River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-07-23
Ye Editorial Convention at St. Paul.

none perhaps eNcell' in interest and
importance that of the National Edi-
torial Association which convened at
the Grand Opera House in the city on
Tuesday, the 18th inst, and remaining
in session until Friday. The program
was varied one. combining in a hap
by measure business and pleasure.
The people of the city met their
guests with a warm-hearted hOspi-
tally. and judging from the many
remarks overheard their liberality was
rewarded by hearty appreciation of
their efforts TO please.
The afternoon of Tuesday was de-
voted TO ride by the delegates and
friends through the city. 1t was the
good fortune of yonr correspondent to
accompany one of the most agreeable
of all the parties who were in the cor
tege, and he Will ever esteem it as one
of the Ied letter days of his life in
recalling the intelligent comments
upon the Great West and the city,
made by those who, coming directly
from the busy marts of the East and
watchful of the signs of the times
were able to make just comparisons
between the great sections of country,
an dwhen to these favorable comments
were added the EXPLANATIONS of sur
prise and pleasure at the wonderful
panoramic views spread !. out before
them as the long train of carriages
wound around the bluff lines overlook
ing the beautiful valley of the Missis-
sippi you cannot expect his gratiiica-
ton to be told in cold words, but it
must be left to the Imagination.
1t would be pleasure, if etiquette
would permit, to reveal the personality
of those whom he had the good for
tune to accompany, but it must suffice
to say that one was an influential
leader in the political Geld of the great
state of Pennsylvania, whose name if
mentioned would be readily recog-
nizen by many as one whose hand has
done much to mould the influence of
of that state. His amable wife &C.
cOmpanied him in this trip and it was
not difficult to see how much may
have been due to her kindly influence
in directing his course. Another Is a
leading publisher of Ohio and the
adjoining state, who represented
large and increasing influence in the
newspaper world; thorough man of
business and one generous and con-
siderate to his employees. His bust
ness foresight is manifest in the fact
of his early introducing into his offices
the new linotype machines which
greatly facilitate newspaper type set
ting. lie was accompanied on his
trip by one of his correspondents who
has charge of the literary department
of an important paper; bright,
sparkling writer whose very presence
is an inspiration to her coadjutors in
the w0rA, for IL mus 1e semembered
that the ladies are coming rapidly to
the front in these days, and were
represented in large numbers in the
and though accorded at
this time but one place among the
essayists, that one was sufficient to
prove that at no distant date they will
have an equal share with the sterner
sex in the editorial field.
With such friends the time passed
rapidly and it seemed as if the con.
ventiOn adjourned too soon, but as the
hours flew by the end came at last on
Friday, the scene closing with ride
to Lake Minnetonka and cruise upon
the lake through the courtesy of the
Great Northern Railroad.
1t would be a pleasure to recount
more ia detail the many items of H.
terest of the convention, but it would
take too much of your valuable space
and it must suffice to mention as one
the paper OF Mrs. Whitaker of Boston,
a lady whose editorial work is so va
ried that her name has become we'll
known throughout the union. In this
paper she showed with a woman's
tact and wit the influence which the
taste and demands of the ladies have
wrought upon the newspapers of
to-day. The time is near when it will
be more fully recognized that the
department for women must be man.
aged by those who better understand
the needs of the sex and who aPpreci.
ate fully the fact that they do not ask
merely the receipts for cake or the
newest styles of embroidery, but read
ing of more solid character con-
sonant with their lines of thought and
development.
The exhibition of the linotype ma
chimes for preparing matter for the
press was exceedingly Interesting and
marks the vast Development in the
mechanical science of the day. To see
an operator sitting at key board,
similar to that of the typewriter,
gently touching the keys and the per-
feet line of new type, if they may be
so called, responding to his touch
while the matrixes their duty done
fastening apparently of their own
volition to their places, was a sight to
almost persuade one that matter has
mind, and yet it was but the devel-
oped intelligence of the inventor CO.
operating with the typewriter who
touched the keys.
The barbed-wine combine does not
promise to he a formidable enemy to
mankind in general. On the western
ranches barbed wire is no longer used,
it being found that the plain wire,
properly put up. will answer the pur.
pose as well and the danger to stock
from the points is avoided. Without
the barbs the patents will not apply
and the farmer is at once freed from
the clutches of the trust.
In a recent interview on politics in