The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-06-26
THE PRESS GANG.
A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE RECENT
EXCURSION.


EXCURSION.
grims With Oper Arms--A Human Brute
in Charge of All Important Post.
The last of the editional pilgrims
who participated in the pilgrimage to
Richmond and Washington has prob.
ably reached home, cooled off from the
journey and will be in a fit state of
mind to read this veracious chronicle
of most memorable and delightful
junket, which The Sunday News will
spread for their delectation and that of
its readers.
l may state, by way of introduction
that there has rarely occurred junket
of the kind which has been so smooth
ly managed as this pilgrimage of the
editors of the State While a good
many people not Immediately connect
ed with the press had occasion to con-
tribute to the comfort and pleasure OF
the pilgrims, it might just as we'll be
stated at the outset that there are three
men to whose intelligent and indefati-
gable efforts is due most of the success
that attended this delightful episode.
These men are Mr.. Z. II Aull. the
president Of the South Carolina State
Press Association; Mr.. G. G. Langston,
its efficient and Jealous secretary, and
Mr.. J. w. Morris, the affable and
genial division superintendent of the
Atlantic Coast Line. Of the devoted.
painstaking and unselfish personal
supervision which was exercised over
the pilgrims by Mr.. Morris I have al
ready written. Mr.. Aull and Mr.
Langston were equally indefatigable
and untiring in looking after the coul-
fort Of the ladies and gentlemen who
composed the party. No personally
conducted tour ever arranged by
Cook, was ever so successfully
carried out as was this tour Of the
South Carolina editors. No man or
woman Of the party had the slightest
trouble of any kind which the careful
forethought of these gentlemen could
prevent Mr. Morris arranged all the
transportation matters and landed his
charges in Washington without hitch
or delay. The arrangements for board,
street transportation, etc, we're all
made by President Aull and Secretary
Langston, and finally the party We're
set on heirhomeward journey by Mr..
Aull, who attended personally to all
the arrangements for the return trip
by other routes than the one over
which the journey to washington was
made. This was
THE ITINERARY
Leaving Sumter on the afternoon Of
Friday, May 81, the editorial excur-
sionists in special Pullman car pro-
ceeded to Richmond. Supper at Flor
ance. The train reached Richmond at
A. NJ. on Saturday and the press
special was detached there-from and
placed at the depot. At Z o'clock the
excursionists were awakened and
found omnibusses in attendance, in
which they were driven to Ford S
Hotel. Two days were spent IN Rich
mond, Saturday and Sunday. On
Monday morning the press special was
switched on to the flyer on the Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
Railroad, and at II 4. NJ. the tourists
were in Washington. On Wednesday
night the party was pretty well brok-
en- up and on their way home. Of
some of the things that were done and
said I have already written. Of the
incidents that have not yet been relat-
ed something will be said in these
chronicles.
IN RICHMOND.
Something more should be said of
the experience of the South Carolina
pilgrims in Richmond than the brief
telegraphic mention heretofore pub
lshed in the News and Courier. These
were unique and interesting. The
special Pullman sleeper which bore
the editorial pilgrims from Sumter
was switched off from the Coast Line
fast mail at Richmond at 3 A. NJ. on
Saturday and left at the depot. At Z
o'clock the pilgrims were all up and
ready for the fray; ten minutes later
they were chasing the squirrels in
Capital Park and taking hurried views
of the Capital on the hill. Excellent
quarters were had at Ford's Ho,ol.
Later in the morning the citizens ana
dignitaries of Richmond began to put
in an appearance, anda programme of
entertainment was mapped out. 1t is
somewhat curious that among the first
persons to greet the visitors were two
Carolinians who had been driven out
of the State by the odious dispensary
law. One of those was Mr. D. Rosen-
dortf, formerly prosperous merchant
of Sumter, and the other Major kers-
ten, who will be remembered as the
partner of Cramer & kersten, the
owners of the Palmetto Brewery.
Both are living in Richmond, and are
doing we'll, Mr.. Kersten being the
manager of the Richmond Brewery.
4 visit was made to the Richmond
PAPER MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
which, it appears, furnishes the paper
to a good many of the Carolina week
lies. The visit was very pleasant
and instructive one. The editors We're
shown all the details Of the manufac-
tme Of paper from the washing vats
up to the long rollers through which
the pulp passes.
After the exhibition the editors were
invited into the Office, and it was here
that they realized for the first time the
fact that they were out of the reach Of
the dispensary. l am not attempting
to fling dispensary stones at anyone.
The members of the State Press Asso-
citation are all Jolly good fellows to
travel with and to chum with. l think
they are all fast friends to Charleston,
and it is hoped that Charleston will
cement the friendship next spring.
But the fact remains that they had
been so accustomed to have their NOR,
ais guarded by the peculiar laws of
their native State that one may be
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