Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-12
ROAD TOURISTS
GIVEN BANQUET
Contestants in State Reliability
Run Dined at Piedmont Driving
Club-Ringing Resolutions are
Passed.

A brilliant gathering was that which
assembled at a banquet at the Piedmont
Driving club, Wednesday evening, to lift
in further exaltation the cause OF good
roads in Georgia
From all quarters of the state had come
the pilgrims who made up this numerous
assemblage. They had brought their
standards with them over many 100 aggre-
gate miles of road and through many
counties. Thousands of Georgia's citi-
zenry had cheered their passing Atlanta
ward. Thousands of Atlantians had well
coined them here Tuesday. and had paid
them tribute in the grand pageant of
their company through the city's streets
Wednesday morning.
CITY'S HONORED GUESTS.
Honored guests Of the city of Atlanta,
they were. Campaigners in a noble
cause. they were invited 10 sit at feast
with their hosts for the nonce and across
the laden tables to counsel one with
another for the advancement of their
work
Valiant I'm deed, harmonious in thought.
all good fellows personally, nothing but
the most eminent success could crown
their concIave. The campaigners dis
persed with spirits knit into one single
and unwearing pledge for the continued
OF nome highways
BEAUTY, COLOR AND UERFUME.
Every detail of the magnificent occasion
was fawless. The menu was OF the
fastest and most tempting dishes. Colors
famed overhead and around. The tables
were almost hidden beneath masses OF
flowers, and the air was perfumed with
roses. Palms and ferns from the private
greenhouses Of J. H. Nunnally, president
Of the Piedmont Driving club, who was
I'm direct charge of the banquet, were
banked high behind the speakers, table.
Several hundred guests were seated
with their hosts. Five hundred covers
had been laid. At 8 o'clock the assemblage
took its place at the tables. Long before
that hour they had been arriving contin-
ually. and by o'clock the parking space
that had been reserved for their motor
cars within the club house enclosure was
filled with machines from all parts Of
Georgia
IMPORTANTLY REIGNs.
InfOrmality was the order OF the pro-
gram. Informal dress was worn-by the
guests, because many Of them had OBJ
viously not packed full wardrobes in the
limited space OF their car tonneau; and
by the hosts. out of difference to the
guests. It was a happy evening. The
speeches were Informal The same spir-
that the banqueters assumed their places
till the POSTMASTER, Mayor Robert +.
Maddox, arose and was heard.
Mayor Maddox, one of the best OF the
city's many after-dinner speakers, chris
tened the gathering with a witty and
brief introduction, and then proceeded
10 present in turn the several speakers.
None of the latter exceeded five minutes
on the floor. Each of them condensed
within remarkably few words his strong
pledge for the furtherance of the great
movement there consecrated.
GOVERNOR BROWN SPEAKS.
Gov. Joseph NJ. Brown was first intro
duced. His presentation was the signal
for a salvO OF applause. He was followed
by Asa @. Gambler. president Of the, At
lanta Chamber of Commerce.; Col F. ].
Paxon, chairman of the entertainment
COMMITTEES; Vice Chairman J. II. Nun
nally, Of this same committee; Gen. II.
Clay Evans, OF Chattanooga; Hon. w.
Jordan Massee, of Macon; Hon. Henry
A. Tarver, mayor OF Albany; Hon. ]. @.
Knapp, mayor OF Fitzgerald; Hon. George
W. Tiedeman. mayor Of Savannah; Hon.
Frank c. Battey, president OF the Savan-
nah Automobile club; Hon. w. H. Os-
borne, OF Savannah; Hon. r. ]. Quinn,
director OF the Atlanta Automobile asso-
citation: Hon. II. NJ. Fullilove, OF Athens;
Hon. John NJ. Slaton, president Of the
Georgia state senate; Solicitor General Jo-
seph Pottle. Of Milledgeville. and Albert
Howell, Jr.; Hon. J. L. sibley, of Mil
ledgevllle. and Judge w. F. Eve, of Au-
gusta-
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
Resolutions commencing the Atlanta
Constitution for its yeoman service In the
cause OF good roads were introduced by
II. II. Cabaniss and adopted by a rising
vote Following Is their text:
Whereas, The Good Roads Endurance
Contest. as inaugurated by the Atlanta
Constitution. ended in such a blaze Of
glory. bringing as 1t did to our city those
interested in good roads; and
Whereas, II is, we believe, but the be-
ginning OF a movement to closer unite