The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-07-18
BOARD HAS PROMISED ESCAMBIA FINANCIAL AID
FROM FEDERAL FUNDS MADE AVAILABLE JULY FIRST
Department. Employs Federal Equipment From Washington
at Salary of S34OO per YearA Members Delegation Are
Present. Including Newly Elected Member From Bradenown

The West Florida delegation reached
Tallahassee yesterday and matters
which have been so vigorously dis
cussed during the past few months
| will be brought to a focus when the
state road department receives the
representatives from Escambia and
Santa Rosa counties, this morning.
Santa Rosa Men
| The Pensacola delegation has been
| joined by F. H. Cobb, Jr., and j. e.
| Keene, county commissioners from
Santa Rosa, and C. H. Overman, Santa
! Rosa county engineer, and Peter Ro-
sasco representing the citizens of Mil
I ton r T. Wentworth, County En-
| gineer Winston E. Wheat and County
! Attorney f. Pope Reese, left last night
/ to be at the conference today. Others
J who left Sunday night were Paul P.
Stewart, president of the Pensacola
Chamber of Commerce, L. Earle
| Thornton, member of the American
| Association of Engineers, and an army
engineer of ability, F. w. Marsh, who
was chairman of the Escambia Good
Roads Commission, and an acknowl-
edged authority on the road situation.
in this county. These three represent
ing the Citizens Committee, and Com
missioners L. S. Gilmore, H. E. Gan
dy ]. r. NJ. Gates. e*
Routing of Road
The delegation from from Escambia
and Santa Rosa goes before the state
road department with respect to a def
mite plan for financing the bridge
across Escambia Bay and with regards
to the routing of state road number
one, known here as the Ferry Pass
Road, through Escambia county.
At the meeting which was held at
the city hall several months ago, and
which filled the council chamber to
over flowing, the citizens expressed
themselves as unanimously in favor Of
presenting resolutions to the state road
department in which were embodied a
request for financial aid in building
the Ferry Pass bridge and the permis-
changing the routing of the Ferry Pass
road so as to divert it along the shore
line of Escambia Bay, thus not only
building a fine road from the bridge
to Pensacola, but creating a magnift-
cent bayshore boulevard, which would
eventually become a part Of the Gulf
Shore Boulevard, which is an auxlHary
of the old Spanish Trail.
Some of the county commissioners have
frankly expressed their opposition to
changing the route of the Ferry Pass road
to conform to the program as outlined
at the citizens meeting and many efforts
were made during the past month to get
the commissioners to join with the ctti-
zsns' committee in some sort of program
which would be satisfactory to all con-
cerned but up to time Of leaving ZEN
sacoIa, no settlement of the matter had
been agreed upon.
May Reach Agreement.
The state road department has prom
ished to Escambia county an appropr1a-
ton from the federal aid und recently
made available, and it is believed that
while in Tallahassee the delegations rep
resenting the Chamber of Commerce, the
citizens committee, the Escambia county
commission and the Santa Rosa COM
mission and Milton citizens will reach
some agreement and be able to secure
from the state road department that
which will be best for this county, both
as to the necessary finances and the
routing Of the Ferry Pass road.
Adyices from Tallahassee yesterday
stated that the state road department.
heard no delegations
All members of the delegation are pres
ent with the exception OF ]. d. smith OF
Mariana, who is in washington. Il.
Green, of Bradentown, recently appointed
is attending his first meeting. according
TO a wire to The Journal last night
Buys IS Acres.
The wire also stated that the depart !
ment yesterday authorized the purchase
of is acres OF land near Gainesville FOR
the establishment of warehouses ana |
shops and J. Peters of washington, D. - /
was employed as federal equipment man.
at a salary of $4,000 year. He VIII
have charge of all federal equipment OF
the shops and warehouses erected.
Bids recently received covering work
IN Nassau, yolusia and Manatee coun-
ties were rejected by the board, and the
work covered win be done by the state
road department with convict labor. THIS
action was taken because of lack OF
funds.
Resolutions of sympathy and respect
on the death of the late W. w. Clark,
member OF the department, were adopted
Following the meeting in Tallahassee,
the entire delegation viii 80 to the cele-