The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-10-28
Redwood Innocents Abroad.


At or about 2 o'clock p NJ Wednesday
October 18th, A. D. 1880, our popula
liveryman, 8. G. Baker, with as magnifi
cent pair of roadsters as ever trod tn,
soil of Redwood county, started from
Redwood Falls to Marshall with a load o
humanity consisting of H. L. Daniels, H
D. Chollar, F. L. Warner and ]. ]. Coyle
delegates to the Representative and Sen
atorial conventions for this district. helt
respectively at Marshall and Tracy, o,
the 14th and 18th inats.; also. G. w. Bra
ley, our candidate for Representative
and last, but not least, your correspond
ent. We started with strong southwest
wind blowing. and every indication of ,
storm.
In order to make the time pass pleas
antly, different members of the party re-
lated anecdotes, sung songs, or proposed
conundrums, as the spirits moved them
Finally the chairman gave an experience
of his own. which was highly amusing
and instructive. However. he spoiled
the effect to certain extent by telling us
in the course of the story that he was re-
markably bashful when he was a young
man. That didn't 60 down with the
boys" The story is too long to inser,
here, but the reader can ask Horace to
repeat the "Tale of Watermelons, or the
Twenty Mile Ride"
We arrived at Marshall after four
and half hours ride, wet, and fully pre-
pared to do justice to the good cheer of
mine host Hunt, of the Merchants Ex-
change. Here we were joined by D. l..
Bigham and DR.. Crandall, our other del
egates. The next day our old friend Tom
Mcmillan, Col. Strong and ]. P. Arnott
came down from Candy, accompanied by
Capt. Huntington, and joined our imme-
diate party. The Marshall convention
passed off very pleasantly and quietly,
the result being we'll known to the read
ers of the GAZETTE.
The following day (Friday) we took
the cars for Tracy. arriving there about
2 o'clock p. NJ. The train was literally
packed with delegates, candidates. and
politicians of all grades, and when the
train stopped there was grand rush for
the hotels, it being clearly evident to
everyone that accommodations would he
scarce and at premium. Redwood was
ahead here, as usual. One of our boys
outrun the entire mob, and getting first
to the register of the Commercial Hotel,
ornamented the same with the names of
the entire party.
The Tracy convention was held the
same afternoon we arrived, after some
delay and good deal of close figuring.
BY this time the storm, which had been
gradually increasing, became fairly furi-
GUS. 1t seemed that the Marshall con-
vention had provoked the wrath of the
elements to a considerable extent; but
when the result of the Tracy convention
became known, this wrath became bound
less, and in blind fury the elements en-
us in a terrific blizzard, the
evident intention of which was to teach
politicians that there is hereafter.
And still the storm increased. Satur-
blockaded; trains all stopped,
telegraph wires all down. After break
fast, we gathered in our room around the
fire and voted that each member of the
party should go from the house to the
barn for the purpose of exercise. When
it came our gallant Captains turn to go,
he hesitated about facing the storm even
for 100 feet. He, however. soon became
convinced that it would he necessary for
him to make the attempt, and manfully
buttOned his coat across his expansive
breast aud started. When he reached
the barn and had regained his breath. he
gave vent to an exclamation both express
sive and emphatic. He was informed by
the hostler that he was the 25th man who
had made use of the same expression
that morning. simply put this in to
give slight idea of the fierceness of the
storm. When dinner time arrived we sat
down to magnificent repast. The bill
of fare was as follows:
BILL OF FARE.
SOUPS.
Beef. Mock turtle. Clam chowder. Noodle.
FISH.
Goldfish. Trout. Lake Michigan whitefish.
ROAsTs.
Lamb and pess. 1 q Mutton. 1se, s Tareeyp. PORE
Chicken la Brahma pOOtra.
BOILED
Ham. COrned beef and cabbage.
Turkey, with oyster sauce.
Goose, with apple sauce.
Memphltis Americanus and cabbage.
Haunch of venisOn. Mallard duck.
Goose, with onion dressing.
Pheasants, with cabbage sauce.
ENTREES.
Veal pie. Chicken pie. Turkey kidneys,
sarnisned with rice. Mutton siblets,
garnished with cheese.
Minced ham and egg toast.
Beef. Ham. Tongue. Turkey. Bologna.
Mince. Apple. Blueberry. Cranberry.
Lemon. Green gage. Custard. Pumpkin.
Squash. Raspberry. Apricot. Ounce.
Plum pudding. Rice pudding, wine sauce.
Apple pudding.
This bill of fare was not furnished on
printed slips for mature consideration,
but was repeated rapidly by the walters,
the result of which was to confuse the
minds of those who were inclined to be
"thick-headed." Our representative elect
astonished the waiter by ordering "some
of everything" on the list After looking
him over, spectacles and all, she con-
cluded she had misunderstood him, and
SO repeated the list, after which he man.
aged to give an order. Capt. D., when
the list was repeated to him, looked hard
at the girl for some seconds. and then
said, in = low bass tremolo, "Ill take
some dinuer." Some of the boys began
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