The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-07-31
GEORGIA'S GREATEST
AUTOMOBILE TOUR
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ped on the public square in the city
OF Gainesville, the President of the
Chamber of Commerce and several
other leading citizens, delivered ad
dresses of welcome which were re-
sponded to by the regular speakers of
the tour, after which the tourists were
escorted to the Chamber of Com
merce headquarters and served with a
most elegant luncheon. The tourists
were loud in their praise of Gaines
willie and urged the people of Gaines
Vile to visit South Georgia and Ben
Hill county in order that they might
| show in a more tangible way than
words their deep appreciation of their
reception.
The tourists left Gainesville ap-
proximately three hours behind sche-
dule time due to the inability to leave
the cities OF Buford and Gainesville
on time on account of the tremendous
receDtions given, and also due to the
fact that the time north of Gaines
Vile was one hour faster than the time
below that point, and the tourists,
therefore, reached the city of Cor
relia a little more than three hours
behind their schedule.
About five miles south OF Cornella
the party was met by Col. 0. M.
Wade, and Mr.. William Eberhardt,
and Col Wade took the party two
miles out of their course to the top
OF a hill overlooking one of the most
wonderful valleys of north Georgia.
I've hill was covered with peach trees
Lrtiled down with ripe peaches and
the tourists ate to their hearts con-
tent. While the tourists were eating
peaches and taking in the wonderful
view down the valley summer show
err came up which passed in about ten
minutes, and at the close of which the
tourists were permitted to view the
most wonderful phenomena of the
whole trip. AS though specially pre-
pared for them and as a guarantee
that the tourists would not be flooded
out on their trip, there set for several
miles down the valley the most bril-
liant rainbow that any of the tourists
had eyed witnessed. The bow started
on the top of the hill to the left, right
in the trees and made complete clr-
Gle overhead, and lay down in the val
ley for several miles resting in the
tree tops and at points apparently ly-
ing fiat on the ground. Col. Wade
jokingly told the party that he always
ordered a rainbow when tourists visit
ed this spot.
Arriving in Cornelia the tourists ar
ranged for supper to be served, and in
view of the fact that the hotel had
not expected to serve supper to the
tourists and had to specially prepare
same-it was over two hours before
supper was served and the tourists sat
down to the supper table about nine
o'clock In the meantime, heavy
lain had come up accompanied by
much electrical display and it was
still raining when the tourists finished
supper An effort was made by Sec
rotary Clarke to find rooms in Corne-
liza for the tourists for the night, but
only one room could be located in the
entire city as it was peach shipping
season and over five hundred people
connected with the peach industry
had come into the city during the pre-
vious week. 1t was, therefore, nee
essary for the tourists eithed to sit
up all night or make the drive from
Cornelia to Tallulah Falls in the rain
at 900 o'clock at night, and while he
regretted to do so, Secretary Clarke
finally decided it was best for the
tour to move on to Tallulah Falls.
1t was in many respects wild ride
and novel experience but fortunate
ly the roads were not in as bad con-
dition as anticipated, though of course
they were not ideal, as it continued to
| dnu TIC 1OduS were
| The schedule called for a stop at
Demorest and Gainesville and both
places had prepared elaborate recep-
tions for the tourists, but thinking, of
course, that the tourists would spend
the night at Cornelia, in view of their
| late arrival at Cornelia, every
body had retired when the tour reach
ed these places. AS an evidence of the
interest that was being taken in the
arrival of the tourists at Demorest,
it was learned that a speech of well
come had been memorized by the five
year old son of Prof. and Mrs. H. B.
Richie Oh. B. Richie, Jr.( which he
was to deliver upon the arrival of the
tourists.
When the tourists reached Clarkes-
vile, it was with great difficulty that
Secretary Clarke persuaded them to
go farther north as an enterprising
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