The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-11-02
BANQUET FOR
TOURISTS AT
COMMERCIAL.
COLUMBIANS AND VISITORS
ENJOY EVENING AROUND
FESTAL BOARD
PRAISE OUR CITY
CaDtivated BY Southern Hos,
pitality Which Has Been
Shown Them In Travels
Through Dixie Land.

!, Enthusiastic praise from our north
I ern visitors marked the banquet that
was given by Columbus citizens, Mon
day night, in honor of the bus car
! avan tourists from Cleveland and
Z Chicago who stopped here to spend
] the night on their way from Chicago
: to New Orleans.
When it was learned that the bus
caravan would pass through Colum-
bus on their long trip, plans were at
once made to entertain them during
their sojourn here and to show them
what real, genuine, old-time South
ern hospitality is like AS originally
planned, the courtesy was to begin
at Vernon, Ala Twenty gentlemen
. from Columbus were to go to Vernon
on Sunday and escort the tourists to
our city. 1t had been announced that
the party would spend Saturday night
at Florence, Ala, and reach here on
Sunday. However, they were so cor
daily received and so well entertain
ed at Florence that they found it
very difficult to tear themselves away, |
so got behind with their schedule. (
They reached here about noon on
! Monday, having spent Sunday night
at Hamilton, Ala
/ After they had registered at the
4 Hotel Gilmer, the tourists were Shown
4 points of interest in and around Col
umbus. They visited Mr. Thomas j.
| Locke's geological garden, the Mis-
sissippi State College for Women, the
Owen Greenhouse, and other places.
and expressed themselves as being
delighted with our city and its en-
lvirons, II
4 Tuesday night at seven o'clock, at
the Commercial Hotel, the tourists I
were given a banquet. For the oc-
casion the dining room of the Com I
mercial Hotel was beautifully dec
GRATED with ferns and autumn leaves.
z As the guests entered the dining J
room the first thing that attracted ;
their attention was giant pumpkin,
with the top and filling" cut out, and '
loaded with red-cheeked apples and !
purple grapes. The tables were COW
cred with snowy linen, covers being
laid for fifty. There were twenty of
the tourists eleven ladies' and nine (
gentlemen. The residue of the guests
were Columbians, who We'd with each ]
other in extending courtesies and hos I
pitality.
A number of bright and sparkling =
speeches were made by home folks a
and visitors, in which welcome was /
expressed and appreciation spoken. v
The banquet itself was a culinary @
triumph, worthy the efforts of Mrs. t
Gunter and her daughter Mrs. Rob y
ert Cheatham. t
The occasion was enlivened and the
pleasure of all was enhanced by
sweet strains of music from the Col
umbus Orchestra, engaged for the e
banquet. I
Purpose of the Trip. d
The purpose Of the trip was TO t
make plans for a regular auto bus I
route from the great lakes to the i
Gulf Of Mexico. 1t was promulgated a
by the White Company, Of Cleveland, l.
Ohio, manufacturers of motor cars D
and trucks. They propose to estab- c
lish regular passenger and freight v
service for the twelve hundred miles :
between Chicago and New Orleans,
and believe that in the course Of
year or two they can make travel
by auto bus as safe, as satisfactory
and as speedy as by rail. The dis
tance from Chicago to Columbus is
given as 825 miles.
Left Tuesday Morning.
Yesterday morning the Dixie Motor
Bus Caravan left Columbus for Mer-
idian, where they planned to spend
the night. This morning they leave
Meridian for Hattiesburg; thence to
Bogalusa, La, and on TO New Orleans.
Mr.. Stanley p Seward, Of Cleve-
land a member of the party, called
at the Dispatch office yesterday
and requested US, on behalf
Of the tourists, 10 express their heart =
felt thanks to the people Of Column
bus for their kindness and hospital
ity Said he: I'VE thought we had
seen Southern hospitality all the
time since we crossed the Mason q
Dixon line. but really that splendid
virtue reached its height here in Col
umbus You have the prettiest city
we have seen and the most hospit-
able people
At the Gilmer Hotel, Monday night.
one Of the lady members Of the party
said: we thought we had been in
the South for some time, but here