The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-07-06

Tho PenInsula Press Association.
AsBuny PARK, N. J. July 8.-The
Peninsula Press Association is oele.
brating its twentieth anniversary at
the Hotel Atlanta this week. Fully
fifty editors and their wives and chill.
dren compose the party. and thirty
newspapers arc represented. As usual
Wilmington has not taken advantage
OF this annual outing. and only seven
men women. and children represent
the four dailies and two weekiies OF
that city. Dover is here In force and
30 lie Georgetown. while Milford did
not condescend to come along.
Easton and Elkton In Maryland have
each three newspapers represented
here, but the rest of the Peninsula
towns, excepting Mlddletown are CON-
tent with one representative q piece.
A carload OF the party came here on
Saturday, over the Pennsylvania rail-
road from Camden via Barnegat and
was the first run for the season for
that train, but the GOODNESS and clean
illness which followed an early after
noon ralnstorm compensated for the
delay, and everybody was delighted
with the trip.
The ride alongt he ocean from Barne-
gat to Asbury Park for twenty miles
ie perhaps the most charming In
America. An hour is devoted to It.
for the line Is dotted with seaside re.
sorts. The ocean is almost constantly
In sight, and the breeze Is strong
enough TO carry inland every vestige
Of smoke and coal dust. As 1t rained
again last night the weather has been
steadily cold. making 1t almost too
cold to battle.
On Sunday the grelt Auditorium
was dedicated to religious purposes,
i while yesterday, before the tenth an.
nual gathering OF the National Edi-
; torial Association. These sessions
days. and take nearly ali the time of
the Delaware editors. Tomorrow
they will all go to the Monmouth Bat
tie Field. twenty miles from here. On
Thursday literary and musical en-
tertuinment on q grand scale will be
given In the Auditorium.
On Friday evening q banquet at the
same place will bring together tha
leading percentages OF the town and
the editors, and on Saturday the whole
party will be taken to Long Branch in
carriages. Next Monday most Of the
, party will 60 on an excursion to New
!, York City. where they will be banquet
) cd in tho evening.
The peninsula edltora held their first
and only meeting last evening in the
parlors Of the Atalanta. There was q
full attendance and busy two hours
| session was held. The election Of
officers concluded the business.
1; The association had been so faith.
fully served by Its Loading officers
8 that all OF them were reelected. The
officers and committees for 1895 are
! named as follows: President, b. s.
/ Highley, of Trappe. Nd; vice presi-
dents, j. Miller Thomas. Wilmington.
/ and Chas. Cox Hopper, Chestertown.
, Nd; secretary and treasurer, @. j.
} Freeman. Executive committee, L.
, 4. Cooper, Dover Index; b. S.
/ Hlghley: g. J. Freeman. Middle.
town New Era; Robert ID. HoiIecker,
OF Smyrna Times; and W. NJ. Tyler,
tional Convention OF 1895. WV. Tyler,
, w. Scott Roberts. Centrevilie OBJ.
server;and ]. Miller Thomas. Whining
, ton; alternates, George III. Stengle,
Port Deposit Press; George II. Ash,
Elkton Democrat; and L. Louder
? Dough. Dover State Sentinel.
The pape 8 represented at this out.
: Ing OF the Peninsular Press Assocla
, tion are the DAILY REPUBLICAN, PENN.
, sulnr Methodist. and Sunday Star. of
} Wilmington; the County Herald. New
Castle; the TRANSCRIPT aud New Era,
, Middletown; The Times, Smyrna; The
Call. Clayton; The Sentinel. Delawar-
, can and Index. Dover; The Sussex Re-
publican. Sussex Journal and Demo.
. cIat. Georgetown; journal, Denton,
, Md; The Cecil Wing and The Cecil
Democrat, Elkton. Md; The Chester.
. town Observer. The Record, Centre
vile. Nd; The Gazette; Star and
C6risiIoId. Nd; The TImes s Tra apee
, Nd; Advertiser. Salisbury, Nd; The
News. Cambridge. Md.
RESOLUTIONS were adopted thanking
the Pennsylvania Railroad, Il. 4.
Cooper and the executive committee
and the manager OF the Hotel Atalan.
Ia The question of annual passes
over the Pennsylvania Railroad was
considered at length. and the matter
WIS finally referred to the executive
committee to be acted upon at an ear
ly date. The peninsula editors resent
, tho policy OF the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company of refusing to recog-
/ nize the delaware and Maryland
passes on their roads to Philadelphia.
Up to recent times these passes car.
; ried their owners to Philadelphia; but
now those given to Maryland editors
cease to pass after the Delaware state
, line lie reached. while those in the
uuuub vi poluWdIb tulJOTb
after they reach Claymont. This ques-
tion has become q large sized griey-
ance. 1t WAS suggested that tho
Pennsylvania Company had this
course probably. to draw tho lines OIL
, the innumerable hordes OF Dem cratic
politicians In Delaware and Maryland
who carry passes and are constantly
:. on the wing.
| Whether this assumption is true or
not, 1t served to arouse u great deal of
indignation among the editors who
, resented the idea that they should be
regarded as being upon the same basis
as the politicians. The editors, contend
that they givo u pro quid quo, adver.
Using for passage. and should there
fore not be hammered by that conven.
fence OF railr Dad Companies, namley,
i. The interest ate commerce act Such
restrictions should apply very prop.
erly to the politicians but not to them,
they argue. 10 get this distinction
into the heads Of the Pennsylvania
authorities. a committee was named
and instructed accordingly.
ella mong the men whose editorial
woquence has been heard here this
Geek are: Governor Werts, who well
omed the editors; Joe Howard. tho
aecompll shed correspondent OF New
York; ex- Postmaster General Thomas
L. James. and Walter Williams OF Co.
lumbus. Ohio, president of the Ma
tional Association. A death in the
family Of Bill Nyo prevented that wit
from entertaining the editors last
evening.
To- days trip to Monmouth will end
the stay Of the Peninsula as an assoc
citation. The majority will return
home on Thursday to be ready to SEQ
this weeks paper run OF. The return
will be made over the Pennsylvania
route via Trenton. L. L. Is.
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SPECIAL MENTION.