The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-06-19
Lead me to it. or I shall die.

Lead me to it, or I shall die.
/ At the depot we had some trouble
getting Herby Felkel off the train. HI
comes from a small seaport town ant
remained on board waiting for the
dock hands to throw out gang plank
There was no installing Pensacola's
welcome.
In the first place they told us te
leave our pocket books at home. Their
| they told us that our money was coun-
terfeit. Then that prince of good fell
rows and hotel man with a big H
which is not an n for hotel, but an Il
for heart and Hervey turned his en-
tire shebang over to the newspaper
gang-and the San Carlos is some She
bang. let me assure you. 1t is ten
stories high, nineteen hundred cubits
broad, and hits on all eight cylinders.
1t has open faced plumbing and a taxi
cab stand, potted aims, all the COM
forts of home and cooking like mother
used to cook
This man Hervey is some man, be-
lieve me. folks. don't know his first
name. Fellows like Hervey don't have a
first name. He is big enough to be
recognized without smearing up the
scenery with a lot of verbiage like
John Henry williams. Hervey can
also tell an honest man. When / went
up to him and said Please initial this
check for hundred" he initiated it,
Just like that. He could tell that
wasn't a newspaper man.
In assigning the rooms everybody
got room with bath, which was
a faltnUS-
Gilbert Leach demurred. TT is this
way" said Gilbert, when he went up
stairs in a real elevator and found a
don't intend to sit up all night to ac-
commodate the rest of the guests"
Just as soon as we looked over the
rooms assigned them and pronounced
them too sweet for anything the first
meeting was called in the auditorium
on the steenth floor of the San Carlos.
AS no newspaper man could pray and
they didn't have time to call in a pro-
fessional some man in the name of the
mayor broke the silence with speech
of welcome and Harry Brown re-
spond. and Marcus Fagg told of the
children's home and said that any
man could devote considerable space
to the drives for funds for the home
because the home would sooner or
later have to support the family OF the
man. or words to that ef-
feet. It was a good speech for every
body OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ana oio
maids and everybody.
Somebody said something about the
gang being afraid OF COM
ing to Pensacola when they mad
plague of some kind, and somebody re-
that if the story of the plague
was fact that We would hold ano'her
primary right away.
That's the kind OF hunor that
passed current.
A song was sung something about
Pensacola not looking like it did 40
years ago, and song dedicated by Gil
bert Leach to IIervey was rendered
L was terribly rendered. They say that
was the cause of the two planes COM
ing together out over the bay, killing
one man and injuring another-for
the song was sung and the accident
at exactly at 80.
Later the police notified Frank *.
Anderson that while the mayor gave
hem the keys 10 the city it did not
permit them creating atmospheric dis
,urbances beyond the three mile limit |
1t sea, prescribed by the law and the
and the League of Ma
ions.
A noon-day luncheon served was a |
poetic dream in good gravey, French |
,eas, and this same man Hervey came |
lbout and distributed most wonderful |
silk fans imported from
Japan, and to the men leather bill |
books, just like they didn't cost about |
IS dollars each. Every time he came
1pon the scene he seemed to have I
OF of things concealed about his per-
ION. If we staid a week with him we
,ould outfit a home.