The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-08-10
Press Comment
Iona Lease on Quincy Hotel.

Long Lease on Quincy Hotel.
| The Quincy hotel in this city has
been secured for term of years by J.
r. Randle. lessee and manager of the
Leon hotel in Tallahassee, Mr.. Randle
| purchasing the unexpired lease of Mrs.
]. P. Mccall and taking. in addition, a
long time lease of the property from
the company in this city owning it.
Mr.. Randle, took possession of the hotel
last Sunday and it is now being oper-
ated under his management. Both he
and the company owning the property
will spend considerable money in dec
Grating and otherwise improving it and
it will be run upon the American plan.
1t is Mr. Randle's purpose to make
1t one of the best hotels in Florida, a
model of its kind and not surpassed
by any hotel in the South in a city of
the Quincy class. He will have as his
resident manager, /. F. williams. form
erly chief clerk of the Seminole hotel
in Jacksonville, gentleman of large
experience, tact and judgment who
will add to the popularity of the
house.
Mr.. Randle is one of the most ac-
complished hotel men in the entire
tation of making a success of every
hotel enterprise with which he has
been associated in directing capacity
for he is backed by large experience
as well as naturaIs aptitude for the
business. In addition to the Quincy
here and the Leon at Tallahassee, he
has the Moore Haven hotel at Moore
Haven, Fla, and the hotel at Panacea
| G N m Ia a IA c
see he was chief clerk of the San Car
los hotel at Pensacola, and prior to
that was connected with the manage
ment of the Battle House at Mobile.
He is a Mississippian by birth, born
and reared in the aristocratic old city
of Columbus in that State. and in mis-
youth he served his apprenticeship in
the famous Girmer House there, where
he absorbed the true spirit of hos
pitable host who knows how to make
his guests feel at home. and he has
never forgotten it.-Quincy Times.
Investigating Transportation.
Agents of one of the departments OF
the government are now conducting
an investigation of transportation by
water and rail along the Gulf coast
The intention is to make this inves-
tigation a most thorough one, and TO
ascertain just how much there is in
the public report that the roads are
attempting to kill off waterway trans
,portation.
This section is particularly interest
ed in the subject, as it has seen what
the railways have done to eliminate
boat competition, which would then
hermit of their charging just what
thew pleased to those ports than can
now avail themselves of water trans
portation.
A few years ago an attempt was
made to drive the Tarpon off the Mo-
bile-Pensacola- st. Andrews Bay line,
when the railways placed a package
car on their lines between these points
and made a comparatively low rate Tor
package freight. This effort was MADE
by the L. & N and the A. a 81. A. =.
Ry. Had they rendered regular, de-
pendable service, it might have affect-
ed the Tarpon unfavorably, but 1t was,
and is. so unsatisfactoW that ship
nars and merchants keep shipping
the Tarpon. knowing that in doing
they could depend on the day and hour
that their shipments would leave Mo-
bile and Pensacola, and when they
would reach here
These government officials might
well investigate this attempt to do
away with water transportation, as IL
is a glaring Instance of an effort to
end competition by water, that rail
rates might be unduly advanced
Panama Pilot.