The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-10-16

chants and business men of Brewton
and Pensacola to put on a line Of
steamboats, on the Escambia river. ply
ing between the two cities The dis
lance by river is about $50 miles
Florala Democrat
Town Good Too.
Editor Bernard of the Mississippi
Meridian Dispatch sends wire to
The Pensacola Journal in which he
says that the Sunday Journal is too
maintains that nothing is too good for
Pensacola.-Ocala Banner.
Held On Thirteen Years.
w. H. Norhtup, a leading Republi-
can and ex-postmaster of that city,
has been named by President Taft to
succeed John E. Stillman as collector
of customs of the district of Pensa-
, cola. Mr.. Stillman has held the Of
fee for the past thirteen years.
Washington Verdict.
Increased Million.
Escambia county commissioners
have received the report from the tax
assessor, and it shows most crafty
ing increase for the year. The coun-
ty has steadily advanced and the re-
port of a million increase in valua-
lions is most satisfactory and encoUr
ng.-Jacksonville Times Union.
Let Pensacola Catch Up.
Nothing in Gulf States journalism
has been NJ, re notable in the past
month than the long leap forward in
general excellence made by The Pen
sacola Journal Since its big new
press was installed that paper has
been adding one feature after another
until now Frank Nayes ought to pause
for a spell and give Pensacola a
chance to catch up with The Journal
l-Suwannee Democrat.
Is, Badly Needed.
The L. & y. Railway Company eX-
poets to build a handsome new pas
senger station in Pensacola. 1t is ex-
pected that work upon the structure
will begin within the course Of a
month or two at the outside. When it
is completed with all tracks, train
sheds etc. it is estimated that the
cost will be s270,00o It will be one
Of the finest structures of it's kind in
the Southern states.--Florala Demo
crat.
Organization Ruled.
William H. Northup has been ap-
pointed collector of customs at Pen
sacola to succeed John E. Stillman.
who has held the office for thirteen
years and was an aspirant for reap
pointment. The Pensacola papers say
Stillman was the choice of the busi-
ness interests of Pensacola, but North
up had the endorsement of the state
organization, which usually puts its
men IN. regardless of local sem ment
or other qualifications Tri-
bune.
Good Roads for Geneva.
Geneva county commissioners have
engaged Pensacola's civil engineer to
survey road extending from Nal
vern On the east side of the county,
through Slocumb. Hartford, Geneva,
Samson and Hacoda. to the west end
Contract price of the engineer was
SITS. Work on the survey commenced
this week. The Star has great faith
in the commissioners of Geneva coun-
ty, They are making a move in the
| right direction, and one that will be
sanctioned by every citizen Of the
county who gives the subject intelli-
gent thought-Andalusia Star.
Big Event.
One of the biggest events to be pull
ed off in Pensacola will be the Water
way Convention, Nov IA to Is. The
list of speakers arranged for is an i'm
| posing one, among them being many
| names Of national renown-Col. c. P.
Goodyear of Brooklyn, Chief Hydro
grapher Leighton of the government
| service, Commissioner Of Corporations
Smith. DR.. w. J. MCGEE of the Bureau
Of Soils, and John A. Fox, special di-
rector of the National Rivers and
Harbors Congress. Rear Admiral
Young will also be one Of the speak
ers. together with many other men OF
prominence in the commercial world.
Washington Verdict.
Good, Better, Best.
Pensacola has much more to be
proud of than her deep water access
TO the expanse of waters. Her after
noon newspaper. the News, is always
| most creditable in every respect, but
last Saturdays booster edition, in
which the the attractions of home
and of fashion were classically por-
trayed in its 40-page edition was in
deed a newspaper get-up of the first
water. Then, Pensacola's staid and
true morning newspaper, The Jour
| nal, came out the next day lauding
its contemporary manificient sue
cess, unmindful, apparently, of the
fact that a better newspaper on that
date could not have been found the
nation over than the self-same Jour
nal.-St. Augustine Meteor
A Better Way.
The Pensacola Journal is making a
campaign against the fee system as
applied to county officers and very
properly, for that it is abused cannot
be doubted, and surely there must be
some better way Of handling the bust
ness of the counties. 1t is not a sys-
tenn that would appeal to the average
business concern and is certainly open
to other objections, although there are
many very excellent officials who do
their duty and go only as far as re.
quired. The Journal for example tells
Of "a roi1c p,,1o hxy 1o1~@,,