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 11:80 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 lasted more took to 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.
