The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-10-09
A CAMP PAIGN OF
WIDE PUBLICITY
FOR THIS CITY
Extensive Advertising Cam
paign Will Result From
Meeting Which Was
Held at the City Building
Yesterday.

Resolved, That an advertising cam
paign, having for it's object the at
traction of tourists to Pensacola,
should be carried on, and this meeting
requests the Chamber of Commerce to
put on such campaign"
The above resolution introduced at
a meeting of a few citizens at the city
hall yesterday afternoon by ManliuS
z. Morey, was passed without opposl-
ton. There were few on hand at
o'clock to take part in a discussion Of
the best manner, and the working out
of the best means, of getting big
travel to Pensacola the coming and
following seasons.
The resolution passed, the meeting
adjourned, but not until most of those
present had engaged in a general dis
cussion of the best way to reach the
tourist. Many plans were suggested,
some of them feasible, some Of Them
as the chairman intimateG, just the
opposite. 1t was agreed by all, how
ever, that the best way to reach tour
lists was by Intelligent and necessarily
wel1-placed and well-written adver
tising. Newspaper, magazine and fol-
der advertising were all suggested and
the relative merits of each Of these
uneS dlSCuSSeO. II Is now
ever. that the folder will be made
use Of and that, if funds are to be
available, literature exploiting the at-
fractions of Pensacola and immediate
environment, will be distributed broad
cast throughout the north and middle
west.
The meeting was called by Presi- |
dent Dobson, of the Pensacola Cham
Der of Commerce, who presided. Less |
than a score were present, but practi- |
cally all who were on hand had some |
thing to say during the meeting.
The first speaker was Jack RoO- |
erts, of the Louisville & Nashville rail- |
road company. who undertook to ex- |
plain that this was no time to i'd |
vocate increased service over the rail- |
road here, and that the present was the |
most inopportune time for talking |
about any increase in the passenger |
service Of the railroad company by |
which he is employed. 'I am speaking |
as a citizen now, and not as represent
ing the passenger department of the |
L. & N. railroad company. Here is the |
passenger agent" he said, indicating I
the official who sat near. Holding a
clipping from The Journal at arms |
length. he went on to say that 'if the |
here would try and help
what they now have instead of in
dulging in a knock almost all the time,
better results would come from such
q stand. When you knock what you
have, it simply hurts that thing, and
It would be better to leave it alone.
It is not fair to the city nor the Louis
vile & Nashville railroad company
When tourists come here for a day or
TWO, and they are of any importance,
The L. & n. is always ready, and ioes,
give them a ride about the city or On
the bay. 1 say 1t is not fair that any
such knock as was printed this morn
ng, should be INDUCED in" he con-
GUIDED
Mr.. Dobson took occasion to say that
he editorial in all it's differences was
lot endorsed by himself either, but
said that the meeting was not for the
purpose of engaging in or bringing out.
my acrimonious discussion, and GER
ainly not for discussion of any edi-
orial, but was strictly for the purpose
IF arriving at some feasible plan for
he bringing Of tourists to Pensacola.
DIR. Borst followed next, and said
hat it appeared to him that the city
If Pensacola was simply not living up
o it's opportunities. He said that in
he past there had been practically
10 attention paid to tourists, and that.
rom his short residence here, he mad
come to wonder if the indifference paid
ourists was current practice, or sim
,ly that the city had gone to sleep on
Ter opportunities. What the tourist
lesired most Of all, he said, was abso-
ute cooperation and the tourist busi-
less would come around all right He
old, from personal knowledge, of his
'isit to the settlement at Fairhope,
ia, and how the people there gave
heir attention to the tourist problem |
nd showed how the population of
'airhope had increased five times in |
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