The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1916-11-25
BIG CAMPAIGN TOEX-
PLOT THE GULF COAST
LAUNCHED TUESDAY
Tourist and Development
League Organized forFive-
Year Publicity Campaign
TO RAISE BIG FUND OF
$780, 900 to Be Expended In
Advertising the Gulf Coast
of Mississippi, Alabama and
West Coast of Florida
For Tourists and Settlers.

The biggest campaign ever under
taken for the advertisement, exploitation
and development of the Gulf Coast
was launched at GulfpoTt Tuesday when
delegates from cities and towns between
Pensacola and the Pearl River organiz-
ed development league to conduct a
fve-year publicity program, elected
Henry Hall, president of the First
National Bank OF Mobile, president of
the organization, and selected Mobile for
headquarters.
The report of the committee on or
ganization, which was adopted, rec
commended that the organization be
known as "The Southern Gulf Coast
Tourist and Development League"
with headquarters at Mobile, and to be
incorporated in Alabama. Delegates to
the meeting signed as incorporators, the
Great Southern Hotel being the birth
place of the league.
The meeting elected an executive
committee to have active control OF the
development campaign. This commit
tee, inclusive of the league officers, is as
follows:
Officers Chosen TO Guide League.
President, Henry Hall, of Mobile;
first vice president, r. w. Goodheart,
Pensacola; second vice president, T. l..
O'Donnen, Hattiesburg. Miss; third
vice president, A. F. Dantzlers Moss
Point, Miss; secretary treasurer
w. Taylor, Mobile; c u Luce,
Lucedale. Miss; w. ~ Z 20
ton, Ala. C. B. Dantzler, Gulfport. hiss.
E. M, Lovelace, Brewton, Ala,, N u
Louisell, Leaksville, Miss; j. H. Wes-
ton. Logtown, Miss; w. D. Stapleton,
Bay Minette, Ala; S. S. Mincey,
Wiggins, Miss.
The executive committee will meet
within week at Mobile or Pensacola.
Territory to be embraced in the de-
velopment campaign includes the fol-
lowing counties, as recommended by
the organization committee:
Florida: Santa Rosa and Escambia.
Alabama: Conecuh, Eseambia, Mon
roe, Clark, Baldwin, Washington and
Mobile.
Mississippi: Jackson, Perry, Greene
George, Harrison, Hancock, Lamar,
Forrest, Strong and Pearl River.
Abandon Individual Publicity.
With the lesson before them of what
advertising has done for the develop
ment of California and the East Coast
of Florida, the delegates at Tuesdays
meeting approved the abandonment OF
individual and community exploitation
and agreed to cooperate in a general
campaign that viii "put the Gulf Coast
country on the map" Congressman
Harrison was elected temporary chair
man of the meeting.
Following the organization of CO.
operative development agency, work is
to begin Immediately on the collection
of a $3.50, 900 fund, to be expended at
the rate of $1,000 per annum, to bring
national recognition OF the gulf coast
of Florida, Alabama and Mississippi.
This fund is to be administered by an
executive board representing the various
committee interested and is to remain in
control of the cooperating local in
terests. Capitalists, business and pro-
fessional men and large land owners
have ioined in the organization.
In response to the call issued after
meetings held in the several commu-
mites delegates and alternates registered
as follows at tn e organization conference
in Gulfport Tuesday.