The Pensacola journal., 1920-02-20
PENSACOLA GLIMPSES.
+. III. Collier in St. Louis Globe Democrat.

Pensacola consists Of magnificent top-lofty hotel
end 127 candy stores and those not candy stores
sell candy. That impressionst.c view of
Pensacola arrival after dark following an
Immediate stroll along mile of brilliantly lighted
plate-glass windows. Next day. Of course we found
cut that there were lots Of other fine things in
Pensacola besides candy stores but there is all you
want of confectionery that the sailor boys from the
warships in the harbor For sailor boys bless
their hearts. haye their sweet tooth and discrim-
mating taste.
With its palm trees in q glare of electric light.
Pensacola is extraordinarily attractive at night.
nothing in the dark but rustic 1t was a goomng
mystery. but with electricity turned on flood it
is in its plumed glory, being essentially the most
artificial of trees. That is why it is so cleverly
initiated, like the ponsetta blossom which needs
only few yards of red flannel and pair Of scissors
to be Sorgeously reproduced in quantity. Perhaps a
fac-simile Of palm tree can be made from shredded
shiny; but the real thing when associated with the
works of mana shaft Of marble, statue, foun-
tain, flower-laden green carpet of grass,
is an adornment that no other tree approach.
And Pensacola has made good start with palms,
1t has laid out two intersecting espanades of such
width that early rising guest With the mists of
the morning in his eyes may ask, looking it,
'Is that the other Florida the distance? ?"
While the city has yet time and the chance it should
annex thousand along the bay for
public park, Moonlight on Pensacola Bay is worth
going miles to see it. You must understand that
when the electric line the navy yard gets half way
10 of
heaped-up rocks and for all the ground that is vis
BILE from the window you might we'll be in boat.
After have breathlessly observed that the water
is not coming in at each end Of the car, you have
time to contemplate the moonlight. 1t beggars de-
scription-she Shakespeare, Milton Tennyson and
Sir Walter Scott for suitable accounts-yea Q. Henry
in "Cabbages and Kings" The shore at Corao must
be like that at Pensacola Bay. There great
full moon, and the mother of pearl"
On the opposite side OF Pensacola Bay-whch
counts for the bay-is Santa Rosa Island 1t is long
narrow, low-lyng and sandy and suggests of
those loaves of bsead on which the lunch counter
man can slive away for hour without exhausting
it. The island is, however, covered with trees, and
even under gray sky it looks inviting in the dis
tance besides, the advertisements give YOU the i'm
preston that YOU want ogo there. But there are
no boats running in mid winter, not launch
unless enough people apply for transportation to
make koatload." But we can't set a subscription
list going, Everybody seems to prefer the golf links
instead And why should come all the way to
the edge Of the United States to play golf when one
do that at home? One can't cross Pensacola Bay
in launch and visit distant, low-lyng islands With
fetching Spanish names every day.
1t looks as II it would be smooth voyage too
Ont there lies silent fleet of torpedo-boa destroy
e7s each with its quadruple smokesacks and scat
tered about at anchor many -masted schooner
as motonless a painted ship upon a painted
ocean 1t is an ideal day for boatng. the boat
man is obdurate