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EDITORS SEE LIONS.
Social Ones as Well as Those in Hagenbeck's Animal Show.
RECEPTION AND MIDWAY TRIP.
Indiana Men Transact a Little Business and Enjoy Themselves Listen to Addresses.
The hoosier editors put in another day at the fair to-day, devoting a little of their time to the serious consideration of the subjects of mutual interest. During the morning the regular annual meeting of the editorial association was held in the Indiana State Building, at the conclusion of which the newspaper men were presented to Mrs. Potter Palmer, the meeting have been arranged by Executive Commissioner Havens at the request of his guests. This, the formal programme for the day, over, the editors took themselves off to the Midway Plaisance, where they visited Hagenbeck's animal show, took a ride on the Ferris Wheel and finally left the oriental thoroughfare and attended in a body the Wild West Show on the special invitation of Colonel Cody.
Last night's reception at the Indiana Building kept visiting hoosier folk out late. They did not get to the grounds early in consequence, and the meeting which was called for 9 o'clock did not come to order until 10:30. When the members of the association finally arrived with their families in Indiana's airy headquarters they found President R. A. Brown and Secretary J. A. Kemp anxiously waiting to begin business, for they knew what arrangements had been made for the day's entertainment and rightly guessed their companions would have to move lively if they got through it all.
Changes in the Programme.
Some changes had been made in the original programme of speaking, and the order of the addresses as announced by the secretary was as follows:
Opening address- R. A. Brown, Republican, Franklin, president Indiana R. E. A.
"Duty of Party to Press" - S. Vater, Call, Lafayette, Ind.
"Loyalty to the Nation's Defenders" - C. W. Stivers, Herald, Liberty, Ind.
"Indiana" - Charles B. Landis, Journal, Delphi, Ind.
Address - General Smith D. Atkins, Journals, Freeport, Ill., president Illinois R. E. A.
Address - General Jasper Packard, Tribune, New Albany.
Address, "The Press and the World's Fair" Major M. P. Handy, chief of department of publicity and promotion, World's Columbian Exposition.
According to the schedule the addresses were to occupy from fifteen ot thirty minutes each, but, as a matter of fact, the time occupied by each speaker was less than he had been allowed. This was due to the fact that it was very warm, although the reading-room where the session was held is one of the coolest spots in Jackson Park and to the additional fact that the editors were in a hurry. President Brown in his opening address impressed these truths upon his hearers. In the course of his remarks he also said all that Indiana had at the fair was due to the press and all that she did not have was also due
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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.
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To see the Wild West Show.
Tomorrow these children are to see Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. They will be in condition to enjoy it in truth, for each youngster will be given all he can eat before entering the show. The Illinois Central will transport the waifs to Sixty-third street. Near the Fair grounds is a piece of vacant property owned by J. Irving Pearco, which has been placed at the disposal of the children. Here booth has been put, up, where lemonade will be made and lunches issued. Each and every boy and girl will get a glass of lemonade served in the biggest glasses it is possible to find anywhere and an extra-large lunch, larger than the hungriest boy could possibly eat at one time, neatly put up in a paper box. Then for the show.
Buffalo Bill will give a special performance for the wife stiffer than usual so the boys can get back on their special trains in time to sell their papers at 4 o'clock.
"Buffalo Bill's heart is bigger than his hat," said one of the woman teachers at the Waifs' Mission, " and anyone who has seen the latter knows that is saying a great deal. When we asked him if we might bring the children down to see the show he replied, 'Why, of course; bring as many as you like' "Can we bring 10,000?" I asked. 'Bring 20,000 if you like,' was the answer."
President Higinbotham was asked to let the children march through the grounds from one end to the other with the teachers accompanying to explain what the various buildings were and to keep them in order. They were not to enter any of the buildings. The teachers pledged themselves that the children should not break ranks, step on the grass, or do anything at all out of the way. It was to be simply a march through the grounds.
But President Higinbotham said peremptorily, "No!"
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An old-time Rocky mountain mail coach, swung on its leather straps, with its boots full of mail sacks, occupies a prominent position. It was built in 1868 and was among the first to carry the mail to Montana. Once a week it made the run between Helena and Bozeman. To-day four mail trains perform the service daily. In 1877 the old coach was captured by Indians, and after a hot pursuit by Gen. O. O. Howard was recaptured. Before Gen. Garfield became president he rode on the coach through the Yellowstone country, President Arthur sat on the boot with its driver in 1883 and Gen. Sherman in 1877 made a trip on the ancient vehicle.
Near the old-timer is the modern yellow bodied open coach used in the Yellowstone park for carrying tourists and mail. It has usurped the proud position once held by the stage coach, which Indians used to capture. The post rider, mounted on his spirited broncho, armed with revolvers and booted and spurred, tells of the letters carried over alkali plains, broad prairies and wild western lands. This mounted group is the admiration of the small boys, who gaze on it with wide-open eyes. The pony express was the original lettercarrier across the plains, and to-day 1,000 mail routes use ponies and bronchos. The Indian question was a most serious one to the men who carried mail-bags through a country swarming wíth redskins. In the dead-letter exhibit is a mail-pouch stained with the blood of a post rider and slashed by the keen blade of the Indian murderer.
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Herald July 27
Poor Children's Day.
The little waifs, whose annual outing takes place to-day, will gather this morning at Madison and Market streets for a parade, and will then take the Illinois Central for Buffalo Bill's grounds at Sixty-third street, where they picnic. The Waifs' Mission, Chicago Hebrew Mission, Unity Church Industrial School, Chicago Home for Friendless, Chicago Nursery and Half-Orphan Asylum and the Jewish Training School will take part in the parade. After the games and lunch the children will spend the afternoon at Buffalo Bill's show by invitation of Colonel Cody. Professor Frank Hensler and his American Cadet band, of Milwaukee, are at the Sherman House. There are twenty-six pieces in the band, all played by boys ranging in age from 6 to 15 years. The band will furnish the music for the waifs' outing to-day.