The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-10-26
ELEVENTH HOUR STAND

ELEVENTH HOUR STAND
At the eleventh hour. Jacksonville and ST. Angus
tine are making a hard fight for the centennial
Friday mornings issue Of the Record carries ar
urgent call to the people of St. Augustine to attend
a meeting that evening. at which the Jacksonville
Exposition committee was to address the
people of ST. Augustine, urging their support in
curing the worlds fair for Jacksonville. The Rec
ord says:
This morning Charles E. Young president of
the st. Augustine Hotel Mems Association re-
cetved a phone message from the secretary of
the Jacksonville Hotel Association, asking for
the support of ST Augustine in behalf of Jack
sonv1lle in this contest for the centennial expo
sition. Mayor Martin and members of the
Jacksonville council, also other prominent men
will come over from Jacksonville to address the
people of this city at the proposed mass meeting.
The Jacksonville committee left the matter of
setting the time and place for the meeting with
the ST. Augustine Hotel Mems Association and
Friday night designated at a conference
held this morning, subsequent to the telephone
message.
G. B. Lamar, president of the ST.. Augustine
National Bank; Eugene Masters, city manager;
and c. E. Young, president of the Hotel Mems
Association, displayed keen interest in the
position. realizing what it means to ST. Angus
tine, and they requested Acting Mayor Davis
to call meeting for Friday evening O'Clock.
Efforts will be made to bring the municipal band
out for the occasion and those efforts will no
doubt be successful.
A worlds fair, such is proposed, will be of
enormous value to St. Augustine if held in Jack
sonville. but practically valueless this section
If Pensacola is chosen the site. The exposi-
ton is last for year and will bring hun
dreds of thousands of people from all quarters
of the globe. Our proximity to Jacksonville will
of prosperity that this city has never
known Business and building will be stmu-
lated enormously here well as in Jacksonville,
hat 81 An
gustine bend its efforts toward securing the ex-
position for Jacksonville.
The people of this city are requested 70 turn
out 100 per cent Friday evening and show
the Jacksonville visitors that behind
them In this fight
Pensacola is now making a tremendous effort
to capture the exposition, but If it is successful
this section of the state will benefit very little
from 1t, Pensacola is located at the extreme
west end of the state. practically on the border
Of Alabama and visitors to the fair would scat
ter in all directions. only a fraction of them
coming to the east coast, whereas from Jack
sonville they would go to all sections OF Florida
It will be from this that strong concerted
sffort is to be made by Jacksonville and St Angus
tine to wrest the centennial from Pensacola at al
hazards.
Kew West, Miami and Tampa, after retiring from
the field, have refrained from taking any active
part In the campaign for the centennial. Not so st
Augustine, and Pensacola awaits with keen interes
the outcome of the present contest that st. Angus
tine and Jacksonville wagng.
Commenting the delay in deciding on the s1t'
for the centennial. the Gadsden County Times says
The site for the Florida Centennial Exposition
is still undetermined decision was made at
the Tallahassee meeting of the commissioners
Monday, one of the commissioners being absent
II is agreed that the commissioners should go to
Pensacola Saturday inspect conditions and ad-
vantages there. then go to Jacksonville and do
the same on the following Monday and then de-
eide the question although no date for the de-
cision has been fixed. This inspection trip 10
the two cities is a good plan, but there has been
too much delay already and while many feel
ings will be hurt and there will be sore disap-
pointment no matter which city wins, the de-
cision should not be delayed beyond next week,
for there isn't day lose in beginning the pre-
liminary work and arranging to finance the big
gest enterprise in the history of Florida 1t VIII
cost a huge of money but we tank ana
think in millions all over the U. s. A, and
we feel sure that the winning city can raise the
necessary means to put the big show over