The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-07-17
ENTHUSEO OVER THE
OUTLOOK Of TOUR

The Tour Committee of the Cham
Der of Commerce met Monday night
in the Board Of Governors rooms at
the Chamber of Commerce and were
greatly enthused over the outlook of
the tour. Vice President J. C. Brew
er, presided at the meeting and when
1t was over he enthusiastically re-
marked:
i am greatly encouraged over the
outlook for the tour. When it was
first mentioned that we ought to have
fifty cars in the tour | did not think
it was possible to secure that many
to go with us, but it now looks like
everybody who has car wants to 90
and eliminating those who absolute
ly cannot leave their business at this
time, we certainly ought to be able
to carry with US not less than fifty
on the tour"
The tour committee was greatly en-
Unused over the special rate which had
been made the tour party by the
Georgia Terrace Hotel of Atlanta, the
finest hotel in the city, whose regular
rates are $500 per day per person
but who made a proposition to take
care of the Seeing Georgia Tourists
at rate of $500 per day, in rooms
with bath with two in a room. After
the reading OF the letter from the
Georgian Terrace the hotel was
named official headquarters Of the
tour in Atlanta
In communication from w. I.
Anderson, Editor of the Macon Te1e-
graph, intimation was given that some
surprises awaited the tourists at Ma
con when they take luncheon at the
Lanier Hotel
In a communication from Atlanta,
also, the Secretary announced that the
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce was
making preparations to show the
tourists a good time in Atlanta and
that a delegation of twenty-five or
fifty cars full of Atlanta citizens
would meet the tourists FIVE or ten
miles out of Atlanta and escort them
to the city
The manager of the Truck and
Tractor Show at the Auditorium is
also arranging for some very attract
i've exercises at the auditorium in
honor of the arrival of the Fitzgerald
tourists.
The Macon Telegraph has notified
the Chamber of Commerce that they
will have a reporter accompay the
tour through its entire route and the
Atlanta Constitution is also prepar-
ing to have their editorial writer Mr.
r. Z. White, on the tour.
AT Indian Springs it is understood
a dance will be given in honor of the
tourists and the city of Athens is pre-
pairing real warm reception for the
tourists when they reach Athens.
Even the little city of Toccoa in the
extreme northeastern part of the
state has already appointed citizens
committee to look after the welfare
and entertainment of the tourists
when they reach Toccoa.
AT Turnersville the Tallulah Or
chards Corporation plan to take the
tourists through their wonderful ap-
pie orchards, which lie along the side
of Tallulah Lake, the highest body
of water in the state of Georgia,
which lies between the hills 500 feet
higher above sea level than the city
of Fitzgerald. A boat trip on this
lake at night is one of the features
planned by citizens of that section
for the tourists. The lake is an arti
fetal lake caused by the building of
the Tallulah Falls Power Dam of the
Georgia Railroad and Power Com
pany, OF Atlanta, and this dam fur
nishes the power that generates prac-
tically all of the electric current sup
piled the city of Atlanta, something
like one hundred miles from the loca-
ton of the dam. A trip through the
power plant, which is the largest in
the South, will also be made by the
tourists.