The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-06-24

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| The final entertainment on the pro-
gram was a drive about the city and
environs.
| I rode with a gentleman named p.
/ d. Beval. who said he owned the car.
and / had to believe him. The way
he drove it I thought he had stolen it
and was making a getaway. With
our party was Henry Jeudevine. of
the Mayes' Printing Co., the commit
/ tee on arrangements. He didn't miss
l a bet. When / die I want him to be
my funeral director. I will feel so
sure that there will be left undone
nothing that should have been did.
Beval drove so fast over the cement
roads of Escambia county that the
fence posts ran together like bill
board. He said he always drove fast
to keep up with Pensacola's progress.
/ AS an advertisement. which / am
charging full rates. I will state it
was a Chandler car, made by the
folks who perpetrated Coco-Cola,
| which is no relation to Pensacola.
There is nothing to drink in Pensa-
cola
| The way that Pensacola had wasted
money on the editors / thought the
blamed place was flat, but when we
began rolling up and down hills,
through pretty tree and flower en-
| powered streets, came to the con-
clusion that we had not completely
broken them up; yet. as precaution
the banks closed at noon on Saturday.
We drove to the navy yards and
| forts and as our car lead the process
sion we had to call the bluffs of the
fac,
tary Daniels, was at the first gate.
He said: Halt. who approaches"
Newspaper folks" said Jeudevine.
Proceed" replied the secretary. 81
was once newspaper man and know
how it feels" President Wilson was
at the gate where we left the navy
yard for Fort Barrancas. The presi-
dent looks trifle younger than we
last saw him.
1t looked at first that we would have
to remain in the navy yards the rest
of our lives or until peace was de-
clared with Germany. but when BevaI
told the president what awful appe-
tites the gang had, he let us pass.
There was a transport in dock with
$500 marines on their way to Mexico.
We tried to get aboard. The boys
were singing because they were to
leave Monday why are they sing
ing" Mary Sunshine asked. Be
cause" said !, "They are in trans
port of joy"
At one of the big disappearing guns
the artilleryman told us that the dis
appearing guns were obsolete and the
government was to scrap them. /
asked him to wrap one up and would
take it home with me so / could at
least carry as much baggage as Gill
bert Leach.
He said the new guns would shoot
"a milestone sort of a howitzer
or budweiser. I asked him how they
could sight that far.
oh replied he, "by triangula- :.
ton eiucidated through the transcen-
dentalism which gives the ratio of
the circumference OF semicircle to
its radium, from which we get the diff
ferential and potential possibilities
of the target, and then set the gild-t
ifluker and let 60"
I thought he was sjoshing me. But
Lieutenant Burrows. whose father
runs the print shop in Pensacola, and
who has been in two wars and five
love affairs, advised me that I would
better understand what he was say
ing If 1 spent the rest of my life at
Hampton Roades. Not by a damn
sight," said l.
| got back to the San Carlos all
rightright The way we came home I
was afraid that Beval was doing the
tail spin but he said he was just
falling occasionally into a vacuum
caused by the hot air caused by SO
many editors being in his burg at
one and the same time.
We took supper at the San Carlos
grill. Hervey had ct us and slept us"
for four or five days and we thought
we ought to spend at least two bits
for sandwich and a cup of coffee to
show him we We're good sports
To make that none of us remained
any longer he took the whole crowd
down TO the Ellen N. daypo in his
bus and saw that we got on the train
/ want to say here and now that the
MINISTRIES never got into good tune
until they We're about to depart. They
sang until the rafters were raised and
the meteorological station put out
storm warning.
And then the train manipulation said
"Al aboard" With tears in our eyes
and a longing to hug the pretty girls
who came to say goodbye and to
friends who had made our STAY so
pleasant. we left Pensacola--left it,
kind friends. because we couldn't take
it along with us.
Most everybody of our two Pull
mans of editor folks went to bed
as they were very. very tired and
sleepy. The train left at 6:45 and by
o'clock in the morning lights were
turned out and the porter began to
count his profits
This is about all I have to say, be-
cause Friend Miller of the Lake Re-
gion. phoned me when sent in the
next to last installment that linotype
metal had advanced to so cents a
pound and the supply was limited.
To any of my friends who will visit
me | will recount that which hap
pened which is scandulous"
Note: The press gang ducked both
going to and coming from Pensacola
as the train passed Tallahassee. They
asked the Con" to go through TaIla-
haSSee hellbent for election Int he