Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
Pittsburg Will Send the Largest Dele
cation to the General Assembly.
1T WILL ALSO BE HEARD THERE.
Major William B. Negley to Pc Doomed for
Vice-Noderator. 4
NAMES OF THOSE BOOKED FOR THE TRIP


This highest court of the denomination will
convene in Portland on Thursday morning,
Nav 19.
The majority of those who go are not
however, so much interested in the Assem-
bly, itselfa as in the trip across the Continent
The General Assembly has never before
met beyond the Mississippi, except in st.
Louis, Omaha and Minneapolis, and it now
meets Tor the first time on the Pacific
coast.
1t has required no labor worth naming on
the part of anyone TO secure the finest rail-
road facilities ever offered for such trip.
The railroads have generously offered
everything that could be reasonably asked,
and among the great trunk lines there have
been commendable and incessant offers of
accommodation over their respective roads.
They have made the cost OF the Journey
verv low-one fare for the round trip-and
this open to everybody regardless of connec-
tion with the General Assembly. Hith-
erto the services of the Stated Clerl, were
required in a certificate as to attendance at
the Assembly. But this year the sheep
and goats" alike may go, all on the same
low terms, and need not attend the Asse M
bly, at all 1t is a go-and-come-as-you-
please excursion. The trip is over the
PENNSYLVANIA lines to Chicago, day in
that city; then to Omaha, then to Cheyenne,
then two days in or at Salt Lake, then to
Ogden, then to the Columbia and down the
river on a steamboat to Portland
The Banner Train From PittsburE.
That no city in the Union will send q
larger delegation, lobby counted in, than
Pittsburg is proven by the fact that the
Union Pacific has Just issued circular
Narr York in VIII oh fl,a I-pitaI Cio+a
is notified "that more than 100 from Pitts
burg and vicinity alone are going to Port
land by the Chicago and Northwestern and
Union Pacific lines
One month ago Rev. Samuel S. ellison
began organizing this Assembly company
as labor of love. The phenomenal sue
cess, so creditaple TO Pittsburg, is owing
largely to the most efficient and hearty
labors OF Mr.. Samuel Moody, District Pas
senger Agent of the Pennsylvania lines
west of Pittsburg, and Mr. Samuel C. Mil
bourne, of the Union Pacific lines,
with Mr. Charles Travers, of the Chicago
and Northwestern, as adjutant Hence the
excursion Is already populaTly known as
the Banner train of The three Sans
These gentlemen have given the highest
proof OF their ability to handle men and
business, and have won host OF friends.
They have been many days and nights Civ
ILiS 1hAtlN lev anu ni1llllC lGGlSTS 10 luOSe
vino regard the journey as the trip Of their
lives.
All kinds of questions have been asked.
One man wants to know. "What is
steeper?" Another asks whether he had
better take lunch basket with crackers and |
chicken?-and he is not a minister. An
other writes: "What do YOU mean about |
NE paying for a berth? Don't the church |
pay that?''
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cannot so "because the natural gas company |
hes decla-ed qctuaI war by turning the gas 7
Of, and 6enPct leave the town and my peo-
pie while hoStilities last
The church at large is taxed percentage |
to pay the expenses o. all commissioners,
and this is one reason why so many brethren |
have been willing to take a si1-weeks' trip |
across the continent in the service of the |
Church. The many ladies going have not |
shown nearly SO much curiosity about |
the details of the trip as the gentlemen.
Personne! of the Pittsburs Party.
It is an intensely orthodox party No
Briggs men nor BriCssism are known in
the company. But there is no talk on the
subject. The whole current of CONVEX
sation is about Chicago, Omaha, Cheyenne,
Salt Lake, Mormons, mountains, Indians
the Columbia. California, the Yosemite |
San Francisco, Tacoma, Seattle, the Rocky
Mountains, the Cascade Range, Portland,
excursions. All are anxious 20 see ali they
can between the Mississippi river and the |
Pacific Ocean.
Among the distinguished people going
from Pittsburg and vicinity are:
Rev. James Allison and wife, Mr. Johr A. |
Pensh&w and daughter, Rev DR.. J. j. Bra |
com, Rev. DIR. William L. ShIOm, Rev. ). ). |
Gibson and wife, Rev. Levi Risher and wife, |
Rev. Or. a. A; Mealy, Rev. o. n Werner, |
hD.1 E,Xiae ufon 70 Rarr nt. I
Mchali1p, Dr.. Thomas d. Davis. Rev. Dr. j. |
I. kumer and wife, Mrs. Stewart Scott,
Mrs. Mr. Dr. O. L miller, Mr.: Henry Disque5
wife, Miss Helen w. Slack, Mrs Elizabeth
Kemp Rev. Dr. Thomas Robinson and wife,
Major William D. Negley, Rev. DR.. George !
Lillian Latton, Rev. o. G. Mcdowell, Mrs j.
J. Matthews. Miss E Campbell, Rev. DR.. J.
S Elder and wife, Judge Hyndman and vile,
Rev Frank Fish ard mother, Rev. DR.. Wih-
lam h. Carr, Rev. William NJ Hays and wife,
Mr. Andrew Porter, Rev. DR.. William NJ.
TAYLOR, MI John Marshall, Rev. 1. Reven-
Judge H. NJ. Hmckley. Judge j. p Jones and |
vie, Rev. Or, j. II. Flanagan and wife. Rev. |
Or. J. {, MeIoy and wiie Mrs. j. A. Craw-
lord and daughter, S. NJ. Pomeroy, J. II. |
Bead!e, Mss l.. NJ. May, Miss j. Smith, Mrs. |
Cordelia E. Barr. Miss Bessie Craig, Miss 1
Florence Foote, Rev. DR.. James d. Moffatt,
Mr.. John s. Moore
A remarkable fact about the Pittsburp
enrolment is that one-hall of the delega- |
tion are women. Many gentlemen take |
their wives. Some unmarried gentlemen |
60, and some charming young ladies and |
some delightful and well-endowed widows
1t is not known what the impression will |
be in Salt Lake City. at all events there
is room for interesting romances One is
already on the tapis between young lady
and railroad man who have corresponded
largely.
Major Negley for Vice Moderator.
The probability is that Portland will re-
gard Pittsburg as the stronghold of Presby-
terianism in the United States The Pitts
burg people propose to make their influence
Ielt in the General Assembly in their
united demand that Major Wni. B. Negley
be made Vice Moderator, especially on ac-
count of his activity in the control of vice
In Pttsburg.
The first exciting thing to come before the
General Assembly is the election of Modera-
tor. The Pennsylvania delegation talk of
nominating the brilliant and eloquent Young
President of Washington and Jefferson Col
Iege, the Rev. DR. James ID. Moffat. 1t is
questionable, however, whether the Key-
stone State can get both Moderator and
Vice Moderator. The Rev. DR.. Wallace w. |
Eadclif, an old Pittsburg bov, and now
pastor of the famous Fort Street Presby-
terlan Church of Detroit in which the As
semoiy met last year, and of which General r.
A. Alger is member, is prominently named. |
There could be no better man for this first |
officer in the church. The Rev. Dr. Wy.
Young, President of Center College, XIV,
belongs to great family and will command |
the vote OF the solid South He is e1onuent