The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-02-02
Pensacola's Brilliant Future
BY CONDICT PACKARD
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Civic pride is stirred In Pensacola
in manner Unknown 20, or even 10,
years ago..
Until quite recently it has seemed
enough to know that the city was one
of the oldest-if not the most ancient
of the early Spanish settlements;
that it had a fine harbOr, and deep
water over the bar. These, with an
annual attempt to hold Mardi Gras
festival, comprised the bulk of pub
licity which the city knew.
That Pensacola would quite natur-
ally enter the lists for being a City
Beautiful had scarcely been consid-
cred. The location was here; the
Bay existed; the deep water over the
bar was unique below Hampton Roads.
Why, pray, should not these suffice?
So the years fed and Opportunity
waited patiently.
Came whispers of an event of world
wide Importance, a severing of two
continents and the establishment of a
waterway where no water ran before
A way which will divert Trade, de
fleet Commerce, affect Traffic and
Barter among civilized mankind.
The Panama Canal was discussed
and considered
The Panama Canal was decided
upon.
The Panama Canal was begun.
The great work now approaches
completion; less than four years will
witness the completion of this most
remarkable event in the history of the
race. Great ships will cut across a
continent, and the way to the Indies,
dreamed of for centuries, be opened
That this will AMOUNT TO a seismic
disturbance in the worlds commerce
is becoming family understood AS
the date for the opening more nearly
approaches, this Modern Fact will be
come better announced. The people,
the Nation, the World, will swiftly
recognize what this change in the
waterways of the oceans will mean
to trade
In this pending revolution some one
of the Gulf Coast cities will achieve
the most remarkable growth and de-
velOpment of all. 1t will be the aim
of these papers to swiftly discuss
what are believed to be pertinent reas-
ons why the city OF Pensacola is Ger
tain to attain the largest percentage of
this growth and to count the most
largely, in what is to come.
1t Is not proposed to extensively dis
cuss the need for added railroads nor
the many remarkable advantages ac-
cruing from the great harbor which
the city faces, and the deep channel of
entrance, as these matters will, it is
believed, largely care for themselves.
Beside, they have been literally ex-
plotted.
One requires neither TO be prophet
nor the son of prophet 10 discover
that this revolution must pertinently
affect the entire Coast littoral.
All of the cities which line this
coast will realize advantage from this
coming commercial uprising.
This opening of the continent Of
South America TO the eager traders
of the United States must inevitably
thrust the hand of Yankee commerce
deep into, the wants and needs of all
that land, the Western portion of
which viii thus be brought into direct
touch with this country in a manner
now difficult to comprehend.
When Columbus came a-sailing into
the waters of the West Indies, there
existed along the Western part Of
South America, one Of the most won
derful, if not the most wonderful, civil
izations this world has ever known