The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-12-10
MICHIGAN COUPLE
HIGHLY PLEASED.
WITH PENSACOLA.
Beauty of City ExtOlled in
Letter to Home Paper by
Mr.. and Mrs. Ward.

! describe Pensacola as a beautiful
city. praise the hotel accommodations
here and congratulate the city on its
parks.
The letter. which does full justice
| to Pensacola. follows:
"To the Editor and Orion Friends:
'0Nhcn we left Orion Oct. %, We
! knew We were coming to Pensacola
| but not where or with whom We
would live. 1t is interesting to note
how circumstances, providence or Coo
will take care of one without any
bother on our part. Was it Shakes
peare who said: There is a destiny
that shapes our ends, rough how then
as we will" Anyway, we came
to Florida over an entirely new
route this time, the i. & \,
railroad. We have been over the
Queen & Crescent road eight times.
We arrived at the Pensacola depot
on Wednesday, Oct. 20, at a. m
schedule time. Found one of the
most beautiful depots we have ever
seen. and so clean. Got some hot cot
fee at the lunch stand and enjoyed
o,,r first breakfast in this large ana
beautiful city of over $1,000 popuia :
tion. So many years we have wanted
To see Pensacola, and now that we
have been here over a week, we can
say that realization far exceeds an
ticipation.
at the depot we saw our first sign
Ford Service so we went over ana
asked the young fellow in charge TO
take us to a medium priced, home
like hotel, so he brought us to the
Merchants hotel. We could have our
choice. a 81 or So per day room, the
latter with private bath and acceS-
series. and we chose it because we
wanted to clean up as well as rest
nm and we thought we got the worth
of the price. We had that room TWO
DAVIS. Then the landlord, who is
northern man sfrom Wisconsin and .
very genial host, rented us the room
we are in, in the annex, for s. per
week. | have always wanted i"TEe
room and am satisfied with this,
which is 16X24. a 14-fOot ceiling, tnrv2
windows and a fire place, all fNed up
for light housekeeping and a Good
Mace to keep our car under cover III
the hotel yards, all for the same
price. We have rear porch ana front
balcony at our service. Directly OPP
n0site the front balcony is a beautl1ul
park or plaza, as it is called, win d
fountain filled with goldfish and now
CPS on the north side of us is the
,,ae+office one of the handsomest
hri1dings we have ever seen, occupy
inc q quarter of block of ground
The park is one whole block INSIDE
while on the subject of parks, we
want to tell of the many beautlful
marks and parkways that do so much
toward beautifying any town OF CITY
and we are informed that the "oit tlsan
e. II, ya1f
Of Pensacola are credited for the CITY
beautiful parking system ana wen
laid-out streets, and it is to. the o!u
civic league more than any other CIVIC
bodv. Pensacola is Indebted 1or us
parkway system and its many loEgly
boulevards. We are living on eit
1n,.incipaI street. PalafoX street, that
has a parkway down the center PAL
way. where a lovely bed of chrysan-
tbenums are now opening their mil
lions of blooms.
"Ouite a sum of money was spent
in getting one of the best city archl-
tec-s in the United States to come
to Pensacola to assist in beautltylng
Darllwavs. G. A. just now said, why
Orion has a beautiful park, saw
Seth Hunt cleaning it up the day we
left | said. Yes, l know, and L nave
always enjoyed it, too, but ORION
people will enjoy what others are
doing and Pensacola has done so
much that it is worth recording
more than many cities in the entire
south.
1--WE have visited the school Of sea-
planes, air station. and navy YARDS
but we have not visited the Marine
hospital, near the old Fort Barrancas.
"Our Ford car, which was shipped
has not arrived yet. When 1t does
come we are going to do some touring
of the state, something all the ORION
people who have come south nave
done. and now our turn.
There is a hum and buzz in the
air all the time, even into the night
sometimes, of aeroplanes flying &c
keep in practice. And the deep DooI1i
Of the vessel whistles that tell of
great traffic here on Pensacola bay.
which is only three blocks south OF
us. There was a gulf storm over
Sunday. In the afternoon we went to.
the end Of one of the wharves and
say the bay full of vessels come into
this safe harbor to escape the storm.
ITO show you what the old soldiers
think of Florida, there are 60 vet
Grams in the department of Florida.
G. A. r., on rebel soil. being here the
wear round. We met an old soldier
who came here 10 years ago, and was
so benefited that he built himself
home here near one of the bayous
and is quite spry for his age, which
is IS years There are many Michi-
gan people here. and there is tour
iat club but we have not met them
yet.
"One man shipped his Ford car
from Highland Park. 1t has not come
vet, either They own a nice home
here. where they spend their winters.
rs many other northerners do, and it
is good way, too. for then one can
have Il garden, fruit and chickens.
and have a motive in life to make it
more interesting.
Northern people want to know or
,hc more practical things of lif, prtn-
they come for the winter, or to i've
tho YEAR 'irTGd, so when / write
again. a. few weeks, I will know
moic about it, and give some statis-
tics that can he depended OH. We
lrct an evangelist en- route here who
went on further to Southport, who
IGoi; up some government homestead
Land Good land. he said. and comes
hc~c winters to live on it in the speci-
fed ychrs to obtain the land as a
home. and plans TO build a church
there. He s2id that anything can be
raised here and there. too. and fish
galore in II. creeks and bayOus. We
are going over that wa. later. We
had 1,,t,11n+ fiSl, for sumner and l,ra9 k