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to the same influence. The other addresses
were short and interesting and the edits
showed a keen appreciation of all that was
said.

Introduced to Mrs. Palmer.

The meeting was not quite over when at
11:30 it was announced that Mrs. Palmer
and the ladies were in waiting for the editors
in the ladies' parlors. Accordingly
the session took a recess and met them. It
was an opportunity that neither the visiting
members of the press association or
their families cared to miss and
they hurried across the hall, where
half an hour was spent in social
enjoyment. Then they hurried back to
the assembly-room and rapidly finished
what business had been left undone and
took an adjournment until 8 o'clock, when
they plan to rise early and dispatch all remaining
business before the association,
that they may be free for the rest of the
week to do the fair.

A very short time was spent at dinner
and the editors hurried out to the Midway.
At Hagenbeck's they were met by Manager
Hoffheimer and assigned to boxes reserved
for them. The house was crowded, as
usual, and the editors, with the patrons of
the attraction, thoroughly enjoyed the
performance, which lasted more than
one hour. Again they took to the
Plaisance. By this time some of them
showed signs of fatigue and roller chairs
and even the sedan chairs were called into
service. They went on out the Midway pulling
themselves and members of their families
past the various attractions that they
would have entered were they not running
on scheduled time. No stop was made
of until they rested in the shade of
the great wheel. Several cars had
been reserved for the party. From
the dizzy height to which they ascended
twice they saw Chicago, the world's fair
and in the distance hoosier soil. When
the editors set foot on the earth again they
were escorted back to the intramural road
and by it were taken to Sixty-third street.
Here they were met by the representatives
of Colonel Cody and his partner and escorted
to the Wild West Show, where for
the next two hours they witnessed the
marvelous horsemanship of rough
riders of the world.

The editors who were here yesterday
were joined by the following members of
the association who came to the city last
night: J. T. Matson, Columbus Republican;
Charles S. Haas, Wabash Plain
dealer D. F. Bell, Kokomo Tribune; J. C.
Ochiltree, Marion Chronicle; W. S. Usigne,
Union City Eagle; George C. Morgan, LaGrange
Standard; C. W. Lockwood, Peru
Republican; B. S. Parker, New Castle
Poet; Frank Stivers, Liberty Herald; Jackson
Stivers, Fairmount News; R. Williams,
Warsaw Indianian; A. A. Hargrave, Rockville
Republican, and several others who
failed to register.

To-morrow, after the business meeting,
the editors plan to spend the day seeing the
fair, and will devote the rest of the week to
the same profitable pastime.