Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-06-18
FIRST EDITION.
The PeninsuIar Press Excursion.


AN AGREEABLE TRIP by SEA AND lAND-THnoUaH
DELAWARE TO LEwEs, NEW YORK, AND PHIIADEL-
PHIA.
Correspondence ef the Commercial.
PHILADELPHIA, June II.
The excursion party OF tho Pcninsular Press
Association, numbering inst forty persons
of whom nine were ladies', gathered at Lewes, on
Tuesday afternoon. Those who went from Will
mington had had an extremely pleasant ride,
dust excepted, and this annoyance was almost
entirely absent after leaving Harrington. At
that point, the party took new and elegant car,
never before used. 1t is one OF four just deliy-
cred by the HARLAN a. Hollingsworth Co., two Of
them to the Junction Breakwater Railroad Co.,
and two TO the Worcester Railroad Co. Each
pair includes a passenger and combined srnok-
ing, mail, and baggage car.
Tho party having reached Lewes, the steamer
left quite promptly at o'clock, and passed out.
side the Capes i'll half an hour. The weather
was fine and the sea smooth. Few vessels lay
at the Breakwater The Nedertdnd of the Red
Star Line, for Antwerp, was just passing out
The new iron pier, of tho Government was
viewed as we rounded Cape Henlopen, For the
original appropriation of $225,0 about 1889
| feet in length have been built, and the present
year appropriation Of $780, O00 will add 100 Feet
more. Some $50 feet will then remain to be
constructed, to reach the limit of the plan pro-
posed by the engineers ~
Hosting the ships sails, we made eleven
knets all hour mp the Jersey coast We passed
Absecoms steady pharos, early in the evening"
| and at $50, about which time most of the party
| retired, the flesh light at Barnegat shone off to
our left. At o'clock, meeting of the Press
Association WAS held in the saloon, and the reg
| ular business of the annual meeting taken up.
Several members previously elected paid their
| dues, four or five new ones were elected, and
| the officers were chosen for the ensuing year, as
| follows; President, Howard M. Jenkins, Will
mington COMMERCIAL Vice President DIR. W.
l D. Noble, fredericksburg Courier; Secretary, A.
L.. Richardson, Salisbury Eastern iShore'ndn !;
Treasu or, Ep. G.. Polk, Princess Anne True
| Marylnndef Executive Committee, James Kirk,
| Detdrdredn, s. G. Beckwith, Cambridge Chron-
| icle J. A. johnson, Easton Ledger, j. IL. Hof-
| feclser Smyrna Times Financial Committee, >.
NJ. Emerson, Wilmington COMMERCIAL, .. 7.
johnson, Wilmington Gazette, G.. &. Cameron,
Wilmington Euery Eueain3. Tho proceedings
were characterized by great good feelint and
| there were numerous expressions testliyln8 TO
/ the pleasure the trip was aifordng, and to the
| spirit of good fellowship which the Association
had called unto existence. Among the other
| business was the adoption of the following res
l olution:
Resolvel That the thanks of this Association
are Justly due, and are hereby rendered to the Old
Dominion Steamship Company for its generous
treatment of tho members of the Association on
the occasion of our first annual meeting, and we
hereby express our sincere gratihcatlon with the
manner in which it has made its enterprise felt
| in our Peninsula. land our admiration for the
| magnificent steamers by which it has given us .
i new connection with the Nations metropolis; and
| further that our thanks are especially due TO
Captain Kelly and tue officers Of the steamship
Richmond, for tho courtesy With which tney nave
entertained us.
| Early Wednesday morning, the steamer had
reached her dock. by five o'clock she was hauled
into her berth and her cargo in trice hurried on
| A largo part of it consisted OF strawberries. Ihe
| Steamship Co. has had large cage trucks con.
| Btructed, which are filled at the stations placed
on platform cars, and these at the wharyes are
readily run on and off the steamer. Thousands
| of crates of fruit can be handled thus IN very
short time and the boats need not be detained
at Loves long after the fruit trains come III.
| Tho Old Dominion Companys dock, III the
early morning. is busy scene. The fruit and
truck from Loves are as yet, but small part OF
the freight of that character brought hither by
this line. The Norfolk steamers bring III the
vegetables from that section in immense quanti-
ties. Asparagus, lettuce, peas, string Deans,
&C., have been coming, by thousands OF barrels,
cabbage and tulnps arc now on, ana the now
potatoes will be here i'll a few days. Except the
crops that come III limited quantities from pointh
further South, the truck-farmers of South east
ern Virginia supply the early vegetables OF Now
| York, the season through The truck is landed
rapidly, and II market is established on the dock
as it is run ashore Wholesale buyers are here
from throughout tho city, from the Now Englana
cities and towns, and even from quebec ana
Montreal. They make their selections on the
| spot and have them sent to their DESTINATION.
The charges for carriage are thus kept at the
! lowest limit, and by prompt handling, fruit
runs the smallest risk of decay and loss.
The excursion party having breakfasted or
, | tho steamer at o'clock, proceeded up town, IL
such order al each chose. 1t had boen agreed
that the st. Nicholas Hotel should be head-quar'
ters, and nearly all arrived there IN tlle 10, iol
dinner. Some seven or eight gentlemen OF the
party went to the Brooklyn City Court, and were
kindly provided by Judge Nelson with from
| seats at the Beecher Trial. Others spent the
morning in such manner as they preferred IL
the afternoon many visited the Park, ana IN tne
i evening some visited Gilmores immense MUSIC
Garden, in the old Hlppourone, at @oen to.' "h'
Madison Avenue. ri. :.
II At0.37 this morning, we left jersey City, in
i special car which had been attached Tor our use
to tho Western g Fast Line. IheTe Teliaiiee
! about thirty eight of the party. MIR. Croasdal'
! | had gone OH to help celebrate Bunker Hills Gen
: tennial and one or two others remained IN New
. York city. The ride across New Jersey, ana cow
/ down the shore of the Delaware, lroh
= Trenton, was very pleasant. AT o'clock, reach
4 ing the West Philadelphia depot, we were me
by a number of representatives of the Phiiadei
:. phia newspapers, and Of business connected VIII
q newspapers, including Wm. v. Mexican, Gsq.' q q
j. Hincken, Of the .Sunday Dtspdtch; W; .
| Clark of the Telegraph; Robert >. Men
!, amin, the well.known Minor St. dealer III ,Prlnt
>, ers' supplies, and a number OF others; ines
a | gentlemen had provided barouches for the whol
. party, and at i.3O, we drove to Tischner's,
- well appointed restaurant and dining saloon, OF
=, Belmont Avenue, just at the Park edge, an'
y close by the Centennial buildings. Here i iun
- cheon was served in the best style, some hit
a ladies' and gentlemen sitting down. We tne
~ drove eisurely around the great Dniie
!. ings, viewing them from all points
i, and proceeding by Georges Hill, Belmont
\ and Chamouni, to Falls bridge, crossed there T.
~ the East Park, through which we drove. Phils
:, delphia's great pleasure ground was seen at II
best, and the drive was in all respects deilghtiu
a. Re.crossing to the West Park, by the dlrard A,
- enue bridge, carriages were dismissed at the gal
"a of the geological Gardens, and the party spen
~ ~ nearly an hour viewing the great collection WING
is here 30 admirably kept AT a quarter aI,e
Il, six all took the street cars, and repaired 70 tn
IN St. Cloud Hotel, on Arch street, and after te
to the company broke up. Very many, IN the hea
az ing of your correspondent, expressed thef gre'
ts pleasure with the trip, and think the hrst al
% nual excursion of the Peninsular Press Associ
;, tlon may bs pronounced decided success, an
II well worth repetition. Before separating u
~ ~ following further resolutions We're adopted
,y3 Resoloed That th @ thanks OF tine penlnsu
ai Press Association are hereby rendered thePenl
a. sylyania Railroad Co., for the special car III
% Complimentary transportation provided ior tne
ha use on this excursion and the gentleman
m ny attention of the officers of the company, menu
vi ing Mr., l.. r. Farmer, Asst. General Passeng
~ Agent, through whom the courtesy was exteh
- adj. receive our cordial acknowledgment;