The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-10-27
Volume of Noise

| Atlnata factories, on the locomotives
every bell in the city, every automo
bile horn and siren in the line, Joined
in making one of the greatest bed
lams of noise one could imagine posi-
ble
This served as a warning to the
people On the streets that the tour
lists were coming, and from Tenth
street to the center of the city a solid
line of people, almost as great q
crowd as that which witnessed the pa
rade before the Peace Monument un
yelling, greeted each tourist car with
cheers
Wall of Human Beings
At the junction of the two Peach
trees a space just wide enough for q
car to pass only was left by the push
ing crowd, and all through the city
those in the machines could have
touched the wall of human beings on
either side.
After parading down Forsyth street
to Whitehall, and thence back tc
Peachtree, the tourists checked in al
the city hall, from whence they dis
persed to various hotels, eager for
the comforts of metropolis.
Saturday night an informal dinner
was served in honor of the visitors at
the Piedmont Driving Club, and on
Monday afternoon a barbecue will be
given at the Cold Springs cue
grounds. On Monday night the entire
number of tourists will be the guests
of Manager Hugh Cardoza at the For.
syth and Lyric theaters, and on Tues
day morning at s o'clock, the run to
Jacksonville.
The banquet given at the Driving
Park Saturday night to the Glidden
tourists was one of the most magnifi-
cent affairs in the history of Atlanta.
Over three hundred guests were seat
ed at the tables, and an elegant ban
quet was served.
The mayor of Atlanta made the ad-
dress of welcome on behalf of the
city, Governor Smith on behalf of the
state, and Mr.. Charles Glidden and
others on behalf of the A. A. Associa-
ton
Atlanta has done herself proud and
every tourist is loud in praise of the
treatment received in Atlanta
Notes
We met Mr.. and Mrs. Ed L. Wart-
mann of Citra, Mrs. w. S. Pike, Mr..
Ben Todd, Mr.. Paul Gates and Master
Earl Hall of Ocala, Mr. and Mrs. Eu-
gene Cox of Atlanta, and on going to
our rooms at the Aragon, found two
boxes of the most elegant cut roses,
the gift of Mr.. and Mrs. Wartmann
and Mr.. and Mrs. Cox, and they are
showing us many courtesies
Mr.. Hall met Mrs. Hall here, who is
on her way, by easy stages to Jack
sonville, and will reach there by rail
the day We are due home
Atlanta is truly the New York of
the south and is apparently more
alive than Philadelphia 1t does ev-
erything in style that wins applause.
Mr. Hall left us yesterday for Sum-
ter, S. c., where he was called to at
tend the funeral of Mrs T. c. Hall,
which occurs there today. He expects
to meet us in Macon tomorrow.
We went to the auditorium yester-
day afternoon to hear an organ re-
cital, and met Mrs. Lillias Alfred Pal
mer and her handsome little son
while we were waiting to be seated.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Wartmann and
Mrs. w. S. Pike, after a most pleas
ant visit here of two weeks, left last
night for their homes
Mr.. Charles J. Glidden, the donor of
the Glidden trophy, is a retired Bos-
tonian. He claims to be ffty-four
years of age, but would easily pass
for forty. He spent eighteen years in
Texas and Arkansas installing the
Bell telephone system, and on this
tour those on the line of the Bell sys-
tenn have had free access to it's SER
vice. Mr. Glidden has no monetary
interest in any automobile company.
but is merely an automobile and good
roads enthusiast. Now that he has
retired from business he is giving a
good deal of his time to the study of
astronomy and he says that he has
passed the Blue Ridge mountains, out
from Roanoke, they presented the
prettiest panorama he had ever be-
held in any land. and he has made
circuit of the globe. The clouds
resting upon and above the noun
tains as far as the eye could reach
were frozen; beneath were moving
clouds, making the contrast very
beautiful The rave Of +bo oo.1x.