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COME TO PENSACOLA FOR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING THE SLOGAN Of OUR MERCHANTSI-

IAnd They Are Prepared to make It Worth the While of All to Accept This invitation The Holiday Stocks Were Never More Beautiful snd Complete

MERCHANTS represented in this paper today extend a cordial invitation to all the people to do their holiday shopping in Pensacola They are equipped in the way of magnificentTHE to deserve the patronage of all those who seek the advantages of a metropolitan market place The stores this year are marvels of completeness in the wonderful variety of the highgradestocks which are carried They are in holiday attire and their wares are displayed in show windows and handsome fixtures make veritable palaces of beauty The retail district at night is ablaze of glory with its multitude of electric illuminations The city offers ample accommodation for visitors in the way of hotels and numerous entertainments so that a visit to this city during theholiday season will be one of pleasure as well as one of profit It will be profitable for you to trade in Pensacola Her prices are based on the low buying ability which her big retail trade is able-

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secure the advantages of which are offered to all Come to Pensacola and get an enormous variety to select from reasonable prices and courteous treatmenti

M PENSACOLATHE CINDERELLA OF THE GULFM-

RS S J GONZALEZ in Florida Review

At the northern extremity of theMexican Gulf lies a beautiful bay andIts waters wash under wharves andJish houses that speak louder thanwords of the business and industries-of the city that is fast spreading roundthe circle or Its shores New Orleansand Mobile have been considered theprincipal Gulf ports on the Southerncoast and as such have been Inclinedto ignore the claims of a sister city toa like distinction But like Cinderella-In the fairy tale Pensacola has bidedher time In sequestered humilityawaiting the advent of the prince whoJs coming to her apparently in theshape of the Panama canal Tho deepwater bay ot Pensacola33 feet overthe bar has commercial advantagesthat must be appreciated by those who

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would establish a direct route fortrade that is expected to come through-the canal from the East Even nowthere are rumors afloat of new rail-roads

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with Pensacola as a shipping-and receiving point

Aside from its commercial ad ¬

vantages Pensacola is one of thebeauty spots of the earth Its baymay be ranked with the Neapolitanharbor in point of scenic magnificenceand if dreams come true may equalthat once famous port in commercialImportance The city spreads outnorthward over gently rising hillsHere its likeness to Naples ceases forno frowning VOlcanic summit hovers-In threatening altitude above itsstreets and homes

Known to SpaniardsEarly in the sixteenth century the

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existence of this beautiful harbor wasknown to the Spaniards In June1559 Don Tristan de Luna Y Arel ¬

lano a Spanish explorer sailing north ¬

ward on the Mexican Gulf discovered-this indentation of its northern shoreand beheldwith what emotions olgratification and surprise we caneasily imaginethe panorama of shim ¬

mering blue water Although it is notgenerally known It Is claimed thatthis settlement antedated that of StAugustine by about four years Per¬

haps this knowledge was obscured bythe Tact that the settlement esablishedby de Luna did not occupy the site otthe present city but was located far¬

ther down the bay on or near theplace where Fort Barrancas nowstands In the Pensacola of the pres ¬

ent day there is nothing but a nar

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row side street to commemorate DeLunas name-

A puny plant the settlement of deLunathen known as Santa Maria dePeniscolastruggled for a quarter ofa century through the various vicissi-tudes

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of early colonization in a coun ¬

try where the lurking savage was aperpetual menace In 1696 Don An ¬

dres dArriola laid the foundations otthe future town of Pensacola near thepresent site of Barrancas where heerected a small fort San Carlos In1719 the town was destroyed by theFrench under Champmeslin and SanCarlos was blown up

Gathering themselves together thedespoiled band of Spanish fugitives re-established the colony on Santa Rosa

an island at the mouth of the baywhere its shores are washed on one

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side by the water of the Gulf only tobe swept away in 1754 by a tidal waveWhen it seemed that even the ele¬

ments had conspired against it thecolony still clung to the shores of thebeautiful bay Instead of becomingdisheartened and abandoning the set ¬

tlement the few wretched survivors ofthis last disaster moved to the north-ern

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shore and laid the foundation ofthe present city-

A Fishing HamletFor many years it just subsisted a

mere fishing hamlet and a centurylater had only developed into an In ¬

dian trading post Later when Euro ¬

pean wars and treaties wroughtchanges in the boundary lines betweenFrench and Spanish territory thelittle hamlet sprang Into notice andclaimed a place in the history of that

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eraIn 1763 when England had a finger-in the pie Pensacola became the res-ident

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city of the governor ot WestFlorida Colonization from the OldWorld now pushed and encouragedincreased the population and awak-ened

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the town from the somnolent In-

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of a hundred yearsThe flood of Immigration toad intro ¬

duced a Scotch element of thrift andshrewdness doubtless attracted byglowing accounts of the resources ofthe country and the trading facilitiesafforded by the harbor

Companies were organized and thelucrative lumber trade inaugurated-that has since proved the backbone oftho town The old Spanish inhabitantrased his hands with the national ex ¬

pression Caramba to find somethingdoing in the old Spanish settlement

With Prominence Perils CameBut with prominence came perils

The tramp of armies echoed through-the narrow streets and rattling mus-ketry

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resounded over the gentlyrising-hills that lie behind the town WestFlorida had become a shultloqockwhich the fortunes of war threw backand forth between English and Span ¬

ish rule and later in 1821 the samelottery assigned that territory to Amer

ican dominancy These changes ma-terially

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interfered with the rapidgrowth of Pensacola With the Brit-ish

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occupancy many of the Spanish in-habitants

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withdrew to Spanish colonies-in the West Indies rather than ownallegiance to the British governmentIn the first part of the nineteenth cen ¬

tury when Spain caught the shuttle-cock

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again there was lor tile samepatriotic reason an exodus of theEnglish population-

The resident Spaniardthe Spaniardwith Pensacola sand in his shoeswho clung through all these political-ups and downs to the shore of thebeautiful bay led upon the whole aquiet and pastoral life Extensive un-settled and uncultivated tracts stretching northward afforded pasturage forvast herds of cattle one Don ManuelGonzalez alone haiiiig his brand onten thousand head These cattle rang ¬

ed over a grant from the home gov ¬

ernment extending fifteen miles north-ward

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and circling the city to the hayshore on the east But it is not re-

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that Don Manuel hooted andspurred rounded upon this enormousherd There were overseers who gotrich on a dividend of every seventhcalfbesides herders and slaves whorode through the trackless forest

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ll Commission Merchants and Who1esa1e GrocersIu

Correspondence With Operators and Persons Desiring Turpentine Locations Solicited u-

t Pensacola Office in Blount Building Branch Office in New OrleansIi i-

I Wholesale Grocery in Pensacola Corner Garden and Manresa Streets iE u n f-

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while the Don enjoyed his siesta 01smoked cigarettes and entertained lct-ransltnt guest for hospitality WHS amarked feature of life among thpeoplenot only friend and relati t-

but the sojourning stranger was weL-

come to the shelter of their roofWere Not Hustlers-

But with all their Christian hosnality inherent loyalty and chivalriessense of honor the Spanish or Crec

a term often misapplied to quadroonor half breeds whereas it really meansthe Spanish or French colonist ortheir descendants inhabitants couldnot be called hustlers In colonialdays every settlement as a generalthing manufactured according to it 5necessities but hero only such rommodittas were locally manufactured 13could not be conveniently obtainedelsewhere Mobile being basic poinof supply Even after American ccupancy the primitive leisurely sIm-plicity of the Spanish settlement prdominated for many years lIer wrstine universal brotherhood without ucialistic horrors When a man en-tered into business his aim Wa timake a living not to amass w al + i

How little the spirit of selfishness Iv-lrft nrevalleil in the husin >

methods of that period can J > e gallBred from the fact that a merchantthought nothing of sending a wouldbe customer across the street to trailat another establishment because litwas reading his newspaper and didnot care to be disturbed Let us sup-pose this very absorbing issue mayhave been The Vase a tiny twdtby twelve and a half sheet printrilin Pensacola a copy of which daicrJuly 2 > th 1853 is now before me Ttij

prospectus as outlined on the fir4page stated that the paper was de-voted to morality literature and tliaarts and sciences which let us hopewere not as limited as their advocate-

In another column we find tinspoetic effusion which has a sugge > uoQof midnight serenade and tinklingguitar

To SenoraOh thou art beautiful far ImIKr

than the flowersThat blossom in lights sweet ecstasy

in summer hoursThy smiles are fairer than the rays

that melt upon the skiesWhen neatii the setting suns last

beam the snowy cloudlet liesAnd when thy lips are opened a chrrm

around them grows-T

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1 BWitrj t >k the watninff foodIts joyous pulses t

And sweet thy thoughts enchantmentsare as the golden words

Which keep within the heart thomusic of Its chords

Contentus parvum praeditus virtumFor The VaeeAfter this comes the advertisement

of Dr R B Hargis As was customary-at that time the paragraph was orna-mented with pestle and mortar to d1note that the abovementioned was adispenser of drugs

In later years Dr R B Ilargis brcame prominent in medical circles asan investigator and authority on yrl ¬

low fever its origin and troatirintIt is in a great measure to these re-searches

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that the city of Pensacola isindebted for iis present immunity fromthe muchdreaded scourge

Connection by RailIt was not until after the civil war

that any permanent connection wasmade by rail with inland towns atthough as early as 1836 northern cnt rprisf and capital projected a roadreaching inland as far as Monfjroricry but the scheme fell through awljourneys were still made in the oldcolonial stage coach orfor the mars

i impatient wayfarer on horsobarthe ride and tie method Innadopted when the party of travelexceeded the number of avail ilhorses Apropos of this a story ii-told of two men who started on a

t journey with one horse between tli ra

After the stages were mutuallyI ranged the first man to ride pn < I

ed on his way until reaching the triodesignated In their agreement a tno

i point at which the horse was to If 5

tied for the other mans use whf n Iii hould arrive at that spot HIt in-

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of tying the horse the first nI rI spurred him round the tree in sifii iI way as to give the ground thn ap-

pearancei of having been trampkd bnI ron to the end of the journey li ivI inn his partner under the inipr n

that the animal had broken awayI A second though shorter road W-

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>sort pleted just in time to be lest ro y r lI the opposing factions the struct t

for Southern iiidependenc Only tiuwho lived in the South at tho ttan understand the conditions exitiuin nsacola at the clone of th v aManx who with thir families liar Ti

I ra jand dUes now returned to ti Irtom to find the hearthstone f

i the Iares and Penates thrown do P-

i Fortune inverted in human fi <t snttTOfl to the winds thos rj hitherto had known nothing br at¬

I fluent ease were reduced to a ji i i

lass indigence What were i T-tRTsj with no money to hire iiior

I and no slaves to work them To tc-patrrI familial came the probl u tlproviding and many a man uti tliar stood aghast at though of thedim ult task before him Uu ufs

y became more than the mOl r r ofI mention and brought to the fcuiuceI some of the dormant traits that have

fcini a kept the city afloat through vrstations of fire and pestilence TLOtime had come when men must IViUrthemselves and enterprise grew out ofdesolation A full decade had notelapsed before a railroad was in opera

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