The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-02-10
SOUTHERN SCENES.
A Memorable Trip.
THE ANN ARBoR MEETING.
The Initial Journey and Arrival at Mann
moth Cave.


After many days filled with the rush
and roar of travel, with unwonted sights
and scenes of beauty, he who reverses
the hands on Times dial for back
ward glance at the Kaleidoscope pic
ture, feels almost as If reviewing the
unreal experiences of dream; and yet,
as we who enjoyed the varied and de-
lightful Southern journey of more than
1000 miles, recall the warm-hearted
and generous hospitality every where
rendered us, we see again the smiling
faces and out-stretched hands of new
made friends and once more hear their
hearty words of welcome, until the
dreamy mist before the picture van
ishes, and we are re-lIving hours spent
under the sunny skies of that new South
that has risen Ph9nix-like from the
ashes and desolation of the old.
However, to give our readers a con-
nected idea of this memorable trip, we
must first go back to Michigan's Uni
versity city where the members of the
Michigan Press Association began To
assemble on Jan. ~.
The expected attendance was serious
ly diminished and the program consid-
erably shortened by the inrOads of the
Russian malady, but the hospitable
arrangements of Ann Arbor's citizens
and Press Club were not to be frus-
trated by any untoward circumstance,
and all of the visiting fraternity carried
away with them an exceedingly flatter-
ing opinion of this charming and cul-
tured city where such educational facil-
tiles for extensive research in any
branch are found as rank our Amer
lean University among the first in the
world. President Angel, the broad
minded, arge-hearted, and courteous
head of this institution, who SO com
mands the love and respect of the hun
dreds of students beneath his sway that
no late conner is ever walked" into his
class by the rhythmic feet of mischief
loving comrades, and no troublesome
prank ever obtruded in his presence,
was no laggard in the hospitabls race,
and his speech at University Hall on
the first evening, as well as his kindly
and humorous remarks in the toast
masters chair at the farewell banquet,
will not soon be forgotten by those who
had the pleasure of hearing them.
1t is not our purpose to give detailed
account of all the pleasures crowded
into the three days meeting here, partly
because we were ourselves prohibited
by illness from participating in many
of them, and partly because our state
papers have already told the story of
Ann ArbOr's generosity and enthusi-
astic reception of the Michigan editors
Suffice it to say that the program in
.cluded visitation of the innumerable
fine departments of the University mot
the least entertaining of which was the
museum with its wonderful Chinese
exhibiD, an eXhilarating sleigh ride,
most enjoyable reception at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. j. + Beal, and the
final banquet above alluded to. The
elegant souvenir card containing menu
and toast program furnished ON the lat
ter occasion, was a model of its kind
and bore on its second page the very
appropriate stanZa,
"Some haze meat and Gamma eat
And some wod eat that want IL,
But we haze meat and we can eat,
And sac the Lord be thankit,"
Special mention is due to j. f. Beal
of the Ann Arbor Courier who seemed
well nigh omnipresent throughout the
three days of the association and spared
no pains in the execution of well
planned details, being ably assisted by
others too numerous TO mention.
With this brief account of the gath
annual meeting of the NJ p A. we will
leave the Athens of Michigan and ask
you to follow, in imagination, the hur-
ried start of three score and ten sleepy
people who assembled at the Mich.
Central depot in time to board the east
bound train at 5'45 a. M, Jan. 10, 1892.
The breakfast that awaited them at the
NJ. G X. Il. eating house at Detroit
some two hours later, was well calcu-
lated to satisfy the inner man, and the
look resembling that of the "early
worm that got caught" was gradually
replaced by felicitous expression of
countenance, and the utmost sociability
prevailed throughout the ride to Cincin-
natl.
The party dined at Lima, Ohio, at the
much lauded c., III. a. ID. dining hall,
though, in our humble opinion, the
viands seemed scarcely in keeping with
the dainty table appointments, and
the praise the latter might have elected
was silenced by the flavor of the butter
and other unsavory dishes.
After leaving Lima the country be-
gan to show evidences of the oil indus
try, and the skeleton-like derricks and
huge watts outlined against the sky, to-
gether with the penetrating but not
aromatic odor of Kerosene, limited that,
in warmer weather, it would be a high
ly odoriferous region.
At Dayton we entered the far-famed
Miami valley, the scenery of which,
beautiful even in mid winter, must be
indescribably SO when clothed i'm its
summer robes. At this point the myster-
ious relics of the mound builders are nu-
merous, and we saw one circular, SYM
metrical elevation with tree crowned
summit, which one of our party de-
clared to be none other than the monu-
ment of race long since passed from
mortal ken.
About six p. IN. Cincinnati was
reached and the party dispersed to diff
ferent hotels, nearly half going to the
Palace, large and we'll equipped
house whose title is no misnomer Here
we spent a restful evening, some of the
less wearied ones of our number at
tending the operctta of Wang" which
they pronounced very entertaining.
OF the city itself we saw but very
little, and that little was not calculated
to give us a correct impression of this