The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-12-09

SA INT NICHOLAS NEEDS
FUNDS TO PROVIDE MERRY
CHRISTMAS FOR THE POOR
A LETTER TO
SANTA CLAUS
Pensacola, Fla, Dec. 8, 1915.

Dear Santa Claus: Although you
invited us through The Journal to
write you for whatever we wanted
for Christmas I know you expect
those of us with large families to be
as moderate as possible in their re-
quests, so / am going to ask you for
only very few of the things my
children want; but please, dear Santa,
| don't overlook any of the items.
MY eldest daughter, Miss West
Florida, is about to break her en-
gagement with her fance, Emmett
Wilson, or rather he is about to break
the engagement, so please send her
a new beau. He must be a Democrat,
| a good talker and good mixer and
able to secure appropriations for
| postoffice buildings, dredging rivers
and enlarging naval aviation stations.
There is no objection to his being red
headed, all other things being equal.
She also wants an automobile high
way between Tallahassee and Pensa-
cola. She has already selected name
for this highway-The Old Spanish
Trail-and will be very much dis
appointed if she does not get it. The.
highway should be paved and
equipped with a full set of steel
bridges and concrete culverts. IL you
don't happen to have the paving
handy you might bring that another
year, but don't forget the bridges and
culverts.
| While you are packing up the au-
| toYnobile road for West Florida you.
irn1ght put IN rev miles Of road for
my second daughter, Miss Escambia.
She does not WANT quite as much road
as West Florida, but is more particu-
lar as to quality. She only wants a
road from Pensacola to F7omaton and
from Ferry Pass on the east to Lii
Ian Ferry on the west; but it must be
well curbed and drained and paved
with brick or concrete, with concrete
culverts and steel bridges. If you
have any room left in that package
you might put in draw-bridge for
the Escambia river at Ferry Pass
and another for the Perdido river at
i Lillian Ferry. Also, dear Santa,
please bring Miss Escambia a lot of
farmers. She has hardly farmer to
| her name, and needs some badly.
1 About nine thousand will be sufficient
for this time.
Miss Pensacola is the apple of my
eye, and want you to be particularly
nice to her. She wants steamship
line to New York, one with about two
ships a week will do; also feet of
steamers for the Transatlantic, West
India, South America and Pacific
coast trade. In fact, she would like
to have all the ships you can spare;
but, be sure that they are all under
the American flag. She also wants
the Wright Aviation School, and |
hope you will not make mistake and
give this to some other little girl.
This about completes the list except
for a few little things, such as one
hundred factories of assorted kinds, a
favorable decision in the cross-tle rate
case, a million bales of cotton for
those ships you are going to bring, a
buyer for her Municipal Dock and
Belt Line Railroad bonds, free pub
lie library to put on the lot at the
corner of Chase and Palafox, a new
opera house, several new school build
!. ings, a lot of winter tourists, and a
big Christmas business, to go in the
toe of her stocking.
| The baby, Moline, wants a bridge
over the Escambia river, a new hotel
and county agricultural high school,
but these are just little things which
: | am sure you will bring along any
way.
i AS for myself, please bring me a
Chamber Of Commerce building about
. six stories, with large auditorium
at the top for conventions, about eight
hundred new members for the Cham
Der of Commerce and another stenog-
. rapher because my present assistant
!, is over-worked now and we cannot
: keep up. Whether the stenographer
shall be blonde or brunette I leave to
. your judgment.
Now dear Santa you have not beer
!. very kind to US during the past two OF
three years. Possibly the children
: were bad and needed to find in Their
stockings only low prices for lumber
: and a disorganized naval stores mar
Z ket, but they have behaved themselve.
8 nicely for long time now and thinl
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