The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-06-26
Press Comment
PENSACOLA PLEASED
PENCIL PUSHERS.

/ The forty-first annual meeting o.
the Florida Press Association at Pen
sacola will, as A. p. Jordan says, &c
laundering down the corridors o.
time. It will never be forgotten by
/ those editors who attended the con.
Ivention because of what they enjoyed
lit will be remembered by those who
did not attend because Of what they
missed. The next generation of jour.
nalism is going to relate how my
father used to tell about the time the
editors met at Pensacola, how Charley
Hervey gave them for three days that
hospitable hostelry, the Santa Claus
hotel. whose very atmosphere from the
front door to the roof, including the
cellar. is cordial. One feels at home
in the San Carlos.
Editors will write and posterity will
hear how unnecessary would have been
the pocketbooks that the newspapers
men and women left at home on the
advice of Mrs. Lois K. Mayes. pub
Usher of The Pensacola Journal; how
we met in the seventh floor auditorium
of the said Santa Claus hotel with the
breeze blowing through so stoutly that
Willis Powell's liquid words were watt
ed out of their faccoustical course;
how automobiles were in constant
waiting upon us to carry the Fourth
Estate hither and thither and some
times yon; how the ladies were pre-
scented with exquisite Japanese fans
imported in boxes that still contained
their Oriental markings; how the hes
were given solid leather pocketbooks
for souvenirs of the occasion; how
Colonel Holderman, commander of
Forts Barrancas, Pickens and McRae,
not only rendered as an afternoons
use Of his army steamer to visit the
posts and naval air station and to
prowl around the Gulf of Mexico in,
but honored us with his presence as
we'll and brought along the splendid
Barrancas brass band for our bene-
fit; how seaplanes did special stunts
for our entertainment and were as
thick in the air as mosquitoes dr Port
Fierce. how they served us roasted
oysters by the peck together, with the
best basket lunches anybody ever
tasted: how we were dined and Be-
voed from early morn till dewey eve
each day; how the Pensacola Ship
Building Corporation launched the big
freighter Hastings. a week after she
was ready to slide off the ways SO we
could see it; how Misses Salmon and
Moreno of the News staff were con-
tinually taxing their brains to think
of some nice new thing to do for US;
how everybody else in Pensacola was
the same way; how our money wasn't
good and nothing we did was bad.
1t can't be told in several volumes.
Columns daily in the Pensacola papers
chronicled our business sessions, but
they did not scratch the surface of
the world Of entertainment we were
accorded. They were too modest to
mention what they were doing for us
every minute, and their papers were
not big enough to have told it all if
they had devoted them exclusively to
the convention. And they are not little
papers, either. There was more bust
ness done than usual, and the fun we
had would make. any other party you
ever saw look like 1t had just sue
cumbed to an attack of the Bubonic
plague. To spend a dime you had to
watch your chance. slip off by your
self, disrobe insofar as your badge
was concerned, so as to conceal your
Identify and make your purchase in
a hurry.
Neither can it all be told in a day or
a week. Our system is full of editorials
and Bromides contracted on this trip.
They will ooze out of our anatomy one
by one through the months to come
and the words Pensacola" Hervey,"
.'Mayes'' and Hayes" will appear in
all of them. And in this we are not
unlike the other writer's who were
present. They are all full of it (the
and long will they remem-
Der it as they ponder with their pens
and typewriters in hand. We saw
much. we ate much. we ate much too
much and saw more than any one of
US will ever be able to put on paper.
but possibly all of US together.
in different parts OF the
state through the years to come, will
eventually spill, drop by drop, the
great wonderful story of the Press
Association meeting in Pensacola. One
Of the $50 Bromides we already have
IN our note book might fittingly close
this poor expression of our gratitude.
Charles Hervey
Is bear;
Mrs. Mayes is
Also there.
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