The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-05-18

The location here of the storage. re-
pair and distributing depot, to employ
several hundred adults, engaged in
the latest type of construction, of
which the new San Carlos hotel is a
notable example, was the topic of dis
cussfon in the bridal chamber %
Of that magnificent hostelry yesterday,
together with keen appreciation OF the
hearty hospitality, rampant public
spirit and the new religion of civic
pride and progress" which prevails
throughout Pensacola today.
w. S. Abbot, of the Aiken Cement
House Co., Of Winthrop Harbor, near
Chicago, Ills, has been at the San
Carlos the past week looking over
Pensacola with a view to locating
here manufacturing and distributing
branch.
The Aiken system of reinforced con-
crete construction does away with all
forms and false work, saving lumber
and labor construction amounting to
half the cost Of the walls Of buildings.
A NEW PROCESS.
The process is new and in three
buildings erected this year by the gov
ernment at Ft. Meyer, across the Po-
tomac from Washington, the engineers
of the army have successfully raised
walls 40 feet high, weighing 256 tons,
1873 feet long each in one piece raised
from prone to permanent perpendicu-
lar positions.
The army officials find that such
walls may be built at about one-thfrd
the cost of vertical wall construction.
They are preparing to admit the sys-
tenn in some fourteen new buildings,
consisting of warehouses, barracks.
mess halls, hospitals, stables, a prison
and an entire post, some of them five
and six stories high
Between twenty and thirty state in
stitutions and privately owned struc-
lures, residences, business buildings,
factories and church have been simi.
larly successful.
The floor construction by the Aiken
unit floor slab also does away with all
temporary wooden flooring and center
ing or false work and has repeatedly
proved alike successful and economi-
cal with the wall
The erection of walls is effected by
mechanical device and Mr. Abbot's
idea in looking over Pensacola as a
central storage, repair, manufacturing
and distributing point for these ap-
pliances, reinforcing steel, general
construction equipment, etc.
IMPRESSIONS OF PENSACOLA.
Asked for his impressions of Pens
sacola, Mr.. Abbot said:
you have the right spirit and it
seems bound to bring the go-ahead
germ to full blossom here. In looking
over this southeastern section I was
captured down at Savannah and jack
sonville way by John r. Scott, presi-
dent of the Pensacola Realty Com
pany, whom I had known in Chicago,
by a line of talk that upset my
geography. / used to think Pensacola
was place on the Gulf of Mexico, but
he convinced me that the Gulf of Mex
leo, including the Panama canal, was
destined to become just a part of Pen
sacola and by him I was turned over
to Hazel Stone and N J. Lillard, Of
the Pensacolian, who in turn intro-
duced me to many others.
They showed me your swampless
your great Iand-locked har-
Dor large enough for all the fleets on
earth, the only dock the big Florida
can sail right up to, your great and
good Admiral Lucien Young, your pub
lie spirited board of trade and busi-
ness population. Mr.. Scott certainly
had great grounds for his claims.
Il noticed the railroad time table
says that the development in this Sec
tion in ten years will equal that OF
any other in the United States in
twenty.
BUT IT'S ALL TRUE.
"That is saying ever so much, but it
locks like it here and 1t sounded like
that in Chicago last winter, where
they seemed to be selling more Flor
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