New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-08-13
NEW ULM AND VICINITY.
i | !! ED y

IsSEsorA ED1ror.
TAsirDa1pt Excursssn : GranA suc-
cess.
Incidents and IIappenlngs.
We returned from the editorials en-
cursion last Saturday night, and viii
now endeavor to convey to our many
readers q faint idea Of the localities
visited by Minnesota's quill driFers
upon their arst excursion, and tn in.
cidents connected Herewith.
Arriving in St.. Paul shortly after
eleven o'clock Tuesday forenoon, we
found that but few of the craft had
preceded US. Mr.. H. p. Hall, editor
of the Globe, who has done more for
the "slocums'' than any other man in
the State, and Capt. Henry A. Castle,
editor Of the Dispatch, were hard at
work, here, there and everywhere,
making all necessary arrangements for
the excursion, and it is due to these
two gentlemen, Maj. 4. NJ. Newson,
editor of the Fireside Companion, and
A. De Lacy Wood, secretary of the
Minnesota Editorial Association, that
the excursion commenced under 80
favorable auspices and terminated 80
happily. $50 q. ~. !. &.
The afternoon and evening trains
brought in many Knights Of the Quill,
and shortlyafter eight o'clock they as.
sembled in one of the spacious parlors Of
the Metropolitan Hotel to the number
Of "a editors, Is being accompanied by
their ladies. A business meeting was
organized and Chas. L. Davis, of the
Red Wing Argus, was elected presi.
.dsat, and A. De Lacy Wood secretary.
The programme for the excursion was
then announced and a resolution adopt
ed that no tickets be issued to anyone
unless he was an absolute newspaper
publisher or worker upon a newspaper,
after which the party repaired to the
elegantly furnished DINING room of
the Metropolitan Hotel where the
splendid banquet rendered to the ex.
cursionists by the hotel was given. tits
hardly necessary to say that the guests
done ample justice to the many good
things set before them.
The banquet over, the pioneer edit.
or, Maj. T, NJ. Newson, took the floor,
and in his usual eloquent style deliv.
cred an address of welcome. He gave
description Of his early experience
in this State, carrying his readers back
to a quarter of century ago, when
there were only seven editors in the
Territory, now State of Minnesota,
and only q log cabin was scattered
here and there throughout our vast
commonwealth. The address was list.
ened to with close attention and the
many good hits won the speaker
rounds of applause.
Toasts were next in order, the first
being: The pioneer editors-where are
they! Responded to by Col. Calkins,
of the Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph,
and formerly Of the Pioneer. Other
toasts followed, the most important of
which was one to "The St. Paul s
Sioux City Railroad" and one to "The
St. Paul 3 Duluth railroad, and Min
nesota's only lake port" Capt. Castle,
Of the Dispatch, responding to the
former, and r. G. Mitchell, of the Du.
luth Tribune, to the latter. Mr.. Castle
gave short account of the progress Of
the road, and paid it the compliment
a rare one in these days-Of never hav.
ing defaulted in the payment of its in
terests, had never been sold out, and
had alwaysremained a Minnesota road.
1t would in the future be the grand
trunk line around which must he clus.
tered complete system Of Minnesota
roads hurting defiance at monopolies.
1t was the nucleus of the railroads OF
the State, and would long continue to
deserve the gratitude of the people.
Mr.. Mitchell, in his response, paid a
high tribute to the past management
of the Duluth road, and spoke of the
services it had done the people OF the
whole State in keeping down the rates
Of transportation. He thought that
many people were unnecessarily fright
ened at the recent transfer of the
road, as the new management had al.
ready mapped out and commenced
making more improvements than had
been made for years, and he held that
the transfer would in no wise be Diet.
1iment to the interests of the State,
and that cheap rates would be main
tanned in the future as in the past. OF
the progress of the city of Duluth Mr..
Mitchell had great hopes, but as the
party would soon visit it themselves he
would leave it for them to form their
own conclusions, We hope Mr.. Mitch
els hopes may not be blighted, and
that his predictions in regard to the
st. Paul 4 Duluth road may become
true. BY the time the regular list OF
toasts was through with it was nearly
twelve o'clock, and the party retired
to snatch little rest, well pleased
with the evenings entertainment and
the suspicious opening of the excur-
sion. aE4y
THE TRIP TO WINDOW.
After an early breakfast the excur.