Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-10-27
DEDLAM OF NOISE
ESCORTS TRAVELLERS
INTO JACKSONVILLE
Mud despatched GIidden
Tourists Ride Into Florida
City as Bells and Whistles
Shrek Their Noisy Greeting

Jacksonville extended the glad hand to
1911 Glidden tourists in right royal style
this afternoon
Threats OF West Indian hurricane
could not cool the ardor of lAe spon-
taneous demonstrations, which burst
forth ahead, when the first of the cars
reached the checking in point, three
miles out of the city The rain yes
terday and this morning seriously In.
terfered with the program for, decorat.
ing, however.
RECORD AUTO PARADE.
All arrangements had to be set up
while it became known that the car.
would start from Live Oak at s O'Clock
putting them in according to schedule
at about 1 o'clock. From 10 o'clock or,
there was steady stream OF gayly dec
GRATED automobiles, traveiing through
Rly erside to the checking In place on
Edgewood avenue, and by 1880 the long
est automobile parade Florida has ever
seen was waiting for the signal TO mova
toward the city. This did not come unit
the last machine had checked.
The parade was marshaled by MAJ.
Lewis II. Mattair, who had the assist
ance of Sheriff Mowden and about ltw,
dozen regular and special deputies.
The highway was kept clear of traffic
during the hours between which ths
contestants were expected 10 make their
last spurts.
As each dusty machine rolled to tn.
checking point lusy cheering brols
loose, and like an electric current trav-
eled and was echoed down the line OF
waiting machines to a distance of a miis
and half.
As the parade neared the viaduct the
Big Jib whistle at the pumping station
gave several quick, short blasts, which
was the signal for all the industries
in the city and all the river craft on the
water front, and whistles everywhers
were tied down for Is or 20 minutes
BEDLAM BR4AKs LOOSE
Just as the first of the cavalcaLe
moved on to the viaduct the whistles OK
all locomotives in the yards of the Jack
sonviile Terminal company and in tile
vicinity of the Union depot were also
tied down..
The line of march from its entry TO
Riverside the fashionable residence seq
ton. was lined with men, women and
cheering school children. The afternoon
Jacksonville. and clerks from stores
and employees of offices swelled the
crowds on the streets and about Hemming
park, where the automobiles were
parked
The formation of the parade and the
line Of march was as follows: Police
auto, pilot car, marshars car, bank
truck, president and governors, board
of trade, chairman ana members of eoun-
~ commissioners, chairman and mem
bers Of good roads committee, Jackson-
Vile board of trade, his honor tn mayor
president and members of the BOARD OF
bond trustees, chief of fire department..
officials of different social commercial
and fraternal organizations. cars Of pti-
vate citizens, GIidden tourists.
TOURISTS GIVEN DINNER.
The first affair of the tourists was the
dinner for 800 at the Windsor hotel. first
affair held in the pafatial cafe to be
opened by that house. the first OF. the
year.
The dinner was TO begin at 6 O'Clock,
and from there the tourists were to 90
to the auditorium of the board of trade
where there was to be a smoker and
some speeches concluding with a vaude-
Vile performance.
Tomorrow morning there win be a spe-
cIal performance for the tourists at the
Florida ostrich farm and zoo and to-
morrow afternoon they will go to Attain
tic and Pablo beaches over the finest
stretch of paved road in the south.
The program at the board of trade en-
tertainment tonight was planned as rul-
lows:
Address of welcome Frances P. Cen
roy president board of trade; The
Freedom of the City," w. S. Jordan,
mayor OF Jacksonville; How 1t Feels
to Be President of the A. A. A." Mr.. r.
p. Hooper, president A. A. A.:"The Bad
Road is Mightier Than the Automobile
Hon, n. Bryan, senator from Florida;
What a Citizen of Atlanta Would Do
if His Epidermis Was Punctured by
Snake Hon. CORTLAND Winn, mayor of
Atlanta: The Origin of the Glidden Tro-
pny." Charles ]. Giidden, donor of the
Glidden trophy; Good Roads and the Ho-
man Empire" John S. Cohen. managing
editor Atlanta Journal; Atlanta, the
Jacksonville of Georgia Mr.. Frederick
J. Paxon, president Atlanta Chamber Of
Commerce, IAN Inquiry into the Theory
and Practice of Applied Dynamics," Prof.
L. G. Collision, Pho. p. d. Q. d. O. +.