The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-11-06
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1917 Davis Street, Nov. fl an
| glad to see the Andalusia railroad be
ginning to crawl again; but it will be
| too old to run successfully If it is
not up soon and making tracks Ia
this Florida sand
The Union Depot" viii be a swell
name for its terminal station. May
l live to see it dedicated.
The president has fitfully tested
the great inland waterway from the
hub" of our nation to the Crescent
City" But he will surely miss it.
by not taking in our coming Bluff ex-
position
He makes a Dig attraction, and
would double the interest in any ex
hibit.
After the opening of San Carlos
and the Union Depot" this may be-
come the main focus for presidential
Outings-the crossing OF the route TO
Panama and the coming inland wa
terway to the Atlantic seaboard.
In the presidents thirteen thOus-
and-mile review of his country, he
has not been visible from our tow
ering sky-scr2pers, through the long
est telescopes, although he is prob
ably the largest body" of Uncle
Sam's "souler-systemi"
4 Unprecedented happenings are of
such frequent occurrence that it be-
wilders the wisest heads to provide
against the dangerous freaks of ma
ture. Who had a thought of that
damaging cloud-bur resulting from
the agitation of new waterways"
Just when our streets were torn
UP as never before, the unprecedent-
ed torrents came and dashed them
down.
If we had the entire surface o.
these sand hills crusted with impen
etrable concrete, a shower precipi =
tating an inch of water would quick
~ flood the lower streets with rush
ing rivers" where it would mainly
have filtered harmless!y away into
the sand under primitive conditions
l hope there may be a better So
luton for this unsolved problem thdc
conveying the surface water of these
plateaus into occasional capacious
basins, excavated to the coarse sand
stratum which quickly admits it
through the downward way toward
far-Off China.
Waste land is excessive in this
section; and sufficient vacant lots
thus used to head-off the damaging
overf1ows might prove to be thus in
valuable TO the city. 1t would hasten
our growth TO a hundred thousand,
when such lots might be leased for
y-scrapers above, without interfer-
ence with the water exits, by obserT-
ing the necessary requirments D
keep them open, and for proper sani-
tation.
A strange account appeared in 4
recent issue of the Sovereign Visitor
by an "old astronomer" named Rev.
A. c. Cline, stating that the Star OF
Bethlehem was now visible in the
heavens after midnight-but would
not appear again for 500 years!
His wonderful description OF it as
a thousand times larger than our
sun, etc, etc, tallies with the flash
ing characteristics of Sirius-the
most brilliant fixed star of the
heavenly universe.
1t rises earlier now; and may be
seen twinkling and flashing, blinking
and sparkling in the south, nearly all
night long. 1t reaches the meridian
before morning, occupying nearly the
same position occupied by the planet
Mars at bedtime.
Other suns are much nearer to us;
but its immense volume of eternal
fire shades all others; although its
distance is so many quadrillion miles
awav that it's flashing light has been