The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-09-20

second division of the service in the pre-
cncts Of which the convention is held.
They were received at the depot by A. J.
Miller of this city, chief clerk of the
United States mail service, who has had
the charge given into his efficient hands
during the convention of providing enter
tainment for the divisions guests. Mr..
Miller is big man, physically and Off
cially, and proved himself yesterday big
in executive ability SO far as providing
perfect comfort for little family aunt
of over two hundred restless mail and
female agents may earn him that dstinc-
ton. To the credit of most of the doughty
mailers be it said they brought their
wives; those lacking such their sisters,
and the widowers their children; the
young men their maidens, and the maid
ems their sweethearts, SO that the posi-
bility of any element of discord was eff
tectually excluded. By the hour APP.
parlor and three of the roads new ele
giant Passenger cars were backed into the
yard and soon filled by the rapidly arriv-
ing pleasure seekers. The transporta-
ton facilities for the day, including the
transit of Chautauqua lake and the rail-
road ride, were tributes offered to the
guests of the convention by the Buffalo,
New York and Philadelphia railroad. J.
A. Fellows, passenger agent of the road,
assisted in receiving and caring for the
comfort of the guests as they arrived,
and at about s. Is the train started for it's
upward climb of lakeside and through
woodland to hill-girdled Chautauqua.
And no merrier party, nor one having
better right to make merry, could have
been got together. The two parlor cars
were relegated to the ladies and all the
fair got luxurious seats even though they
became thereby temporarily exiled from
their escorts, who were obliged, in de-
fault of resting places in the parlor
coaches, to content themselves apart in
the coaches forward. No baggage car
was taken. The conductor of the train
was S. E. Stone, an old and experienced
official. Locomotive 90, driven by engi-
neer James O'Neil, took the train out,
thereby giving guarantee by his repute
for experience and Judgment of bringing
her safely home-a promise well fulfilled.
Postmaster Bedford was one of the home
faces on the train. Among others who
did their share in contributing to the
general enjoyment of the party and to
the success of the trip, besides Messrs.
Miller and Fellows, were w. w. Holsey,
clerk to General Superintendent Gatchel,
and Frank Kraft of St Louis, for some
time private secretary to the superin-
teEdent of the railway mail service, one
whose face is familiar to most members
of tie Mail Service association. This
gentleman constituted himself historian
FOR the excursion, and succeeded in get
ting full list of those participating with
their signatures
The train being distinctly special
and necessarily wildcat, sped through
the interlaying country with spring kin
to that of the tabled animal last named,
stopped for water at Brocton, and ar
rived at Mayville in one hour and fifty
minutes after leaving the depot in Buff
falo, almost as rapid time as has ever
been made over the same tract of coun-
try. At the latter place the excursion
lists fonnd the steamer Mayvile awaiting
them, on board of which they embarked,
the first objective point being Chautau-
que, embracing in that comprehensive
term Palestine, Hored and Mount Pisgah,
the mHltum i'm parc0 materializings of
latterday evangelists, and great was the
curiosity, though in the one brief hour of
stay readily enough and amply satisfied
As one OF the tourists expressed it, after
traversing the historic ground of scrip
have walked all through the holy land in
twenty PAGES, sampled the joys of the
city of gold, gazed reverently on Hored,
strayed from Dan to Beersheba, and
gazed with not unmOist or unmOurnful
eyes on the wall city of Jerusalem, Jeru-
salem which stoned the prophets, but we
couldn't get glass of beer So, many
of the crowd gathered by the river, or
lake which placards entreat the passers-
by to consider the Mediterranean sea,
and watched wierdfully and longingly
Tor the company's new and elegant
steamer, the Hiawatha, which was tc
convey the party to Lakewood and tC
dinner In the intervals of waiting many
revisited Pales tine, but all flocked gaily
to the dock when the warning whistle OF
the approaching ''relief boat was heard
| For the Chautauqua of the Chautau
quan's vision is a deserted place, for this
season at least; children sport in the am
| phitheatre where the wise men taught
and moth and rust, worms, dry leaves
and dust are having full sway among the
historic hills and storied glories of Jeru.
salem. The lliawatha steamed away with
a mighty impulse, with dinner, object
lively speaking, two hundred odd tired
aud hungry cXculsioniStS, subjectively
The boat is commanded by Capt Gran
din. lie brought the party sharp or
time to the Lakewood landing where
| dinner had been ordered for them in ad
vance in the Kent house, and the hungry
odd two hundred were rather gastronom.
ically than critically disposed, and had
! they been the latter their verdicS could
not have bcen adverse. \ waitor spilled
a lobster salad down gentleman's bach
and on his shoulders, but life being short
as one suggested, and art long. the SALAD
being artistically perfect, the victim
should not jaundice his temper to watct
his coat yelcwed by the mayonnaise
but take the thing in a Pickwickian sens,
as purely incidental if not ornamental
which the agrieved did potentially, ever
heroically. certainly most creditably tt