The Pensacola journal., 1919-10-08
Centennial Boosters Will Hear
Band Music and a Few Short
Speeches Explaining Pensa-
cOla's Claim to Big Show. a,
STATE COMMISSION ~ 4
WILL MEET MONDAY
John b. Jones, Pensacola Mem
Der, Receives Telegram From
Chairman Borein, Announcing
Business Program. s4,,.awsss,. 4.

w. G. Borein. chairman Of the State
Centennial Commission, in wire to
John b. Jones, Pensacola member of
the commission, announced the meet
ing in Tallahassee, to open Monday,
October 13. at 10 a. m. Mr.. Jones
stated yesterday afternoon that II is
probable that at this meeting. the res
ignation of Commissioner Allen, OF
Key West, will be announced, and his
successor chosen. On this new COM
mission, it is believed, the choice OF the
centennial city is largely dependent.
and there is much speculation as to
who will fill Mr.. Aliens place.
The third of series of meetings,
registering the interest in. the Gen.
tennial, will be held this evening at
Mallory Court, when patriotic airs
and addresses will express the senti-
ment for Greater Pensacola through
a great centennial in 1922.
A member of the centennial com
mission yesterday, in speaking OF the
laxity of a few Pensacolians, who seem
to have no realization of the import
ance of the centennial, not only as an
advertisement, but a business as
set, Sal0. 1nere are 1eW Dig business
men who make this port who do not
comment on the fact that Pensacola
needs to be advertised. And they arc
all agreed that the centennial will do
much for this city and section, in tho
way of pub"t.t!. t'i; 1t will do more
than this. 1 believe, and I am not
alone in that belief, that If the cen
tennial is held in Pensacola. IL will
mean not only that we will have
I, municipal docks, but il will mean the
speedy completion of the G. z. & A,
the completion of the Mobile Ss Mem
phis. and the building of tho eight
miles needed for the Alabama
road, which is just now for sale.
THE c.. +. & A. would be seized upon
as the road for the Southern and the
| FRISCO to connect with, and there are
at least three roads in Mobile. which
would be eager 20 set into Pensacola.
should we have ice centennial, and
would see that The Mobile, Memphis
and New Orleans rosd d was comp,ct-
ell
rs for the docks, when :St. Louis
bad it's world fair. the docks and
wharves were built with public monies
nl,Il opriated for ;rat purposs, and
tr ere is no reaSo1 why the sars, shouid
not be true of Pensacola. II the fed
eral government pledges itself to give
aid to the centennial, then that wouih
mean an appropriation of ut least
100000 which added to the 100000
of bonds already voted and possible
one hundred thousand more, which
might be appropriated under the gem
eral law, would give us an even mill
lion dollars for public improvements,
which would include dockage. "a het
line railway, and improved stree,s and
sewers.
'Tt must be remembered that few
cities have municipality owned docks,
paid for by the city. The state OF
Louisiana aided in building the great
docks at New Orleans; Alabama is
now being urged to aid Mobile in It's
dockage problems. and there is no rea-
son that I can see why Pensacola
should not have had federal and state
aid in solving it's problems along this
line. and in the event that the centen-
NAL is held here, such aid is practically
assured.
"At jamestown, certain sum was
appropriated for docks and wharves,
| and this would be true here, for the
| government would see the need of such
docks and terminals to receive the
cargo which would be sent here by
other nations, for the greta worlds fair
which it is contemplated holding in
Pensacola"