The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-04-02
PROSECUTE WORK
WITH ALL DISPATCH
Dock and Belt Line Railroad
Bonds Will be Advertised
for Sale the Coming Week
Chamber of Commerce
Unanimously Approves
Decision of the City Ad-
ministration.

At an enthusiastic and harmonious
meeting OF the Chamber OF CONNER CO
last night, Mayor A. Greenhut an
nounced that the commissioners wouki
next week advertise the city dock and
belt line bonds for sale and that i'm
mediately on the sale Of the bonds the
work of building these improvements
would be prosecuted with all possible
dispatch
The body by unanimous vote then
approved the decision OF the city sd-
ministration as outlined by the mayor.
GENERAL DISCUSSION.
Following a talk by President Q. E.
Dobson, outlining the work the Cham
Der of Commerce has In contempla-
tibn, and in which he laid stress on
the hopes OF securing factories To
handle raw products imported from
Argentina the members gathered az
the meeting at the San Carlos hotel
last night heard a. general discussion
of the municipal docks and belt line
railroad, including an explanation hy
Mayor Adolph Greenhut as 10 why the
commissioners had delayed offering
the bonds for sale or making any pre-
liminary plans for putting through
the projects for which the people
voted fifteen months ago.
Mr.. Dobson's idea was to employ two
eminent engineers to assist the city
engineer in a general harbor improve
ment plan the docks and belt line
insisted that the commissioners should
become alcmye for even tboHlAd1 tl1nz
begun work now II would be six
months before they would be in
position to call for bids for the work
to be done
Max l.. Bear. a. member of the ~
nance committee OF the old council
under which the bonds were voted,
said that he considered IL very neces-
sary for the commissioners to sell the
De nfF N
some move towards carrying out the
work, and called upon Mayor Green
hut. who was present 10 give the
meeting an explanation Of the delay.
THE MAYOR EXPLAINS.
Mayor Greenhut said he had coT1s
to the meeting TO listen and not 70
talk. but inasmuch as he had been
called upon, he would gladly give the
members the reason for the delay He
said the change in government
brought one delay. the prosecution OF
Commissioner Pou another and then
the New York bond attorneys had re-
quired months In which 10 settle upon
the validity of the bonds. asking for
which had been supplied them, and as
a result 1t was only about three
months since that the attorney ruled
the bonds were valid.
MUST RECEIVE PAR.
The mayor said ii did not appear
to be generally known. but was never
theIess a fact, that the city could not
sell the bonds for less than par and
accrued interest. and that the bond
market was such that this price, he
thought could not now be secured He
said he had been watching the bond
closely and gave it as his opin
ion that go or SO is the highest that
can now be received.
The mayor said that recently he had
talked with several taxpayers, and By
this he said he meant big taxpayers
not the little fellows who do not
count much-and had been urged not
to offer the bonds for sale now. He
named three persons with whom he
had talked. and to show the time Is
for further indebtedness
he said that of 100000 due the city
on taxes only $4,000 had been col
Iected. up to the present time. and five
have elapsed since taxes be
came due.
Referring to the various wharf
properties he said the commissioners
had received many offers and had
been urged to purchase certain prop
critics, which he seid lie could not un-
derstand He said the Barcelona street
wharf. which had been offered for
s65, 900 is unfit for a dock of the kind
the CITY will build, and that Herron's
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