The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-05-14
ROTARIANSA
LINED Up FOR
SALVATIONISTS
Each Member of Club Will
Work Three Hours a Day
for Three Days in Interest
of Drive.

Yesterday noon the Pensacola Ro-
tary club members We're guests at
lunch of Capt Paul stewart of the
Shipbuilding plant at the plant cafe
terra. Fifty members of. the club and
several invited guests went to the yards
in automobiles, and it had been the in
tention to inspect the plant after
lunch. The decision of the club, how
ever, to attend the meeting of the city
commissioners at the city hall at 2
clock in the interest of the sanitary
ordinance, made it necessary to post
pone the inspection of the plant for a
week, and it was voted to go directly
there from luncheon next Tuesday.
From a culinary standpoint. the
luncheon was a conspicuous success
and a great credit to the management
Of the shipyard. The bill of fare con-
sisted of olives, soup. roast beef and
mashed potatoes, English peas, ice
cream and cake. iced tea and plenty of
good cigars and cigarettes. During
the repast an inexhaustible fund Of ex-
plosive jovialfty was on tap; in fact
it was exhilirating to see how the staid
and sober business men of Pensacola
could forget for the moment the wor-
RES of commercial life and drive dull
care away like boys at play. Post
master Hancock and Hunter Brown
were leaders in the fun making.
During the time of lunch letter was
read from Chas. B. Hervey, suggest
ing that the club arrange for each Of
Its members to give three hours day
for each of the three days of the Sal
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vas of the business district. mo-
tion to endorse the suggestion of Mr..
Hervey was overwhelmingly adopted.
and a committee of three members was
appointed by the chair to apportion
the members to their respective beats.
It was on the heels of this action that
the most exciting of the fun making
occurred, when some hidden electrical
devices under the seats were touched
off by Mr. Brown to illustrate his con-
tention that Pensacola contains some
live wires.
! Superintendent Stewart was called
upon for a speech and gave a brief
history of how the ship yards came to
be located at Pensacola. He regarded
the natural advantages of the water
front here truly wonderful, but no more
so than the promptness of the busi-
ness interests to respond to an oppor-
tunity to get a great industry located
| in their midst. He stated that the
plants first contract with the govern
ment had been for ten ships. and that
last August six more were contracted
| for; but the latter contract had since
been suspended, though not cancelled.
and he was hoping for its reinstate-
mnt He said that when government
al restrictions are removed, contracts
can easily be secured for enough ships
to keep the yard busy many years, as
| the ship industry is now in good con-
dition, despite all reports to the con-
trary He is working for the perma-
| nency of the yard here and has great
| hopes of it.
| The task of securing and training
| thousands of new men had been a
handicap. he declared, but now thai
/ 1t is done. the yard here is equipped
to compete with any yard in the eoun-
| try or the world. He was strong in
| his praise of the citizens OF Pensacola
| for their cooperation in every way.