Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-16
NEW ENGLAND EXCURsIONIsTs
One thousand of Them to Arrive Here
Tomorrow.

Six hundred New England grocerymen, ac-
| companied by their wives, sweethearts, sisters,
cousins and aunts, in all 1000 people, will be
here tomorrow evening and they promise to
stay until Friday. The excursion. which was
promoted and is managed by MIR. Benjamin
johnson, publisher of the Ne,o England Grocer,
is the largest single party ever brought here,
and the indications are that the visitors will see
all that is to be seen before they leave. This
afternoon the excursionists leave Boston in
two divisions, one going by the Fall river line
of steamers from Providence to New York, the
other taking an all-rail trip and joining their
seafaring companions in Gotham. They will
remain in New York tonight and early tomor-
row morning will leave Jersey City for Phila-
delphia, where a committee Of twenty-five of
the more prominent retail grocers and COM
mittee from the grocers' and importers ex-
change will meet them and escort them around
the Quaker city for. awhile. Mr.. r. c. Ogden,
manager OF Postmaster General Wanamakers
store, will entertain the visitors. and a number
OF the Philadelphia grocerymen will exemplify
the principles Of brotherly love by keeping open
house.
THE RECEPTION COMMITTEE.
The party expects to arrive here in the even
ing, and it will be met at the Pennsylvania de-
pot by reception committee composed of the
II. Hutchinson, Massachusetts,; T. J. LASER,
New Hampshire; Fred. Bracket, Maine; VIM.
ii. Webster, Connecticut; l.. S. Emery. YER
mont; Chas. Edward Waters, Rhode Island. A
press cOmmittee-Edmund Hudson, Boston
Herald; G. A. Conant, Boston Post; A. NJ Low
Boston Globe; c. +. Towle, Boston IrdUeter and
Marshall Cushing-will assist in receiving the
excursionists. The visitors will be quartered
at Wizards, the Riggs and the Ebbitt.
HOW THE VISITORS WILL BE ENTERTAINED.
The principal local grocers will do what they
can to make the visiting brethren comfortable
Woodward q Lothrop, of the Boston dry goods
house, have invited the ladies to call at their
establishment and to make it their headquar-
tiers during their stay, using the reception room
In which to write their letters, &c.
On Wednesday evening at o'clock there will
be reunion at Willard hall. An address Of
welcome will be delivered by Commissioner
Douglass, and there will be number of other
speeches. On Thursday there will be a pill
grimage to Mount Vernon.
The excursionists had hoped to meet the
President while they were here, but that will
be impossible. In letter to Representative
L. A. Morse of Massachusetts Secretary Hal
fold wrote: "The President would be pleased
to meet the grocers of New England on the
18th instant at Washington but according to
the present arrangement he will return to Deer
Park on the 10th instant, remaining until
about October l. You can readily understand
that the summer has been so broken up by the
little trips which the President has felt COM
PEELED to take that he has had comparatively
no time for rest, or the consideration of i'm
portant questions now pressing upon him.
What little time he can secure away from the
busy life of Washington he hopes to devote to
this work"
The party is scheduled to leave here on Fri
day at 1880 am, and expects to reach Boston
On Saturday at 9:05 am.