The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-16
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sHiPsUILDINc PLANT.
Editor Pensacola Journal:
noticed an article in
Issue OF The Pensacola Journal
CARDS to the Pensacola Shiph
Co.'S plant. 1t is the bigges +,
that Pensacola will ever have Z
the government inspectors lie
several months ago that he h en-
all over the u. 8. shipbuilding pants
and while there are larger ones. this
yard was the best equipped and pre-
pared for shipbuilding of any one he
had ever been in. We have the wealth
err and climate, pure air coming con-
stantly in from the Gulf of Mexico,
high rolling land, no swamps or low
lands. the purest drinking water. and
the best located yard in the world.
Protected from storms or hurricanes.
one half mile from Pensacola bay, one
hours time from the gulf. never too
cold in the winter or too warm in the
summer, no sunstrokes, no malaria, all
pure salt water tide.
We have men at the head of this
plant who are gentlemen and We
challenge any yard for competition in
every respect. Actions speak louder
than words. The work that has been
done and is now being done proves
this. One year and seven months ago
this shfpyard plant was started by
cutting down trees and clearing up the
land and today we have afloat in your
Bayou Chico four ships aggregating
approximately sixteen thousand tons
of steel ships ranking among the best
ever built by any plant. and We have
ready another ship to make her
plunge to her natural element. besides
two bottoms laid and two ships about
half finished before launching, and
the keel for the tenth ship assembled
ready to be placed on the blocks when
the next ship goes over.
I challenge any yard to duplicate
this record. the warning sent out in
the morning paper is right, there is
nearly 1000 men employed in this
plant and Pensacola must give these
men a Square Deal decent roads to
go to work on. and proper housing ia
cilities, and put the rent down instead
OF up as some of the Shylocks have
done and are now doing.
II the shipyard workers and their
families are treated with the respect
and courtesies to which they are en-
titled. the shipyard will improve and
prove one Of the greatest blessings
Pensacola ever had. Let the citizens
or Pensacola see to it that those people
get a Square Deal in not charging
double rents, giving them good roads
to the plant and you will spare the
goose that lays the golden egg.
Pensacola is blessed by nature in
possessing advantages that no other
port in the south has. The commerce
OF the world is based on speed and
time saving al the port of call, and the
port that can do that and handle the
products OF commerce in the most eco
nomfcal way Will get the trade. There
is no other port south or on the At
laEtic coast that can handle as many
ships with safety as Pensacola. Here
is one OF the finest harbors in the
country, land locked, deep water, 40
feet in the bay. Vessels drawing 81
TT. can enter Pensacola bay over the
bar in one hour from the gulf to
alongside the docks.
Cargo can be taken or discharged
direct from the cars standing on the
railroad tracks. No crooked or tor
tuous rivers to travel. no time lost in