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the convention proceeded to the eleo
ton Of officers for the ensuing year
when i'll. l., Costing was elected
president, j, w. Burson Of Fort
Worth secretary, and Gail ID. John
son treasurer. A vice-president and
corresponding secretary for each con
gressional district were also elected.
For this district g. J. Pilgrim was
elected vice president md j. p. New
comb cor. secretary. Tho following
further selections were made; For
Ontor-,E. II. Harris, Of the Paris
Banner, W. p. Wilson, OF the Fort
Worth Advance, alternate. Fer Ec'
sayist-Hon. Il. ID. Linn Of tho Veto
ria Advocate, Miss Kate Efnor, Of the
American Sketch Book, alternate.
For Poetess-Aliss Claudia Girardeau,
alternate Mrs. Bella Swisher.
Invitations for the next meeting Of
tho Association were sent from Waco,
Dallas and Galveston. Houston also
renewed her invitation.
We left on Friday morning. The
closing sessions were held that day,
at which the revision and printing OF
the Constitution was ordered, COM
mittee appointed on the subject OF
education, resolutions OF thanks, etc,
passed, tho subject Of foreign adver'
Using considered, etc Houston was
again selected as the place for the
next annual meeting-time tho first
Tuesday in April, 1882.
THE EDITORIAL REcREATIoSs
The foregoing are the strictly bust
ness points Of the proceedings, but
our record of editorial "doings" would
be incomplete were we to close here.
The various entertainments by the
hospitable Houstonians should by no
means be overlooked. On their arri-
val the editors were met at the trains
by committees appointed for that
purpose, conveyed free to the city
and their expenses paid at the prin
cipal hotels during their stay. Our
delegation we're quartered at the chief
Of these, the Hutchins House, and OF
course had reason to congratulate
themselves. On Wednesday they
were made a part Of the Volksfest
procession and festivities at the Fair
Grounds, where they had their pic
lures taken by Charles J. Wright, an
entcrprising photographer. On Thurs
day A. Nj. they were conveyed in hacks
and shown some Of the principal OBJ
iects of interest in and around about
the city, viz: the water works, brick
works, where n single machine run by
steam turns out $4,000 brick of the
best quality per day, the best clay for
brick making being abundant about
Houston; the city and county 1nfrm-
ary the cotton seed oil mills--an ex-
tensive affair; two improved Cotton
Congresses, capable of reducing q
bale of cotton to eleven inches in di-
ameter. A third is being constructed.
Amount of cotton compressed at Hous-
ton last year 100000 bales against
100000 the year before. Chutes car
ry it directly on board vessels on the
bayou OF on the cars. An immense
lumber business is also done at
Houston.
But to return to the lighter labors
of the Association. Immediately Of
ter adjournment on Thursday, the
members, by invitation, repaired to
the fine new building Of w. D. Cleve-
land, the large cotton broker and
wholesale grocer, where o fusilade OF
champagne bottle corks was soon fol-
lowed by IN unprecedented flow OF
the delicious nectar into stomachs
editorial. Happy littlespeeches were
made by Mr.. Clevelandand Others.
There was no need to repeat the
famous telegram of the Governor of
North Carolina to the Governor of
South Carolina on this occasion, for
after supper followed the banquet to
the Press at tho Hutchins House,
where choice liquors again flowed
freely. The room was handsomely
decorated, and all sorts of elegant
refreshments abounded. A success
sion of toasts and speeches of more or
less pertinence were again the order
of the evening, until the near ap-
prpach of the ''wee sma hours" when
was with difficulty
achieved, all present voting Houston
in generous hospi-