The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-02-26
About Four Hundred Pen
sacolians Mingled With
Santa Rosa People.
PENSACOLA DAY
A GREAT FEATURE
Number of Addresses Were
Heard, and the Crowd
Seemed to Enjoy Day.
STAFF CORRESPONDENCE.

Milton, Fla, Feb. 25.-An enthusi-
astic crowd of Pensacolians, number
ing about 400, today mingled with
several thousand Santa Rosa county
and 0kaloosa county people, and a
gala day was enjoyed. There was
nothing to mar the pleasure of the
day. When the train rolled into Mil
ton this morning there were more
than dozen gaily decorated au-
tomobiles at the depot, and
one after another party of Pensaco-
lians was picked up and whisked
away to the hotel or the shows, which
were parked in the court house block
or nearby. In fact, from the moment
of their arrival the Pensacolians felt
that Milton cordiality and welcome
for which the town is famed.
Residences and streets for blocks and
blocks were in holiday dress, and to-
night, as was the case of the past
couple of nights, streamers of cleo
trio lights, stretched overhead, and
from one side of the street to the
other, gaily lighted a number Of
blocks.
Probably the event which attract
ed the first attention was the speak
ing, which took place at the court
house. A stand had been erected in
front of the county building, and la
dies and gentlemen, occupying every
chair, were seated thereon. An hour
before the speaking ha1 started Gov
ernor Park NJ. Trammell reached Mil
ton and at the depot possibly two
hundred met him. An auto had been
placed at his disposal, and, accompa-
MED by the reception committee, he
was taken to the Exchange hotel. He
registered there and was soon min
Cling with the people.
Addresses were made by Mayor
Greenhut of Pensacola, Mayor John
Collins of Milton, Governor Tram
nell, Senator Y. L. Watson of Quincy
and Walter Kehoe of Pensacola. Each
speaker was INTRODUCED with an elo-
quent little reference, by Hon. Peter
Tomassello,
Mayor Greenhut told the people Of
Santa Rosa county how very appre-
ciative the people of Pensacola were
to have a day set apart as Pensacola
day, and said that the several hun
dred who had come to spend the day
in Milton had come for day Of pleas
ure, and he knew that they would not
be disappointed. He told the crowd
that Pensacola was preparing to
have the best Mardi Gras in her long
history in March, and extended all a
cordial invitation to attend the PEN
sacola celebration.
Mayor John Collins, upon being in
troduced, called attention to the fact
that he was mayor of the city, and
that he wanted the world to know
that the Pensacolians, as well as all
the Florida people, were warmly wei
coined and he wanted them to go just
as far as they wished; and, should
it happen that they overstepped the
legal barriers and got into the lookup
that he would see that the back door
of the iails would be opened, their
sentence suspended and they would
be turned loose. The speech Of
Mayor Collins was warmly applauded.
GOVERNOR SPEAKS.
Governor Trammell made lengthy
speech, paying his respects to West
Floridians in general and to Milton
people IN particular, saying how glad
he was of the opportunity offered to
speak to Santa Rosa county people at
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