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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-07
Pensacola Must Fight
For It's Navy Yard.

Printed in another column on this
page is an editorial which appeared
in the Sunday edition OF the. New
Orleans Times-Democrat. 1t refers
to report coming from Taft's sum
mer home, Beverly, Massachusetts,
which relates to a matter of the ut
most consequence to Pensacola and
its people. This report affirms that
Secretary of the Navy Meyer has
been won over to approve the plan to
close southern navy yards, including
the one located here.
The Journal asks its subscribers to
read the Times-Democrat editorial
with care, scanning each line and
even searching between the lines; Cor
they may find something interesting
even there. AS the New Orleans pa
per says, 'the issue must be fought
out in congress- Yes, land the
sooner the decisive battle is pitched
the better" The forces antagonistic
to Southern yards will never be put
down save by the strong and predom-
mating arm of the national Iegisla-
ture, and while we give Secretary
Meyer credit for more than an ordi-
nary share Of good sense and freedom
from the sectional prejudice which
seems to actuate his obstinate ad-
yisers, we, nevertheless, realize that
the constant assaults of these parti-
sans upon his patience and sound
judgment must produce an effect i'll
course of time, for the secretary is
fallible, like the rest of mortals.
The Journals particular purpose in
touching upon this subject is to reit-
crate as strongly and insistently as
possible the advice it has offered the
business forces of Pensacola many
times before, particularly In a recent
editorial headed Guantanamo abau-
doned, where then the naval base
1t is high time for these forces to be
up and doing, Even should the fight
be taken up in congress-and most
likely it will bet is reasonable to
suppose that the matter will end in
a compromise and that one or more
OF the navy yards named will be
closed.
Let us fully realize that poIitica!
pull and the power of push will be
used by each of the cities where the
yards are situated to save itself from
such loss regardless of the facs
whether by reason Of location or port
facilities it possesses the best ad-
-Vantages or not. We of Pensacola
know well, Of course, that there is no
harbor in the South so we'll situated
or so we'll provided in the way of deep
water and protection than our beau
tiful bay. We know that instead of
being discontinued the navy ward
here should be enlarged and thor
oughly equipped and made the great
southern naval base Of the future.
And being confident of these things
the battle for self-preservation should
be waged with a stout heart and
strong arm. No one else will fight
this battle for us. We must fight it
ourselves; and the time to begin is
TO-DAY.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-07

supreme court, they nevertheless
cause most serious delay, tax the pa
thence of the people and compel the
states to go to an enormous expense.
1t is certainly time that some sort
Of hindrance should be provided
the Jurisdiction of the federal courts
should be restricted so far as causes
between the states and the chartered
or licensed corporations doing bust
ness within them are concerned As
the matter now stands a federal cir
cult Judge cannot conscientiously
throw out Of his court most OF these
appeals for injunctions and in order
to relieve the responsibility of these
judges their power should be curtail-
ed. No doubt most Of them would be
as well pleased by such legislation
as the states and the public would be
benefited.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-07
CARYVILLE.

CaryVille, Sept. 6.-Miss Eva Pratt,
of Mariana, Is visiting friends in
CaryVille this week
Miss Eff1e Charles is at home from
her school visiting her parents In
Caryville.
The young people of Caryville had g.
nice picnic near the academy in Cary
Vile last Thursday. There were about
100 pounds of choice trout, Dream and
other pan fish fried brown. The en-
tire crowd composed of ladies and
gentlemen of Caryville, spent several
hours in grand old fashioned picnic
style.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-07

Florida should be the scene of the
next tournament in the air and will
be If the management of the Aero
Club be wise.-St. Augustine Record.
This is true; Florida is the proper
state for the next aeroplane contest,
and The Journal would inform the
Record that it has already elected
Pensacola as the proper city in Flor
ida for the show. It is patiently wait
ing to discover if the people here
will wake up and go out after it.
Just wait a little while and if they
make no sign we will resign n favor
Of OTmond or Daytona.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-07

visitor here last Friday.
Two monster rattlesnakeS have
been killed here In the last few days,
One had nine rattleS and the other
had six.
Miss Rubye Hatton visited her
friend, Miss Lula Whitehurst, last
Sunday.
Henry McNealy spent last Friday
with friends here and tried his hand
at dipping tuTpentine.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. W. Ross have
moved to Milton.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-07

1t looks as though Virginia would
send a solid democratic delegation to
congress in 1910. and yet it is still
affirmed that Taft has his eye on The
Old Dominion with view to swing
it over to the republicans. IT'S sur
passing strange that such queer ideas
get into heads which should be the
best informed.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-07

Santa Catarina ought to make that
river in Mexico named in her honor
behave itself better than to over
flow. drown 1000 people and render
$4,000 or 10000 homeless.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-07

Were it not so cold up there the
exceedingly slow motion at the north
pole would render the location a pc
culiarly agreeable one for some OF the
people we know.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-07

The most recent report of the state
department of agriculture shows that
the orange trees of Florida yield an
average each of only box and a halls
OF the fruit This looks like a very
poor showing for the land devoted to
the crop, and makes one wonder
whether it would not pay better to
convert the groves into truck gar
dens.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-07

Mayor Frank O'Brien, Of Birmin3-
ham, Ala, is in New York, and says
he has been assured by a number OF
his banker friends that they are will
ing to lend Birmingham all Of the
money up to legal limit at the rate
of 8 per cent Wonder If Jackson
vile could get a loan at that figure?
Jacksonville Metropolis.
It is possible that a member of toe
half million club might negotiate the
loan.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-07

DR.. Abernethy, the great English
physician, said, Watch your kidneys,
When they are affected, life is in
danger" Foley's Kidney Remedy
makes healthy kidneys, corrects uri-
nary irregularities, and tones up the
whole system
w A D'AIemberte, druggist and
apothecary, 121 South Palafox street.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-07

We trust the doubters as to Cooks
discovery OF the pole have not beon
influenced by the fact that he once
edited a newspaper.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-07

The value of the corn crop this
year in the United States would build
the Panama canal-and then some
Melbourne Times.
Better not feel too confident.
There's no authority living or dead
that can say positively what that
ditch will cost before they are done
with il.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-07

The married men of Melbourne de-
feated the single men at baseball the
other day. IS to 4; which shows the
advantage Of having constant practice
in catching, pitching, batting and run
ming.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-07

The Eskimo dogs and sleds were
what did the trick, the inventive
genius Of the civilized world notwith-
standing
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-07
LA. FLORIDA, TUESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER g. 1909

The Peerless Processes Of Pen
sacola prepare to participate in the
phair.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-07

The Tampa Tribune has caught the
''punningitis" from the Orlando Re
porter-Star.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-07

We name no names, but there be
cities in this commonwealth that read
with envious eye the record Of Pen
sacola's births.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-07

AS the north pole is nothing but a
frozen sea-no land at all in sight
the enthusiasts who wonder why the
United States does not claim possess
sion must be wandering in mind
The high seas are an international
possession and surely none of them
is higher" than that at the earth's
apex
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-07
The Clutter Music House

IS offering bargains in sample
and rented pianoS-your own
terms. New organs, 75c per
week, $50. Victor and Edi-
son Photographs and rec
ordS.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-07

The Tampa Times, which recently
has been bounding forward toward
the front rank of Florida newspapers,
now receives the full service of the
Associated Press. This will prove OF
immense value as it will probably
result in doubling the papers sub
sCriptiOn list within a year which
means a larger advertising line and
better prices from advertisers.
The Journal notes-nOtes with won
der. yet with joy-that between it
and the city authorities there has
been established a telepathic system
Of communication which will most
surely be the cause OF great good to
the city. Even while on Saturday we
were writing the editorial paragraph,
which appeared in Sundays paper,
bemoaning the continuance in our
midst of the horror known formerly
as the Sullivan Jungle, but more re-
Gently as the Model School Garden
jungle. strong men with scythes in
yaded the sacred grove and laid most
of it low. Judge of the rapture of
our heart when early on the morning
of the Sabbath we beheld the glorious
change. To say that We, along with
other progressive citizens, "ehortIed
in our joy" is but a mild and totally
inadequate description of what hap
pened on Palafox's wide expanse. And
now The Journal congratulates all
concerned. and begs the forgiveness
of the city authorities who have con-
quered the wilderness and Will, we
hope, go on with the good work and
make it "a thing of beauty and a Joy
forever" 1t is true that the model
gardens have likewise disappeared,
but, in this case the destruction OF
the atares' was a good thing, even
though the wheat" was uprooted
along with them.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-07
BECAUSE PEOPLE;

BECAUSE PEOPLE;
1. Persist in getting off before full stop
2. Get off facing to the of the
3. Get off and behind the to come
suddenly in front of a a wagon coming
from the other direction.
4, Run after a and jump while 1t going
q high speed.
5. Persist in riding on the steps of closed
6 Put their arms, hands or head out the
windows
2. NEEDLE with the bell rope.
8. Turn their vehicles sharply in front of a
9. Use caution in driving out OF a cross street
the tracks.
10. Drive up close to a in motion.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-07
MOST ELECTRIC CAR ACCIDENTS HAPPEN

AND BECAUSE:
IL. Children allowed to make the streets
their playground.
=. Or steal rides the cars.
The Company cannot prevent accidents hap.
pening from these causes.
Safety of travel depends in part the
Company.
But safety of travel ALSO depends upon the
travellers.
The Company In the of GOOD SERVICE
is doing its part to make travel absolutely safe.
In the name of GOOD SENSE will you do yOursr
ECTRIC C0MDANN
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-10-15

1t has long been the desire of the
city authorities to secure an elevated
system of railroad tracks through
this city over the coure now utilized
by the Central Pennsylvania and
New York & Long Branch railroads.
Action has been taken by the city
fathers, as well as City Attorney
Hommann, to secure crossing at
Fayette street, but the railroad COM
pany has thus far resisted their ef-
forts.
According to the plan of the Cen
trail railroad company, as mapped
out by its chief engineer, the trestle
will be about mile in length. 1t
will be in arch form, with its highest
point between Washington street
and New Brunswick avenue, 1t is
at that point that union railroad
station may be erected.
A Union Depot Here?
1t Is said that the Central railroad
has deferred erecting proposed new
station in this city because an effort
is being made to arrange with
the Pennsylvania and Lehigh Valley
companies to erect large union sta
tion near Washington street, where
the Lehigh Valley tracks cross those
of the Central.
In me instances the tracks Of
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-10-15
INVESTIGATI0N Of
GRAMMAR SCHOOL
ASKED IN PETITION.
Board Of Education Receives Re-
quest and Lays It on the Table
Report Is Presented.
HOLD PAYMENT up FOR AWHILE.

The Board of Education last night
received a request in writing, signed
by Edward w. Barnes, Judge Adrian
Lyon and twenty-three other promi-
nent citizens to have a thorough in
vestigation made of the work on the
new central grammar school to as
certain whether the repeated state
ments that the specifications were
not complied with are true.
The petition asked further that
the final payment to Henderson
Brothers, the general contractors, be
held back until the question has
been satisfactorily settled.
After Secretary Colyer had read
the communication 1t was, on motion
of Commissioner harrington, re-
ceived and laid on the table AS the
board adjourned to meet again next
Thursday night the matter may be
acted on at that time.
The letter is as follows:
Perth Amboy, N. j., Oct. IL, 1909.
ITO the Board of Education
of the City of Perth Amboy,
"Gentlemen:--
In view of the fact that state
ments have repeatedly been made to
the effect that certain parts of the
work on the new grammar school
building have not been done accord
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-10-15

the elevated system will be eighteen
feet above the road level and the
road surface will be depressed about
five feet. The depression of the
present road surface would begin
about 100 feet each side of the tres
tie, SO that the ascent of the roadbed
from the centre point under the
trestle to either side will not be
steep.
The present plans of the engineers
now at work upon the system indi-
cate that Hall avenue, Washington
street, New Brunswick avenue, Fay
ette street, Smith street and Market
street will be depressed to permit
the extension of traffic under the
railroad tracks. 1t is likely, how
ever, that the city will make an ef-
fort to have other streets go through.
That Will not be a difficult matter, as
in grading the streets the additional
cut required to pass under the trestle
can easily be made.
7, The engineers are likely to remain
here for several days to complete
the task. They have consulted with
City Engineer Mason and his partner
In an effort to secure street grade
maps and data concerning the city's
street system, SO that they may work
accordingly.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-10-15

four over the seating capacity At the
grammar school, he said, there were
seventeen above the seating capacity.
Board Wants $4,000 More.
Although the Board of Estimate re-
Gently granted the Board of Education
an additional appropriation of $4,000,
the latter wants $4,000 more. They de.
cided, on resolution, to ask the MAYOR
and Board of Aldermen to give them
that amount. The resolution offered
by Mr.. harrington was as follows:
ssThat as the needs of the several
schools of the city, especially the new
buildings, are much greater than the
present funds will permit, be it re-
solved that this board, through its sec
retary, ask the mayor and Board of
Aldermen for $4,000, said amount to be
added to the tax levy in such proper
tion each year as in their Judgment
may seem best. {"
Commissioner Seaman voted "non
when the roll was called,
Another resolution, "That inasmuch
as the Board of Estimate had granted
an appropriation Of $4,000 at recent
meeting, the Board of Aldermen be
asked to borrow the same on anticipa-
tion bonds, as the use of the same is
desired, was offered by Mr.. Earring
ton and carried.
Clocks for New Schools.
Secretary Gelyer was instructed to
advertise for bids for three dozen
(Continueo on page A.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-10-15
WINTER TIME TABLE
ON RAPID TRANSIT

The winter schedule on the Staten
Island Rapid Transit railroad went
into effect yesterday morning. Two
trains have been taken off from the
weekday schedule and eight from
the Sunday schedule, with the Satur-
day timetable eliminated entirely
There is hardly any change in the
schedule of trains or boats ffom this
city in the mornings.
The 1880 A. NJ and 1923 P. NJ,
weekdays, are the-two trains that
have been taken off and, instead Of
the boat leaving this city at 1880,
11:47 and 12:47 o'clock boat will
leave at 11:17 and 12;17 o'clock.
At night the S:25 and 9:45 O'Clock
boats will connect for a train to New
York. The last train boat leaves
at 11;17 o'clock, instead of 1880,
as on the old timetable The last
train boat from Perth Amboy Sunday
nights is 9:35 O'Clock and the last
from New York will leave Whitehall
street at 11:30 o'clock. The last
one on weekdays is now 1890
o'clock
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-10-15
MANY PARENTS Want
CHILDREN RELEASED

When the Board Of Education
reached the high school shortly after
8 O'Clock last night they found the
lower hall crowded with men and wo-
men, who wanted the board to grant
them permission to keep their children
from school, The commissioners re-
tired to Superintendent Shull 8 Office
and received the parents in order.
Many pitiful stories were heard from
mothers and fathers who needed the
little money their children earned, and
who would suffer if they were forced to
send them TO school. 1t was 1920
o clock when the board had disposed
of the last petitioner and ten minutes
later when President Arner called the
board to order in the regular meeting
room.
The largest list of bills which ever
came before the board were then
signed and it was 11:l5 O'Clock when
they had been disposed Of There was
50 much work that the board adjourned
until next Thursday night.
Schools Are Filled
When Superintendent Shull sub
mitted his monthly report the board
learned that, in spite of the opening
of the two new schools, there was a
scarcity of seats. Mr. Shull said that
the total enrolment during September
was b,04l, an increase Of 700 over the
corresponding time last year. He said
that 881 pupils were enrolled at the
new Neville street school, which was
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-10-15
DOES
BIG DAMAGE
Southern States Again vis-
tied by Hurricane and
Heavy Rain.
GREAT PROPERTY LOSS

Memt Ills, Tenn, Oct. 15.-The hurrl-
cane which swept Tennessee, Alabama
and Georgia has wrecked many towns,
and scores are reported killed The
wind blew at rate of eighty or ninety
miles an hour, and rain fell in tor
rents, accompanied by halstones Of
enormous size.
Hundreds of miles of telephone and
telegraph wires have been blown down,
and no communication OF any charac-
ter can be had with many towns
known to have suffered severely Re-
ports from small towns In the extreme
western counties OF Tennessee state
that severe windstorm occurred, un-
roofing houses, levellng telegraph poles
and doing other damage.
Incoming trains from the storm
swept area are stalled because of the
lack of telegraph facilities in giving
orders.
A severe electrical storm passed over
Chattanooga. and telephone and street
car service are badly hampered.
At Hixon, ten miles from Chattanoo-
ga, three inches of hail fell, and mea-
ger reports say the damage is exten-
sive.
Cleveland, Tenn, twenty-eight miles
from Chattanooga, reports the most
damaging hail and wind storm in
years.
All Wires Lost to Nashville.
The telegraph and telephone compa-
nies here report all wires lost to Nash
Vile Covington, Tenn. the farthest
point north which could be reached,
reported a heavy windstorm. A few
minutes later this point also was lost.
A telephone report from Stanton,
Tenn, forty miles east, says that fu-
rious windstorm prevailed there, doing
great damage.
At Stanton, Tenn, fifteen houses
were destroyed At Brownsville and
Dyersburg show windows were shat
tered. At Cortland and Decatur, Ala,
houses were unroofed, and people were
injured by falling chimneys. Buffalo
Bills circus tent was blown down at
Decatur and the night performance
abandoned.
At Denmark. Tenn. Albert Barnes
was killed, and his wife and others
were injured.
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Bio Storm Hits Georqia.

Atlanta, Ga, Oct. 15.-Atlanta was
harried by wind and hail storm,
which caused 100000 damage and in
fiicted injuries on many persons. For
twenty minutes the wind blew with
tornado force, and hailstones of enor-
nous size fell.
Many Of the stones were ms large as
billiard balls, and they smashed plate
glass windows. Nearly every window
in The shopping district was shattered,
and there is not residence In the city
with whole windows.
At least thirty persons We're knocked
down and injured by the hail Horses
in the streets were stampeded and in
two cases frightened animals ran into
stores. One horse ran into the Alcazar
theater, causing a panic.
Storm General Over Georgia.
Reports indicate that the storm was
general in Georgia and that Atlanta
was only on the edge.
Marietta, town of 5000 inhabit-
ants, twenty miles north of Atlanta
was wrecked
The trolley line between Marietta
and Atlanta is out of commission. and
there are six cars crowded with pas
sengers marooned somewhere between
the two places
Not town in north Georgia can be
reached by either telephone or tele-
graph and It is feared destruction has
been widespread
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ing to the terms specified in the con-
tract for same, the deficiency therein
entailing O loss to the taxpayers OF
this city, 1t Is said, OF several hum
dred dollars; we, the undersigned,
do respectfully request that your
honorable body make a thorough In
vestigation of the work on said
school, with a view to determining
whether or not such work has been
satisfactorily executed; and we
would further request that the final
payment to be made to the general
contractors for work on said build
ing be withheld until such investiga-
tions have been made and reasona-
BILE deductions have been made for
any deficiencies In said work; or
until these deficiencies have been
remedied by the contractors in such
a way as to reach the standard set
by the specifications
Edward w. Barnes, Adrian Lyon,
John ]. Deitche, G. X Stevens, d.
W. Boehm, Wilbur LaRoe, Jr,,
Edgar Mullen, Philip Gibson, John
Frederickson. Simon Monroe, ].
r. Salter, Il. Williams, w. II.
Griswold, Samuel g. Garretson,
Harry e. Comings, Alfred Mullen,
G. r.. Comings, j. e. Griswold,
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