The Pensacola journal., 1907-03-16
EDITOR MAYES SPENDS
A DAY IN TAMPA.
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: the city yesterday was Frank l.
Mayes. the gifted editor of the Pen
sacola Journal, than which no agency
has played so important a part in
the upbuilding of F1orida's great
Deep Water City" of which the en-
nal, in influence for good, typographi-
cal beauty, brightness of news and
| editorial service and circulation,
would be a credit to city several
4 times as large as even prosperous
Pensacola, and greatly deserves the
heavy patronage it receives.
Mr.. Mayes. who was en- route to
Pensacola from Key West, where he
attended the meeting of the Florida
Press Association, spent the day in
| the city as the guest of President T.
j. L. Brown, of the chamber of COM
merce, who also returned from Key
West yesterday. This was Mr..
Mayes's first trip to Tampa, and he
was immensely pleased and surprised
with the great growth and prosperity
of the city.
Accompanied by a Times man and
Colonel Brown, Mr.. Mayes yesterday
| afternoon visited the state lair
grounds and was taken through every
building. Il heard great and surpris
ing things of you from Mr.. Chipley
Jones, secretary of our chamber OF
commerce, and others who came to
Tampa said Mr.. Mayes, "but even
from their lavish praise had no idea
until now of the magnitude of the
undertaking. I have been to many
| state fairs, but never to one the build
ings of which were so large as these;
and never have l seen so beautiful
and convenient a location L know
| the recent fairs have resulted in much
benefit to the entire state, and sim
cerely hope the legislature will con-
tinue the annual appropriation for he
premiums of $4,000 a year. Colonel
Brown and associates have certainly
earned a crown for their work and
deserve the commendation of every
citizen of Florida Escambia county
must be represented at the next fair"
After the visit to the fair grounds
Mr.. Mayes was taken to West Tampa,
where he again found things to mar
vel at, as he did upon traversing Ybor
City during the morning hours.
Tampa is truly wonderful city"
said he. L have been laboring un-
der the delusion that / knew some
thing about the size and wealth of
the city, but find that / am mistaken.
I am glad indeed to see nothing of
the mushroom order about the city's
growth, there being every evidence
OF substantially in your various in
dustrial enterprise. There is alb
solutely no telling what the future
holds in store for this city.
You can put me down as a friend
to and believer in Tampa, and partic-
ularly as regards the state fair move
ment. The fair should continue from
year to year and grow constantly in
scope. That it will be so is evident
from the progressive and public-spir-
tied character of the men behind the
movement"
Mr. Mayes, after meeting many
Tampaites, left last night for his
home city, of which he has as much
right to be proud as we are of the
city of Tampa Peerless in her own
grandeur and security, Pensacola
reigns as queen of the greatest port
south of Norfolk, and no city dare
dispute her title With. thirty-three
feet of.sheltered water, in which the
navies of the world can find refuge.
and supported by matchless terri
tory in point of productiveness, Pen
sacola makes the sterotyped state
ment, she has brilliant future be-
fore her" resembles something even
more common than the proverbial
tiiirty.cent piece" Added to this.
as was proven beyond cavil after the
recent severe storm, she boasts of a
citizenry that have cut the words
fair and encouragement" out of
their dictionary, and can pronounce
only the words progress" and sue
cess"
The Times voices the sentiment of
every south Floridian when ii pro-
poses a toast TO the health of Flor
ida's Deep Water" metropolis. and
to The Journal and its editor.
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