The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-11-28
SOUTH FLORIDA
MOTORCYCLE IS
DUE ON FRIDAY
Tampa Auto m O bill e
Dealers Associa ii o n
Started On Memorable
Tour This Morning
That Will Take In
Much of This Section of
State During the Pres
ent Week

On Friday of this week Lakeland
will be visited by a great mortorcade
from Tampa. The story is best told
by the Tampa Tribune of yesterday
which said: at r.
When F. NJ. Adamson, ofethe Beman
Beckwith Company, marshal in
charge OF the South Florida Motor
cade, gives the world Monday morn
ing, the first annual South Florida
Motorcade will get into motion.
Larger than any event in automobile
history of the state, including pleas
ure cars and trucks represented by
live dea ers of Tampa, it starts out to
bring about better fellowship in the
industry and to demonstrate through
out the Tampa territory the qualities
and utility of the motor vehicle. More
than forty cars are confidently ex-
rected to be on hand for the start.
From the moment the motorcade
swings into Franklin street for the
parade down the business section, at
z o'clock tomorrow morning, until
it winds up the week on the return
from st. Petersburg Saturday night,
the membership of the Tampa Auto
mobile Dealers Association will unite
in common cause-to develop an
appreciation on the part Of dealers
and the public of the substantial ma
ture OF the automobile business and
the excellence of it's products, as rep
resented by the 1922 cars and truck
in line. A fourteen-piece band will
be taken along on the entire trip.
Staged by the local association in
the place of a motor show, which had
been proposed, it will take into each
Of the cities and towns visited some
forty to fifty cars and trucks, givin>
thousands an opportunity of seeing
the new models. Several of the fac
tories with local representation will
have special men on the ground, and
at points at which stops of several
hours will be made there will be in =
formal talks on subjects connected
with the motor world of general in
terest.
The motorcade will leave Tampa
shortly after o'clock Monday MORN
ing They will spend an hour and a
half at Plant City, and half an hour
at Mulberry. Lunch will be served
between Mulberry and Barlow, in
charge of Ray Cralle, motorcade COM
missary. The afternoon and evening
will be spent, at Barlow.
They will leave Barlow early Tues,
day morning and will spend an hour
and half in Fort Meade, three there,
and the afternoon and evening at Al
cadia.
On Wednesday, they will spend one
hour at Sebring, one hour at Avon
Park, one hour for lunch at Frcst-
proof, and the afteroon and evening
at Lake Wales.
An hour and a half will be spent at
Haines City on Thursday, and the af-
ternoon and night will be at Winter
Haven.
The party will visit Lake Alfred for
half an hour Friday morning, and Au-
burndale half an hour. They will
take lunch at Lakeland and spend the
afternoon there. Friday night they
will return to Tampa to spend the
night.
Pinellas county will be visited Sat
urday, Dec. g. Leaving Tampa at Z
o'clock that morning. the Tampans
will spend a quarter of an hour al
Dunedin, two hours at Clearwater,
half an hour at Largo and the rest of
the day at st. Petersburg, returning
to Tampa Saturday night.
Town to Give 'em Glad Hand
At Barlow, Mayor Taylor and " G.
Kelly have arranged to have the city
marshal meet the mOtOrcade at the
edge of town and escort the cars to
their day parking space, on the north