Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1911 — GULF-TO-LAKES PARTY [ARTICLE]

GULF-TO-LAKES PARTY

Passes Through This City Tuesday Morning En Route to Chicago. Stained by travel, the Pensacola scout car, carrying four representatives of the Pensacola commercial association, who are searching out the best highways between the Floridk city and Chicago, and energetically working for the improvement of the roads so as to make one continuous stretch of well-built roadway, passed through Rensselaer Tuesday morning about 8:30 a. m., having spent the night at Lafayette. Since leaving Pensacola one week ago Sunday, the party had been in the rain every day except one. The primary purpose of the trifi is to “put Pensacola 'on the automobile map.” While many routes satisfactory for automobile travel have been charted and are given in the automobile blue book, Pensacola is nbt located oh any of these. Members of the party in the scout car are Colonel Frank Mayes, editor of the Pensacola Journal; Dr. S. R. Mallory Kennedy A. M. Avery, Jr., and F. C. Brent,Jr. The car in tvhich the trip is being made belongs to Dr. Kennedy who is doing the driving. Dr. Kennedy is a grandson of S. R. Mallory, who was a United States senator from Florida before the civil war,' and secretary of the navy for the southern Confederacy.