The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-27

The water rates should be reduced
as soon as the consumers increase. as
they should on account of the sewer
age connections and every citizen
should be induced to stop using sur
face pump water as the city water is
purer and will be economical to them
even if the actual cost of water is
higher, as they will no doubt be
healthier As the consumption of wa
ter increases the cost to produce
should decrease pro rata in propoI
ton to the amount produced and the
rate should be lowered accordingly.
Bonded indebtedness.
per cent bonds expiring
Jan. /, 1911. amount $24O, 900 90
ALP per cent bonds expiT-
ing Jan. I, 1885, amount. $50, 100000
41-2 per cent bonds author
ICED to be sold to expire
Jan. ], 1885, amount. 80. 100, 10000
Making q total of author
ICED and issued bonds. 1890 600 90
Parks.
The parks of the city have all made
| good shUwings again this year for Tbe
amount expended and the commits
sioners should have the cooperation
end support Of the city in making
that will attract the attention of our
visitors both winter and summer.
| Bayviex, tho beautiful thirty five
acre park situated on Bayou TeXaT,
should have 9 larger appropriation
the coming year so that the park can
become what it should be, the peo-
| pies park, where our citizens could
spend q few hours in the shade of
the trees and enjoy the cool. Oefresh-
IN r,f he
tiful bayou on which it is situated.
The commissioners have spent the
money appropriated 70 this park very
wisely in planting and caring for the
trees, cutting out roads through the
park. cutting out underground and
filling in the roads that lead to and
around the park and in building and
painting benches beside see saws,
giant strides, swings and other sp-
psrtus for the amusement of the
children.
This park should have water sup
| ply to water the trees when planted
and in dry season and we'll should
| be driven about the center Of the park
as soon as it is practicable to do so.
Bayview Park is now very popular
picnic ground and If the street car
accommodation could be obtained it
would add greatly to the pleasure end
HdpQl6bSS Oh our
! dressing rooms should be built for
| the bathers as the present ones are
! too small and dilapidated. As the
| city has no public baths of any kind
this would be the proper thing TO do.
Grenada, Malaga, Estra Madura,
| PaIafox street parkway, Seville, the
| Plaza, Lee, Georgia and Havana parks
have greatly improved during the
past year. A look at Palafox street
parkway today and to think how I'M
slightly it was a year ago shows the
wisdom of expending money on parks.
AS Lee park on North PalafoX
street is in my opinion second in i'm
portance Of the smaller parks, I would
| recommend that an appropriation be
made At once to put four foot walk
around this park with a small curbing
and have the unsightly fence removed
so that the work done on this park
would be permanent.
Some one has we'll said our homes
are not the houses in which we sleep,
they are the city in which We live.
| The city to the most of US is a larger
bone. / think if we we're to analyze
| the daily activities of each person we
| would ind that the larger part or
ma jority of our time is spent outside
| of the four walls We ordinarily call
| hene. We spend our time at our
places of business or places of amuse-
ment or on our way to and from
| these places. We are in touch with
our larger home, the city, more fire.
! quentIy than we are with the four
walls Of our immediate home. 1t is
/ thus or duty to make this larger home
/ of ours as attractive as it is possible
/ for US 70 do. not only for our own
| pleasure. but for the pleasure OF those
who visit our city at all times and
who are sure to be attracted by its
/ beauty IL we continue along this line.
Beautifying the parks has no doubt
| encouraged the citizens TO beauttfy
their homes and believe that the ad
vancsment along this line has been
greater this year than in any previous
| I've years. If this spirit continues to
/ grow as ii should Pensacola will soon
| be noted throughout the country as q
city beautiful.
| / respectfully recommend that the
park appropriations be increased on
/ those parks that need additional
money and especially Bayview Park
as that is the only large park that
the city owns.
I recommend that Wright street
| from Palafox street to AlcaHiZ street
be besutified as soon as il is possible
to do so, as the conditions and sur
roundings at the passenger depot
/ should be improved. The fact that
/ the railroad station is the front door
| to the city it is important that it be
| improved and made attractive. The
l first impression the average person
| gets Of a community is gained as he