The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-10-07
Four Centennial Boosters Will
Get Out This Morning to Sign
Up 125 Pensacolians For Spe-
cial Pullman Train.
JACKSONVILLE is
OUT FOR CENTENNIAL
East Coast Metropolis Also Plan
ming to Send Big Delegation
to State Capital When Com
mission Meets.

Four members of the centennial tour
to Tallahassee committee will get out
this morning and hustle for 125 persons
to sign up for the special train wrich
is to run to Tallahassee when the state
centennial commission meets. The
meeting will be held within a few
days. 1t is expected, although Chair
mon Borein has made no announce
ment yet as to the date.
The fare will be s13.75, plus Pullman
rates. and every business man, every
professional man, and every other man
who is interested in the future welfare
OF Pensacola will be asked to buy a
ticket and take in the big trip 1t is
planned to make the train an all
Pullman one. leaving Pensacola about
10 o'clock the night before the big
meeting and returning after the ses-
sion.
Members Of the tour committee held
a busy meeting yesterday afternoon
and mapped out a number of plans
which will be put into execution to-
day. F'elo McAllister J. Hobart Cross.
Pete" Rollo and Will c. Diffenderfer
will make the rustling committee this
morning and promise to report back
to the main committee with more than
the necessary number of paid prom
ises by afternoon.
Jacksonville is not asleep on this
centennial proposition, as some people
attempt to make folks believe. It's a
fight, and Pensacola people must keep
on hustling If they intend to win.
Which they do. The Jacksonville Times
union rad the following to say in it's
edition of Sunday:
Jacksonville will make determined
1lght before the Florida centennial
exposition commission for designation
the site for F1orida's big one hun
dreth anniversary celebration, accord
ing to men who have been closely as
sociated with the local effort to bring
the centennial here, and the return
early this week of w. F. Coachman
Will be closely followed by a concerted
movement in this direction
Mr.. Coachman, who has been SPEND
ing vacation in the north, is prepared
to begin organization Immediately
upon his return to the city and when
the commission meets in TaJlabassea
1t is probable that Jacksonville will
be represented by a body of boosters
fully as large as the delegation PEN
sacola is planning to send to the
meeting. Mayor John w. Martin will
personally head the delegation and a
concrete plan for one mammoth cele-
oration, befittingly staged and thor
oughiy representative of Florida will
be presented the commission in con-
nection with Jacksonville's bid for the
exposition.
In to the Finish.
Mr.. Coachman's plan was presented
the commission here by J. J. Logan.
who voiced Jacksonville's desire to
stage the exposition and who outlined
the BENEFITS that might be derived for
Florida from four celebra tions instead
OF one. Mr.. Logan declared in his adj
dress that Jacksonville would be I'm the
fight to the last if the commission
decided on a one city affair.
If you gentlemen Of the commits
sion insist on naming some one city
to hold this centennial he said, then
Jacksonville believes she has the ad-
vantages which no other city can Of
fer. and she will be in the contest to
the finish. But we do not believe
there should be a contest
COMMITTEES List is Ready.
Mr.. Coachman shortly after his re-
turn to the city IS expected to an
| nounce list of centennial committee
| men and women who will CO. operate
in the effort to bring the commission
here. This list was prepared some time
prior to the September meeting of the
commission, but owing to the fact that
the commissions decision was post
poned, was not made effective. being
held up until the time when such a
body could effectively function These
men and women are expected to be
able to form all necessary plans for
the exposition and to outline a prop
osition that the commission vii
accept as the best of the two-Pen-
sacola's offer being the only other
one expected to be presented"