The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-30
URGES ACTION
ON CITY DOCK
Judge Hoffman Believes Money
Available Can Most Wisely Be
Used On Mclaughlin Project
OTHER SITES IMPRACTICAL
Either City Fathers Are Against
Municipal Docks Or They
Must Favor Mclaughlin.

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Judge NJ. G. Hoffman. a member OF
the board Of directors Of the chamber
Of commerce, is q firm believer in NIL
! nicipal docks. Judge Hoffman was op-
posed to The sale OF dock b ohds some
months ago when there apTcared no
hope of obtaining sufficient money 70
make respectable start He now be-
iieves that the proposition If Henry
Mclaughlin offers an opportunity for
Pensacola to secure municipal docks.
A special committee from the chamber
Of commerce Investigated the Nc
Laughlin proposition aad reported
favorably on it. The report was
adopted without change by Tie CHAM
Der. and the committee was instructed
to carry on" in an effort to secure
action on the part Of the city COM
mission.
Speaking to The Journal Yesterday.
| Judge Hoffman said:
THE Loyalty devoted citizen tax
payers Of Pensacola have just now. By
an overwhelming vote. declared that
they lov" our good boys and sweet
girls OF school age. more than the
money they possess. They have mag
nanimOusly voted tho sum Of s500,m
to be used in The process Of local civil
Zation. II makes ones heart fc,
lighter and much happier 10 know the
orr high Sch0olers will not have g.
attend in The GYPSY Smith labernac'
much longer. We feel truly grateful
Praise God from whom all blessing
flow.
But God Almighty hates d duiii"
We Will moi be quittcrs. our muntips
docks question is still unsettled
III seems that any thinking. llvsl
headed taxpayer should not he op
posed 10 municipal docks. I don't LnoN
of single member OF The chamhc
Of commerce who at any time durin
The last year was opposed 10 mnnicipa
docks But majority Of !hc chamhe
Of commerce opposed the selling or TIA
100000 bonds and getting perhaps "nl
S3J0OOO cash out Of them and who .
they got through spending If. know
that they had only gotten nol-Usable
hole filled with salt wafer and sand
hill i'm a place that should have tfe
hole i'm the sand under water. and sand
hill topped by properly constructed
municipal dock, capable Of really serN
ing as a dock.
.In other words. the chamber ~
commerce didn't want 10 spend TIE
money for the docks and then not have
any. Because 100000 Is ai the present
yaIue of money. not enough to 5uid
ANYTHING usable as a dock. Such was
the majority report Of the commIiIee
of which I was a member.
In This dilemma. needing the docks
and not having enough money win
which 10 build them. one of our
citizens. Henry Mclaughlin. comes with
an offer TO donate outright in fee sim
rde. without any strings attached 10
the giff. a suitable site with improve
nenfs already developed thereon, worth
,t least 5000. 900, on which site we VIII
be- able with the little amount Of money
available to build a workable. usaDle
dock.
.'Thc leading citizens OF Pensacola,
With barely an exception. after chew
ng the cud. rcgurgitating it and chew
ng If again favor Of now selling tHcse
ponds. accepting Henry McLaugh' rs
,roferrred gift and building a municipal
lock on 1T.
"0ur city commissioners seem now
o be opposed TO accepting the gift or
erred. There has been some talk Of de-
,eloping some other site than that Of
cred by Henry Mclaughlin and there
las been even some talk Of buying a
iit.
1T occurs to Us that surely we have
,ery. very little money with whicn 70
mild docks. 50 little, in fact. that u
will be impossible 10 build on the ciiy's
water front or any other purchasabie
rent.
put We will, no doubt. be able 10
cIi ihe 100000 or bonds voted aud
eallze enough money OF OF ih=n %
mild usable set Gf docks, which can,
sneeds arise. be enlarged to suit Hu'
uture wants: but this can only be lone
N the Mclaughlin site.
THE non-acceptance by our city
Of the Mclaughlin pro
.o.;tion would be- it seems TO me.
onfessfon that they in tFuth anc IN
acts. are opposed 20 any municipal
ocLs whatever, because the only site
bat we have money TO develop Is The
IcLauglIlin site.
perhaps. we realize that our taxes
re burdensome and | am una'terably
pposed to any additional bonds Eeins
oted to complete such an incomplete
OBJ a. we would have on our hands u
.e tried to build docks elsewhere than
n the site Mr.. Mclaughlin offers to us:
We've got enough money to build
sable docks on the Mclaughlin wharf
We have not got enough money 10