The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-04-15
VETS TO Be
SPLfND|DLY
ENTERTAINED
JACKSONVILLE WILL DO HER
SELF PROUD NEXT MONTH
Between $4,000 and 100000 Will
Throng the City at the
Reunion


Confederate reunion will bring to
Jacksonville crowd of good people
numbering from $4,000. as the mini
mum, to 100000 as the maximum.
The immediate benefits from enter
| tanning this number of people for
three or four days will be secured
from the money they spend while
here. If the mean between $4,000
and 10000 is taken for the basis of
calculation, Jacksonville will enter
tain 100000 visitors not less than
three days. and many of them will
stay several weeks
The average expenditure of a re-
union crowd is about five dollars a
day On that basis 100000 people
will spend in Jacksonville during
reunion week not less than fifteen
dollars each, which results in ST.
100000 being left by the reunion
attendance. The immediate profits
on that amount of business can not
be less than $500 900, and it will
most likely be more This money
goes into all lines of trade and traf-
fc.
Gen Bennett IF. Young. COM
manMer-in-chicf of the United Con-
federate Veterans Association, ad
dressing the Board of Trade last
December, said that Jacksonville's
business men and its, financial in
stitutiOns would be witnesses to the
thrift and generosity of the> people
who attend Confederate reunions
He meant that more money would
be put into circulation in Jackson
vile than was ever put here by any
other convention That has been
the experience of all other reunion
cities. No reunion city ever found
a Confederate meeting profitless
investment
BYt this reunion is not Jack.
sonvil.c enterprise and benefit alone
The entire State of Florida Is con-
cerned How will the reunion bene-
fit the State? is question often
heard by FlOridians who do not live
in Jacksonville. 1T will benefit Flor
ida in many ways, as a purely bust
ness proposition All reunion rail-
road tickets have an extension
clause giving time limit of one
month for the reunion trip. This
extension can be secured by filing
the ticket h re in Jacksonville with
an authorized agent and paying
fee OF fifty cents. Several thousand
letters have been received from peo-
pie who are coming to the reunion
giving it as their purpose to see all
parts of the State of Florida while
on the trip. That is to say, they
will pay the extension fee and buy
excursion tickets from Jacksonville
to all parts of the State.
This element of the crowd has two
purposes in view-that of seeing the
many wonders of Florida and look
ing out for a home in the State.
They will go into every section of
Florida, spend money with local
merchants and hotels, and then re-
turn home as advertisers of the
State. Confederate territory has
population of forty-odd millions, or
nearly half the population Of the
United States. To have these visit
ors go back home and tell of the
wonders of Florida will be worth
millions of dollars to the State In
the years to come. All of this will
give an impetus to business and
growth throughout the State. In
that way, every section of Florida
will enjoy a business benefit.
While people who have lived here
all tnelr lives, and those who have
been citizens of the state for a num-
wonders of Florida and the possi-
'ber of years, know much about the
bilities in various lines of business,
the fact is that the great mass OF
the people in Confederate territory
know but little of these things. The
reunion gives all of Florida a chance
and opportunity to be better and
more intimately known by people
who will come here, invest their
money and make good citizens.
The traveller of today in Florida
looks out of a car window on fields
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