The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-11-16
RAILROAD MEN
VISIT
TO PENSACOLA
Afternoon and Evening Is
Made Pleasant for the
Visiting Ticket Agents
BANQUET, FEATURED
THE DAYS PROGRAM
Visitors Expressed Their
Pleasure Over Entertain
ment Provided Them

That their visit to Pensacola and
the entertainment provided in their
honor will be among the pleasant re-
Membranes of their trip through the
south was the unanimous verdict of
each of the $50 or more visiting rail-
road ticket agents and their wives be-
fore they departed at late hour for
New Orleans, where the annual con-
vention of the association is to be
held.
The palatial special train, bearing
the party, arrived in the city yester-
lay afternoon about o'clock and the
s.sitors were given royal welcome to
Pensacola by members of the Cham
Der of Commerce, railroad officials
and citizens. The party left at once
On a steamer for the United States
walton station, where they saw what
S being done by the government in
nstructing navy flyers. Owing to
he high puffy wind and cold weather
10 flights We're made. Fort Pickens
md Fort Barrancas were visited.
sfter which the party returned to the
city on trolley cars.
BANQUET FEATURES DAY.
The days program for the enter
s:ainment of the visitors was the ban
suet at the San Carlos last night. 1t
vas well attended, all of the visitors
,eing present and many prominent
,itizens attending. Short addresses
we're made by many, each of the local
citizens responding to a toast OF
speaking informal In welcome to those
from the north and east who were on
their first visit to Pensacola.
DR.. Frank G. Renshaw made an
deal POSTMASTER and in short adj
lress Of welcome said:
"Mr. President and gentlemen of
he International Ticket Agents As
ISOLATION, your silent partners and
their guests, the charming and grace
full ladies':
"We welcome you to our city by the
sea with sincere pleasure, and more
highly Is your coming appreciated.
hat, with the acceptance of our invi.
,ation, you stopped even for little
While, en- route to New Orleans, the
Paris of America.
"The duties of a ticket agent are
arduous and numerous indeed. Patti
7nce and promptness are important
factors, as well as an inexhaustible
eund of information, to put the be-
'ated traveller right as to his route.
You are a clever and artistic set of
ounchers-while you are not pugilists
or prize fighters, you punch for
money-neither are you sly, for Won
AXE a punch with care, even in the
presence of the passengers.
"We trust that, you have enjoyed
YOUR spin upon the magnificent PEN
sacola bay, with it's beautiful scenery,
and its ideal atmosphere ladened with
chlorinated vapors so invigorating
and stimulating after partaking of
Mr.. Mann's liquid refreshments. We
.egret that your time was so limited
hat we could not take you I'D the
,ayous and lagoons and give you the
thrill of an inspiring scenery that is
rot superior, but equal, TO any that
vou have seen on the Hudson or the
Great Lakes. Our Pensacola hay,
he greatest harbor south of Hatteras
md equal to any other about the I'm
tied States, with war thirty-two
feet in depth over which the heaviest
draught vessels rides, area that ex-
tends to the Blackwater and Escam-
bia rivers to the east, and the Per-
dido River and railroad tracks to
The north, and the beautiful Santa
Rosa island to the south, which would
easily accommodate the navies of the
world, now, in safety, provided they
remove the guns.
"Harken to signs of the times-not
the oninous owl that perches at the
market place, the harbinger of woe-
but listen to the shrieks of the loco
motives vending their ways north
ward to connect with the great trunk
lines of the North, and along with
those that we have with us, marks
destiny of unequalled prosperity.
you gentlemen from the northern
boundaries of the Great Lakes, and
within the confines of the Atlantic
and Pacific and the gulf, may yet be
called upon to supply us with good
ticket agents, to assist those that we