The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-02-02
CHAMBER HEARS
HOFFMAN'S REPORT
Judge Hoffman Appoints Fred Marsh
Florida Vice President of Old
Spanish Trail Convention.

Judge NJ. G. Hoffman, president of
the Pensacola Chamber of Commerce,
made a report of the convention of the
Old Spanish Trail association, recent
ly held in Gulfport. which he attend
ed as a representative from the state
at the regular meeting of the board
of directors of the chamber held yes
terday afternoon. Judge Hoffman
also announced that having been Civ
en- the authority to appoint a Florida
vice president of the association. he
had named Fred w. Marsh.
NJ. II. West, representing the Amer
lean Park builders of Chicago, ad
dressed the board relative to civic
planting and identifying.
Judge Hoffman at the convention.
by Florida boosting and much argu-
ment got the association to change
their designation of the trail as from
Florida to California instead of from
California to Florida, and direct
route established through Pensacola.
His report. in part. follows:
To his excellency, Governor Cary
A. Hardee, Tallahassee. Fla.
Dear Brother Hardee-Your APP
pointment of myself as the represen-
tative of Florida at the Old Spanish
Trail convention reached me by mail
in due time. l should have acknowl-
edged it at once and assured you of
my attendance. However, that was
neglected in the press of business.
| accepted this duty with the firm
resolve that l would, if at all possible
have the bifurcation of the trail in
this vicinity abolished. SO that there
would he only one trail and that trail
leading through Pensacola. I knew
and expected that [ would run into
some stormy weather on this PROPOSE
ton, but determined. nevertheless, to
do 1t.
When I got to the assembled con-
vention, after being properly accred-
tied. I told them l was representing
the state of Florida and the state Of
Pensacola, which is also in your realm
and jurisdiction. They were Dragging
about the good roads they had and
which they were going to build and
the bond issues that they were going
| to carry.
But when 1 told them about the
| good roads at Miami and Tampa and
Jacksonville, and when I told them
that in the state of Pensacola we'd
carried a 100000 bond issue for
SOOu IOdNSy LllSN DCS7ohil ~ SHtSI '" ASAA
open -mouthed surprise.
l introduced the following resolu-
ton:
Resolved, by the Old Spanish Trail
association in convention assembled:
THAT, the official route of the trail
be not bffurcated from Mobile, Ala,
to Crestview, Fla, but that the north
ern branch of it be abolished and
( that there be hereafter only one off,
cial trail route between said places,
and that official route to run as fol-
lows:
From Mobile directly to Pensacola
and from thence to Milton, Fla, and
then to Crestview.
This resolution is to establish in
the official records and maps here
after published what now is the fact
indeed. namely. that this direct route
through Pensacola is the most prac-
teal, leading to a first class caravan
sary in Pensacola as we'll as to the
old Spanish Fort San Carlos and the
present forts and navy yard of the
United States and the largest hydro
aeroplane school or station in the
United States, ocular inspection oi
which should not be missed by Span
ish Trail tourists"
The resolution was carried,