The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-10-28
Commissioners May Report to
Legislature That No City in
State Is Equal to Burden of
Whole Show.
PENSACOLA WILL
HOLD EXPOSITION
Enthusiasm of Yesterdays DEM
Onstration Convinced Commits
sioners That City Is Deter
mined to Have Centennial.

| Pensacola's enthusiasm yesterday
showed the State Centennial Commits
| sioners that this city wants the CEN
| tennial, and their trip around the
city and habor proved to them that
Pensacola has the ability to put it
over. According to every Indication 1t
is practically certain that IL any city
in the state is designated, Pensacola
! will be that one. Two other courses
are open to the Commission. They can
| decide to split the centennial four
ways. or they can recommend to the
Legislature that no city in the state is
big enough to put on the shte' alone.
In either case Pensacola will toid the
centennial as originally planIbd.
The commissioners. N. G. Brorein.
of Tampa, chairman; Jules M. Bur-
queries, West Palm Beach; j. j. Logan,
Jacksonville; Senator w. A. Mcwil-
liams. St. Augustine were greeted by
the Pensacola member, John B. Jones;
the chairman of the centennial COM
mittee, 3. S. Hancock; the chairman
lof the committee of one hundred, Dr.
F. G.. Renshaw; and others members
of the Pensacola committee, public
officials hundreds of private citizens.
lcheering members of p. II. S., and
thousands of other school children
Joined in the chorus of Pensacola
Town." led by Johnnie Jones, which
lgreeted the members of the commits
sion as they stepped from the train,
and was introduced between the
lspeeches later on, when the meeting
twas held at the city hail. at which
lPensacola's claims for the centennial
were placed before the commission.
1t was a day unique in the history
lof Pensacola. The colors of the
United States, of Spain, of France
and of Great Britain struck note
of patriotism and suggested the days
of the historic past which the centen-
NAL will commemorate and the streets
were alive all day with cheering sta-
dents, who paraded, roofing for Pen
lsacola, swarmed the court house
building, to listen to the hearings
before the commission, and later
Joined in the parade from the bay to
the San Carlos. following the tour of
the city and the visit to the Naval Air
Station, the Pensacola Shipbuilding
plant, Fort Barrancas, old Fort San
Carlos. and other points of historic in
terest.
The Hearing.
Promptly at IL o'clock hearing was
held in the council chamber of the
lefty hall, which was filled by a repre-
sentative gathering of citizens, who
throughout the speeches demonstrated
by their enthusiastic applause that
Pensacola is a unit, as to the centen-
NAL celebration.
The meeting was called to order by
the chairman of the committee of one
hundred, DIR. F. G. Renshaw, who after
la short predatory speech, introduced
Hon. r. Pope Reese. who presented
tTn--
sentimental and commercial stand
point.
Mr.. Reese. in opening his address.
stressed the fact that the commits
sioners were meeting in the building
which had the same location as that of
1.-THE government house of the early
days of the provisional government in
FLORIDA, and that the plaza which ii
faced was the scene of the change of
flags, of Spain and the United States.
and that the scenes enacted in Pen
sacola were those that were to be
commemorated by the centennial cele-
bration, which Mr.. Reese termed as
the Birthday party of Pensacola
| After following the history of Pen
sacola and West FoIrida, step by
step, from it's discovery In 1928, to the
permanent settlement in 1896, Mr..
Reese referred to the pioneers of West
Florida who had been so much a
part in the building of this city and
isection. and the influence exerted by
them in the state, as statesmen and
in commercial life.
Mr.. Reese called attention to PEN
sacola's geographical location, the
depth of the harbor. the railroads now
in operation and contemplated
Taking up the centennial movement
from financial standpoint. he called
attention to the fact that Pensacola Is
prepared to meet the demands made
| upon it, through the sale of bonds
already voted for municipal docks
and a great belt line railroad, that II
J. is prepared to issue 100000 addition
al bonds. to be applied to the centen-