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work consists merely in blowing up
the hulk and removing it as a menace
to navigation. Or, the vessel may be
fairly intact, but sunk too deep to
make attempt at raising advisable
the wreckers' work consisting in salv
ing valuable cargo. Often, the wreck
is one not submerged at all. A ship
may have run on to a reef where 1t
lies, nose on a crag and stern aifloat,
rising and falling on the ocean swell,
pounding and pounding and pounding.
uutil the very ocean bottom drones
and she is gradually broken to
pieces"
Wrecking the Yankee
1t was thus that the Yankee lay,
with her bow fast on a rock. Into her
stern was poured a thousand barrels
OF cement in the hope that its weight
might. lift the forward part of the yes
sci clear of the rock on which it was
impaled. The fact that it did not dc
so made only more difficult this now
famous piece OF wrecking, since all
the cement had TO be removed in or
der to raise the vessel by compressed
air, the wreekers working all the time
on a dangerous lee Snore. "a
There are other ways in which a
the ship doctors presence. The
wreck may be that of steamer which
has pointed its nose shoreward in a
fog, finding a beach. plowing a fur.
row through the yielding sand and
never coming to a halt until it is
stuck fast, all but high and dry,
helpless victim to the next storm
that comes screeching up the coast
TO pile breakers against her and
crowd her even higher upon the
beach.
1t is not easy to say which of all
the dangerous opportunities of the
wrecker is most dangerous. but sell
dom does any exceed that which in
addition to other dangers needs a
storm to make 1t saccessfni-the par
tscufar methodN of wrecking known
as walking a ship to her cables
Walking a Ship.
When big vessel like an ocean
liner loses dts bearings and the giant
nose turns slloreward and into the
sands, the monstrous hull, backed by
the enormous impact of six thousand
or twelve thousand tons moving at a
speed from ten to twenty knots an
hour, gouges into the yielding bottom
like gigantic paow that digs q. fur
row fifteen or twenty feet deep, II
does not come 10 rest until uhe steam
er Is all but high and dry surrounded
by water hardly deep enough to foar
brick schooner The wrecker's
method for dragging an unfortunate
of this sort back 70 deep water is
what is known as walking the ship
To her cables =
To walk ship 10 her cables, what
the wrecker wants is storm. Nor q
The Pensacola journal., 1908-12-20
"A CITY PLAN FOR PENSACOLA
ByJ H. Sheriff. scy Pensacola PARK Commissioners As,n.

One visiting Philadelphia will see
. wide street and parkway being cut
BOr miles through business and resi-
dence districts alike. with utter disre-
gard OF expense. Hundreds OF thous-
nnds of dollars are being spent for
The sole purpose OF providing an at
h-active and direct connection be-
bween the homes and shops aid the
beautiful park on the river Cleve-
land has Just bought twenty-four
blocks of valuable business property
for the purpose of properly locating
her public and semipublic buildings.
New York has spent millions in con-
aemning property for use as small
parks. Fairgrounds and public baths
and is now striving to secure at great
cost a comprehensive park system
which might have been had at very
moderate cost If planned earlier. Chi
cago. San Francisco, Kansas City,
Denver, st. Paul, Providence, Detroit,
Memphis, in fact, almost all OF the
progressive cities have come to re-
alize the great commercial. as well as
moral values OF beauty combined with
utility In comprehensive city plan.
A Correct Course. - 4
Although other cities may spend
more money for Identification, Wash
fngton will always be our most beau
tiful city because ii has followed a
romplete and definite plan laid out to
meet the needs Of just such a city on
that particular location: Other. cities
have neglected this important mat
ter and are 1ow striving to REMEDY
the defect as best they may. Why
not have a city plan for Pensacola
right now?
Unless we are to be terribly dis
appointed Pensacola is on the eve OF
great development; we look for a
large growth in population and in
trade by water and by land. This
means further congestion in the bus
iness district, further extensions in
the residential sections. It means
greater complications of the prob
3ems that now confront us and the ere
alton of many new problems affecting
the health, the comfort. the pleasure
and the safety of our community. The
experience of all large cities proves
the necessity for plan and urges the
desirabnity Of making sach-a plan as
early as possible. s3s 4asss
Glance at the Map, ~
One glance at the city map shows
that Pensacola was laid out as most
rifles are-in sections, varying In
plan according to the idea of the par
licuiar party or company opening that
Bection for development and the treat
ment of one section will illustrate that
wise generosity which makes ample
streets and leaves frequent parks,
while another section will display that
foolish greed which cuts up acres OF
ground with but one idea-how many
lots will it make? But no matter IL
all the various tracts" additions"
and subdivisions" were perfect In
themselves. there is still need that
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they be properly related into a shar-
monious city plan, Most of our cities
are built much like many of the, old
farm houses that some of us have
seen. They started with two rooms
and hall between, faen an ell was
added Later a room was cut off
from one end of the front porch, shed
rooms and lean-tos were stuck on
here and there and finally the big
boys moved TO the office" out in the
yard. The dear old place. sheltered
the whole family, but 1t was neither
comfortable, nor beautiful nor con-
venient- It did fairly well in days
gone by. but now, II we must live in
the same old place, the best architect
we can find must tell how to get con-
venience- and comfort and beauty by
adding here and readjusting there.
Pensacola Needs II.
Pensacola needs Just such treat
ment. Certain sections OF our city
have ample provasion for small parks
and fine broad streets for boulevards
and parkway drives. There is one
large and beautifully located park,
which is capable of great develop
ment and might offer recreation and
amusement of many kinds If 1t were
only accessible.
The broad streets in, the center of
the city have been telling us for
century that the early settlers of Pen
sacola believed In "city beautiful
and trusted posterity TO make of Pala-
fox street another Champs Elysees.
Hardly a city IN the entire country
possesses such opportunity as-it here
at our hand Ia Palafox, Wright, AL
caniz and Garden streets, but they
viii never be properly treated until
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New York, Dec 19-RObbing Davy
Jones's locker-that is the business OF
the ~wrecker'' whose profession is al
Dnce the most romantic. the most
ahrilling and the most dangerous OF
an which are piled on the seven seas
His part 1t is ito rescue ships which
have been wrecked, supken or beach
ed by the storms which they encoun-
ter, and TO bring to profitable service
once more the vessels at which the
ocean has grasped. His it. Is to crap
ple and thwart Father Neptune.
Hundreds of thousands of persons
throughout the country have read, for
instance, of the recent wreck of the
United States cruiser Yankee on the
Hen and Chickens reef on the Cape
Cod shore. To pull her from the
rocks on which she was impaled, the
government has spent over 100000
only 10 see the vessel once saved
turn turtle and sink, thus necessitat-
ing raising her again. So much the
public knows. But of the men who
Hnatcfed this vessel and who annually
snatch thousands of vessels from the
devouT1ng NAV of the ocean, and of
their profession, not one person in ten
thousad knows.
Along every mile of the thousands
on the coast line of this country, At
lantic.' Gulf and Pacific, the wrecker
IS plying his romantic profession
the most dangerous, as 1t Is the least
known, of all marine trades. For the
shipwrecker has a profession whicn
ale carries out on the wrecking ship
where he lives. What his career is
its dangers and work, are described
by A. w. Rolker, in Appletonis maya
zine.
A Dangerous Profession.
s'The career of the ship-wrecker.c E
rays Mr.. Rolker, consists OF a Sc
rfes OF hardships and adventures and
accidents and narrow escapes from
the first day he enlists with a big
wreclCing company up to the time he
Is brought ashore from the grim ship
he calls home crippled or fatally in
jured. OF all the professions that de
mand heavy toll of human life, none
not even mining or powder making.
is as dangerous as the one of these
wreckers. Every year these daring
men who brave storm and wave and
tempest to save the stranded liner
to raise the sunken ocean greyhound,
to- rescue the ship impaled upon rocks
and, II nothing else,. TO salve what
valuable cargo may be removed from
helpless wrecks. meet death by the
score. Many OF them, exposed often
for .days and nights TO the icy blasts
OF winter seas. TO driving fbl1z1ards
and to drenching storms that bite to
the marrow, succumb to pneumonia.
Others. at work on pitching, tossing
asarges, have legs or arms shattered
during the risky operations Of remov-
5n2 masts or of singing wrecking
The Pensacola journal., 1908-12-20
The Moabise Stone.

The 50 called Moabite stone was dis
covered by the Rev. f. Klein in 1868
among the ruins of Dhiban. the ancient
Dibon. The stone was of black ba-
salt rounded at the top and bottom.
two feet broad, three feet ten inches
high and fourteen inches In thickness.
but was unfortunately broken by the
Arabs. whose cupidity had been arous-
ed BY the interest that was taken in IL
by the explorers The fragments were
afterward collected and laboriously
fitted together. and the stone now
stands in the Louvre at Paris. The
inscription OF thirty-four lines Is in
Hebrew-Phoenician characters and ap-
pears to be a record of Mesha. king OF
Moab. mentioned in II Kings fiji. refer
ring to his successful yevolt against
the king Of IsraeI.-New York Ameri-
can.
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pumps or other castings that weigh
tons. Others have hands or feet so
dreadfully frozen that they must be
dmputated. And still others are
wiped out Of existence after suffering
hours of untold agony and exposure
before the eyes OF their helpless com
rades.'
How human creatures may be in
duced TO accept such a life of hard
ship and to take the risks of working
in a profession where it is almost
nothing but mere question OF time
before tthey d00k muulatio or har
rowing death IN the face, seems no
less than a psychological problem,
Still. despit the fact that the wages
of the average wrecker are not more
than he can earn as a sailor before
the mast, none of the big wrecking
companies even runs short of good
men. The very danger and the very
excitenrnt of juggling with death
lures strong men into the wrecking
crews rust as it lures thousands to
enlist in regiments during time OF
war, just as IL lures men to risk burial
alive within the shield of an under
river tunnel. Like these tunnelers,
the wrecker has long since ceased to
think of the chances he Is taking. He
OF tight places so successfully that
he begins to regard the danger of las
work as a mere everyday affair, and
when, once in while, he is jolted to the
soul by seeing his comrades perish
miserably before his eyes, even then
to his administrative brain there
seems no extraordinary chance of dan
ger.
The Tyne of Men.
OF what type Of men do these
wrecking crews consist? OF several
distinct types; in general, of the sort
born to live by Drawn and muscle, or
unafraid men who seem TO defy the
sometimes for months live together
aboard a wrecking schooner without,
setting foot on shore. men who would
not close an eye in decent bed for
want of the feel of a pitching, plung-
ing board bunk beneath them
What it means 10 salve a wreck,
continues the Appleton article, sis
something that few outside of practi
cal seanien can properly appreciate.
The wreck is q ponderous, unwieldy
mountain OF steel and oak, weighing
between three Thousand and twelve
thousand tons often dangerous for any
vessel 20 eppFoach. and this must be
lifted bodily and hoated from the
decks Of pitching, unstable scows and
barges- The wreck may ha submerged
beneath fifteen or thirty feet OF water
and so stove In that divers must go
down and effect temporary repairs be
fore it can be raised Il may be a
wreck 50 sheltered that 1t is not
worth raising SO that the wreckers
The Pensacola journal., 1908-12-20
". G. PORTER
AND HIS BAZAAR
Bazaar's Proprietor Tells
The Journal Bits of His
tory For Its Christmas
Edition.

A glance at the past at this Yufe
tide season is always a pleasure par
ticularly when difficulties have beer
overcome and one has emerged into
a period of healthful growth attended
with that charmed word SUCCESS
When The Journal representative
called upon the big genial proprietor
of the well known THE Bazaar" store.
W. G. Porter, yesterday. he was liter
ally buried among his immense stocks
of holiday goods.
At this period OF the year, the rush
of the holiday season, under ordinary
circumstances it would be impossible
for anyone to obtain Mr.. Porter's at.
tention on an interview proposition.
but Journal representative is not to
be denied, and SO when the Bazaar
proprietor was asked TO tell a bit of
his history OF which success this bic
Christmas edition OF The Journal
would carry TO all in this section of
the state. many already his custom.
ers and friends, he consented and be-
came reminiscent.
Seven years ago conceived the
idea Of this store and started with
one hundred and ninety dollars as
cash capital" remarked Mr.. Porter
''and you can see what seven years
SfOWIQ udS meant 1Or me-. In 1901 i
had a small building, twenty-three by
fifty feet, and I was my sole employee
/ believed could lessen prices by
reducing expenses. The first years
gross receipts totaled $6,562 And
now 1908 is closing, the dreams and
visions of seven years ago are rapidly
materia1izing-in fact, the realization
surpasses the anticipation | have
never known what il is to look at
the clock. Old straw is not threshed
in our machine, hence the tireless
push, and here you see what all this
has brought me-" and Mr.. Porter
paused TO point out the sweep of his
floor space as he continued, 81 have
now four buildings, dozen and
half employees, four we'll stocked de
partments and thus far my cash sales
for this panicky CD year total $50,
4S2
II sell glassware. crockery, enamel
ware, general kitchen supplies, hard
ware Of all kinds, shoes, mems flrn.
ishings, hosiery, fancy and staple
dry goods and notions, stationery,
toilet and school supplies. candies.
toys, jewelry, and all kinds OF orna-
mental wares, staple and fancy gro
ceries, feedstuffs, ETC., ETC.
1But, say Mr., and he turned
to leave for another section of his
busy store, II can't give You any more
time today; extend the greetings of
the season to all Of The Journals
readers from The Bazaar. my corps
Of salespeople and yours truly"
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A. Calm Witness.


\ lawyer was cross examining a wit
less with a view to getting him mud
lied in his testimony. The following
luestions and answers occurred:
Did You see the plaintiff faint
short time ago?"
"Yes. sir"
People turn pale when they faint
don't theyr
NO. sir; not always"
What! Do you mean to tell me that
person can faint and not turn paleI
Did you ever hear Of such -casew
''Yes. SIR"
did you ever see such caseT'
II did, sir"
"When!"
About a year ago. sir"
'Who was it?"
Twas q negro, sir"
The lawyer excused the Witness
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
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Decision OF character Is one brfgh.
golden apple which every young per-
son should strive In the beginning -
pluck from the tree of life.
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Sweet Sorrow.

Sweet Sorrow.
'T can't please my friends" sobbed
the young bride.
What's the naater, pet?'
They insist that can't be happy
with fathead like you, but. oh. hus-
band. 1 amw-Washington Herald
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Domestic Amenities.

Knicker-Tve waited an hour for you
to get your hat on straight Mrs.
Knicker-Weil. I've waited longer than
that for you to get your feet on
straight.-New York SUM-
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Thrilling LiOGs, of Shipwreckers


Use of Storns-NWaIking Ship to Her Cables
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AIN UNPURCHASABLE
PRESS, GIANT STATES
men AND EVERGLADES

CONTINUED From Page Forty-one)
Arizona republican., 1908-09-15
WEST AUSTRALIANS
 WELCOME THE. FLEE!
Representative of a People Akin to
 Themselves in Origin.

Albany, w. A, Sept. 14.-Rear Ad- mirai Sperry, commanding the Ameri- can battleship fleet and @ number Of officers, came ashore today. The ad- miral was received at the jetty by the premier of West Australia, Sir N. E. Moore
 The party proceeded to the Retunda, the route to which was thronged with enthusiastic natives who constantly cheered the visitors.
 The governor of West Australia, Ad- miral Sir F. G. b. Bedford in q speech welcomed. "the representatives of a great power akin to ourselves in origin and language and inspired by the same ideals of freedom and justice. We well come the American fleet and the man Hesitation of force which we believe will never be exercised except in just cause. and in the maintenance of a general peace"
 Premier Moore welcomed the Amer jeans and Admiral Sperry replying, thanked the West Australian authori- ties for their hospitalities.
Arizona republican., 1908-09-15
UNABLE 10 STAND
 HE RIDING ItSl
The Report of Medical Board in the
 Case of Col. Stewart.

Tombstone, Sept. 14.-The case of Col. Stewart of the coast artillery service, which attracted wide atten- tion, had another chapter added to- day at Fort Huachuca, where he went to undergo the endurance test pre- scribed for officers over a certain age Arriving at Fort Huachuca on Friday his physical condition was examined into by the board of med ical survey who forbade him to take the test.
 The board said his condition was such that he could not undergo a severe strain without great danger to his health and ordered him to return to Fort Grant He will leave on Wednesday morning if a reversal of the order is not obtained, which seems improbable. He strenuously objects to the finding of the board but will obey orders without hesi- tancy He declares that he is in good health and is willing and anxious to undergo the tests. The original charge against the colonel was 'tem- peramental incompatibility."
Arizona republican., 1908-09-15
The Normal Plurality Reduced Below Ten
 hOuSdDd
The Vote Was Nearly a Record Breaker--The Dem- Ocratic Gains Were the Heaviest In the Rural Districts

Portland, Maine, Sept. 14-Although the republicans came off victorious in the state election today, Bert M. Fer nald of Poland being chosen governor over Obediah Gardner of ROckland, the democrats had the satisfaction of seeing the normal republican plur- ality cut to less than 10000 votes for the first time in a presidential year for more than 25 years. All four candidates for congress, republican, were elected and for state auditor Charles P. Hatch of Augusta, repub- lican, defeated his opponent
 Returns for governor from 460 out of 519 cities. towns and plantations. give Fernald, republican, 70.111, and Gardner, democrat, 64.62S. The same places in 1904 gave Cobb, republican, 74.419, and Davis, democrat, 49.141. This shows a republican loss of per cent and a democratic gain of g per cent. On this basis the re- publican plurality, it was estimated would be about 5000 The result shows not only the warmth of the contest. but the popularity of MT Gardner, whose fame as head of the state grange, Patrons of Industry, proved a great vote gainer.
 Nearly 14O,OOO voters went to the
Arizona republican., 1908-09-15
MT. Tdft's Early Compliance With the Me-
 brdskan'S Request
He Says Events Have Always Proved the Good Fortune of the Country In Escaping Bryan Adminis- tratiOn,

Cincinnati. Sept. 14.-Asserting that his official record. his speech of ac- ceptance and his subsequent utter ances are ample indications of his own political position. William H. Taft to- day replied to Mir. Bryans comment on the Roosevelt letter.
 Taft's reply in part follows:
 In my notification speech and in other speeches made since, I attempted to make clear my position on all of the l cannot make them clearer. I stand has been unable to understand them, l cannot make them caelrer. stand on my record in the past and what I have said. Mir. Bryan said I devote a little time to his own record. from which he seems to be struggling to separate himself with all the adroit- ness acquired in a twelve years hunt for an issue on which he can be elect ed president. The readiness with which Mir. Bryan in his successive presiden- tial campaigns passes from one para mount issue to another shows that the chief consideration which affected his selection of an issue has been its piausibility in attracting votes. He presents the remarkable spectacle of one who has been seeking the presi- dency for twelve years without sue cess, and without official responsibili- ty, and without an opportunity to test the various propositions which he has advocated for reforms, and yet of hay ing events demonstrate what a cOllOs- sal failure he would have made in each instance had he been permitted to car ry his proposal into the policies of the country. He does not say whether he is still in favor of the free coinage of silver. He does not answer the question whether if he were president and the eXigency should arise in which he would be called to exercise his dis cretiOn, affirmative to maintaining the parity between gold and silver, he would exercise that disposition. He has not permitted himself to discuss in this campaign the issue of anti imperialism which was the paramount issue in 1900, as he declared, and in re- spect to which the policy of the repub- lican party has been -vindicated by
Arizona republican., 1908-09-15

events. so that tranquility and good government exists in the Philippines. and the independents prefer a repub- lican victory to Mir. Bryan's promises.
 He now says he favors the more rigid regulation of the railroads. In 1896 he expressed the view that the railroads could not be regulated be- cause the railroads would own the reg ulators appointed by law, and, there fore, he was in favor of government ownership. We hear nothing from him on this subject Instead. by describ- ing his platform not only as an an- nOuncement of principles, but as a protection against uncomfortable is sues, he has attempted to give bond to keep the peace with respect to gov ernment ownership, which by its mere announcement showed it's lack of the vote catching quality. He professes to have been the father, and now to be the heir of Roosevelts policies. and yet in no campaign of the three in which he has taken part and two of which he himself led did he make them the par amount issue Instead, during the Parker campaign he took occasion to charge Roosevelt with militarism and with being completely subject to the influence of corporations, only to see him win the greatest peace triumph of the world and secure such an eff fective stamping out of corporate abuses as to elicit the admiration of the entire country.
 MT, Bryan professes to be the great friend of labor. and yet he was one of the chief supporters of the passage of the Gorman- Wilson bill that made labor helpless for four years. It will be fortunate indeed if the danger of four years depression. to which labor would be exposed in case Mir. Bryan is elected. may be averted. and if by republican success in November he may be again shown to be a prophet with ent honor"
Arizona republican., 1908-09-15
LOOKS LIKE DUNHAM.
Pictures of Hatfield the Suspect al
 Sherman, Texas.

San Jose, Sept 14.-Pictures of John Hatfield, suspected of being Jas e. Durham, who brutally murdered the McGlincey family here twelve years ago, were examined by a score of people and the police here today and all declared that the pictures of Hatfield bear a resemblance to the murderer.
 The local officers are skeptical on account of the large number Of sus- poets already found and proven guilt less but it is not unlikely that a depu- ty will be sent to sherman, Texas. to either identify Hatfield as Durham or clear him.