The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-08-07

sacola's foremost citizens, has returned
from vacation Of a month or more
spent In various states, and what he
saw at the places he visited sent him
home in a most optimistic frame of
mind. Pensacola has a bright future,
he says, for this city will be one of the
chief beneficiaries when the Panama
canal is completed and opened, which
is not far distant
To a Journal representative yeSter-
day Mr.. Stillman said:
81 spent a month very pleasantly at
various places in Tennessee. Virginia
and Alabama Aside from the benefits
derived in health, from a vacation, I
am more than ever convinced that
every business man should take a
month off every year to travel around
and see what is being done In other
sections.
1T gives him better opinion Of his
own environment, and is also bound 10
give him new and valuable ideas in
regard to his own business.
Everywhere 1 visited 1 found pros
porous conditions, and satisfied ex-
preston that the country at large and
the South in particular, is just enter
ing on the greatest era Of business
prosperity that has ever been enjoyed.
GROWTH is ASTONISHING.
THE industrial development OF the
South is a source of establishment to
all who are acquainted with what is
going on.
"I recently read an editorial in the
| New York Times on Industrial Growth
in the Southern States" in which it
said
1.-The Industrial developments In the
South defies adequate description.
Fortunes vanished in e night, the best
men of the South dead on the field OF
battle and dead with honor. its civil
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stroyed, its affairs administered by
i strangers and aliens, there appeared
/ to be no prospect of a revival OF its
| industries. Ten times richer now in
/ all the material things which go TO
make a people great and powerful, and
richer because ii lost nothing of heart
or hope, the South is now the richest
and fairest land in all this great coun-
| try, and is growing richer and more
| self f-dependent every day and year.
| The greater part Of this work Of true
reconstruction has been done by tho
people of the South themselves, and
| this can be said, and is said, without
| disparagement Of the noble work OF
| its sympathizers, but is said because IL
ought to be said, in justice to a strug-
| Cling and triumphant people OF our
| own country
This illustrates that tAe opportuni-
/ ties and progress Of the South are at
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l. g. N, SPENDING $2o,ooo,oo0.
while in Alabama / went over some
of the work that the Louisville and
Nashville is doing between Birming-
ham and Nashville. They are prac-
tically building new double track
railroad between these points, on
maximum grade of one half of one per
cent. and in this work are expending
about twenty millions Of dollars 70
| shorten the track a few miles and tc
/ make q practically level road between
these points. I imagine that the i'm
| provements and extensions now being
| made and contemplated by the l.. &
| N. in Pensacola are supplemental to
/ the improvements on the road between
| here and Birmin CHAM and beyond, and
/ that all Of II is mainly due to the com
| prehension Of these railroad people Of
/ the enormous traffic demands that are
soon to be made on them in conse-
quence of the completion OF the Pana-
/ ma canal
RECOGNIZING HARBoR's MERITS.
Il firmly believe that the merits Of
Pensacola's harbor are about to be
/ fully recognized, and that the increase
Of the city and it's business viii be
comparable to the growth Of such cities
as Seattle and Los Angeles in conse-
| uuence And another thing while
am talking: a months absence from
Pensacola allows time to notice
changes.
"The handsome Hooton & Watson
/ building and the Bass buildings have
both been completed in that time and
/ the new Keyser building has assumed
very considerable proportions. The l..
| & n. passenger depot likewise, and
| note that several miles Of new street
paving has been completed and opened
| for travel In that time. And without
| feeling any prejudice against the
many beautiful and prosperous cities
| that I know over the South, you can
put me down as saying that we have
| the prettiest and cleanest looking city
| Of them all
DEMOCRATS WILL WIN.
| Politics? Nothing to say except
| that we Democrats are going to win.
The general sentiment seems to be
that the Baltimore convention per-
| formed a miracle and nominated the
best two men in the country for presi-
| dent and president. and that while
| the Bull Moose will put on a campaign
that would make P. T. Barnum, II he
were living, green with envy, the re-
suit will be to give W. w. at least
two-thirds Of the electoral vote. How
ever, eternal vigilance is the price OF
safety in politics.
Il am glad to see The Journal Ia
doing its part in raising some cam
paign funds and here's my contrfbu-
1 ton and best wishes"
EIGHTTNG AGAIN