The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-07-04
THE EDITORIAL CONVENTION
AND EXCURSION.

The pleasures Of an excursion are of
too ethereal character to be judged by
mere description. AS well attempt to
blind its odor to the lily" as to hope to
properly depict the happiness which
reigns supreme amid crowd of excur-
siOnists who have left dull care behind
them. The month of June too, instinct
with life and redolent with perfume, with
skies which wake the wish and melt the
heart, gives a pleasure to travel which
WEAKNESS can not dispel. The happy
union Of business with pleasure made the
convention instructive without being
tiresome aud enjoyable without levity.
Editors are not usually credited with an
undue amount Of abstention when renloy-
ed from the restraints which rigorous
rules OF society impose. But the excursion
whose members carried their scalp locks
III their hands. metaphorically speaking,
were during the entire journey temperate
IN their Joy and moderate in all things.
They were the salt of the earth, in NOR
ais, tit missionaries Of the gospel sobriety
and good will to all men. Col Watrous
was the most incorporate man in the
crowd as he ate the ample lunch provid-
ed for him by mine host, Parsons, OF the
Villas House, at 4 o'clock in the morning
and by that act did murder sleep in
Marathon.
The business part of the convention
was principally limited to a discussion of
foreign advertising. The literary part
was given on Tuesday evening and per-
haps was as fine an exhibition of intel
lect'ial power, the woven beauty of words
and pathetic and eloquent expression of
sorrow Tor those who had fallen by the
way side, as ever was displayed in the
beautiful city of the lakes. Had not our
subsequent acquaintance with Chitten-
den OF the Milwaukee News convinced us
that he had a heart susceptible to the
charms of pretty waiter girls, that he had
weakness for fresh milk and bathing,
We should from his address in the as
sembly chamber have SET him down as
more than mortal, more than man and
should have worshipped him from
''aFar off. Mr.. Woodman's memoir of
J. l. Werlich is a monument more endur.
ing and beautiful than worldly wealth
ever reared to one who had gone On be-
fore.
The time Of the convention was large
ly taken up, III accepting invitations from
the citizens of Madison to various enter
tainments. Geo. Peek, who always
comes ont strong III emergencies ana
whose experience with the Business
Mems Excursion gave wisdom to. his
youth which admirably fitted him as a
puissant iea&er in accepting invitations,
introduced resolution accepting all in
vitatiOns which may be extended &c. sc.
The many invitations We're then taken in
by piatoons. Peck detailed by himself to
visit tie lunatic asylum and returned
from there fuuGier if not more fool
ish man. He went home 10 Milwaukee
and sat up all night to write serious
article on INSANITY"
From Madison to Ashland the excur-
sionists passed by Handicapped hills
which skirted fertile valleys, through
gomber forests from which came the re-
sinous breath of the pine and which ech
oed the shriehs Oh the passing locomotive,
by the banks of placid lakes whose bos-
oms ere seldom ruffied by the oafsEisn's
arm and which have never reflected the
white sail speeding before the wind, by
scrubby farms where man has S-rastled
with nature fog the fruits of the land,
near backnoods villages which seemed to
be the oHtposts of civilization, oyer once
grassy plains deluded 10y fire of their
growth, crossing and racrossiug streams
red with the oxide OF the metal which
enriches those hills in which the streams
s4@so their source, through cuts in hills
81 Afg3}2esu rQch which were formed at