The Sentinel=record., 1911-09-30

 know anything of the hidden treas ures in the southern states, and it is an effort to make these things known that l am maRing this south ern tour with Colonel Collier" The speakers were given nice trip about the city by the entermtain- inent committee of the Chamber of Commerce, including a visit to tae city of Juarez. Mexico.
 The second stop in the southern tour was made in San Antono. Here Colonel Collier and Mir. Dave were given luncheon at the St. Anthony hotel by the combined civic organizations of the city, and here, too, the speakers were given a trip about the interesting places of the city.
 Speaking at this luncheon, Colonel Collier said: Tt is only a question of few years before the tourists from the north and east en route to the Pacific coast will go yia Houston and San Antonio, travelling the entire way in eternal sunshine instead of through blizzards and snow, as they necessarily have had to do heretofore for many months of the year. No section of the country has more inducements to of fer the tourists than the south II is the land of romance and of song. What tourist would not be interested 10 stand and gaze upon the splendid sky scrapers in the thriving city of Atlanta Ga, where, less Nhan 5o with blood; and he would also ling CT to study the hustling city of New Orleans which city has been the seat of government under three flags; and there would be nothing that could induce him to leave your own beau tiful city until he had lifted his hat before the Alamo, where David Crockett taught man how to die for their country.
 "Journeying on westward, this same tourist could feel the sensa ton of placing his feet on the soil of an adjoining republic, and cotia there view the battle scared build ipgs in the city Of Juarez. At Tue son. Arizona, the traveller could visit the old San Xavier Mission, one of the oldest and best preserved in the country. In this southern tour which Mir. Dave and myself are making. we are asking for the aid and CO., operation of commercial and bust- ness organizations and railroads, in order that some ways and means may be devised at the Memphis All south Conference. to give the south her share of the touris ttravel.-
 Seeing is believing,' declared Mr. Dave at the luncheon, and if by united effort and concerted. ac- ton we are able to make diver sion of the tourist travel of our country from northern to southern states, 1t must be plain to every one that we will have accomplished great thing for the south by req son of the fact that we will have brought it's marvellous resources De- fore the very eyes of the interested tourists of our country
 In Houston 4ae Chamber of Com merce, at special luncheon. en- tertained Messrs. Collier and Dave The enthusiasm grew intense at this luncheon as Colonel Collier explain ed the important relation which southern tourist travel would have to the success of the Panama-CaIi- fornia exposition, to be held in San Diego in 1915; and as Mir. Dave ex- planed, the close relation Of an in- creased tourist travel to a better national understanding of the south and it's rapid development. Both gentlemen emphasized the import ance of the All-South Conference to be held in Memphis. october g. at which time it is expected that there will be announced an invitation to the nation to visit the south, and thus bring about partial diversion of tourist travel to he Pacific coast.
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