Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-12-19
Eastern Tourists Praise
The Dixie Highway
Party Enroute From Boston To Mi
ami, Fla, Here Sunday

A motorcade of twenty three cars,
which left Boston, December 9TH, ar
rived in the city at 80 P. M, the
time scheduled for their arrival on
their itinery planned months ago in
the offices of the Automobile Green
Book at Boston. The fact that the
motorcade arrived on its scheduled
time was possible only by the good
average condition of the roads, of
which the tourists had great deal Of
praise, especially were thee pleased
with the conditions of the roads thru
she part of Georgia over which they
travelled.
S. Won Loesecke, manager of the
tourists department of the Automobile
Legal Association, the leading spirit
of the association promoting the tour,
which is to popularize cross country
auto parties among the class of auto
lists who in the past have shipped their
cars to their projected winter play
grounds, was especially pleased with
the success of his project thus far and
states that this tour will do a great
deal towards getting tourists through
this section and over the Central Dixie
Highway, of which a great deal of IA
vorable comment was expressed.
At the Aldine Hotel where dinner
was served, the party was met by Sec.
Adams of the Chamber of Commerce
and Editor I Gelders of the Leader
Enterprise and the party furnished
with descriptive booklets of the city
ard annual passes on the Dixie High
way of which the tourists promised to
make frequent use.
Starting at Boston, Mass, on Dec
9TH, the party travelled 1,50l miles
with stops for the night at Hartford
New York, Philadelphia, Gettysburg,
Washington, Richmond, Henderson,
N. c., Pinehurst, Camden, s. c., Au-
gusta and Macon. Tonight will be
be spent at Waycross and then on to
Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, West
Palm Beach and Miami, where the
party will spend the winter,
The tourists who hail from every
New England state and New York
State are M. Rocamora, of Boston,
president Of the Scarborough Motor
Guide Company publishers of the
Automobile Green Book; S. Won Loe-
secke, Boston, manager of the tour
ing department of the Automobile
Legal Association: Kenneth L. Free
man, Boston, representing Marster's
Tours; Colonel and Mrs. Perlie A.
Dyar. of Boston; DR.. Donald D. Camp
bell of Otisville, N. Y, physician in
charge of New York Municipal Sana-
torium; R. Lawrence, Springfield,
Mass: A. P. Stone, New Haven,
Conn; JIM. Shawcross, Edgewood, R.
j.; Mr. and Mrs. E NJ. Carpenter, of
Salem Mass; Mrs. Nettie M. F. Chat
fee and two sons of Oxford, Mass;
Johnson Glass of Oxford, Mass. Mrs.
Car:'vn M. Hittenger, Portland, Me-.
John G. Lyons, Portland Me.;C. A.
Wade, Boston; Mrs. NJ F. Hudson,
Worcester, Mass; Miss Bertha Hud-
son, Worcester, Mass; Mrs. Nina
Smith, Worcester, Mass; Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry A. Dewey, Castleton, VT;
Mr.. and Mrs. R, B. Tiley and R. B.
Tiley, Jr., of Essex, Conn.,; Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles F. Bruce, of Boston;
Mrs. Ethel D. King, of Boston, Mass;
Arthur and Lyle Lawrence of Tivoli,
N. Y; Mr.. and Mrs. William E. Bo-
wen of Providence, R. l.; Mr.. and
Mrs. John w. Cochrane, of New Lon
don, Conn; F. A. Young of Hartford
Conn; Horace W. Steere, Providence,
R. l.. Mrs. Gertrude Maude Greene,
Providence, R. l.; Miss Jessamine
Eweet, Providence, R. l.; Mrs. Abbie
J. Linnel, Cohasset, Mass; Mrs. Wal