The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-20
After Parade the Commercial Travel
ers Listened to Witty Speech by
Governor Matthews.
DUEL ON THE INDIANA SIDE
Louisville Youths Fight with Pis-
tolls, One Being Wounded.
Missing Girl Found In a Doctors Office
at New Castle-Race with LOc0mo-
tives on the Old Midland.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, May 19.-The fourth
annual session OF the Indiana division Of
the National Travellers Protective Associa-
tion Of America was held here to-day.
There was good attendance Of the various
posts of the State, Logansport and Fort
Wayne being particularly we'll represented.
Members of Lafayette Post had left MOTH
ing undone that would contribute to the
pleasures of the occasion and Lafayette
hospitality was generously extended to the
knights of the grip. The weather was very
much against the outdoor exercises, being
cold and drizzly. The parade was a very
nice feature of the mornings doings. Four
bands made music. Dwellings along the
line of march were in many cases sneatly
decorated. The arch over Main and Fifth
streets had been fitted up splendidly. The
monogram ''T. p. A" in electric letters
made a pleasing feature. Over the top OF
the arch was constructed OF electric lights
Mayor Mckinley, of this city, made an ad-
dress of welcome which was loudly ap-
plauded.
THE GOVERNORS TALK.
The Mayor was followed by Governor
Claude Matthews. who spoke follows:
when the invitation was extenled to me
to meet with the Travelling Mems Associa-
ton of Indiana in this beautiful little Star
City of our State, whose hospitalities have
been SO courteously and so generously
proffered to you by the Mayor, it was ex-
pressly stated that 1 would not be ex-
pectad. to make speech, and 1 relied i'm
plicitly this. for 1 knew so well that
one of the cardinal virtues of the travelling
man is never. or hardly ever, to say that
which he does not mean. Qaughter) He
may indulge in anecdote, but never tell a
story. l do not believe it would be strictly
in 10 hraa lr of 4,,-
variable rules, and i would like only to
add that just as generously as the Mayor
OF OF TN thls city city has proffered the hosptalitles
will meet with that hearty welcome
wherever you go throughout our State.
you TO day who has claim on
your generous forbearance. for 1 have this
right both through Inheritance and by
kindred ties. My father was for years a
member OF your profession, following the
roads through the BLUEGRASS, pastures and
Kentucky. Two or three others of my
name are members of your profession. and
Der of your brotherhood. and ne is with
you to-day, and | believe that he can
sn9ulaer nS 1i the grip peguile the weary hours
most modern, approved and accomplished
manner.
II say profession / use that term in
referring TO your occupation, for IL has be-
come profession much almost any
one of the liberal professions of our ooun-
last quarter OF a century mas grown TO
such vast proportions and assumed such
immense Importance as to materially affect
the internal commerce of a nation of sew
enty million people. 1t promotes the trade
or every section of our country and the
travelling man is met on all occasions and
almost everywhere. Why, L have actually
met the travelling man at church and in
the penitentiary. Q-aughter) 1 don't know
who may be your patron saint, il that
word may be properly used in this connec-
ton, nor to where you may trace your pro-
hath to
who travelled in the desert and who carried
Joseph with them into Egypt or the Phoeni-
clans who triumphantly rode the waves OF
ancient seas and while introducing wares
awoke the inspiration that led to and gave
the crowning glory TO Italy, to Greece and
10 all the countries visited by them; gave
a renewed ardor and appreciation for the
arts. the sciences and the literature that
followed after. L think it is to be greatly
regretted that some modern Homer has not
arisen to trace the wanderings of a modern
Ulysses and preserve the records Of his
travel and his tribulationS and his sue
'Odessy.'
The consideration of your calling and OF
your work cannot well be disassociated
from the idea of commerce, for as COM
merce in its sweep and growth carried in
its wide extended scale the gentler graces
and the still broader thought that came
from the intermingling of people, so,
think. it may be truly said, without undue
exaggeration, that you have become dis
seminators OF great, public, useful, practi-
cal benefits in this later day, gathering
luedS anu lDOuSnL Indt comes from a
larger and more varied contact. Whether
you recount these in amusing anecdote or
graver mood, you have become, in a
certain sense, even though it may be in a
limited degree, educators and formulators
of public opinion and thought. In material
wants of life man, in this day and genera
for much that is added to the pleasure OF
travel and surely to his comfort in hos
rey Dd haas 1 tb 'hS 1On "a p
grip has increased so have improvements
in all public accommodations followed, es-
pecially in hotel life. and we who are out
side of your charmed circle are greatly In
debted to you for awakening from his
/ lethargy of careless indifference many a
stupid and tyrannical boniface to just
and proper appreciation to the rights OF
man as weary travellers.
THE PATRON SAINT.
'I said awhile ago that 1 did not know
who might be termed your patron saint
or the founder of your school, but on after
thought / am rather inclined to believe that
it should be Epicurius. for. like many 9TH
ers. whenever it has been necessary for
me TO visit strange places and not know
ing where TO go / have almost invariably
inquired for the headquarters Of the COM
mercial traveller and have invariably found
| that / got the best that the community
could afford. (Applause.)
I'm closing / desire to say that. while
| YOU have triumphed over many serious and
| grave obstacles in the past, ] hope that
your success may give you stout heart
| to yet encounter the greatest foe that your
order may have TO meet and that is the
| long-dstance telephone. L believe you can
| not attach too much serious Importance
| TO this in its development and that you
| should take it into serious consideration in
| all your future calculations. L hope that
| you may meet it successfully. because
| believe in the matter Of enlightenment by
| your carrying from great centers into the
| remotest part OF our State and all through
| the United States, that your work can be
| lily spared. Since your honorable Mayor
| has suggested that the noon hour Is an un-
fortunate one for remarks of any length,
| | will not take up any more OF your time.
believing and hoping that some other men,
Der may follow me and tell to this audi
ence still more OF those many and numer-
| Gus virtues that know the travelling
| man possesses, If the well-recognized mod
esty OF the commercial traveller does not
prevail"
| John Lee president of the National AS
sociation was here from ST. Louis. and
| made the next speech. IL was not long. but
excited the merriment OF the knights OF the
4 rrir. highest mitch. Referring