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

Council, City of Pensacola, Flor
ida, City.
Gentlemen: In conformity to law
l have the honor to submit to you
the annual reports o. the various Of
ficers and heads OF. the departments
of the city of Pensacola together with
my annual message making such rec
concentrations as in my opinion Will
be of the greatest benefit to the city.
1t is with a great deal of pride and
satisfaction that / refer to the i'm
pIovements made during the past
year. Never before in the history of
our city have our people shown the
interest in identifying their homes
a. they have done this year. The
credit of this Improvement is due
largely to the good women of our
city who have taken an active inter-
est in making Pensacola more attrac
tive. They have recently engaged and
paid one half the expenses o. an ex-
pert to come TO Pensacola to make
comprehensive plan for the beauti-
fication of our city by planning
general park system with boulevards,
etc Besides the improvements along
this line the ten story office build
ing of the American National Bank
has been erected and the San Carlos
Hotel is now well under way and will
be constructed during the coming
year and all classes of our citizens
are building homes in different parts
OF the city. Besides this, additional
manufacturing plants have been eS-
tablished The sidewalks being built
under the contract let by the city
recently has greatly improved the
general appearance of the city, as
well as being of great value to pedeS-
TRANS and enhancing the value OF the
property of our citizens. The city as
a whole has shown great improve
ments over any previous year, which
is due largely to the cooperation oil
the officers of the city and the mem
bers OF your honorable body.
| will, as briefly as possible, try to
put each department of our city be-
fore the public in their true light SO
that they will see the enterprising
spirit manifested by each department
The deposits in our banks are stead
ily increasing while one of our banks
mas increased its capital stock $780,
O0O The building and loan aSsocia-
tions also show a healthy increase
over previous years. This all goes
tc show that our people as a whole
are prosperous.
SOME RECOMMENDATIONS.
l herewith append the reports of the
various departments as a supplement
tary to my report.
Before concluding / want to make
some special recommendations:
1. That an additional storm water
sewer be built to take care OF the
Butcher Pen pond water shed, as the
present system is not large enough
to take care of this water shed in
addition TO the Long Hollow water
shed in heavy rains.
2 That permanent paving be done
b. the board of public works; that
is, that a certain amount be appro-
priated each year to the board for
permanent paving and that they adj
Vertise annually for the amount equal
to the amount appropriated and the
amount to be paid for by the property
owners, as under our charter when
the city decides to pave any street
and city pays one third and the prop
erty owners two thirds. By carrying
out this plan a few years the city o.
Pensacola will soon be one of the
best paved cities in the United States
without Issuing any additional bonds
for paving.
That the committees of the coun-
Gil hold their committee meetings in
the committee room in the city hall
and that the council designate one
of the present employees as commit
tee clerk to attend to their steno-
graphic work and other details for
the committee.
l take this opportunity to thank the
members of the council, the officers
of the city and the members of the
boards for their cooperation during
the past year, which has been a very
satisfactory year because of the har-
mony that has existed between the
mayor and the council and the mayor