The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-07-31

many other cities in North Georgia
In one instance, particularly,
party of tourists witnessed from the
power house heavy storm down i'll
the valley below them-the sun shin
ing where they stood, and they saw
forked streaks OF fire shooting from
the transmission lines of the Power
Company for miles down the valley,
as the storm played around the wires.
1t was sight long to be remember
ed. On leaving Tallulah Falls the
tourists went direct to Toccoa, tlelu
a short cut east of Hollywood, and
reached Toccoa practically on sche-
dule time. The starters car contain
ing Mr. and Mrs Joe Brewer, and Sec
rotary Clarke, detoured OH leaving
Ta1lulah Falls via Cornelia in order
to get some heavy oil for Mr. Brew
er's car and this car reached Toccoa
after the tourists had left this attract
i've northeast Georgia city.
The people of Toccoa-one thous-
| and strong-met the tourists and
speeches of welcome were delivered
and responded to by the speakers of
| the tour.
On arrival at Toccoa, finding the
tourists had already departed. the
starters car went right on through
and at Martin, town not scheduled
on the route for stop, the starters
car came upon the car OF l.. c. Mon
tague, surrounded by several hum
dred farmers seeking information
about South Georgia. The tourists
had been held up at Martin and tho
it was not regular stop, speeches
were made and the tourists lett Mr..
Montague to take care of the CROWD
and give out literature on South Ceor-
gia while the main body of>the tout
went on to Lavonia,
| On Friday night the tour commenc-
ed to hit high tide and Friday night
every member of the tour party was
agreed that Friday was the biggest
day in every respect of the tour. In
this the tour was different from all
other tours ever run, as practically all
start to wane in interest and enthu
siasm along towards the end, but not
so with the Fitzgerald Automobile
Tour, which had its biggest day On
Friday and its biggest crowd to greet
them on Saturday at Eatonton.
Leaving Martin the cars of Mr..
Montague and Mr.. Brewer caught up
with the main body of the tour at La
vonia, just as the speech-making
was about to start. Homer Waters
was tuning up" his harp and his
"gittar" as these two cars rolled in
and joined the other tourists-and at
Lavonia Homer" made his big hit of
the trip. After he had played and
sung the crowd of one thousand peo-
pie yelled for more" and wiz h they
found out he was an old North Geor-
gia hill billy they tried to take hint
away from the tourists.
At Lavonia the Mayor was par
ticularly kind in his words of greet
ing and said he was glad the tourists
came because their section was crowd
ed and if any farmers boy, or farmer
wanted additional land he could not
secure it in that section and that those
who could not secure land there
should go to South Georgia instead
of going to Texas and the West, as
had been the case in past years. The
people of Lavonia begged the tourists
to stay for dinner but were finally al
lowed to go to their regular dinner
stop at Hartwell.
The reception given the tourists at
Hartwell was one of the most royal
of any place along the route of the
tour. The mayor and city council
had voted funds to pay for the enter
tainment of the tourists at Hartwell,
and Mrs. Adams, who runs the hotel
at Hartwell, had prepared one of the
most elegant meals the tourists had
received at any place, and at the con-
clusion of the dinner Portina cigars
were passed around amongst the tour
lists as final touch to one of the
most elegant receptions given the
tourists on the entire trip
The tourists left Hartwell about
two hours behind schedule time ow-
ing to the royal reception they had re-
ceived, and upon arrival at Royston,
Mr.. Bond of that city, delivered such
a magnificent address of welcome as
to absolutely paralyze the speakers of
the tour, and before he had more
than half completed his address,
| which was cordial, patriotic and elo-
quent-the different speakers of the
tour party had one by one come to
Secretary Clarke and asked to be ex-
cused from making a speech in the
wake OF so eloquent an adddess as had
been made by Mr.. Bond 1t was,
therefore, up to Secretary Clarke to