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New-York tribune., 1909-03-10
BRONX VALLEY SEWER COMMISSION.

Alhanv March 8-Governor Hughes to-day gave
a hearing on the bill of Assemblyman Haines pro-
,-,dinr for an extension OF the life OF The Bronx
valley Sewer Commission for two years from June
"a so as TO give it opportunity TO complete the big
sewer which is TO for the wastes Of The Bronx
Valley from White Plains to YoakerS
New-York tribune., 1909-03-10
JupeEsHIP FOR CINCINNATI MAN.

Washington March S.-The President to-day
rendered to John W. Warrington, member OF the
Cincinnati bar, the judgeship OF the 9Th judicial
CIrcu,t made vacant BY the death Of J X Rich
ards formerly Solicitor General of the United
States Attorney General Wickersham has invited
Mr. Warrington 10 come to Washington for con-
ference
New-York tribune., 1909-03-10

Scarlet Danvine 3: Henry c. Niles York, /. The
nomination made unanimous
Mr. Oliver is publisher OF The Pittsburg Ga
zette." which he bought in 1900 He born in
ireland in 1s4s. and. coming this country. was
graduated from Bethany College. West Virginia in
1855 He studied law and pracused until 1881. when
he engaged in iron and steel manufacturing
New-York tribune., 1909-03-10

He predicted that the influence Of woollen work
ers' clubs and unions throughout the country would
brought bear on Congressman TO prevent any
reduction in the tariff on woollen goods. The
American Wooilen Company employs 5000 opera
tives in thirty plants in the East
New-York tribune., 1909-03-10
II. r. HELPER Il SUICIDE.
Author and Diplomat, Despairing
Orer r. r. Scheme. Takes Life.

wa-hington. March s.-Sorrowing because his
dream Of having intercontnental railroad 10
open 10 commerce the fertile valleys OF Central and
South America had never materialized. Hinton
Rowan Helper formerly United States Consul at
Puenos Ayres committed suicide here to-day
Mr. Helper was found dead in obscure board
ing house in Pennsylvania avenue with a towel
tied tightly around his neck and the turned
He was an author. railroad protector and Civil
War veteran. He vainly sought means TO carry out
his project planned more than forty years ago. for
three Americas railway
HELPERS Wife who is a Spanish woman. has been
living in Buenos Ayres for the last ten years. She
became blind just before leaving this city
Several letters were found on Helper. addressed.
among others. to United States Treasurer Treat
and George r. Starkweather Helper was work
ing on an invention and had claim before Con-
gress In one letter. asking for a loan. Helper
said he had spent forty-two years trying to work
out the railway schemes and had expended nearly
$4,000.
Hinton Rowan Helper best known for his
anti-sIavery volume. The Impending Crisis in the
Sout" published in 1857. In il attacked slavery
as economically harmful. and his arguments made
a great impression. one hundred and forty thou
sand copies of the work sold in four years
Mr. Helpers hobby. the three Americas rail-
way" was scheme proposing to a Geat inter
continental railroad from Bering Strait the
far boundaries of Alaska, TO the Strait of Magellan.
passing through Canada. the United States Mexico.
Central America. the Isthmus OF Panama and the
length of South America. Three corps Of engineers
two IN South America and in Central America
were placed in the field. and surveying had been
actually begun but the scheme has been heard
little of lately.
Mr. Helper was born in North Carolina in 1929.
He was consul at Buenos Ayres from 1862 1866.
Others of his writings were The Negro in Negro
land" and The Land Of Gold"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24

people. 1t is equally inadyisabie TO
repeal these laws because of the bad
moral effect of throwing down the
bars. The better policy is to go on
about as we have been, ignoring such
violations of the letter of the law as
do no harm, enforcing the observ-
apce of the day as substantially a
holiday as regards common avOca-
tons, extending latitude to such work
as street cars. mercantile establish
mentS of a certain class. And SO on
The source of most agitauonS for
a rigid enforcement of the Sunday
law in its literal terms and to its
fullest extent entities such agitations
to distruSt as arising from SUCH ses-
fish motives, as seeking some special
privilege contrary to the public sense
of decency and Well-being. What
may be permissible and harmless in
one community might be wicked and
hurtful in another. Each community
can and should largely be left to
judge for itself just how tightly it
will draw around il the straight
jacket of the law.-Tampa Times.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24
The Age of Ann Has Caused
A Local Disturbance.

Tt looks as though the editor of
the Jasper News were representative
about his age. Is it possible that
that is the reason he dresses his
thoughts in pink, so that they may
come fresh and rosy to his many
readers every week? If so it is quite
wrinkle conception worthy of
Mile. Mars, Rachel, or any of the
ancient French actresses who while
climbing into the sixties used to de-
light their audiences with the glow
ing, captivating vision of a girl in
her teens. See what a distressing
effect a most innocent query has had
on the gentleman:
The recent census of Jacksonville
gives that city a population of sc, $500.
Our editor resided in that burg when
its population was a little less than
S00.-Jasper News.
Last week The Pensacola Journal
copied the foregoing paragraph from
this paer and its only comment was
the headline, How Old is Ann?" sOf
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24
VOX POPULI.
STATEMENT REGARDING
THE SIDEWALK CONTRACT.

Editor Pensacola Journal-In this
mornings Journal, under the caption,
New Sidewalk Construction" your
reporter got a little matter somewhat
twisted which seems worth while
correcting, as 1t Is IN the public IN
teIest- In the second paragraph, re-
feTring to the notices to be issued to
property owners, you have 1t this
way "AH notices will have attached
a small card. this being designed to
contain a set of instructions in the
manner of building walks" This is
incorrect. It is the Intention and
purpose of the board to have pasted
on each notice a little printed slip
suggesting that when the dirt is NOV
ed preparatory to laying the walk the
owner take the precautiOn to lay his
sewer pipe, or so much of it as would
pass under the walk before the con-
creting is done, or else put down
enough tile of inside diameter large
enough to receive the sewer pipe
proper when connection is finally
made with the mains. This may save
the owner the trouble and expense OF
disturbing the walk after it is laid.
J. o. w WALKER, member of
Board of Works
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24
"A Telling Point in
BroWard'S Statement.


In his statement regarding the re-
cent sale of 100000 acres of the
Everglades TO r. J. BOIIes, of Colo
Tado, published in today's Journal,
Governor BToward developed a point
which deserves most serious atten-
ton and the correction of the evil in
dictated should be insisted upon by
the people OF Florida. 1t is that his
political enemies, under pretense OF
discrediting. the new generally &C
Cepted proposition that the submerg-
ed lands may be drained and reclaim
ed and converted into territory as
fertile as any in the world, are actu-
ally preventing the state from Teceiv-
ing the price it should get for these
bands even in their present useless
condition.
OF course no sane man will hesi-
tate a moment in deciding that the
BoiIes contract at two dollars an acre
and covering lands in alternate sec
tions is many, many times a better
bargain than the old contract at
twenty-five cents an acre made with
j. r. Parrot and associates in 1898.
This contract was not lived up 10,
fortunately for Florida, and was fin
ally abrogated by the internal i'm
provement board. Governor Brow
ard may we'll welcome the compari-
SON between the two contracts, and
journal readers may safely be left
to draw their own inference which
will most certainly substantiate the
governors confidence.
II is a matter of record that Parrot
and his associates were extremely
anxious for a continuance OF their
&C ntraet. They most assuredly would
not have been so concerned if they
had not kown they had a good
thing''-the very best sort of a good
thing; so that now any effort made
by them or by newspapers which they
car control, to belit6le the enter
piise and cast suspicion upon its
promoters should be received with
the censure it deserves-yes, with
the scorn of citizens who will realize
IL. their attitude a conspicuous lack
of fidelity to the interests of the
state.
James Z. Ingraham was one of the
contracting parties under the old Par
rot quarter-Of- a-dollar-an-aeF agree
ntent. and one may draw his own
conclusions as to the motives which
inspired his recent letter to Dos
Passos Brothers of New York who
represented clients interested in the
purchase of the Everglades property.
Also the cause for the deep interest
expressed by the gentleman in dis
covering whether the lawyers repre-
scented the Colorado purchasers.
The journal wishes to insist that
any attempt to throw cold water on
an undertaking which promises such
a vast increase in the value of prop
erty i'm Florida, and either by direct
assault or by damning with faint
praise to cause an immediate serious
loss DO the state treasury, whether
the attempt be made by individual or
By newspaper. can be looked upon
as nothing short of a pronounced lack
of patriotism and a selfish disregard
OF the best interests of the common
wealth.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24
Governor eiIchrist and Drainage.

0oSeTnOr OtiCnFiSI and Drainage.
It is a known fact that The Press
did not support Governor A. W. Gil
christ IN the primaries last spring.
At the same time we recognized, in
him a man above reproach, therefore
we did not oppose him, beyond the
fact that our vote went for his OPP.
pOnent. Such being the case, a good
word coming from our side of the
house cannot fail of sincerity. But
we are pleased to note the governor
is standing by what he said he would
do If elected We refer to the mat
ter Of drainage. In his speech at
Tallahassee, on the occasion of his
Inauguration, he spoke words that are
most encouraging TO the people or
Lee county, in as much as they i'm
ply that he is now practically a
drainage man, and will carry out the
work so nObly started by ex-GoveFn-
or N B. BrOward. We want the
drainage of the Everglades carried to
completion, if such be possible, and
we praise Governor Gilchrist for his
stand and shall do all in our power
to urge the scheme to a successful
terminus.-Fort Myers Press.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24
Hits a Boaster.

A gentleman representing the liquor
interests of Jacksonville has made
the open boast that Putnam county
would return to the licensed saloon
system when the time arrived for the
next election. 1t may be, but such
result viii not be obtained without
struggle. This county has had
taste of decency and is beginning to
enjoy it, and the voters will not easily
be persuaded to return to a system
of legalized debaUcheTy. And, then,
an election is not so easily obtained.
1t requires a petition of one-quarter
of the qualified voters of the county,
and it is very doubtful if sufficient
WHITE MEN can be found in Put
nam county who will assist the NE
GROES in making up the required
number. The petition viii be public
property once it is filed. and the
News here and now gives notice that
if such a petition is flied, it will pub
lish the list of names in full. The
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24

course it meant that our editor was
ola enough to be a rival of Methu
selah, with fair prospects of dis
tancing that well-known gentleman
in the race of life.
The editor of The Journal, if we
mistake not, is from Dakota, where it
( is so tremendously cold that there
are only few days in the year warm
enough for anything to grow at all
and, consequently, his ignorance in
supposing that it took two or three
centuries for Jacksonville to grow
from a village of 500 to a city of Co.
$40 population is pardOnable
But we will tell The Journal a story
about its own city. A few years ago
our editor was in Birmingham, Ala,
and wishing to go to Pensacola he
learned to his establishment that no
transportation could be obtained from
Pensacola to any point east, nor
south, in the entire state, not even to
Key West, nor Tampa. The result
was that our editor walked from
Pensacola to the Chattahoochee river
and at one stretch of road on that
route went forty-five miles without
seeing human habitation. In this
delicious climate of ours, brother.
everything grows rapidly"
1t is unnecessary to pay any atten-
ton to the slur on the fertile plains
of the northwest where wheat at
$1.10 bushel is enabling farmers to
go to market in three thousand dol
lar automobiles; but as Pensacola.
the Deep Water City of the Gulf of
Mexico, is one of the oldest munich
palities in the United States, having
been originally settled by pioneer
dOns from old CASTLE and as the day
must have been remote indeed when
its discriminating citizens provided
no water transportation to the
bads wer repOse the fat and Ius-
ciOus oysters of ApalachicoIa we
sadly fear the News's scribe is
convicted by mis- own remarkable
statement. And this conclusion is
emphasized by the fact that the IN
comfortable experience recounted is
not accompanied by a fixed date any
more than was his sojourn in the lap
of Miss Jacksonville while she was a
near infant in short skirts.
So, the same curiosity which i'm
PEELED the original question still calls
out for its repetition: How old is
Ann? How old, in the name of
Aaron, Moses and all the prophets.
is Ann Anna or Anastasia?"
Because, although The Journal
originally had no thought of insin-
uating that its respected brother had
approached anywhere near the nine
hundred and sixty mine years of Me-
thuselah, it now begins to sit I'D and
take notice, and really wishes to
know if Florida contains a "Nestor".
indeed, who is worthy of the profound
respect due from all spring chickens
to an ancient, honorable and COM
handing cock of the walk.
Let the well beloved brother. how
ever, take comfort. A man is no
older than he feels. Science is over
coming all the ills of the flesh these
days; years have been reduced to
days SO far as their power to enfee-
Die humanity in body or brain is con-
.cerned, and even grim Death him
self is rapidly being reIegated to the
regions of ObscuTity now occupied by
the Devil and all other disagreeabIe
myths and bugaboos.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24
Too Much FACE.

You feel as if you had enc face too
many when you have neuralgia.
Don't you? Save the face, you may
need it; but get rid of the Neuralgia
by applying Billiards. Snow Liniment
Finest thing il the world for Fheuma-
item, neuralgia, burns, cuts, scaIds,
lame back and all pains.
Sold and recommended by w. A.
D'Alemberte, druggist and apothscary,
121 South Palafox street, Pensacola,
Fla
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24

It is said that the tail of the kang-
aroo is very good eating. This mar
sUpial is larger than the 'pOssum and
is not so greasy Native Australians
kill kangaroos with boomerangs, but
occasionally a boomerang gets out of
keller and decapitates one of the ma
tives ''Verbum sap"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24
Yes. lis Sad. Indeed

Sad, indeed, is it to note the grad
ual passing to their reward of the
pioneers of Gainesville. A few more
years and not one of them who made
this city their home in the ffties will
be left to relate the trials and hard
ships of the first few years they spent
here No town was ever inhabited
by a better class of earlier settlers
than Gainesville, everyone of whom
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24
Concentration Required.

the schools and roads of the state
the sole subject of their Iabors, and
do away with the antiquated system
of both in existence now, the state
would be better off for their Iabors.
Both of these need reforming badly.
-DeFuniak Breeze.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24
Our Hard Roads.

The contractors, B. E. Pool & Co.
are at work building the first section
of our hard roads. The first section
is from the iron bridge, across the
Alapaha river. on the BellviIIe road.
to Jasper. The contractors have
been furnished by the county COM
missioners with road engine, cars,
graders, spTinklers, and all necessary
machinery for the work to be eff
GENTLY and quickly done. Take a
day off and go out and see the men
and machinery at work. You will
find it interesting News.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24
NEWS AND VIEWS
BY STATE PRESS
Don't Forget It.

Don't Forget II.
Cordial relations now obtain be-
tween the South and Judge Taft"
says Judge LurtOn. There has never
been a quarrel between US and Judge
Taft, but there will be a serious
break between US and the president
Of the United States if he enforces
all the Roosevelt poIicieS-and don't
you forget it.-JacksOnville Times
Union
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24

OF course no warships can be spar
ed for New Orleans during the Mar
di Gras or for any other point ex-
cept Norfolk, where every one of
them, yea, and many auxiliary craft
viii be required to do honor to the
one and only sure enough American
Rex. TheodOrus Superbus, before his
debarkation from the ship of state,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24
A Candid Opinion.

Birmingham, Ala, should give
Editor Rhodes his passport, furnish
him with a sheriff escort to beyond
the north boundary line of the solid
South and turn him loose within the
confines of the national capital He
is a journalistic fool, and takes to
slOp as greediIy as a hog. VIII Bir-
mingham stand for all he said? VIII
Taft reward him ?-BToxton (Ga.)
Journal.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24

Governor Sanders of Louisiana
means business-race track gambling
must go; peaceably, if possible, but,
if necessary, at the point of the bay
onet and expedited by infantry prac-
tice
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24

No, the congress cannot create a
legal holiday which will be binding
on the states. It's observance need
extend only to federal territory and
federal employees.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24
The Silver Lining.

ne SILVER Lining
If the present panic only teaches
our Southern people to be les eX-
travagant it will be the silver lining
to the panic cloud. II seems that we
love to wear the debtors chain No
man is a free man who weaH the
chain of debt. The credit Systsm is
the curse of the South. 1t arises
both the man who gives it aIh the
man who receives it It is thenatu-
raj cause of high prices. If every
farmer would plant only half asmuch
cotton and use less fertilizers only
as much as he could pay spot cash
for, raise more hog and homi% il
would give him % or Soc cottoi and
he would have money TO pay cash
for all he needed 1t would deelOp
our agricultural and commercial re-
sources a thousand fold and maxi the
Southland the garden spot of the
world.-Lake Butler Star
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24

Il didn't take DeFUniak Springs
lcng TO get tired of the blue laws.
Everything once more flows serenely
on.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24

The three days of grace" went
out in Alabama the same time as
liquor vending, which is a funny CO.
Incidence, to say the least.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24

find a stripping, plant it and be the
father of a tree which will prove an
outrageous blessing to Pensacola in
the not distant future.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24

that Wauchula bank has the largest
amount of deposits Of any bank in
the county, which is not a bad show
ing for acknowledgements AdvO-
cate.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24
Slick Mimians.

When stranger comes to town,
his intention is to take away more
money than he leaves. If he doesn't
do it, he misses his guess. Ana nc
most always misses it-Miami News
Record
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24

The Monticello News publishes in
teresting statistics showing the in
dGstrial growth OF its Hourishing
town
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24

Are we to have another 'faunaI
naturalist" in the white house, one
especially devoted to the study of
maTsupialS?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24

loved the town and it's poole as their
own.-GaineSYille Sun.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24

The TransvaaI is rapidly becoming
civilized under John Bulls benignant
reign. A mine disaster near johann
nesburg killed 100 men,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24
He Who Runs MAY Read.

He Who Runs May Read.
There was recently considerable of
fuss at Miami over attempts to
strictly enforce the Sabbath law, no
matter who was hurt-this by Sab
batarian fanatics. The sheriff of Es
Gambia county has begun its enforce
ment with another object in view
that of showing the legislature how
impossible it is to strictly enforce it
without setting back the hands of the
what this agitation for stricter Sab
batarian observance may lead to, let us
reproduce a part of the New Haven
Blue Laws: NO one shall run on
the Sabbath day. or walk in his gar
den or elsewhere, except reverentIy
to and from meeting No one shall
travel, cook victuals, make beds,
sweep house. cut hair OF shave on the
Sabbath day; no woman shall kiss
her child on the Sabbath or 2 fasting
day" 1t is all very well for those
who clamOr for StTicteF Sabbath oh
servance to say that they do not in
tend to go so far as these laws did:
We have only their word for it If
one set succeeds in closing drug
stores, stopping street cars and for
bidding the publishing of Sunday
papers or the distribution of mail on
Sundays. another set will arise who,
encouraged by the success of the
first set, viii endeavor to push the
observance of the first day of the
week as sacred to the extreme of
the Blue Laws quoted above.-Jack-
SOnviIIn Times Union
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24

rs leap year a failure?" asks the
Gainesville Sun. Cant say; but
there were entirely too many failures
last leap year.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24
WauchuIa is Solid.

The special edition of the Tampa
Tribune shows that there is ST.
076.77 deposited in the banks ofDe-
Soto county. The last census fave
the county q population Of 1916.
This would show that there was
something like S37 in the comfy
banks for every man, woman md
child in the county. But the Trihne
omitted the State Bank of ZolfoRnd
the Avon Park Bank. which doub.ess
would run the amount up to loFe
than $40 per capita This is certnly
a good showing for q county in Wfch
so many new people are just geEng
a start. incidentally we may ate
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24

people will want the list as. a matter
of news.-Palatka News.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24
The Sunday Law.

Z IIO OuIIucJ LdFF'
It is rather reasonable to think it
is a strained reason given by the
sheriff of Escambia county that he is
trying to instruct and inform the leg
islature.. It is practically impossible
to enforce all the crude and out-Of-
date laws about Sunday observance
without UnbeaTable haTdships on the
public. The legislature knows this,
in common with all the rest of the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-24

Do not forget Arbor Day, Feb. 18th;