The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-01-25
STATE PRESS CONVENTION.

STATE PRESS CONVENTION.
The executive committee OF the Florida Press AS
ISOLATION will meet in Jacksonville. February 4th to
determine upon the dates Of the annual convention
of the F. P. A. which will be held in Pensacola and
to take up other questions OF Importance to the as
ISOLATION The members of the executive committee.
as announced by President T. E. Fitzgerald, Of the
Daytona News are Mrs. Lois K Mayes, Pensacola
Journal; E. Taylor. Miami Herald Harry L. Brown.
st. Augustine Record; j. E. Worthington. Tampa
Times; Gilbert I'd. Leach Leesburg Commercial. and
/ w. NJ. Haynes, secretary.
! Mrs. Lois K Mayes. executive secretary OF the
Florida Press Association in speaking of the plans
for the convention. yesterday said: -Four years
when the Southern Newspaper Publishers Associa-
ton met In Asheville Amos G. Carter, manager Of
the Forth Worth Star Telegram, when extending an
invitation to the publishers to meet at Fort Worth
the following year. urged them to buy a round-trip
ticket. and leave their pocketbooks at home
Since that time the spirit expressed in that nvi-
tation has seemed to me stand for true southern
hospitality. Today that kind Of hospitality ex-
lists Pensacola, and when the Florida Press
citation convenes they will be asked, in that same
spirit to buy roundtrip ticket. and leave their
pocket books at home y,
The people of Pensacola and West Florida are go
ing to entertain the members of the Florida Press
Association in far is humanity possible, in the
good, old-fashioned southern way One of the first
the following from letter received by Mrs. Mayes,
from Charles B. Hervey. president the San Carlos
Hotel Company:
I'VE will tender invitation through you to every
member OF the Press Association for room accom-
modations, with the compliments of the San Carlos
hotel. Our splendid cool auditorium on the top
floor, well the mezzanine floor Of the hotel
will be at the disposal Of the members all through
the meeting. and will also be given gratis for the
proposed carnival ball
we assure you are very much interested in
this proposition. and want the newspaper people
to go aw~y with the right idea of our Deep Water
City, and with the declaration that the San Carlos
is unequaled from Key West to Flomaton. Urge
that reservations stating train that visitors will ar
rive be made well in advance as the hotel is run
ming pretty well filled the year round
Very sincerely,
SAN CARLOS HOTEL Co,
Charles B. Hervey, President.
1t is planned to make the visit of the Florida Press
Association to Pensacola something of an eye-opener
and there is doubt but that the hospitable nvi-
tation of the San Carlos Hotel Company will be a
step toward that end.
The San Carlos is not only Of the finest fire
proof hotels in Florida but of the most modern
and best equipped in the south. and compares well
with any hotel in Florida
The San Carlos Hotel will be only one Of the many
surprises which Pensacola hopes to give to the
troduced to some of the finest farming land in the
country some Of the most modern farms, and will
see some Of the best of pure-bred stock; they will
not only see great bay, the widest and deepest on
the gulf but some of the finest facilities the south
affords for handling shipping; they viii visit the
ship yard which holds the United States for
steel ship production; they will the pine products
companies of which they have heard so much; will
visit the leading training station for naval aeronaI-
tics in the United States; they will view the his
torc ground on which the change of flags took
place, when FLORIDA became a part Of the United
States; they will look upon of the greatest float
ing dry docks in the world: they will examine the
most modern Of high density cotton congresses
they will look out on the Gulf of Mexico the
Gulf Beach road, via automobile. and they will see
some OF the most beautiful lagoons and bayous in
Florida; they will visit the old strongholds Of Span
ish occupation, and most modern Of coast defenses
I'VE expect to make the three days in Pensacola |
said Mrs. Mayes land we know that |
we do so. from assurance already received in /
Pensacola, and from all West Florida"
WEST FLORTDA'S FIGHT.
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