The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-02-15
AS [ TELL HIRAM.

Yes'm, Miss Martin, it certainly is the truth Me
an Hiram has ben away from Pensacola long time
A long, long time. A Long. Long time. Fact is Miss
Martini ever since them municipal bonds was voted
That's seven year, gon' eight.
But seq, to Hiram l seq: Hiram. you en- say
what you please, but Pensacola is gitten' herseE
self talked about you know she's gittin real popu-
lar They say that to say everybody is talkin about
her. when applied to lady. is a elogy; but when
you applies it to town. it's eulogy Not that
see there is any particular difference, eept the
difference of letter. But then. as that there pert
paragrapher said 'tother day-'a letter frequently
brings on a breach Of promise.
AN talkin about breaches of promise Miss Mar
tin they amt any of 'em got anythin' on the city
commissioners, when it come to the breacnin or
promises Them there men. norated by the
people of this here town to sell them bonds An
they come out an give they word, and said they
would and they amt.
Pensacola has been waitin for them commits
to keep their promises most long as Jacok
served for Rachel. An Mr.. Holsberry, who Amt
been known to his feet when it comes to
dancin', says that the hesitation dance amt got
nothin' on them commissioners.
Not that this is the reason come back to Pen
sacola, Miss Martin. The real reason we come back
is that want to be in the ground floor when
they begin to build the centennial. And an Hiram
thought maybe they might invite him to go to
Washington. Hiram is a master hand at talkn', an
wouldn't mind accompanying him. I'm some talker
myself. An like to travel
Hiram an me, ben Twin out in San Diego, so
naturally we wus interested when we heard about
this here centennial move. When moved out
to San Diego. that there town just about thir-
ty thousand-that is, that's what they claimed. An
you know what that mems. Today they claim one
hundred thousand. An you know what that means
You got to hand it to them people out in Cali
forna, Miss Martin. If they had this here bay out
in San Diego, they'd have Jacksonville and Tampa
and Miami lookfn' like Muat along side of Milton
Them there people out there in California GER
tainly do know how to advertise. They talk
much about what they got that they almost believe
it themselves
Now you take these here municipal docks an this
here centennial; them people out there would Of
done dug up the coin an sent delegation to Wash
ington special. and the noise they made in the
capital city would have been worse than the noise
that Johnnie Jones and Johnnie Frenke made
in Tallahassee. We heard the echoes of that noise
way the Pacific coast
You got to make a pile of noise these days if you
want to be heard Of AS I tell Hiram if Pensacola |
had made much noise seven years ago as it is ,
be town in the United States that would have any
thin on US.
They is just one thing 1 can't quite git straight
Eternal Triangle what they've got here. That is |
what Hrams calls it. Miss Martin. l can't say 1
quite got it all straight. But it's somethin like this
They got Chamber of Commerce (Which, to hear
folks talk about it, must be worse than the Cham
Der of Horrors) and they got Rotary Club, which !
is got somehin' to do with wheels within wheels, or
wheels in the head, somethn of the kind an they
got a Kiwans Club. what means: Il trade" An they
do. They don't do nothn' but trade compliments
with one another I've heard of this three-cornered
business before, but from what they tell me- that is
some corner that the Chamber of Horrors is got |
Sort of corner in stock as you might say.
But as tell Hiram. if them there would just
stop payin one another many compliments an get
down to cases. they might git them there bonds adj
vertsed An maybe in time they might even git em
SOLD. An IN time, OF course not due time they might
eVengit them there docks started. An in due time
they might even git em built
OF course you know. Miss Martin bein' married
TO me like he is an assocatin' with me so much
hiram is a real bright man. An Hiram says that
t they have this here centennial they're boun to
nave the municipal docks. But as l tell Hiram that
amt no sign they goin to get them docks or that
just because the people want them It's
4 funny thing, but for reason or other, every
Lhie you say municipal docks, they is certain per-
SUNS III PENSACOLA What says Ellen n. docks or G.
F. an A. docks. Just like that!
but hiram says the people have already voted for
them docks. That seems funny now don't it Miss
Martin? The people rule. An the people voted for
mem docks An all these years them docks have
'een tied up right there in the city building
see by the papers, Miss Martin that Mister Car
er Glass. who is of these here F. F. VS. of Vir-