The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-09
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North Pole of Greater Pensacola,
June Il told them so!
The weather man cannot withhold
the rains; and water continues to
run down hill. When the Good
Roads" workers graded Davis street
and dumped vast amount of valua-
BILE earth in the great washout at
Tenth street crossing, it almost took
my breath and made me heartsIck
to see it resting in that destructive
waterway without retaining dam, or
the pipes placed in position for the
harmless passage of that treacherous
stream, which has diSfigured so
much valuable property.
When the rain came, the damned
up water seemed boiling over with
indignation as it f1oated every plank
which had been piled within its linn
its, and stTewed them over the crest
of the film in a fantastic blockade of
the street.
1t then had a soft job" in remov-
ing the sandy obstruction as it melt
ed away and caved in by tons, to be
carried off like mush and deposited
in Long Hollow"
When the city first opened Tenth
street from North Hill to New City,
it was grubbed out and rounded up in
the center. l often wanted the side
cutters effectually turned off at an
angle into the black jacks at every
square, fearing that it might wash
out dangerous bitches at the road
sides.
My forebodings were greatly mag
nified by the washing out of the
whole street, in perfect condition for
a lock canal Nor were the elements
satisfied with the street limits. Lots
were seized upon and damaged for
more right of wayp on either side.
Guards were constructed of stone,
lumber, brush, garbage, etc, to some
puEpose-but the seizure of Bermuda
grass is staying the aggression most
completely above Davis street, where
| it is being converted into a green,
lawnlike trough-way-valu for
pasture.
The retaining power of this vaIua-
bic grass is well exemplified in these
ruins of Lloyd street.
The clay finish for Blount street
has been completed between Davis
| street and Ninth avenue and a start
| made on Davis street which is to be
extended to Gadsden street.
The cOUntrymen beyond Carpenters
creek are already yearning for an
extension north on Davis to the city
| limits, to be connected by the county
with the Ferry Pass road at the ell
bow east of Goulding.
Mr.. B. H. Turner, (deceased) re-
| quested me to ever agitate such a
hardened roadway east of the main
! line of the L. and II. railroad.
Will this important gap be neglect
ed through long years as was the
| breach in the Selma railroad be-
| tween Repton and Pine Orchard?
l regret to observe a fundamental
error in the street names. given on
| the lamp at the crossing of Gonzalez
and Davis streets. North Alcaniz and
| East DeSOto are the names given
! thereon. from which crossing it has
! evidently been removed, without
changing the intelligence printed
| thereon.
This is seriously misleading, and
should have been corrected on the
| day the transfer was made.
It would be a fine thing to have
the streets distinctly named at every
crossing. But better TO have no
marking at all than such false d.
| rections allowed TO remain and be-
wilder the stranger
With ten miles of new street pave
ment following the cement side
walks which are being rushed down
Pensacola will be above the sand
| from which il has taken her centuries
| to emerge.
| TG0S EAGILIAG