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VOICE OF WOMEN.
1t Speaks in Determined
Tones.
PAPERS r1UST BE CLEAN.
Pertinent Addresses Made by
Several Ladies.
MERETRICIOUS JOURNALISM.
A Movement Which Is Sustained by
the Sacred Influences of
Our Firesides.
MERETRICIOUS JOURNALISM.

It is quite evident that Jupiter Pluyius
looks with favor upon the women's move
ment for the publication of the press. for
yesterday mornings clouds and showers
were succeeded by blue sky and sunshine
in time for the ,mass-meetiDg which had
been called for the afternoon.
Long before the meeting was called to
order every seat in Golden Gate Hall was
filled by an audience which comprised
many of the most refined and cultured
women of our city and its suburbs. That
the best element Of our population is
strongly interested in the matter under
consideration can be doubted by no one
who beheld the earnest faces of those who
gathered at the call of their sisters TO add
the testimony of their presence in its
favor 1t was emphaiically a woman'S
mass-meeting, as il was intended TO be,
for, save one or two reporters, not man
was in evidence; but nearly every woman,
To Judge from the sentiments expressed,
came as the represen tatlve of home from
which hereafter all newspapers of mere
tricious character are to be sternly eX-
cluded, and the large attendance and its
character proved conclusively the exist
ence of a moral force among US which will
and can not be ignored.
Mrs. A. l.. Bancroft, the president of
the organization, acted as chairman, and
about fifty women prominent in the liter
airy, artistic, educational and social life OF
our State occupied seats upon the plat
form with her. Mrs. Bancroft, who is as
charming in voice and manner as she is in
appearance, called the meeting to order,
and in few brief and well-chOsen words
explained its object, reviewed the work
that had already been done during the
last twelve days, and spoke of the great
good which the women of California
hoped to accomplish in the near future.
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ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.
John S. HitteIl Reads Paper on the
OYSTER

At the regular monthly meeting OF the
Academy of Sciences last night the ecre-
tary in his report. stated that GA volumes
had been added to the library since the
last meeting. A number of additions to
the collection of the museum have also been
made.
The president, in speaking of donation
of gold, silver and copper coins recently
made TO the society by lady who had
collected them in Europe and Africa, said
that the value of the first mentioned would
prevent their being placed on exhibition.
John S. Hittell read very Interesting
paper on the Oyster-the California and
Eastern product-their peculiarities, man.
ner of cultivation, etc, especially COM
mendng the bivalve of home production,
claiming that it is, when properly culti-
waited, uneXceled anywhere for table use.
The subject was treated at length and was
illustrated by a number of specimens.
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In Berkeley.

The press purity movement has reached
Berkeley. Seven petitions are being cir
culated and numerously signed by the
women CT Berkeley. Several pastors
called attention to them on Sunday last.
and large numbers of;their congregations
signed them before leaving the church
DR.. Mary Bennett Ritier is especially in
teresting herself in the matter. So potent
is the movement that +. 7. Bancroft, the
leading book and news dealer Of Berkeley,
has discontinued the sale OF all the morn
ing San Francisco papers except The
CALL, which alone he considers fit to
enter the home of a self-respectiDg man,
and which he advertises as "the only
clean, reliable family newspaper contain
ing all the news without the filth" Mr..
Bancroft has little faith in petitions, and
holds that the only way to reach and in.
f1uence the publishers of impure and de-
moralizing matter in the daily papers is
through the pocket-book. Being practi-
cal man he has taken the stand he has.
The various ministers of the town are pre-
pairing discourses on the subject for next
Sunday.
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ways been followed ever since. repealed
the special act of 1868, which was not
part Of the original charter.
If section APO be the law governing tn e
case. Supervisor Denman has forfeited his
position. If the law of 1868 holds. then he
is all right. The case has caused consider
able discussion, and it is said that the
question ought at least to be definitely de-
cided. for If Supervisor Denman partlcI-
pates in any important measures, they
might afrerward be invaldated IN a court
of law. where his vote might be called in
question.
1t is also being discussed as to whether
Auditor BrOderick will take any cosniz-
ance OF the point when he comes TO audit
Denman's next salary warrant. Another
morsel of gossip at the City Hall IS the
question of Mayor Eliert's position on the
subject, and whether he would reappolnt
Supervisor Denman in case he has for
feited his Office.
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Functions of the Newspaper.

Miss Hamlin's remarks were received
with enthusiastic applause, which scarcely
died away be fore it was heard again in
welcome to the next speaker, Mrs. Char
lotte Perkins Stetson. Her subject was
The Function of the Newspaper" and
she treated it in her Enthusiastically
philosophical style.
THE press" she said, us to the body
polite what the cerebro-spiDal nervous
system is to our own bodies. The news
paper to society is precisely what the
spinal nerves are to the body, those COM
pound sensitive and motor nerves which
bring to the brain impressions and take
from it commands. The sensOTy function
of the newspaper is to receive and trans
NIT news of all that concerns the body
polite; the motOry function is 10 convey
the mandates of public judgment to
. the executive organs" Society Mrs.
Stetson defined as being :" The reIa-
Of people-the coordination of human ell
ergieS." A common knowledge OF human
affairs being necessary in order that the
individual may act iEtelligently the func-
ton OF the newspaper was stated 10 he the
reception and transmission of this knOwl-
edge in order TO main tain and develop pub
lie consciousness and public activity.
speaker said: THE disease of the press
which we are now considering is morbid
sensitiveness to certain classes of news
and a morbid activity in transmitting
them. The press does not deny this condi-
ton, but justifies it en- the ground that the
public demands lust what it supplies"
Continuing, Mrs. Stetson declared that
the Oft-repeated assertion that it is the
business Of newspapers to make money
has no foundation in fact, since it is no
more the business of the newspaper man
to make money than it is of the doctor,
the lawyer or the grocer.
Under our present economic cOndi-
tions," she said, every business must
make money or die, but in no other bust.
ness but journalism is it publicly main
tanned that malpractice is justified by the
money which it brings. Any tradesman,
any professional, can make money by evi
means, but in these occupations the COM
munity restricts professional debasement
by social, civil and penal retribution. The
function of the newspaper is not TO make
money, but TO transmit news. and by It's
performance of that function it is to be
Judged For its right performance il
should be valued and rewarded, for IL:
wrong performance condemned and pun.
ished, and it is the duty of the individual
in this as In all other work to oppose witt
his personal character all degrading ten
denotes in MS profession"
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Committee had risen TO execute law when
the times had demanded it. "We are a
Vigilance Committee" she concluded. ''tor
better citizenship, for purer moral tone,
for what will benefit the rising generation.
The work of the central committee will
be over In few days. but let US remain a
committee with power to act."
The meeting was then dismissed by the
president Mrs. A. L. Bancroft. A very
large number of ladies. however, handed
in petitions containing numerous sigma
lures before departing.
The work OF the central committee has
been 10 direct other committees in secur-
ing signatures to the petitions throughout
the State. In few days these petitions
will he presented TO the newspapers of
San Francisco. Just how many names
have been appended is not fully known as
yet, but it was stated by the committee
that thousands had been handed in last
afternoon.
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License of the Press.

Mrs McRoberts. who spoke without
notes, delivered a stirring address upon
the subject Of newspapers.
you have been told" she said, that
the function of newspaper is the dissent
nation of news-true news. May l. as a
foreigner, dare to tell you the difference in
this respect between your papers and those
of some other countries? ~
In ringing tones, every word Of which
could be heard distinctly in all parts of the
hall, Mrs. McROberiS went on to say that
in no part of the world is there so much
freedom as in the United States, but this
freedom has in some cases become license.
1t takes ages to learn to use freedom prop
erly, and the presence of numerous un-
educated foreigners has added to this
abuse of freedom, of which some of the
papers have taken advantage.
1--WE don't want the papers OF Ger
many" said Mrs. McRoberts. 'for we
know that they only see through the
cracks Of doors without having the free
dom to speak with breadth and truth.
Every one knows the great English pa pers
give details of scandals-the law court re-
ports of sensational divorce trials. This
is because a large portion of humanity
likes scandal and newspaper has to re-
feet the desire of the people to whom it
addresses itself.
1.-The difference between the English
and the American papers is that many of
the latter try more to make their news
spicy, and try less to tell the unadulter-
ated truth"
In conclusion Mrs. McRoberts stated il
as her opinion that the protest which the
ladies were making against the sensation
alism of some portions OF our press must
have a good effect. She cited historical
protests which have aided largely in move
ments that have now become part of the
worlds history.
I'VE have made the proprietors of news.
papers see," she said, ''that women want a
purer press, and if women will refuse to
take papers that 10 not give true news the
proprietors will give them the TRUTH
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Hit With a Stone.

Mile Dorant of SD Dupont street was
taken to the Receiving Hospital on Sunday
night and had wound in her head
dressed. A man named William Norman.
harnessmaker. went to her house that
night and in a fit OF passion struck her
over the head with a rock which he had
tied in silk handkerchief. Norman was ar
rested by Police Officers Coughln and
Bell and charged with assault with a
deadly weapon.
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Divorce Proceedings.

Mrs. Francisco Eoids claims that her
husband has deserted her, and that he is
worth 100000. On that account she has
appealed to the Superior Court for an
order directing Boids to provide for her
support. as also for that of her child.
Judge Hunt granted Emma j. Phalon a
divorce from Richard Ii. Pnalon on the
ground of wilful desertion.
Joseph q. Chase was committed to Jail
by Judge Hebbard Yesterday for refusing
to obey an order of the court directing him
to pay alimony TO his second wife. from
whom he is divorced. He was also di-
vorced from his first wife. ana only few
days ago he made a third matrimonial
venture, being united in wedlock to very
young girl on board a tug.
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A Noble Bard of Women.
The following ladies are some Of

The following ladies are some OF the
officers of The organization:
Presdent-Mrs. A. l.. Bancroft; vice presI-
dents-Mrs. William Alvord. Mrs. william
Abbott, Miss Ella Adams. Mrs. W. H. J.. Barnes.
Mrs. +. j. Bowen. Mrs. A. NJ. Burns, Mrs. John
NJ. Burnett, Mrs. j. S. Bunnell. Mrs. W. B.
Bourn Jr, Miss Nave Bourn, Mrs. William
BOericke. Mrs. II. L. Brown, Mrs. Thomas
Breeze. Mrs. l.. l.. Baker, Mrs. William Bar
bee, Mrs. p. D. Brown, Mrs. George Boardman,
Mrs. Charlotte Blake Brown, Mrs. John C.
Brauner, Mrs. S. e. Blgelow, Mrs. John Vance
Cheney. Mrs. p. B. Cornwall, Mrs. Daniel Cal.
laghan, Mrs. William Croker. Mrs. Clark w.
Croker, Mrs. Helen Garter, Miss Il. Campbell.
Mrs Walter Castle, Mrs. John Coyle, MRS. K. E.
Mrs Z. l.. Davis. Mrs. Horace Davis Mrs. a.
n. Brown, Mrs. Charles ElliDwood. Mrs. War
rrrn b. Ever. Mrs. Z. Z. Eyre. Mrs. NJ. Ehrman,
Mrs. Elizabeth Easton. Mrs. Henry M. Flske,
Mrs. A. M. Fratinger, Mrs William Fries Mrs.
James NJ. Goewy, Mrs. Montgomery Cooley,
Mrs. ID. a. GOodse. Mrs. Louis GerstIe, Mrs.
Louis A. GarneIt, Mrs. n. G. Greenbaum, Mrs.
Adam Grant, Mrs Ralph Harrison. Mrs. Rob
ert y: Hayne, Mrs. Willard b. Harrington.
Mrs. II. q. Hooker, Mrs Charles Webb How
ara, Mrs. c. s. Holmes. Mrs. Isaac Hech;. Mrs.
A. X. =. Harmon, Mrs: Samuel Hort. Mrs.
Sarah D. Hamlin, Mrs: John H. Jarboe. Mrs.
David Starr Jordan. Mrs. Mary W. Kincaid,
Miss Cordela Kirkland. Mrs. Homer S. King.
Mrs. c. Mason Kline. Mrs. n. &. Klttle, Mrs.
LlIienthal. Mrs. Horatio T. Llvermore, Mrs.
Joseph Moody, Mrs. Agnes Manning, Mrs.
Eleanor Martin, Miss Lille j: Martin. Mrs.
Tilden Moulton, Mrs. James Nee, Miss Josie
7. Molloy, Mrs. A. Mack, Mrs. j. F. Merrill,
Mrs. William Norris, Mrs. b. +. Norris Mrs.
James Neal, Mrs. William S. Nichols, Mrs.
James Otis, Miss Jean Parker. Mrs. Louis b.
PARROT, Mrs. Edna Smell foulson, Mrs. n. ID.
Rideout, Mrs. Horatlo Stebbins, Mrs j.
f. Sullivan, Mrs. James Spers, Mrs. Har
riet Skdmore, Mrs. Henry T. Scott,
Mrs. Louis Sloss. Mrs. Irving NJ. Scott. Mrs.
Robert Sherwood. Mrs. ID. j. Staples. Mrs.
Frank j. Symmes, Mrs. A. l.. Stone, Mrs. Louis
Schwabacher. Mrs. S. Sussman, Mrs. A. n.
Towne, Mrs. w. Ii. Taylor, Mrs. Richard
TObin. Mrs. Selden S. Wright, Mrs. Horace
Wilson, Miss Marie Wthrow, Mrs. Robert
Watts, Miss Mary b. West Mrs. s. q. Walk
ngton, Mrs. c. ). Wright, Mrs. Rolla V. Watt.
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DEMONSTRATORS WILLIS TT

DHILANTHROPHY WILLS IT THAT EVERY
L man in around visiting the city shall be
amused, instructed and entertained each evening
at .. DR.. Liebig Company's grand illustrated lee
lures will be given at the lecture hall and
museum of the Liebig World Dispensary. 40l
Kearny street. corner OF Pine, nightly Consuita-
tion free. Grandest Museum of Anatomy in the
West. Models of secrets of life and wonders OF
mankind, all representative OF the present year,
1893. just imported at great expense from Paris.
Museum open all day. Admission 10 cents.
Medical ana Surgical Offices of the DE- Lieb,g
Special Doctors for Men, 400 Geary street. San
FRANCISCO Call or write. nos tf 1hSuru
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Foul Advertisements.

Mrs Mary Roberts Smith of Palo Alto
followed Mrs. Stetson with an able paper
on "The Newspaper as an Advertiser"
Mrs. Smith took the ground that the news
paper is a private enterprise for making
money. and that two classes of patrons are
m be dealt with-subscribers and adver-
tisers-and that the editors responsibility
Is the same as other people's-simply equal
TO his opportunities. In answer to the
The morning call., 1893-11-07
The Benson Cases.

United States District Judge Hanford
granted the application of counsel yester-
day in the joint fraudulent survey case of
John A. Benson and NJ. j. Reilly for leave
to withdraw the plea of not guilty and to
enter demurrer 10 the Indictment.
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The Committees Work.

Mrs. DR.. Brown, who made the con-
GLIDING speech, said: I'VE have been told
that we shall fail. We will not fail"
Speaking of the movement of the women
of California for a pure press she de-
clared that it was an exigency which had
arisen out of the absolute need for some
action being taken, just 10 the Vigilance
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Pacific Hebrew orphan Asylum.

The annual election of trustees for the
Pacific Orphan Asy lum and Home Society
yesterday afternoon resulted in the choice
of Isaac Wormser, Jacob Stern, Martin
Heller, Jules Cert, Joseph Brandenstein.
These trustees were those of 1898 re-
elected. During the present month they
will meet to elect a president, secretary
and treasurer.
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I A n a e
i N D / Z N
LION
jy22
M len! MEN !
ENTERTAINMENT

Grand Lecture and Views at O'Clock each
night by the Silver Tongued Medical Orator
of the Liebig World Dispensary from Chi
cagO. No extra charge for Lecture and
Views.
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The Remedy.

Mrs. Dorcas Spencer, well known in San
Francisco through her work in connection
with the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union. read paper entitled why Is the
press above moral responsibility?
Although not very audible during the
opening portions of the argument, Mrs.
Spencer gathered voice as she proceeded,
and was much applauded on account of
the practical remedies which she pre-
scribed to her hearers for bringing moral
responsibility into the sensational portion
of the press.
"If every woman interested-and the
women throughout this city and State are
interested" said the speaker; IF every
woman interested would say, No news
paper but the cleanest shall be admitted
into my house. then each paper III this
city would be vying with the Others for
cleanliness. We would have cleaner ad-
vertisements il the circulation required
them; and it lies with the subscribers and
advertisers TO require them.'
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MISCELLANEOUS.
USE PONDS EXTRACT

Have the early frosts or too late lin
gering by the garden gate again aroused
that RHEUMATISM so peacefully
slumbering the summer long? Well, if
it's very bad you must change your diet .
and perhaps take some distasteful drug {
the doctor will tell you what-but first G
rub thoroughly the part afflicted with
PONDS EXTRACT, then wrap it
warmly with flannel, and the rheuma- :
tism may wholly disappear. twill GER
tainly be much relieved. Now that you
have the PONDS EXTRACT try it for
any of the many things its buff wrapper
mentions. It's wonderful curative
But don't accept substitutes. G
PONDS EXTRACT CO., 70 Fifth Ave-, N. Y.
ThSaTukWy
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PURIFICATION OF THE PRESS.

question, what is the news?" Mrs.
Smith read an epitOme of last Saturdays
occurrences in California as set forth
in one paper. The account includes
five train rObberies. five other
robberles, three fights, three murder
trials, one murder. one suicide. one arson,
one defalcation, one divorce and one
bigamy case. The effect OF such publlca-
tons, she said, was that tourists leave
here with the impression that our State is
chiefly populated with outlaws. train rob-
beers, abandoned women. incendiaries and
criminal doctors.
After discussing the question of the
present evil and its effect upon humanity.
Mrs. Smith closed by saying: "At least one
of our city papers can afford to take the
initiative in this matter. We here repre-
sent those who will paIronize paper in
which crime and accident occupy the mini
mum of space and the advertisements are
clean and trustworthy. We want more
discrimination. intelligence and cleanli-
ness, and we believe that California can
support more than one such paper. The
first 10 take the cue can control the field. J"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-09-13
A Family Reunion.

Yesterday there was rather notable
reunion at the home OF Mr.. George
Roberts, on Thirteenth street. Mr.. John
Higgins arrived here yesterday from
Missouri to visit mis- sisters, Mrs. Ro.
berts, Mrs. .HargraHes, Of the Island,
aud Mrs. Rrownlee, Of East Wheeling.
He was accompanied by another sister,
Mrs. Swords, Of Indiana, this compIet-
ing the family with the exception Of a
sister who lives in England. The broth.
er and sisters had not seen each other
for thirty-tive years, Mr.. Lowry Har-
graves, Of Kansas City, also accompa.
MED his uncle and aunt, and will visit
his mother here for some time.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-09-13
railroad TICKETS to the Fair.

Secretary Hook, Of the State Fair as.
ISOLATION, yesterday finished his settle
ments with the railroad companies for
coupon tickets sold by the companies to
thefair last week. The B. & Ohio COM
pany sold $3.50 tickets, the Pennsyl.
vania lines 2,240 and w. 4 i, E. 263.
The other roads simply sold excursion
tickets to the city and their passengers
bought fair tickets here. The w. L.
L. brought in great many passengers
the same way, the arrangements with
the Terminal company not being satis.
factory. In all, the railroad tickets fell
off 1000 from last year, but this really
indicates very little as to the patronage
Of the fair, as many people from the
Ohio side who formerly bought coupon
tickets, this year came over the new
electrical road.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-09-13

Clerk Hook yesterday admitted to
record transfers Of real estate as follows:
September u by A. D. Thurber to
Leonard Sellers, for $165, the south
twenty feet of lot So in Klein and stifel's
addition, First ward.
September II by Charles Klein and
/. f. stifel and wife to A. D. Thurber.
for S276, the south forty feet Of lot So
in the same addition.
September o by Benjamin F. Springer
and wife to George ]. Ktson, for 81, 900,
lots 8 aud 6 Of the subdivision OF Rachel
Thornburg's estate, one-half mile east
OF Triadelphia.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-09-13

Yesterday was the closing day for en-
tries in the handicap races Of the
wheelmeu's meet next week, and a
number Of additional entries came in
last night, swelling the total number Of
entries up to date to nearly fifty.
Among those who entered last night
were Cleveland's two fastest men, F. Q.
and L. o. Johnson, and George A, Ban
ker and Arthur Banker, Of Pittsburgh.
It Is expected that a number Of other
entries will be received this morning.
The steubenville entries had not yet
been received last night but they are
expected thismorning, asst is the inten-
ton OF the boys there to enter all hand.
cap events. The entry blanks will be
sent to the L. A. w. official handicap
per for this district, at Cleveland, who
will work out the proper handicaps to
be allowed the various men entered,
and return to the local officials. These
will probably be received Monday even
ing. ~
Anumber OF the racing men who will
be here during the meet have already
secured accommodations at the local
hotels, and the prospect is that all will
be overlooked with visiting knights Of
the knickerbocker. The official pro-
gramme was issued yesterday and was
sent to all the league members in the
state and also to those in eastern Ohio
md TraEfern Pennglyania.
The grand street demonstration that
takes place on the morning of the sec
ond day Of the meet, Tuesday, bids
fair to be monster so far as numbers
are concerned. The chief marshal is A!
R. Darragh, Of Pittsburgh; Dhiet Of
staff, Capt. w. 7. Sadler. of the Wheel
ing Athletic Wheelmen; aides, Henry
Mahlke, Mountain State Wheelmen;
Harry Gruber, Wheeling Cyclers; Ed
ward Nelly, Blennerhasgett Wheelmen,
Parkersbnrg; w. L. Barnes, Tuscarora
Wheel Club, Wellsville; John B. Grit
9Th, Steubenyille Cyclers, Steuben-
vile; John w. Ensign, Huntington;
Fred II. Scott, Charleston; Percy
Gath, GAINESVILLE; P. A. Skater, Morgan
town. The line OF march, subject to
CuaQkbS 10 10 4OllVM9s 1lA0 WAA 4ShA4A ~
the capitol, corner Chapline and Fiji
tenth streets; line of march. on Four
teenth to Market, on Market to Tenth,
on Tenth across suspension bridge to
the Island, on several of the Island
streets, across the suspension bridge to
Main, on Main to Twenty-sixth, on
Twenty.sixth to Ohapline, on Chapline
to Twentieth, on Twentieth to Market,
on Market to the Mcclure, where the
parade will disband.
There will be quite a delegation OF
visiting newspaper men here during
the meet, and the chairman Of the press
committee has appointed the following
members OF the local press as honorary
members to assist in the entertainment
of the visitors: Will s. Faris, INTE1nt-
aRNcER; Harry v. Arkle, Regt1ter; Will
W. Whitmyer, Ntlqs, and Frederick
Colmar, Stats Zeiturg.
Various touring parties are being
formed TO ride to the meet east and
west over the national road. Members
Of the w. A. W. will be on the lookout
for the tourists and will escort them to
the city and headquarters.