Smyrna times., 1884-08-27
The Press Trip.
EXCUEsIONAL NOTES.


On Monday of last week. August
18TH, the editors of the Peninsula. or of
the papers, cOEverged at Rehobotb nm.
utf sentence to pass a term of four
days IN hot weather travel and tr;bu-
latlon They were not all there. not
all; some were afraid of getting sea-
struck.-sOmc hadn't the cash fo,.
though the tickets were compliment
tarY, travelling incidentals are supDle-
menlaly. We shall not give "A techni-
cal description of the excursion. it is
known that the party, consistin" of
about forty, including , dozen ladies
went to RchQboth staid there lin
Tuesday, went by rail to Lewes Pier,
LOOK the steamer Bre0krdtei. at 800
for New York, arrived at New York at
llVe IN the morning, went up the Hud-
son river on the day boat, YES dav
boat, couldn't take a night boat so
early IN the morning; landed at West
folnC, took dinner at CranstOn's S5-a-
DAY Motel, got reduced rates THOUGH
dinner cost only one dollar. GOOD of
c0urse-of nine courses. Returned to
New York at six o'clock, went to the
metropolitan Hotel, Broadway. where
most OF the company sweltered till
next DAY, Thursday, and went home
we only desire to mention few inc
dents OF the journey, incidents which
may be instructive, ut least thev can
do no harm. Each ticket provided fnr
two persons, and it was sad to see so
many ol the editors, men who ought to
be thoughtful and gallant, alone. To
think that 50 many more ladies might
have been made happy with trip of
seven hundred miles and editors
alone! We have not Il sublime ad-
miration for the unseltish gallantrv of
the Pcninsular Press in general since
we returned. Perhaps though. they
couldn't help it,-there's several ways
OF doing things, there's a right way.
and . wrong way, and w. Scott Wav.
We don't wish to punish anybody, but
scott Way weighs ton, he's whole
brick-klln. He's the man, you know
that tries to edit the Middletowu
Transcript; he didn't make anyone
miserable during the entire pilgrimage.
1t is not his way,
When we left here for Rehoboth the
weather was dusty, we made good time
and tlooked at the Hotel Henlonen
where we had dinner at two, business
meeting at four, supper mt six, dress
hop ut nine, all intcrmingled with
conversation and mosquitoes. Did the
editors dance? Some of them attemDt-
ed wallI-around, but as hOppists thew
are not notorious. Near midnight we
wished to retire, probably at the Hen
lopeh TINS IS generally accomplished
without difficulty, but on this occasion
1t was very doubtful and uncertain
proceeding, during the afternoon and
evening we were assigned to at least
eleven different rooms, all of which
proved to be occupied, or the kew was
lost, or the keyhOle was misplaced. or
something. Finally we were slowed
away to be screnaded by the roar of
the restless sea until morning. This
reminds us Of some poetry, but we will
not stop for it now. On Tuesday
morning officers were elected for tbe
ensuing year, and the climate waved
hot,--on the cars going to the steamer
II was roasting, scorching, scaldinp.
soaring; you might have IMAGINED
yourself loaf of dough i'm the oven IN
be baked, or a juicy peach Just Slid
INTO the evaporation, or bar Of iron 10
be melted and receiving twentv.seven
hundred degrees Farenheit. But we
all survived to reach the pier. and
were soon slowed on board the beauti-
iul steamer BredkIOdter. She is beouti-
iul' her appointments are elegant, and