Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-04
FESTIVAL QUEEN
GETS PULLMAN
Deluxe Coupe Selected as
Prize For Prettiest and Most
Popular Girl at Carnival

Atlanta has just celebrated her
greatest gala week, the Harvest Fes-
tival. in which the entire Southeast
took an active part, drawing thousands
of visitors from all over the country.
A week of nightly carnivals culmi-
mated with the election of Miss Regina
Rambo, of Marietta, noted beauty
and a member of a distinguished
family, as queen of the festival.
a Pullman De Luxe Coupe, the lux
urious car for women, built by the
Pullman Motor Car Company, York,
Pa, was selected by the festival com
mittee, appointed by the State of
Georgia for the purpose as fitting
gift for the prettiest and most popular
girl in a State noted for its beauties.
Having in mind the idea that the
Georgia Harvest Festival must be an
occasion of such brilliance and maSnt-
tude as to attract and befittingly en-
tertain visitors from the entire south
eastern territory, the committee from
the Georgia Harvest Festival Associa-
ton were at some pains month ago
to select suitable prize for the queen
of the carnival.
Many beautiful and valuable things
dear to a womans heart were in
spected by the committee, and the Sc
lection finally narrowed itself to auto
mobiles. The committee then came
to the decision that the queens prize
should be the prettiest coupe to be
found on the market. Atlanta is the
southeastern distributing center for
practically every automobile on the
market and all of the big companies
have showrooms in Atlanta. The COM
IN
with a field from which to select.
When the committee first looked
| upon the new Pullman coupe in the
| Atlanta showrooms, their minds were
/ we'll nigh made up on the spot, but
| they. nevertheless, visited the rest OF
the showrooms, but finally came back
| for one last look at the Pullman. A
vote was taken and the manager of
| the local office was informed the COM
mittee had selected the Pullman coupe
upon the honest conviction that 1t was
! the prettiest and most serviceable
coupe they had been able to find for
| the money.
When this selection was made it
precipitated the most heated contest
! for an honor that Georgia has ever
seen. Two score of the prettiest and
most aristocratic young women in the
State entered the race for queen of
| the carnival. Each fair contestant was
/
the balloting being by votes bought
and paid for by each young lady's
| friends. Not a few of the young Ia
! dies campaigned from theater stages
between the acts of plays. In one
/ Georgia city where there were three
contestants. each of the young ladies
| made public statements that when 1t
| became apparent that any one of them
was leading in the city the rest would
| withdraw in order that the city itself
might have the best chance to become
| the home of the queen. One of these
young ladies actually solicited votes
from the aisles of a theater.
Thus it may be seen that the Pull
man coupe was not won for a song.
More than 100000 votes were cast.
Miss Regina Rambo, the winner or
! the Pullman coupe and the queen of
the festival. is one of the prettiest
women of the Southeast, and for sew
/ eral seasons past has been extremely
popular in society centers of the en-
| tire South. She is. withal, an expert
motorist, having driven her own car
| to record on a number of very
difficult tours in the South.
By far the most brilliant event of
! Harvest Festival Week was the pre-
sentation of the Pullman coupe to the
queen upon Monday night of the fes-
tival week. AT the Atlanta auditor
| ium, in the presence of 1000 people,
Miss Rambo was crowned queen of
the festival with elaborate and beauti-
| full ceremonies. When she had been
! escorted to her throne, twelve leading
citizens of the State entered the vast
floor drawing the beautiful Pullman
coupe by ribbons. The coupe, glisten-
ing like a jewel, was paraded before
the society boxes for inspection and
then was drawn up before the queen S
throne for presentation to Her Maj
esty, the Queen.
1t was the first sight the Queen had
had of the car, and the great audience
heartily applauded her as she was ap-
parently swept away by the beauty
and elegance of the reward for her
popularity and the great race she had
made.
The Queen and King stepped into
| the coupe, q Pullman expert gave her
Majesty few hurried pointers about
! handling the car and in a moment
she drove around the big arena as
deftly as if she had had the car for
years.
Il am overwhelmed by this gift
| she told the presentation committee.
| Il always wanted q beautiful coupe
! and l always have wanted the best.
| know l have 1t now"
And the thousands in the audience
| evidently agreed with her, for sne
| drew another great round of applause.
Miss Rambo, in her official capacity
| as Queen, rode in all the parades dur
| ing the week, and she always rode
in and drove-herself-h prize Pull
man coupe.