The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-01-30

best efforts into it. 1 have heard so
many times people say we have the
| most wonderful bay in the world
whenever any new project was start
ed. / know we have the most wonder
/ full harbor south of Newport News
| but the people who rely on that har-
/ Dor to make the town will never see
! tSP city grow. believe our wonder
/ full harbor has been misfortune. 1t
| has quieted our efforts. Let us not
remain idle, but let US work.
The speaker urged greater co-opera-
tion and public spirit and insisted that
constructive criticism was the only
kind worth while. He asserted that
every citizen should be a member of
the chamber of commerce and declared
that it is not honest ITO eat clover
through the fence
Referring to opposition within the
chamber Of commerce. Mr.. Perkins de-
clared that you cannot run rough
shod over people Whenever there is
no principal involved it is your duty
to compromise. But whenever a prin-
cipal is involved, then you should
stand firm
Mr. Perkins paid a tribute to the
Y. w. G. A. and declared that he be
lieved it should be re-opened. He com
excellent work she had done.
The speaker next took up the sub
ject of good roads and declared that
the best way to build a city was TO
build good roads TO that city. He gave
a brief history of the Escambia-Santa
Rosa bridge corporation and explain
ed how the organization disbanded
when it was believed that state and
national funds were to be available
for building the bridge at Ferry Pass.
There is no more crying need in
Escambia county than that for good
roads" Mr.. Perkins said and he urged
! that the recommendations made by
Mr. Cant be adopted. He explained
! how the Old Spanish Trail would lead
through Pensacola, and how tourists,
travelling from orange grove 10 or
ange grove" would pass through the
/ city. The richest section OF Florida
f, is west Florida, he said.
+. w Marsh, secretary of the Es-
Gambia County Good Roads associa-
ton, spoke at some length on the
need of good roads and declared that
the project outlined by Mr.. Cant would
! produce miracles in the development
/ of west Florida and especially Peusa-
cola. 1T will mean more to us than
! new railroad" he declared, and add
ed that I'VE must attract the through
traffic and not be at the last stop
ping place on the road" Mr.. Marsh
explained how Pensacola should be on
both the Gulf-Atlantic highway and
the Old Spanish Trail and said that
the adoption of this program would
place the city definitely in line for
such designation.
Santa Rosa Man Speaks.
E. L. MCGOWAN of Santa Rosa coun-
~ spoke briefly. He said he lived
up a the head of the bay and could
see Pensacola, but l can't get to
you"
Santa Rosa is going to be a pros
porous county, he continued. I'VE are
developing fast and we must have
transportation. We can't swim the Es-
Gambia and so we need to build a
bridge. Do you know it takes a hun
dred dollars worth of time to do a
nickers worth of business. Sears
Roebuck does more business in Santa
Rosa county than Pensacola
IF you are going to build bridge
get busy and Wen go you 81 per cent
of every project"
Oliver Semmes spoke briefly in
favor OF the move.
Harry Thompson moved that the
following resolution, first introduced