St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-17
AN AFTERNOON OUTING.
Editors SpIendidIy Entertained at
White Bear Lake.

Editors Splendidly Entertained at
White Bear Lake.
Eleven well-filled cars containing edi-
tors, their wives, their families, their
friends, and citizens who were interested
in their entertainment, left the union
depot yesterday afternoon on the st.
Paul IL Duluth road for an afternoons
outing at White Bear Pro grammes
of the entertainment and tickets
for refreshments were diStrib-
uted through the train on the
way out and all arrangements were sue
cessfully carried out, thanks to the en-
ergetic work of Mr.. Stack and the re-
mainder of the committee, who had the
excursion in charge. After arriving at
White Bear the immense thrOng imme-
diately took to sail and row boats, which
had been provided by the committee,
while still larger number repaired to
the beautiful entertainment hall,
which was put at their disposal.
Here there was music by the
local orchestra and Twin City
Mandolin club. c. S. Bartram, of the
Minneapolis Tribune, gave recitation
of Little Flo writing a letter to God to
have him fix little baby brothers. teeth.
which was highly appreciated by the
audience, especially those of the fairer
sex who have those little ones at home
themselves. The COlYille-Whitney quar-
tette then sang 1.-The Old Folks at
Home" which was so strongly en-
cored that they responded with "Who
Built That Ark" and The Pussy Cat
and Owl Went Out to Sea-" This
quartette was highly appreciated and
conceded by those present to be one of
the pleasantest of the afternoon.
Mrs. LuXton Hunter was the only
lady who appeared to amuse the party
and she was appreciated as an oasis in
Il desert. Her first song was eXquiSitely
rendered, and then in response to an
encore she sang Bonnie Annie
Laurie" the sweetness of her voice
calling every one in from the veranda
where they were viewing the yacht
races; and, had it not been for the lack
of time, the audience would have in
sisted on another song.
Without humOr no entertainment by
editors would be complete. and when
Col. Slater, of the Tennessee delega-
ton. was led in by the sleeve by j. l..
Stack, the audience was Immediately
put into laughing humOr. Although
the colonel stated it was put-up job,
his pleasing cOuntenance and rUtund
form showed only too plainly that he
was in with the job. He told funny
fakes, amusing anecdotes, jovial
jokes, short stories, pleasant puns
and did every thing else but sing a
song, which he would surely have done
had not his voice been out of condition;
but he made up for this by stating how
fond he was of music lat the request of
some gentlemen in the audience) by
telling how infinitely charming aud
sweet was The Clink of Ice 'Gainst
Pitchers Side" when the hotel porter
was slowly ascending the stairs
at a. NJ. after seeing that
his local editorial associates had
put their paper properly to press.
This was enough of humOr, and in
few well chosen words Col. Slater de-
livered a perOratiOn to his address upon
the question that was the wonder of the
world, the unificatiOn of the North and
South that is a genuine masterpiece of
the English language. He thanked
God that humanity was so created that
in times Of peace the victOrs bore malice
to none, and all graSped hands
in one universal friendship. Mr..
Holland then introduced himself in
neat aphorism anent the Dutch in
Holland, which was we'll received and
responded to by Yankee dialect rec
itation. There were numerous other
short features, and after the sporting
editors of the party had been over to
see FitZSimmonS III his training quar-
tiers the jolly party left for home, a
well satisfied newspaper gang"