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Our Georgia Press Visit to
¢ St. Petersburg, Fla.
4"lt ')ecnnwu my ot to tell our read
ers What happened when the editors
of dorgia newspap rs came to 8L
p’te(zmrg nq their way to Cuba, One
dflst remember that these impres
slong were made hefore wo weut to
Cpbay We dropped out of a special
Pullxan train early in the morning
\ftc{;vwe had a day and two nights
of itpat Valdosta where there was a
walrl of entertainment, a day's full
proggam and then an evening at the
W_rgn'n college. The fun had al
réady started--ond Valdodta is no
mean Georgia city for play and fun
lu'd; type of hospitality and enter
bul_u“lent one cannol forget,
'w‘n 1 woke, I hurried to unfold
myselt: and gét my baggage out. This
was “UN% Sunshine City—Bt. Peters
byrg~—about which I had heard much
frmo our own people who have come
ho‘leé to make their fortunes, It ig o
city,’ all “right, working alive with
spungl businesg devvlop;non‘; and peo
ple Who agre,enthugipsm ot only- at
the muouth, bpt in the expression of
th'} ye and in the (-(mfld‘afl,smlle.
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" Chambar of Commeres offfeisle and
the membars of the St. Betersburg
f’mm,‘.Apsqflann led the reception
no'mmmg,:.. Representatives of the
mv'om_,qgw(-llut‘lpm were Paul Poynter,
owner of the Times, Frank Fortune
Pulver, owner of the Daily News, Ma
jor Lew B. Brown, owner of the Ind»-
pendent, Harold Somers, owner of
the Tourist News, J. . Dadswell of
the Fimangial Journal, and J. Lee
Bn.rnm, owner of the Huntington Ho
tel, formerly prominent in hotel cir
qlgn in Atlanta.
{\ut.pmobiles under the direction of
Miss Billie Perrine, manager of the
L!'otor Club, met the train and car
rled the guests to the Hotel Hunt-
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THIS GREA"” SUMMER RESORT OPENS FOR THE SEASON under the ausoices '
2 of the U. D. C. Ladies.. They are to have all the proceeds taken in on that day, also a .
‘ . 'jcommission or season tickets. Barbecue Dinner will be served by the U, D. C. Ladies,
' _also cold Drinks, Sandwiches and candies.
. ORCHESTR/. WILL FURNISH MUSIC FOR THE OCCASION. Get your season
3 ticket from the U. D. C. Ladies. All school children of Cordele and all the neighboring
towns will be there, Friday afternoon at 3:30.
Cington wherse breakfast was served,
he members of the Board of Gov
crnorg of the Chamber of Comm o ree
and the eity officials were the ‘hosts,
Major Lew B, Drown was the toast
wagter at the hreakfast., James K,
Coad, executive vigrpresident of the
Chamber of Commegree, gave the ad
diress of welcome, ) President. Ermest
Cemp, of Monvoe, i thanked st. Pet.
crsharg in hehalf of the visitors, The
keys of the city were given to the
Georgians by Mayor C. M. Blanc,
Otis A, Brumby, manager of the
Cobb County Times, spoke as a Geor
rian who had been a St. Petershurg
|1 wspaper man fifteen yeors apo,
| “Uncle Frank” Pulver, editor of (he
News, in a brief address, greeted the
Georgiang and stateq that all” Plori
da welcomed them through the me
dium of the Sunshine City, the fast
est growing community in the world,
John 1. Cobh, director of Public
Relations, of the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad, referred to'“the “prosperity
which swept through the' south dur
ing the past two years as a real
“Monte Carlo condition,” adding the
altention of the world in general and
the railroads in particular, He out
lined the great program calling for
the expenditure of $13,000,000 whl(-hl
the Atlantic Coast Line was putting
teross (o meet the needs of this
creat empire of the seath, Fr
| Jomes . Coad paid a tribute to
he foresight and vision of Henry
W. Grady of Georgia for world recog
nition of Florida.
After an informal reception duvine
which many photographs were tak
en while the guests walked through
the altractive grounds surrounding
(the THuntington, motor cars took the
Georgia visitors on a sight-seeing tour.
f the city, the heaches and the sur
rounding country, Thz return to the
hotel at noon was followed by a
luncheon,
An automobile drive altzm; the
north spdrc carried the party to the
pier where all lnmr'lle the stepener
Pocoroket for a sail across Tampa
Bay to Port Tampa where the visitors
hoarded the boat for Cuba, About
107 former Georgians who make their
homa in the Sunshine City occom
"ymniml the guests on the water eruise
and bid them bhon voyage at Twmpa.
On our ride during the dny we cap
tured all the sight-secing busses. in
town - thero are lots of them, for
‘there are many of these five to fifty
million dollar developments, coame
‘bearing the names of © nat’ ny';
known men. They had gooo o : v
’rquns'c in these developmen' - . -
en saw monkey® island ont o
of these where there ig 4+ million
lar hotel. 1 say million dollar "o
tel because everything lung in mil
lions when they talk of real estate
arcond St. Petersburg. But about.
the monkeys—the owners had devel
oped a little island and it was oc
cupied by a great family of monkeys
‘there for the novelty of the thing, T
suppose.” They had everything in
flowers from the oleander family on
fup to Australian 'plne"nn(l 'myul palm
and dvalks'‘afd” drafnage and lights
anfl all-<vast dmounts of money had
bean gpent in thase developments and
there mugt. he thirty million lots all
set ar‘ldurmmjvpe_x;e(‘l‘ Tor, the prospector
to ccme and buy and build or re
el and Vg and WY again,
foa 11 dhn i
i 8, P(-,lnrsb,ur_; ig not all of Florid:
that T saw, but it is a beautiful placs
and full of just plain, old Georgians
who are there pepping up so fast and
furioug that it is a great show f{o
watch them-——and listen. One who
knows them finds great interest ared
amusement in the® boosting. What
L transformation they are in human
ity! Up here, just plain, plodding
Georgia crackers. Down in Florida
if there is any one word that «will fit
their boosting, it is “Give us the
speed—we 2 want morz speed! Come
THE CORDELE DISPATCH
on—let's go!”
Lee Barnes has already been men
tioned. His Georgia friends ought to
know what a gait he is travelling in
Florida. And tyébe were many others
—sgcores of them we know, Miss
Florence Willis, once in caaige of
the expression departmont in the high
school here, and her sister, avo there,
The former i# connectod with the
chamber of commerce—and boosting
that city and scoring a thouwsand per
cent at it every awakening moment of
her life. Both these,good women and
Lee Barnes were on the cantire Lrip
with us to Cuba and back and thoy
keep the wheels of gladness turning,
It T do not get behind with the
other work right soon, I sghall try
sgpmething about Clearwater and Win
ter laven, for the sorry dry-souled
rascal who can go to these Florida
heauty spots and come hack with o
straight face unwilling toadivide tine
with this friends about them, is not
worthy of a heariig anywhere,
But I should say Florida is destined
’o become the playground of th: wide
world. That's what it ig heading n
to with marvellpus gpeed. 1t is a
great playground—remember that. Na
ture is responsible for all the rea
sons why it is a playsremid—ang hu
mankind, is now _discovering that
great gift. Nothing in rezl develop
ment is going to remain at a stand
still long. There is so much more
development just at this moment than
the world can absorb that there will
be a waiting period, no doubt. Re
adjustments must set somé of the
wild*investments heads up, but please
don’t get the idea that I"lorida is go
ing stagnated-—-not in i(hose beuut:
gpots we saw.
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LEWIS & THOMPSON OLD STAND
SUNDAY, MAY 9, 1926