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 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.
