The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-05-16
SOCIAL WRITER ON
Entertainments
VISITING BA MIXERS
PENSACOLA HOSPITALITY
MAKES GOOD IMPRESSION
UPON A LATE VISITING NEWS
PAPERWoMAN FROM BIRM-
NGHAM.

over the United states as not only one
Of the most beautiful cities in the
south, but one of the most hospitable
as well, and on the occasion of the
convention Of the Alabama Bankers
Association, which met in Pensacola,
the city had the privilege Of entertain
ing in most delightful way those
who were guests, not only from Ala
bama but from other southern cities.
and from New York, and Eastern
points.
Ruth E. Gauden, society editor of
the Birmingham Age-Herald, writes
very entertainingly of the hospitality
of Pensacola, during the Bankers
convention as follows:
Peggy, love-You can't know what
good times are way off there in Port
land. And didn't know till I went to
Pensacola with the bankers. But with
Pensacola as host, I felt that the world
was mine and that it wasn't a world
at all, but a cloud of unreality that
circled beautifully around me. 1t all
started on the way down when trav-
eled with one of the incest of them all
and he, generous soul, introduced me
Ito half dozen others who were sur
rounded by natural glamour because
they were from New York, and other
such far-off places whose very dis
tanees make them enchanting. How
lever, afterward l found that they were
quite human after all and that New
York is quite as nice a place to come
from as Birmingham.
was enthralled from the instant |
saw the bay till it faded away in the
darkness Sunday night when we went
to the train, and during all of the time
from Thursday till Sunday, there
was not one moment when I wished
myself anywhere else. And now
am dreaming and wishing myself
back again, just for a while.
Almost the first person saw Thurs
day morning after had breakfast
with an Atlanta man, Chicago man
, and another from Nashville, 10 Evins,
all frocked out in a sport suit of
stripes and green jersey and looking
exceedingly alluring in a sport hat.
Then Beth Wyman appeared on the
scene, just as charmingly attired for
the morning, and l found that they,
with Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Hopkins
and Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Wells all of
whom you remember meeting during
your happy Birmingham visit, were
already established in the hotel.
The San Carlos was convention
headquarters, and you can imagine the
attractive aspect it took on with sew
eral hundred perfectly good men
: strolling about the lobby.
Mr.. and Mrs. McLane Tilton, Jr., of
Pe1 City were official chaperons for
me, and later for the other girls, and
, they were prefectly wonderful to US
!, Then I know we could not have been
happy at all if it had not been for
/. Mr.. Hervey, who just naturally ap-
pointed himself host and saw that
everyone was delightfully."- entertained
l every minute of the day and night
+ Sunday he arranged the most beaute-
GUS picnic at Fort Barrancas for u
: with just the right people invited and
[ we motored out for bath in the bay
and roll in the sand before lun h.
I Everyone was starving, and we did
=. not have a bit of trouble in dispos-
l ing of the tempting luncheon he had
brought from the hotel. Beside me
! there was Mrs. Tilton and Mrs. Beach.
ing, a very lovely little Pensacola CIR
: Nellie Tyler, Sara Keith and Augusts
? Cobbs Of Admission, all of whom l an
sure you remember. That was one
! time that we could wear sport clothe!
D to our hearts content and / am sure
you never saw the like of stripes il
clothes and stockings.
l remember Sunday with such ;
c happy thrill that I just naturally
n skipped over the other days in m!
hurry, but that doesn't mean tina
Z nothing happened. There was tht
: banquet Thursday night when every
4 one, wondrously and marvelously at
tired, gathered in the dining room
{ about tables that were loaded Will
|, good things to eat and decked higl
with exquisite sweet peas and snal
dragons. 1t just seems that flower
grow wild down there, for there is
: smash of eolr all around the hote
that proves to be a pansy bed whel
> one looks close, and then there ar
Z sweet peas everywhere. There was
corsage for the girls each mornini
that came and then each even Their
were flowers from these perfect,
wonderful men, for dinner and dances
y And we danced eternally.
Thursday the banquet was fcllowe
by dance and it was after midnigh
S before we knew. 1t would not be har
to believe that most or those banker
devote all of their time to dancing, II
stead of bandng-but they look to
l. prosperous for that.
O All of the girls were perfectly love
? ly for the dance and wore the duel
5 lest frocks imaginable, as did ever
body else. Mrs, Northiugto0 af Pratt