The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-25
Our Senatorial Visitors.

dies of the Senatorial party making all
due allowance for typographical errors
made up the following brilliant list:
Mrs. Senator Call and her little daugh-
ter and her little friend, Mrs. Senator
George, Miss George, Mrs. Senator Jones,
Miss Jones, Mrs. Senator Stewart, Mrs.
Senator Dolph and daughter, Mrs. Nix
on wife of Mr.. r. Nixon, correspon-
| dent of the New Orleans T;Dles-D Demo
craft, Mrs. Senator Pugh and daughter,
| Mrs. Cochran, the charming wife of the
journal Clerk of the House of Represen-
| tatlves, Mrs. Senator Daniel, Mrs. Sena-
| tor Faulkner, Mrs. Senator Butler and
her two interesting and beautiful daugh-
| tiers, Miss Butler and Miss Elise Butler,
! Mrs. Senator Reagan and her daughter,
Miss Reagan, the beauty of the party.
All the Senators whose wives are men,
toned as members of the party were also
part and parcel of the same, except Sen
ators Dolph and Butler, and these two
unfortunates would have come if they
could.
Early in the morning the street in front
of the Magnolia, and the spacious court
of the San Marco, was filled with elegant
carriages, and in few minutes the CARR
ages were filed with the members of the
| Senatorial party and their respective
| citizen escorts. Postmaster III. Gaillard
and Alderman Geo. W. Gibbs had special
charge of the arrangements, and man
aged things 'excellently WELL" Messrs.
/ +. b. Genovar, Collector of Customs, B.
! Genovar, Alderman, and O. b. Smith
one of st. Augustine's most prominent
merchants (of the firm of W. Lyon &
Coz and enterprising citizens, assisted
! by Ijr. j. X. Rainey, (both of whom
| have latch returned from their mission
| to Washington as a committee from our
Board of Trade to urge an appropriation
| for our bar and harbor) ofiiciated as mas
| ters OF ceremonies, Mr.. Smith acting as
| grand marshal of the possession.
The party after assembling at the San
| Marco, drove up the shell road short
distance and thence across to the bay
front and down through North City to
| 'tsS Ni'A Cdt. AAtAC bIlN ttIb Ift tStl-
riages and spent pleasant half hour as
the guests of Sergeant Brown, who
found in them, Especially the ladies of
/ the party most attentive and appre-
ciative audience, who listened intently
to his eloquent and well considered de-
scriptions.
From Fort Marion the party were
driven down the bay to st. Francis
| Barracks, their conductors eloquently
| descanting upon the necessity of
having an intelligent adjustment of
the titles to the Government property
lying within the city limits, thence up
st. George street to the Plaza, thence to
Central wharf, where the entire party
embarked on the staunch little steamer
| Myth, belonging to the st. Augustine
and South Beach Railway Company,
and steamed out through the passes of
the harbor to the inner bar,
just off old Light House Point.
On the way out, Capt Black,
whose report ON the harbor has just been
submitted to the War Department, gave
a lucid and eloquent explanation of the
conditions and requirements of the har-
Dor and bar to secure a permanent chan
mel for coastwise shipping, based upon
his recent reports.
Returning, the Senatorial visitors dis
embarked ON the east side of the river
and became the guests of the St. Angus
tine and South Beach Railroad Com
pany, being met at the wharf by Presi-
dent Cartier and escorted to the train,
which took them across Anastasia Is
land to the beach and light house, from
whence, after brief stroll on the CO.
quina beach, they returned to the city
and assembled in one of the private din
ing rooms of the Ponce de Leon for
| luncheon as the guests of the
house. Surrendering to the seductive
influences of the rich viands and rare
wines which graced the festive board,
no less than TO the feast of reason and
the flow of SOUL which followed their
enjoyment, the little party fingered
until the hour for the departure of the
train for Palatka, on which many of
them had intended to embark for a trip
through the southern part of the State,
had long passed. There was some post
prandial eloquence, of course, report of
which would be especially interesting,
including some general and appropriate
remarks aud a characteristic anecdute or
two from Ex-Governor Walker, the old
| est FIorj1ian nresant
Later in the afternoon the distin-
guished visitors employed the waning
hours in pleasant drives about the city
and leisurely visits to points of interest.
During the voyage out to the bar, and
while the little craft was quickly riding
the swelling pillows as they came rolling
in from another continent three thou
sand miles away, the entire company of
Senators were entertained by Capt.
Black, with graphic and lucid exposi-
ton of the location of the several OBJ
stacles to navigation and the probable
cost of their removal, which was most
ably supplemented by the information
impaired by Mr.. o. B. Smith, Alderman
Genovar, Collector Genovar, Alderman
Gibbs, Postmaster Gaillard, DIR. Rainey
; and others, all of which was absorbed
with apparent avidity by the grave and
reverend signiors," and noted with
quick alacrity and many promises of
: valuable influence in favor of an appro-
priation by the very intelligent, viva
cious and charming ladies of the party.
If it depends on them we shall certainly
have favorable report from the Senate
q committee and a solid Senatorial vote