The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-01-28
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Nothing goes farther towards the |
development of civic pride than the
identifying of city's public parks /
and private gardens. Visitors to |
Pensacola must remark the number
of small parks about the city, and
the great natural beauties of the
environs, which give promise Of fur
Their public development in the years
to come. But it must be equally pat
ent to the most casual observer that
the private yards and gardens of
rsacola are not keeping pace with
spirit of the times, and that their
~ .iect does much to retard devel-
cement.
There is nothing that goes farther
towards attracting visitors and home
seekers than does a modern and well
kept residential district, and it is
that fact which is being given rec
ognition by the Rotarians in the
Yard and Garden contest which had
its inception at the meeting of the
Rotary club on Tuesday.
The plan, as suggested by w. D..
Willis, and adopted with enthusiasm
follows very much the plan of the
City Beautiful contest of the Rotary
club of Davenport, Iowa, which was
inaugurated in 1913 and continued
through the years of 1856, proving
so successful as to have attracted
the attention of civic organizations
an over the country.
1t has been decided by the Rotary
club of Pensacola to follow very
much the same procedure as that
which proved so successful in Da-
venport.
The rules of the contest are as fol-
lows:
Rule 1. Anyone can enter, man,
woman or child, but only one entry
will be accepted from each family.
Rule 2. If an alley adjoins a
property it must be kept neat and
clean and the city ordinances with
relation to garbage and refuse
strictly complied with.
Rule 3. No person will be per-
mitted to win in any one year or Sc
11CS VI yCa1S 4AO4C O1lc1 bWCuIy 1.-Two
dollars in the contest. The entries
are divided into three classes:
Class 1. Those who do all their
own work.
Glass 2.-Those who do part of
their own work.
Glass 8. Those who maintain a
hired man.
Cash prizes will be awarded only
to class one. Honor prizes will be
given only to entries in classes 2 and
3-five prizes to Glass 2 and two
prizes to Class 3.
The object of such contest as this
which is inaugurated by the Rotary
club is manifold. No city may ever
be considered truly attractive, until
the units-the homes which go to
make it-are made so. In order to
create a City Beautiful the citizens
must join hands with the civic auth
critics, and the work of one invari-
ably stimulates the interest of the
other.
No one can deny that there is {
direct connection between the clean.
illness of city and the health of its
people. There are ordinances relat,
ing to ashes, garbage and refuse, but
in many instances these ordinance:
are not lived up to. If civic pride
is created, it is not necessary for the
city to enforce these ordinances
the people enforce the laws them
selves.
The results of such a contest may
hardly be estimated. In Davenport
q city of approximately fifty thou
sand inhabitants, and eight thou
sand homes having yards, not in
GLIDING flats and dwellings which
have no yards in connection will
them, it was estimated that in 1913
the year of the inception of the Cit!
Beautiful idea, one home in ever.
twenty was reached, in 1914, on
home in every six, and in 1916, ont
home in every five. In 1913 ther,
were 1913 entries in the vegetable
garden contest in 1914, 240, and il
1915, 610. This goes far to show tn,
growth of the movement and its pop