The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-05
THE PRESS EXCURSION.

Tomorrow evening the Press excur-
sion and invited guests, start for the
Worlds fair. The party arrives inChica-
go Monday, and during its stay of week,
the Vermont building will be dedicated,
the orator being ex- Gov. VIM. p. Dilling-
ham. who, with other prominent parties
accompany the press gentlemen.
The occasion of the annual press ex-
cursion calls out yearly a large amount
of wit. This year is no exception.
First cyclone struck the announcement
of the itinerary from Dea. Camp, late of
the Newport Express, and that furnished
the text for John Harris of the Hard
wick Gazette, to get off characteristic
utterance. We give our readers the
benefit Iof Johns remarks, and appoint
the Bennington contingent nof the party
our residuary legatees if anything
happens to us on account of it. Brer.
Harris says:
The rarefied atmosphere surrounding
that select organization known as
the Vermont Press association is "haz-
ing up" in a manner which denotes that
the contemplated Chicago junket next
month is likely to engender bad feeling
and end in anything but 'the pleasant
est excursion in our history" The exec
utive committee, consisting of Coils. e.
S. Forbes, G. T. Walter and l.. p. Thayer,
have been busy for weeks working up
the scheme by personal visits to various
parts of the state, correspondence on
deliberately prepared official stationery
and newspaper proclamations, and have
now about perfected the passenger list
for this momentous event. Two hundred
and forty is established as the limit of
the membership, and of these probably
less thar % will be actual proprietors or
editors of Vermont papers. The great
bulk of the excursionists will be made
up of state officials, past, present and
future, distinguished citizens in private
life, members, ex-members and to-be-
members of the legislature and in fact
the flower-the Creme De La Creme-of
Green Mountain society from South Yer
non to North Troy. In the van will be
his excellency the governor, accompanied
by the president of the association, H.
E. Parker, who is also chief of staff and
several other things. Also Forbes,
deputy collector of Internal revenue and
son of the revolution, likewise father of
the Republican league of Vermont. AT
ter that will come notables as thick as
raspberries in sheep pasture. Prob
dDly InOG6 JldU Ou6-ndll bub company
will be ladies. In this distinguished
assembly of fair women and brave men
will occasionally be found legitimate
newspaper man, swelling with pride to
find himself tolerated by the celebrities
by whom he is surrounded and thinking
what stupendous affair the State Press
association is, anyway.
DR.. Jones of Bradford will be one of
President Parker's 81 invited guests and
will be in charge of the hospital and
despensatory car with a corps of sur
geons and trained nurses. The hospital
will be supplied with everything from a
porous plaster to stomach pump, and
is warranted to relieve rheumatism of
the hair by electricity in five minutes.
Senator Orvis of Manchester, another of
the Journalists" will have car stocked
entirely with his celebrated equinox
water which will take the place of APP
pollinaris of soda as a CHASER and is
said to be excellent in cases of increased
temperature. The committee also eI-
pect to have at least four car loads of
orchestra which will play vigorously
when passing one-horse cities along the
route. More next week.