Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-02-09
FEBRUARY 1919 AND 20 DATES
OF THE WINTER CARNIVAL
I'M THE DEEP WATER
CITY
THREE DAYS THIS YEAR
The Pensacola Mardi Gras Will Sur
pass Similar Events IN
Every Way

from a pleasure viewpoint with rem
sacola's winter carniyals, Mardi Gras-
This yeaE the Mardi Gras dates are
February 1919 and 20. and from in
Sications the event this year will
easily surpass former similar events
in every way The Pensacola Carnl-
val Association under the able super
vision of dozen or more prominent
citizens Of Pensacola, has perfected
plans fer ahe holding of a Mardi
tSras during the month of February
that will make the great carniyals
that have been held here yearly for
years. fade into iasignificance. All
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, in fact,
the entire SoUtA. as well as every
section Of the North American con
tinent, rs Interested vitality when
il is taken into consideration the fact
that The celebration at Pensacola is
entirely unlike anything that can be
seen elsewhere.
On the above dates a hustling,
growing municipality in which mil
lions of dollars worth OF business is
transacted monthly is thrown over to
a pfeasure-seekiHg public. Overnight
one of the most important cities in
the South is transformed into Yeri-
table playground, u place where fun
making can be carried TO the ex-
tremes without the slightest mOlesta-
ton Mayor Reilly, several weeks
ahead of the carnival dates. issues a
F.. AH,nA AI,d
gates of the city are ope ned to visit
ors and that every one is invited t.
partake OF the clean amusement that
is afforded through the efforts of the
Pensacola Carnival Association
Altogether 1T is an impressive
cannoe be painted in words. No one
can conceive of it's grandeur with
cut personally taking part in the cele
bratiUn. The celebration is an es
1ablished one, ONE that viii be carried
on every year as long as the world
rolls on. Each year witnesses the
influx of thousands of people from ev-
cry section of the country, from every
cline, attracted here not SO much by
the generous use of attractive adver
easements, but by walking, talking ad
yertisements. One who has ever seen
a Mardi Gras held in Pensacola new
forgets that he OF she had the
time of his or her fife ON that partic
nIar occasion, and to all of his or her
friends the celebration is recommend
ed highly. Coming at time when it
does, at time when every man.
woman and child who resides in the
colder cIimes, is DESTROYS of escaping
the wrsth OF King Winter, many hun
Greds take advantage of the Oppor-
tunity to experience the pleasing
weather felt here at that time, and
at the same time see an event that
is seen in only three cities in the en-
tire country. But by reason of the
fact that PeHsacoIa's celebrations
have always been up-to-the minute in
every detail. never lacking in any
f91ing that viii add to the pleasure
. and comfort of the visitors and peo-
pie of the city, the celebration is
Ionked upon as the very best of them
Hi uGEO Is no uOuDL 1DOuL II.
xacola's Mardi Gras carries with it a
style of originality that cannot be
duplicated by the two other cities on
the gulf coast that hold similar cele-
hrations almost simultaneously.
Three days OF fun-making repre-
sents a whole years labor by many
enthusiastic PensacoIans, ever on the
alert as to some plan to make each
succeeding event sink into insgnifi-
rance the preceding one. In this they
have always been successful, and
this years celebration will be no va
ration from this established rule. IN
this manner visitors are always guar
snteed the best possible. There is
TO repetition of features in proceed
irg csrnivals and as a result Pensa-
rnla has always secured more than
her share OF the carnival visitors.
instead Of having only two days of
Bardi Gras. rs heretofore. the Pen
FaroIa Carnival Association has ex-
tended the Tint one dav. and there
VIII he three DAYS clean enjoyment
this tire The first dav Sunday. is
given over wosrrv as the time for
visitors 10 talyP IN RE city so that
s~r7e porscrpr tn"wIedge or the many
historic scenes that present them
Selves in his 'he oldest city on the
Sur~rfcar ccnt'nont nav be had
E--ch mas been written and
r~iI OF the fsrrnUs old land
waris of the Deep Water City.
rhe forts near me entrance TO the
Tar1'or. over which the flags Of five
rntfcrs have flown 70 fFe soft gulf
breeze. st the entrance to the har-
pr cue catches Il glimpse OF FIVE for
tiTcst'Ons. three of the most modern
fvDe ard two that saw their DAYS
~ the Iatter mart Of the seventeenth
century and during the early part of
the eighteenth century. Fort San Car
los, the most famous of them all is
worth travelling a thousand miles
alone to see. 1t is perhaps the old
est fora On the American continent.
and an inspection trip through same
win give one very pleasing impress
HtoH OF the difference in the modern
Qualifications and those of the day in
which this one was built. II was
tUilt when the Spaniards occupied
siiis city. and ID contains many mystic
Tlnus pasSaRaWaya uudqrgrOund emma