St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-11
DID THE FRISCO FAIR.
Jolly CHICAGO SCRfBES HAVE OWNED
THE EARTH
FOR TWO WEEKS AT LEAST.

They Took Possession of ST. Paul
Yesterday, and of Course Had
Good Time Their Junket
Across the Continent Hasn't
Ccst Them Cent - Now for
Work.
A party of twelve Eastern newspaper
correspondents arrived in the city yes
terday forenoon at II o'clock from Port
land. over the Northern Pacific IN the
special Pullman car "Monida," gratul-
touSly rendered them by George Pull
man. The party has been OH the coast
for the past three weeks writing upSthe
coast and the San Francisco midwinter
fair. They left last night for Chicago
over the North-W eStern Limited. They
were induced to visit the coast by the
San Francisco Chronicle. The party
comprised the following: l. j. Lewis,
Chicago Times; George AIDE, Chicago
Record; J. L. McCutcheon, Chicago
Record; Daniel Greene, Chicago Post;
q. ". Bowling, Chicago Inter Ocean;
Z. E. Bates, Cleveland Plaindealer; c.
q. Seymour, Chicago Herald; Edwin l..
Shuman, Chicago journal; G. Hatfield.
Chicago Staats-Zeitung; John NJ. Max
we'll, Chicago Mail. j. f. j Archibald,
Chicago representative of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, was III charge of the
party. The entire delegation is COM
posed of the jolliest men OH earth. and
are all right at that. A. W. Warnock,
advertising agent of the Omaha, accom-
panied the party to Chicago.
a GLOBE reporter visited the news
paper mems palatial quarters in the
"MOnida'' in the yards at the union
depot, and was fortunate enough to
find just one of the Scribes in the car,
the others having gone out TO look the
town over. This Faber pusher proved
to be John NJ. Maxwell, of the Chicago
Mail. He was decidedly ION to the job"
of interviewing. for he sat down, after
giving the GLOBE representative fra
ternal handShake, and Immediately
started in as follows: "Our party left
Chicago about three weeks ago, and
arrived in Frisco on the following
Thursday. We put up at the Palace
hotel. We stayed in Frisco until the
next Sunday night, attended Mike de
YOung's big banquet to the
foreign commissioners to the fair,
made an excursion in tally
no coaches TO Sutrow Heights.
and had lots of fun generally. We visit
ed the fair on the opening day, saw the
'49-ers' mining camp, which interested
US very much. We all went out on q
junkeU over the Southern Pacific to Los
Angeles. At this point we were met by
q delegation from that city's board of
trade and press club. We took up
quarters at the HoIenbeck hotel. We
were given a drive about the city and
suburbs. The day after our arrival at
Los Angeles we went in coaches to
Mount Lowe. We also visited Lucky
Baldwia's farm. We enjoyed toboggan-
ing on Mount Lowe. and few hours
later were indulglng in strawberries.
We were banQueted at Los Angeles
From here our car was taken out by a
special engine. rendered us by the Santa
Fe. and were taken over its kIte-shaped
track through the fruit district of
the San Gabriel valley. We
were met at every station by citizens.
At some points, where we alighted, we
were driven in carriages over their sec
tons. The most delightful drive we
had, l think, was the Magnolia drive
at Riverside. We had a great farewell
supper at the HolIenbeck, were given
parting symposium by the Los Angeles