The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-22
THE PRESS AT THE CONVENTION.
How the Washington City Correspond
ents Will Travel to Minneapolis.


ents Will Travel to Minneapolis.
WASHINGTON CRY, May N.-[Special. i
On the second day of June the Washing
ton City correspondents quadrennial train
will leave the Pennsylvania station in this
city bound direct to Minneapolis. This
train will consist of enough Pullman sleep
ing cars to accommodate all the CORE
spondents whose headquarters are in
Washington City, and who go hence to
represent their papers at the Republican
National convention. The train is fur
nished through the courtesy of Mr..
George w. Boyd, the assistant general pas
senger..agent Of the Pennsylvania railroad
and it will be fitted with every conven-
fence that the men who go to the conven-
tons could ask for. An efficient corps Of
cooks and walters will be carried for the
entire distance and the larder will be sup
piled with the best that can be had in the
markets along the route. As is customary
on trip of this kind, large-sized medi-
cine chest will be slowed away in the bag
gage car, where appolinaris water and
other medicinal supplies will be kept in
case of emergency, and it is safe to say
that the emergencies will arise once in
every fifteen minutes. This train is
correspondents committee on trans
portation, which was selected
early in the session at the general meeting
of the Washington City correspondents.
All those who apply for transportation,
provided they are recognized working cor
respondents in this city, will be accom-
modated, but each man before he receives
his tickets Is required to pay small sum
n
servants and the like. Since 1t was an
nounced that this committee on trans
portation would have charge of this train,
applications for accommodations in it
have come by wire and mail from news
papers all over the East and from as far
west as Pittsburg But of necessity, the
passengers will be confined strictly to
those who are engaged here, otherwise it
would take about ten sections to furnish
space for all those who would like to be in
this party.
Among the passengers will be some Of
the old veterans who have never missed
convention since 1864. w. B. Shaw, of
the Boston Transcript and Deb. Randolph
Keim, of the Philadelphia inquirer, will
be foremost; they always are. John NJ.
Carson, of the Philadelphia Ledger, who is
chairman of the transportation commit
tee, bears the whole responsibility upon
his shoulders, and there is good deal of
responsibility attached it. Bob Larner,
of the Charleston Neus and Courier, will
probably be on hand with his ''keno" board,
with buttons at cent apiece. Z. G. Dun
nell, of the New York Times, who is cred
tied with having done more than any one
else towards making that paper q Mug
wump organ, and who is the most pro-
nounced pessimist, when the Republicans
are in power and an optimist of the first
degree when the Democrats are on top,
but who hates Hill as cordially as he
loves Cleveland, will smoke the usual
number of cigars in that peculiar
manner he has, believed to have
been acquired during the time
when he was fumigating himself
among the yellow fever victims of Men,
pills. and express his political convictions
from the time the train leaves Washington
City until the last man is in bed the other
side of Altoona. Baron" Seckendorf.
who bosses the New York Tribune bureau
here, will tell all the others in the most
supercilious manner that there is no show
for any one else but Harrison. and that he
will be nominated on the first ballot The
''orff" has come to be the recognized
ending of the name of the chiefs of the
big New York bureaus. Nordorff was for
years the Heratd's principal man, and is
now retired on a pension of 5000 wear
on his farm In Southern California, while
Dave Barry, who began here as a page in
the Senate and has worked up to the head
of the Sans bureau, has recently had "orff''
added to the end of his name, in order
that he may remain undisturbed.
J. B. Reynolds. of the Boston
Aduertiser and Record, is sent to
the conventions by his paper, not
to do much work, but as an advertisement
of the wonderful effect of the Massachu-
sets atmosphere upon the complexion of
the people who reside within the common
wealth. Reynolds has the pinkest cheeks,
and is altogether the prettiest among the
fraternity. Fergus Ferris will go for the
Baltimore Herald and Richmond Times.
"Fergy" was in Morgan's command dur
ing the late unpleasantness, and has
the reputation of having been the
greatest Splinter in the Confederate army.
He is as emphatic in his belief in Hill as
Dunnell is in Cleveland, and he gets
madden when any one disputes his asser-
ton than any of his brethren. In the
event of the shelving of Cleveland and
Hill, Ferris will be the great German
shouter by the time the passengers of the
train reach Chicago.
The train will reach Minneapolis some
time on the 4th, and the correspondents
will scatter themselves over the CITY and
will begin to load the wires up on Sunday
night. The train will not return to Wash
ington City until after the Chicago con-
vention, and it depends good deal upon
the time Of adjournment of the Minneap-
oils gathering as TO what will be done with
the time intervening between the two.
The party has been invited 10 take a
dozen different trips, among them being
run into Manitob and another out 70
the Yellowstone park. The people of
Helena Mont have alsn inx,tad s1rna !. &