| 285Herald July 22"
COMING BY HUNDREDS.
INFLUX OF EDITOR FROM INDIANA.
Arrangement Made to Give the Hoosiers
a Good Time With Little Speechmarking -
Florida's Fair Commissioners
Talk Back to Their Governor
Hoosier editors, 200 strong, will come to
town to-day. From away down on the
northern boundary of Kentucky up to the
borderline of the world's fair city the
molders of public opinion in Indiana have
resolved that it is good to take an
occasional holiday, and that they will
see the world's fair. Two hundred editors
is a goodly contingent, but when wives, sons
and daughters are counted, the Indiana
press excursion will number several hundred
more. They will straggle into Chicago today,
and tomorrow, in a body, they will be
tendered the freedom of the white city.
Every important paper in Indiana will be
represented, and elaborate preparations have
been made to give the visitors a royal welcome
at the fair grounds. There will
be some formal exercises at the Indiana
State Building, but the editors will be expected
and assisted to study the fair in their
own way and at their own convenience.
What little speech-making has been arranged
for will be mainly by persons who do
not live in Indiana. Henry Watterson, for
instance, whose personal acquaintance on
both sides of the Ohio river is almost as wide
as the territory, has consented to make a
brief address to the Hoosier editors Monday
evening. Tuesday morning Mrs. Potter
Palmer, whose manifold engagements have
hitherto kept her away from the
state-building, will talk to the
ladies of the editorial party on
woman's work. There are other good things
on the programme, which has been prepared
under the supervision of Executive Commissioner
Havens, of the Indiana board, and
Secretary Harbestie, of the Indiana Press
Association. This is the programme for tomorrow:
10 a. m.-Rendezvous at the Hotel Mecca for
organization.
11:15 a. m.-Leave Hotel Mecca via elevated
road, for Van Buren street pier.
12. noon-Leave Van Buren street pier on
whaleback steamer Christopher Columbus for
world's fair grounds.
2 p. m.-Meet at Indiana State Building. Jackson
Park; address of welcome by B. F, Havens,
executive commissioner, and response by the
president of the Indiana Press Association; addresses
by Major Handy and others.
3 p. m.-Tour of the grounds on the Intramural
Railway, starting at Fifty-ninth street station.
8p. m.-Informal reception to the editors and
their wives in the Indiana Building by the Indiana
board of world's fair managers.
Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock the editors
again meet in the Indiana Building to conclude
the speechmaking exercises. Then
they will be treated to a ride on the Ferris
wheel and a visit to Buffalo Bill's show.
After that the editors will make their own
programme.
| 285COMING BY HUNDREDS.
INFLUX OF EDITOR FROM INDIANA.
Arrangement Made to Give the Hoosiers a Good Time With Little Speechmarking - Florida's Fair Commissioners Talk Back to Their Governor
Hoosier editors, 200 strong, will to town to-day. From away down on the northern boundary of Kentucky up to the borderline of the world's fair city the molders of public opinion in Indiana have resolved that it is good to take an occasional holiday, and that they see the world's fair. Two hundred editors is a goodly contingent, but when wives, sons and daughters are counted, the Indiana press excursion will number several hundred more. They will straggle into Chicago today, and tomorrow, in a body, they will be tendered the freedom of the white city.
Every important paper in Indiana will be represented, and elaborate preparations have been made to give the visitors a royal welcome at the fair grounds. There will be some formal exercises at the Indiana State Building, but the editors will be expected and assisted to study the fair in their own way and at their own convenience. What little speech-making has been arranged for will be mainly by persons who do not live in Indiana? Henry Watterson, for instance, whose personal acquaintance on both sides of the Ohio river is almost as wide as the territory, has consented to make a brief address to the Hoosier editors Monday evening. Tuesday morning Mrs. Potter Palmer, whose manifold engagements have hitherto kept her away from the state-building, will talk to the ladies of the editorial party on woman's work. There are other good things on the programme, which has been prepared under the supervision of Executive Commissioner Havens, of the Indiana board, and Secretary Harbestie, of the Indiana Press Association. This is the programme for tomorrow:
10 a. m.-Rendezvous at the Hotel Mecca for organization.
11:15 a. m.-Leave Hotel Mecca via elevated road, for Van Buren street pier.
12. noon-Leave Van Buren street pler on whaleback steamer Christopher Columbus for world's fair grounds.
2 p. m.-Meet at Indiana State Building. Jack- son Park; address of welcome by B. F, Havens, executive commissioner, and response by the president of the Indiana Press Association; addresses by Major Handy and others.
3 p. m.-Tour of the grounds on the Intramural Railway, starting at Fifty-ninth street station.
8p. m.-Informal reception to the editors and their wives in the Indiana Building by the Indiana board of world's fair managers.
Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock the editors again meet in the Indiana Building to conclude the speechmaking exercises. Then they will be treated to a ride on the Ferris wheel and a visit to Buffalo Bill's show. After that the editors will make their own programme.
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