The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-11

Pensacola or the Chamber of Com
merce had been so represented. Flor
ida had one of the largest Southern
state delegations, and the Pensacola
Chamber of Commerce had the third
largest delegation from any Southern
city NE 4sse commercial congress. All
the Pensacola delegates, by the way,
were Chamber of Commerce people.
The Chamber OF Commerce deserves
the credit for preventing, at Atlanta.
at the Southern Commercial Secre-
taries' association, the adoption of a
resolution declaring for first-class
navy yard at New Orleans; also, the
credit for getting through the resolu-
lions committee at the Southern Com
mercial congress O resolution con-
demning any efforts to minimize the
Importance Of Southern navy yards.
Your secretary was also sent to the
Mississippi to Atlantic Inland Water
ways association convention at Jack
sonville, which, because of the interest
this body has shown in the matter,
accepted the invitation to meet here
next year and later, by resolution OF
the executive committee, requested
Pensacola to furnish $4,000 during the
year for the current work of the asso-
citation. This resolution has been, or
will be, submitted to this meeting.
The annual convention of the M. to
A. I. w. A. proves annually larger,
and will probably bring here some 300
to 500 visiting delegates, according to
how the secretary of that association
is supplied with funds in the mean
time. I personally deem the request
cited as deserving your earnest con-
sideration, for the convention will, If
a large attendance is secured, be big
advertisement of Pensacola, while pro-
noting in its own way, certain water
improvements in which Pensacola is
immensely interested. Especially
would inland connection of Pensacola
and Mobile bays be OF immediate ad-
vantage, the so-called Warner river
route, then giving Pensacola all water
communication with Birmingham.
Harbor and Commerce.
Your executive officers, through the
unfailingly generous assistance of
Capt. Jas. e. Turtle, United States en-.
gineer, and of Senator w. H. Milton
was able to promptly cause the re.
printing in correct form of a mislead
ing and damaging senate document
introduced by Senator Gallinger, which
cited for Pensacola certain depths
taken from survey antidating the be-
ginning of work by the dredge Caucus
Later, we found and promptly correct
ed a 10-foot error in the photographic
reports as to the depth of our channel
Through our initiative, Senator
Taliaferro and Representative Mays
are endeavoring to secure an appropri
alton to replace the Penrose with ar
adequate and entirely seaworthy boat
The treasury department will not en-
dorse this movement, but If Capt Com
andant Ross of the revenue service is
asked for information, he will furnish
data of great value to the movement.
On appeal to Surgeon General WY
man through Senators Fletcher ant
Taliaferro, we procured immediate
relief from the costly practice in this
harbor of making vessels from domes
tic ports report at quarantine when
ever they had clean bills of health.
San Carlos Hotel.
The opening of the new San Carlos
hotel on February 1 will signaliZe the
completion OF a great work by thi:
body. The hotel movement was the
child Of the annual banquet of 1906
enough money was raised by stocl
subscriptions by a committee of this
body to permit of incorporation, anC
all or the bonds except $4,000 were