Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1890-05-11
ON THE BRINEY.
NEW ENGLAND SCRIBES ON
THE WAY TO ROANOKE.
WILL Be IN NORFOLK TOMORROW
Full Account OF the ,Trip-Thc Prcpa-
rutinms Made by Other Cities-Are
Those Not Made Ilerc-They Breaks
fas. Here OH Thursday

Yesterday morning the fast sailing
steamer Dorchester glided out OF
beautiful Boston harbor, with her
decks crowded with half a-hundred
Of the brightest writer's belonging 10
the New England Press Association.
Tomorrow at noon the vessel will be
ut her wharf in Norfolk, if the weather
is fair, and many of the passengers
will for the first time get Il glimpse OF
the Old Dominion. At the wharf the
writer's will he met by the mayor, a
Il delegation of citizens and two mem
beers of the Virginia Press Association
= President Pugh and MIR. a. Z. Smith.
There Will also be II brass band. The
Chamber of Commerce will take
charge of the party.
There will be Il drive around the
great sea port city of the South, and
then will come banquet at the hotel,
speeches of welcome and u sail over
;he bay in steam yacht provided by
General Grover.
AT 10 o'clock Monday night the
party will leave for Roanoke, coming
lIcre directly. They will be accom-
panied bya committee of the Virginia
Press Association, consisting of Messrs.
Pugh, Smith, Glass, Jones, Barham
ard Murray.and Il staff correspondent
OF the Roanoke TIMES. The party
will arrive in Roanoke at 1888 in the
morning and will have breakfast at
the Hotel Roanoke. They will remain
here lust two hours and twenty-five
minutes and will then go on to
Bristol, where they will arrive at 4
o'clock in the afternoon, leaving the
next day ut lao a. N. for Radford.
They will reach their ilourishing little
city at 3:;3;5 and will stop but few
moments before proceeding 10 Poca-
hontas, where they will take 4 look
over the great coal fields OF that re-
sion. At 80 they will leave for
Blueiield and will spend the night at
the Inn, leaving the next morning at
$50 O'Clock. and coming back to Rad
ford. They will be entertained there
with a banquet.
At 10 O'Clock on Thursday morning
the train will pull into the station
here. where one of the longest visits OF
the trip will be made. No arrange
ments have yet been made for the re-
ception of the party. Roanoke Is the
only city in the State where no action
mas been taken in this regard But
no doubt this will be done immedi-
atcly, though the time is short, and
the matter should be attended 10 ~
once. \ committee was recently APP
pointed by the Real Estate Exchange,
but rs Yet they have done nothing
1t j. expected, however, that they VIII
do so III once. Roanoke acts quickly
when she does act.
The association will remain here I'M
Ill 10 O'Clock on Friday morning, when
they will leave for LvnchburG. They
will be in Petersburg on the seven.
teenth. where they will be- entertained
by "A committee of citizens, and then
they will 20 To Richmond arriving
there at 6:10 Oh the 10Th. Here, TOO
they will he entertained with ban
quet.
From Richmond they will sal! down
the historic James, pregnant with
memories of colonial and revolu-
tionary days.
At 6 o'clock they will reach Norfolk
and Will there board the Boston
steamer, which will wait for them.
They expect to reach home ate o clock
on the 22nd, after an absence of thlr-
,een days. The trip promises to be
Il most charming one and every one
soould vie with the other in making
it long to be remembered.