The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-06-20
SECOND DAY AS
POWELL saw IT
FORMER NEWsPAPERMAN EN-
JoYEp HERvEY's SEA FOOD,
THE AIRPLANEs AND EVERY
THING.

LAKE neSiou, buSIiS, OIL the SecoHu
day Of the Florida Press Associa-
ton:
| For Eustis. Lake Region"
The second days session Of the Flor
ida Press Association was a repeti-
ton of the first day, only little more
SO. Pensacola's hospitality grows on
one. When we had summed up the
total of things which happened to us
the first day the consensus of opinion
was that if anything had been left I'M
done it didn't show up in the proof.
The night before Pensacola brushed
the clouds away and hung out the
moon and. then to show US few extra
meteorological stunts they pulled off
a refreshing rain just before break
| fast-according to when one takes
breakfast normally.
The business meeting was largely
devoted to Lake county and Lake
county enterprises, when Mr.. Arthur
Greene. the originator of the print
| ers craft school at Montverde set forth
the plans and purposes of the school,
and after a full discussion entered
into by Messrs. Leach. Wood and my
self, and aided and abetted by Harry
l.. Brown of the st. Augustine Record,
and Geo. Hosmer of Bradentown Jour-
nal and Miss Ruby Pierce of Palm
Beach and others, a committee was
appointed to take over the endow-
ment of the school. and they immedi-
ately raised the ante from $4,000 to
$4,000, and subscription blanks passed
about Melted $1,000 in a minute or
two and none batted an eye lash.
Gilbert d. Leach. of Leesburg, set
forth the plans of the first paper mill
to be erected in Leesburg shortly and
made some admissions that proved that
the news print situation would soon
be relieved by this mill which will
cost nearly a million dollars. and for
the basic patents, ETC., an offer had
already been received for $1,000,000.
Lake county also guaranteed to
share in the cost of entertaining the
National Editorial Association when
it meets in Florida in 1921.
A complimentary luncheon followed
at the San Carlos at one o'clock which
was another Hervey stunt Sea food
was served and some of the editors ate
so much that their stomachs rose and
fell with the tide.
There was a whole of joshing during
the luncheon. And some songs. They
were the same old songs. The press
gang will have to appoint an official
song writer.
After the game and fish warden
came in and called a halt on the de-
struction of sea food. the crowd was
escorted to automobiles and taken down
to the wharf and boarded sea-going
craft for visit to the flock of forts
that protect Pensacola from rum run
ners from Cuba.
/ forgot to mention that during the
luncheon a million beautiful girls en-
tered and pinned bouquets on the
manly coat lapels of the men and told
the ladies they could do their own
pinning. l told the charming girl who
operated on me to take her time.
During the trip down the bay some
thirty sea planes showed us what high
life meant. These birds of passage
did everything but shake hands with
us. They got so close that they could
see what we had for lunch.
At the navy yards some of the crowd
investigated the seaplanes and the
others the dirigibles. The ladies were
interested in the seaplanes but the
editors flocked to the gas bags where
they were at last in their element.
Two young chaps got into the basket
of an observation balloon with the
same nonchalance that I would do in
stepping on my fliver to ride around
the corner for bar of laundry soap.
They were going to kingdom come
without a hesitancy. The balloon sailed
off into space and was soon lost sight
of. I hope those fellows come down.
But they must know their business
and were probably trying to reach the
high cost of living.
The wisemongers among us walked
about ten million dollars worth of air.
planes and rubbed our fingers over the
propellors just like we used to show
our knowledge of an auto by honking
the rubber bulb horn.
One should always create the i'm
preston of being a wise gink. I ex-
pect that if one of those aviators
dropped into print shop he would
Immediately look for type lice or locate
a left-handed 3-pika quad.
Going from the navy yard we hit it
up for Fort Barrancas where we took
on the Sth regiment coast artillery
band which was a most tuneful or
ganization and ran the whole repero-
tory from The Star Spangled Banner
to It's a Hot Time in This Old Town
Tonight.
After circle about Fort McRae and
view of the ruins of the old Confed-
crate fort, the boat turned on two
wheels and headed for Fort Pickens.
1t was good that it turned for the
gulf was nearby and the waves were
coming in large rollers. A few were
getting white about the gills and look
ing for a place to fall when the first
spasm overlook them.
I negotiated with a young lady to |
let me rest my head in her lap when
the worse came to worse but it was not
necessary, which was quite polite like |
in the captain in turning the boat and
beating it away from the high seas. |
for I always hate to try to explain |
things away to friend wife.
When we got to Fort Pickens every |
body donned bathing suits and hit |
it across the sands to the beach, !
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