The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-19
DR.. RAWLS
WRITES OF HIS
CHICAGO TRIP
TELLS OF THE REXALL coNVEN-
TON IN A MOST INTERESTING
MANNER-DR. BLOCKER Is IN.
VEsTIGATING ROADS AND Paw.
ING IN MANY CITIES AND
STATES.

The following letter from DR. W. a
Rawls, who is in Chicago attending
the Rexau convention, was received
yesterday by E. w. Petersen:
Chicago, Sept. 18th.
Dear Ernest:
As you know, DR.. and Mrs. Blocker
joined us here, and we are all happily
QuaTtered at the same hotel. In this
we were indeed fortunate, as this
seems to be convention week In Chi
cagO; the bankers holding theirs also
in the great LaSalle. which is big
enough and has assembly halls enough
for them and for the Realities. but
from this, as we'll as all the big hotels
In this vicinity, hundreds are daily
turned away because Taft is also
here, and this country has come here
to greet him.
At the RexaH convention We mix
pleasure with business, but I have
reversed the proposition, for business
comes first and pleasure afterward
My only regret is that you are lot
with US. The Rexall membership has
increased to nearly three thousand,
and from the fifteen hundred who are
here, the brightest and most success
full are selected TO give talks on the
various details Of business, and to tell
the others along what lines they have
succeeded. and where they have
failed. These talks are full Of valu-
able suggestions, which can never be
impaired second hand with the force,
the intensity and the enthusiasm
which marks their delivery. It makes
one feel like old soldiers must feel
when the older warriors tell the
younger Of their deeds Of vaiCT, of
their fights and failures, Of where the
strong helped the weak, and how they
stretched out their hands with open
purse to help pull the struggling
brother through the period of di5as-
ter, for Rexau is a great brotherhood.
and cooperation and loyalty to eash
other are the slogans Of the associa-
ton.
We have one member from far away
Alaska and several from Florida.
Then they come thickly all the way
from Maine to Mexico. and every state
in the union has its representatives
here. 1t seems to me that I have
seen a hundred badges which read
''Rexall, Iowa and Prosperity"
Today we drew for the automobile
l made a fight for DR.. Blocker, William
and I, for all to draw, but they al
lowed only one vote for each ReXall
store. It was won by a Mr.. Bradley,
IRON luUlEud-
A Grand Banquet.
Tonight we have a grand banquet.
We have all seen the president and
hope to have him with US, but he is
the guest Of the Hamilton Club, the
Osceola Of Chicago, and they have
Quartered him at the Congress hotel.
so we are not sure that he will be at
our banquet.
Dr.. Blocker's Trip
DR.. Blocker had a most delig htful
trip from New York I'D through the
mountains TO Albany, and to Niagara
Falls, then along Lake Erie to Cfeve-
land. thence to Springfield and Day
ton and to Cincinnati and here
His trip is taken not alone for
pleasure, but as a close observer OF
roads and road making Of macadam
and stone paving, Of concrete and
asphalt. Of wood blocks and hardened
clay, he viii bring back with him the
experience Of actual travel Of some
thousands Of miles over all these