St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-13
WARNING. TO EDITORS
You Will Miss 1t Surely II
You Do Miss
The EDITORIAL EXCURSION
To Buffalo and Return on
the Great Steamship
North West.
GAKE YOUR APPLICATION,
For the List Will Be Made
Up Wednesday--The Trip
Described.
lake YOUR APPLICATION,

OrS anu 1uOllSlerS aSSOcldlIOu.
The time expires "Wednesday for the
reception of applications for those who
desire to avail themselves of the oppor-
tunity of Joining the state editorial eX-
curSioH party which leaves Duluth FRI
day, Sept. Z, on the steamship North
West, for trip around the Great Lakes,
including a two days stop at Buffalo
and Niagara Falls.
Having made the trip last month, l
wish to urge all members of the aSsoca-
ton to join the excursion if possible.
To miss it will be to neglect an oppor-
tumty that does not come every hot
summer. OF course the lakes will be in
existence next year, and the steamship
Will probably be making regular trips,
but the opportunity you will miss
will be the chance of going
with a party Of aequaintances, friends
and Minnesota people SO large as NJ
make up the preponderance of the
passengers. l made the trip In
July, just ii month ago. and came back
so nlled with enthusiasm that l was in
danger OF becoming almost a mOno-
maniac on the subject of the North
West. Yet l realize that to take the
trip under circumstances offered by the
editorial excursion would have added
greatly to my pleasure. OF course &C
quaintanceS on board ship are easily
made, the officers of the boat are mir
acles of good nature and accommodate
ton, and all that, but there is an ele-
ment in ones enjoyment that comes
from the association with friends that
is lacking when the trip is made alone,
or with q limited number of friends.
even.
There is another point about the ex-
cursiOn that should have its influence,
and a material influence, too. These
are hard times, and the rates offered to
the editors amount 10 a gift of from $50
TO 500 10 each member of the conven-
ton who goes. In other words, the
editors will take the trip under circum-
stances that enable them to practically
own the ship for the time, being at an
expense which will average one-feurth
what the public is paying. do not
want to enlarge on this point, because |
understand perfectly that the news
paper men take pride i'll paying their
way, and that the Great Northern
Steamship company will be none the
loser in the end. butt do wish the edi-
tors to appreciate the fact that cour-
tesy has been extended to them that is
unusual, ana which certainly will not
be again offered.
1t should be understood, too, that the
trip offered is not week of steamboat
ing simply. The North West is steam
ship. elegant almost beyond description,
equipped with every convenience to be
thought of. A millionaire in his steam
Sacht cannot tour the lakes under con =
ditions of more luxurious ease or finer
accommodations. The boat is marvel
in way. Nothing afloat on fresh
waters, at least, can begin to compare
with it in size. speed, beauty of appoint
ments and all that goes TO make up a
triumph of ship building. There are
few. very few, ocean steamships-those
greyhOunds we have been reading about
for yearS-that can begin to afford a
comparison. 1 he best proof of this is that
in the lake cities where the North West
stops IL is still a positive curiosity to
people who are as accustomed to look
upon boats of all descriptions as we are
upon elevators or stacks of grain in
wheat fields, and whenever the North
West makes stop there are crowds OH
hand to welcome her and ask the priv
llege. which but few get, of going on
board and making an Inspection.
However, this is not all advertisement
for the North West, but simply an ap-
peal written at the request Of President
II. u. Day 10 the members of the edi-
nj i0t ooh L
thing, together with a brief account of
the trip, which may convey some of the
impressions of one newspaper hack who
took it and wishes devOutly he could
again
So as to the trip itself. Recreation
means new formation which can come
only from a rest, and change from what
produces WEAKNESS Of mind and BODY.
Probably to man whose life is spent
on board Il ship the greatest recreation
would be an overland journey. He
WoulG enjoy even the hustle and hurry
OF the streets of city as we'll as the
beauties of nature. Vice versa TO the
landlubDer who has been working on a
newspaper until he cannot keep his
mind oil his work, or who is sick and
tired OF the routine of his existence, the
change to the calm OF great lake, the
complete transformation of his sur
roundings, the banishing of almost
everything he has ever seen or thought
of, is mind cure that acts upon the
principle of the removal of atmospheric
pressure by cupping in surgery
The voyage could hardly be better
arranged for diversity. You leave Du-
luth at p. IN. By the time the shore
line has faded away,so it seems as if the
Zenith City was located upon plain
instead of mammoth rock pile, and
you have noticed the change In the
atmosphere which perhaps makes an
overcOat comfortable. and discovered
that The restaurant is the best you have
ever met with, you will find that nature
has prepared gorgeous spectacle for
your entertainment in the Shape of
sunset on Lake Superior, the beauties
OF which no one outside of a contributor
to the woman'S department of an even
Ing paper would attempt to describe
IVY hen the night begins to bring out
the stars" as some one remarked at the
last state editorial banquet, you will
probably find yourself attacked by a
drowsiness that is delicious when you
know that you can 90 to bed whenever
you want to. And those Staterooms on
the North West have a peculiar sonific
effect. You grow TO love them more
and more before you get back. When
you rise the next morning-you wOn'i
be up early, either-you will find thai
you are just getting out of tile big lake
again, and are approaching the
300. 1t is novel experience,
this being towed into the great
ship canal and let down from the
level UP Superior to st. Mary's river SO
gradually and easily that you can hardly
believe your eyes. Then the afternoon
trip-it takes you down a river SO
broad it seems like lake, with scenery