The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-08-20

Contracts were signed yesterday af-
ternoon by the Pensacola Hotel Conn
pany for the completion of the sixth
floor of the San Carlos hotel. Several
bids were received by the directors,
but the Turner Construction Company.
a local firm, and the one which built
the magnificent structure, was award
ed the contract, the price for the work
being S16,1S5.39. The directors present
at the meeting were f. f. Bingham.
F. c. Brent, Henry Hyer. William
Fisher, John A. Merritt, John r. Still
man, P. K. and Henry M. Yonge.
THIRTY ROOMS.
With the completion of the sixth
floor thirty rooms will be added to
the hostelry, which has done so much
to give Pensacola a good name with
the travelling public. Each of the
rooms will be equipped with private
baths and everything win be fitted up
in the very latest designs. According
to the contract, the east half of the
building must be completed and ready
for occupany by November Is, the be-
ginning of the tourist season, and the
entire work must be completed by
January 1. Willis g. Stout, architects,
win have supervision of the work.
OTHER IMPROVEMENTS.
In several other ways the hotel viii
be improved. The exterior of the en-
tire building will be repaired and in
many ways the building will be made
even more attractive and inviting. A
large shed win be built over the baSk
yard, effording additional room for
the handling Of baggage and sup
plies.
This makes the second addition OF
rooms to the San Carlos since It was
built in February 1910. and with the
additional thirty rooms II will not
be large enough this winter to accom-
modate the heavy and always increaS-
ing tourist travel.
Money to finance the improvements
OF the hotel was easily secured Twen-
ty-five Pensacola persons advanced
the money on the hotel companys
notes. It will be remembered that the
San Carlos was built by popular sub
scriptions and the stock belongs 10
hundreds Of persons who were inter-
ested in giving to the Deep Water
City one of the finest hotels in the
south.
BUSINESS INCREASING.
No one is pleased more to know OF
the improvements which are TO be
made than George Hervey. managing
director. He said to q representative
of The Journal yesterday afternoon
that prospects for a record -beaking
crowd this fall and winter are the
very best and that with the new sup
p'v Of rooms he felt that the San
Carlos would be filled TO its capacity
from the early fall months. Manager
Hervey has, during the time he has
been in charge of the San Carlos, not
only worked for the regular CONNER
cial business, fbut has been instru-
mental in bringing hundreds Of north
erners here TO spend the winter, get
ting them places in the private homes
and boarding houses when the hotel
could not find room to accommodate
them. The summer business of the
San Carlos is now materially on the
increase, Mr.. Hervey says. especially
during the last two months He says
the people of neighboring states are
learning that Pensacola Is by far the
coolest city in the south in the sum-
mer months and that the excellent
| bathing facilities here are just what
| they have been wanting. He ex-
poets the summer traffic rext summer
| TO be many times as heavy as II has
teen this year and that the following
summer so heavy that the hotel viii
| be full all Of the time.