Bryants Min
strels a famous organization of its
time, and contracted to write what
were then known as "walk-arounds."
This name was applied to the con-
Guiding act of minstrel performance,
being song and dance for the entire
troupe II was while employed in
this capacity that Emmett wrote the
immortal Dixie" The following ac-
count of the song is supplied by Gus
tave Kobbe:
On Saturday night. September IT.
1859, after the performance. one of
the BryantS told Emmett that a new
Walk-around was wanted in time for
rehearsal on Monday. The minstrel
replied that. while the time was very
Snort, he would do his best. That
night, after he reached home, he tried
TO hit upon some tune. but the music
wouldn't come. His wife cheerily
told him to wait until morning; he
should have the room to himself. and
that he could work undisturbed, and
when he had finished the walk-around
he could play it for her as a sole
audience. IF she liked it the Bryants
would, and so would the average lis
tenVr.
Next day was rainy and dismal.
Some years before Emmett had trav-
eled with a circus as a drummer. In
winter the warm Southern circuit was
a popular route with circus people,
and those who were obliged to show
North would say, wien the cold
weather would make them SILVER. I
wish ] was in Dixie The phrase was.
In fact, current circus expression.
On that dismal September day, prob
ably the beginning of the equinoctiaI
when Emmetststepped TO the window
and looked out, the old longing for the
pleasant South came over him. and
1nvoluntarily he thought TO himself,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-09-23

To all Producers of Naval Stores:
The annual convention of the Turpen-
tine Operators Association is hereby
called to meet in the board of trade
auditorium, Jacksonville, Fla, We'd
nesday and Thursday, October II and
Is, 1908 The sessions viii begin
promptly at 10 o'clock a. m, and 2
o'clock D. m.
This convention will be in many re-
spects the most important ever held
by this association 1t is recalled that
the Turpentine Operators Association
was born during the dark days Of
1901. when turpentine and roSin were
selling below the cost of production,
and when the operators were disorgan-
ICED so completely that there was no
united effort at any point along the
line. The association was born Of ne
cessity The most prosperous days
ever known by turpentine producers
followed the organization of this as
soCiation seven years ago.
For reasons well known TO most
operators, dark days have come upon
us again. Such a period of jepres-
sion has not been felt in years, and
without specific reference to the
cause or the remedy in this official call
il is sufficient to say there is a rem
edy and the salvation of the industry
means that all operators must see II
and heed il.
1t is hoped that every operator in
the yellow pine belt, whether he has
ever been aligned with this associa-
ton or not, will attend the forthcOm-
ing meeting and take active and con
scientiOus part in its deliberations. In
unison there is strength. If operators
in the days of their greatest prosper
ity had not neglected their organZa-
ton. conditions would have been diff
feTent today.
We want every person who is in
terested in the naval stores industry
to attend the convention in October
and become strongly and firmly allied
with this organization.
The complete program will he an
nounced in due time in the columns
of the Industrial Record.
(Signed) J. G. BOYD,
President.
j. A. HOIOMON,
Secretary
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-09-23
Mr.. sonaparte's Confession,

Acknowledgement Bonaparte con-
cludeS touching explanation of the
failure of the Roosevelt administration
tc put some trust magnate in Jail with
these remarks:
While, therefore. I am well aware
that certain newspapers and other puT-
veyoTs 10 the public of what Speaker
Cannon calls wink and ink" have
been crying out loudly for some trust
magnate TO be put behind the bars, l
have always found this advice TO be
of the same character as that general
" given by bystandeTs to the smaller
boy in the street fight-namely, Go
in and win" Ehich, as Dickens wisely
remarks. ~ an excellent thing TO do
when one can do ii, but not an espe-
cially good thing TO try to do when
one can't.
Mr. BOnaparte confesses himself
overcome at the outset by the difficult
ties of his office. He does not try to
convict a trust magnate because he Is
afraid he may not succeed. Instead
of trying he inventS excuses This IS
putting the attorney-generalShip Of the
United States on a William TTaveTs
Jerome basis
The learned lawyers of the Roose-
welt administration do not know If
they can put the one really RESPONSE
Die man" In Jail because they have not
tried. They will never know so long
as they do not try Guilt is always
personal. and the Roosevelt admins
tratiOn viii never square its perform
ances with its promises so long as IL
lodges and bubbles over that unpIeas-
ant fact.
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sampIe Bottle Free BY Mail.

ter back to your board without recon-
mendation.
now write to ask when the next
meeting of the board of bond trustees
is to be held and if no stated time
has been fixed, whether or not you will
cali a special meeting to consider the
matter?
This report. you will recall, was
made by T. Chalkley Hatton, consult
ing engineer, about Jan. %, 1907 Mt.
Hatton is employed by the. city at 4
fixed remuneration, but for his exam
ination of the waterworks he was
paid. think, several hundred dollars
additional The examination was
made for the purpose of ascertaining
the condition and value of the water
works system, for the purchase OF
which the city was at that time nego-
tiating with the private owner
The report was made to the bond
trustees and by them submitted to the
city council and discussed by that
body in secret session on Feb. 4, 1907.
On the basis OF this report, 1t Vas de
termined that the city purchase the
waterworks system for the sum of
$1S7. 500. which it did, the transfer
was made, and the city took posses
sion on July 1, last.
Pendind the actual transfer of the
property, the engineers report was
not made public because, as was ex-
planned at the time. 1t dealt with the
property of a private individual and,
In the event that the city did not pur-
chase the waterworks, 1t>wOuld be i'm
proper to disclose the details of this
privately owned business This eXpla-
nation was accepted as a reasonable
one.
After the transfer of the property,
however. the reasons for maintaining
the secrecy Of the report no longer
applied. The public not only de-
sired the report, but is now entitled
to il.
The people of Pensacola who have
purchased and paid for the water
works system are entitled to all the
information possible concerning what
they got for the purchase price of $751;
500. ! assume that they got value receiv-
ed. Ny confidence in the integrity and
business judgment OF the gentlemen
composing the board of bond trustees
and the city council warrants me IN
that assumption.
But the public desires to know, and
should know of what that value con-
sists. 1t wants to know the condition
of and the physical value of the water
works system at the time the puT-
chase was made, and. if any portion
of the purchase price was for good
will, it wants to know that. These
facts are all contained in the report re-
ferred to. The public money was
used to secure them. They are the
property of the public and my reason
for requesting access to them is that
they may be published for the infoT-
nation of the public
Trusting that you can furnish me
with the information as to the holding
of your next meeting, at your earliest
convenience, / am,
Very truly yours,
FRANK L. MAYES.
Editor Pensacola Journal.
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THE GARBAGE
CONTRACT LEI
A. M. Mcmillan and E. G
Sewell & Co., to Remove
Garbage.

At a special meeting of The Board OF
Public Works, held yesterday at noon,
proposals for removing garbage were
opened, resulting in 4 NJ Mcmillan Sc
curing the contract for the eastern
division of the city, and e G. Sewell
& Co for the western division
The garbage bids were as fOl1ws:
A NJ. McMnIan, for eastern division,
$685.. 80; for western division. $305.50.
E. G. Sewell & Co, for eastern di-
vision, 100000; for western division,
s275.
J. A. Daw, for eastern division,
$4,000: for western division, $3.50.
c. W. Merritt. for eastern division,
S35O00; for western division, 1915.
c. w Merritt was awarded the con-
tract for grading PalafOx street at the
corner of Gadsden, his bid being 35
cents per cubic yard
The clerk wac instructed to adver-
tise for bids for placing concrete
curbing and gutter in front of school
building No. l.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-09-23
An IMPORTANT
MEETING TODAY
Chamber of Commerce Will
Meet and Discuss Many
Matters.

An important melting of the directors
of the Chamber of Commerce is to
be held this morning at II O'Clock, fol-
lowed by a meeting at ) O'Clock in the
afternoon of the membership of the
body. and it is expected that at these
meetings q number of matters of in
terest TO all will come up for discus
sion.
Among the matters to come before
these meetings is that of farmers in
sctitutes, which are to be conducted
here during the coming month by Prof.
Rolls and a number of assistants.
Another is that of tobacco and cotton
culture in this immediate vicinity. and
1t Is expected that the latter will prove
very interesting
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-09-23

7 1 wish / was in Dixie Like a fash
the thought suggested the first line
for a WaH1-aTOund, and a little later
the minstrel, fiddle in hand, was work
ing out the melody, which, coupled
with the words, made Dixie a genU-
inc song of the people almost from
tae instant it was first sung from the
stage of BTyant's MinStrelS then at
No 472 Broadway, New York, on the
night of Monday, September 10, 1853
1t was on the suggestion of Mrs
Emmett that the song was named
Dixie" The copyright of the song
was sold by Emmett to Firth, Pond &
Company. of New York, for the sum
of S500-a stiff price to pay for a
song in those days, but absurdly in
adequate in view Of the great and
lasting popularity of the production
After its publication in New York,
Dixie" quickly spread all over the
country Many parodies and imita-
tons were published and soon there
were a dozen different versions of
Dixie" but Emmett's tune was left
unchanged
The original first verse of Dixie. as
written by Emmett and appearing in
the FiTth-POnd 1860 copyrighted edi-
ton of "Emmett's Inimitable Planta-
ton Songs" was a. follows:
Dis vorl was made in iisS six days
An finished up in various ways;
Look away Look away, Look away,
Dixie Land
Dey den made Dixie trim and nice,
But Adam called it Paradise
Look away, Look away, Look away!
Dixie Land.
For some unknown reason. the New
Orleans publisher of a pirated edi-
ton substituted for this verse one
which begins, y wish 7 was in d.,
land OBJ cotton, cimmon seed AMI
sand bottom" and which is nov
more often heard than the original
When the war broke out the south
ern people felt the need of a battle
song and A new Dixie" was written
to suit the occasion The aut1Or was
General Albert Pike. and the new
text was first published in the Natchez
Courier on April 80. 1861. 1t ran as
follows:
'Southrons, hear your country call
youI
Up. lest worse than death befaH you,
To arms, To arms, To arms in
Dixie,
Lo, all the beacon fires are Iighted+
Let all hearts he now united.
To arms, To arms, To arms in
Dixie,
Advance the flag of Dixie,
HUrrahI Hurrah,
For DiXie's land We take out stand.
And live or die for Dixie.
To arms, To arms, and conquer
peace for Dixie
Over a score of other versions were
written during the war and set In
Emmett's tune. and only recently the
Confederate Choir of America off
CiaHy adopted a new Dixie lyric
year from today will be the semi
centennial of the first production OF
Dixie" and would afford a fitting
opportunity for great musical fes-
tival or other recognition Of the last
ing fame of Daniel Decatur Emmett
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-09-23
FUNERAL Of DR..
MARSH TO-DAY
Will Be Buried at National
Cemetery With Military
Honors.

The remains of DR.. c. F. Marsh,
who died at Gainesville last week,
will be placed at rest with military
honors this afternoon in the national
cemetery
The body will reach Pensacola, &C
companfed by members of the family,
this morning at II O'Clock, and ii is
probable will be taken TO Christ church
and there remain until after the ser
vices The latter, which will be CON
ducted by DR.. Percival H Whaley, will
commence at $3.50 o'clock. From the
church the funeral cortege Will move
to the terminal depot, where a special
car will carry the remains and those
attending the funeral to the national
cemetery The band and several COM
panies of artillery from Barrancas will
attend the funeral services over the
grave
The pail bearers will be as follows:
Active-H- G. DeSilva, T. f. M~tIOurin,
H. o. Arson, Jno- G. Ward, Rix NJ.
Robinson and ]. r. Kellar- Honorary
IL Hilton Green, VIM. H. Knowles,
D. G.. Brent, A NJ. Stillman, Thos.
Hannah and F. G. Renshaw.
Attention, c. A. r.
All the comrades of w. T. Sher-
man Post No. 81, G. A R., and Visit
ing comrades, as well as Sons of Vet
Grams, are earnestly requested 10 meet
at the court house at 1920 a. m. to-
day TO escort the remains of Comrade
G. F. Marsh from the train to the
church.
J. c. PETERSEN,
G. SMITH, Commander.
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NSOn1inueo = rom FtFST PSQe1
OF T. Chalkley Hatton on the city
water works system. The request was
denied on the ground that you had not
been Instructed by the city council to
make the report public and that you
would not do so until so Instructed by
hat body.
On Sept 4. I wrote Mayor c. C.
Goodman in reference to the mater.
asking him If he had authority to
make the report public or, if he did
not. If he could advise me as to the
proper procedure necessary to secure
1t. Mayor Goodman advised me that
he had seen one member of the board.
Mr.. W. k Hyer, Jr.. and that Mr..
Hyer had agreed TO call the subject IN
at the next meeting OF the board.
As the bond trustees hold no regu-
lar meetings and as, in accordance
with your original position in the mat
ter. l assumed that il might possibly
be referred to the city council in. the
end. wrote the council concerning it.
and the council has referred the mat
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-09-23
100000 FIRE
VISITS CHELSEA
Principal Buildings of City
Are Destroyed By Disas-
trous Confiagration.
By Associated Press.

acre of wooden buildings on II ? north
side of the Boston and Maine tracks
in this city, which escaped the con-
Migration Of April u, were swept
away today by another disastrous fire
entailing q loss of 100000.
The principal buildings destroyed:
Atwood and McManus, box factory;
Scott and Pope lumber yards; Lee
Brothers shoe factory; Karrabade q
Co, shoe string factory; the Chelsea
BOttling Company's factory and seven
tenement houses.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-09-23
Taxation in Japan-
CFrom The Chicago Journal.

(trOm me chicago JOurnal-)
The Japanese people. according to
Toxic newspaper, pay the heaviest tax
per person in the world. The Toxic
paper asserts that heads of families
are taxed one-fifth of their income. By
way of comparison it may be said that
an American pays out in Texas about
of his income In ad-
dition the American will earn about
five times a. much as the japanese