Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-06-29
S. D. PRESS ASSOCIATION
The Members Visit Custer and Sylvan
Lake on their Annual Elk
cursion.
Delighted With the Hearty Welcome and
Marked Courtesies rendered
Than

now visiting the Hills on theif annuai
excursion, arrived IN Custer at 1890
o'clock a. IN. on wednesday. The par
ty, including ladies. numbered about
sixty-five persons. They were met at the
depot by large number of citizens and
rendered hearty welcome TO the Pio-
neer City of the Hills in neat and APP
propriate speech by w. G.. Porter, whose
eloquent and well chosen remarks were
given the strictest attention, and as
manifested by the measure of applause
ELECTED, we're fully appreciated
To further emphasize Clusters appre-
citation Of their visit, they were greeted
by the Custer guards, the Custer
Cornet band, and a corps of young
ladies in their attractive costumes
Of red, white and blue. II is proper
here to state that the entire party. in
cluding a score Of South Dakota teach
ers who accompanied the press gang (. ON
Hot Springs. were the guests of the Syl-
van Lake company, and that the well
come extended them by the citizens of
Custer upon their arrival was not part
of the program, but simply thrown in
as a pleasing addendum, which is the
Custer way. She can't help it, and she
does it through sheer force of habit.
After the greeting, the visitors were
escorted to the carriages in waiting, in
which the entire party. including Major
Picker and his private secretary Mr..
Bailey, and a number Of others who
came in from the north on the evening
previous, numbering in all over one hun
dred, were transported to the lake. Ar
irving at the lake at l:30 p. IN. a dinner
of exceptional excellence embracing the
choicest viands obtainable, was served
at the new and elegant hotel recently
opened TO the public, pleasing and in
dispensible adjunct TO the numerous
attractive features OF this charming re-
sort. After the elegant repast had been
dispatched, discussed and pronounced
the finest and most enjoyable Of the
trip, the party directed their attention
to the various points OF scenic interest for
which that delightful region is so justly
celebrated. The weather was most
favorable, and the air was sufficiently
cool and bracing 10 render the act of
cliff climbing highly enjoyable. and a
more delighted and enthusiastic party
never gazed in silent wonder and ad-
miration upon the wondrous and
charming creations Of nature in any land
| or cline upon the bosom of mother
earth.
Editors and teachers alike were i'm
pressed with the weakness and restrict
ed power Of words, in its adequate de-
scription, and were content to waive
comment and gaze upon it in mute
wonder and unsyallabled admiration.
The more imprsssible visitors were a,
times so completely spell bound, and
carried away with the marvellous
beauty and matchless grandeur of the
bswildering scene as to lose their bear
ings, and as in the case Of Major Pick
Ter. wander alone without reference 10
course or direction over the area EN-.
braced in this crowning aggregation oi
natures handiwork until they were ut
terly lost to everything bat a sense OF
their appreciation Of the grandeur and
sublimity of the pleasing panorama by
which they were so richly environed
Cathedral Park, with its lofty adaman-
the spires lifting their towering heights
amid the lowering clouds, located mile
and half from the lake, was visited by
a goodly number of the party, among
whom were noted several ladies', who
were so completely enraptured with the
grandeur OF the scenic features which
marked the route, as to escape all sense
of fatigue, which otherwise would have
been occasioned by the extended walk.
A number Of the more resoluts members
Of the party extended their walk to
Harvey Peak, three miles distant, and
from its lofty apex, $500 feet above tide,
surveyed the matchless medley oi
charming scenic features, over which
this massive monarch of the mountains
stands as a silent sentinel guarding with
faithful fidelity its peerless charge.
Various other points Of interest were
visited during the day, and while the
deepening shades of night shut out from
sight the charming scene. the impres
sions left upon the minds Of the visitors
were of that vivid and indelible char.
acter that time cannot efface, through
which the delightful scene may be
mentally reviewed at will. There was
but one verdict. All agreed in the
opinion that Sylvan lake is the peer OF
any scenic point extant, and that rs Q
charming and delightful summer resort,
it is not excelled in any region known to
civilization.
The delighted editors and their wives
were the guests Of the Sylvan lake hotel
until Thursday morning. when they re-
turned to Custer, and after taking in The
interesting features of the city, took the
train for the northern Hills.
Major Pickler and Mr.. Bailey, his
private secretary, along with Mr.. George
Schlosser's party Of lady teachers re-
turned to the city on the previous even
ing and took the train for Hot Springs.
We regret the fact Of our having failed
TO learn the names and residence Of the
lady teachers. The members compris.
ing the press gang. their residence and
papers represented 10 herewith ap-
pended:
J. E. Patteu, president Of association
and wife, Salem Special.
]. +. Halliday, secetary, and wife,
Iroquis Chief.
Mrs. James Bryson, Gettysburg
Courier.
X. 8. Person, wife, two children and
nurse. Howard Press.
B. H. Lien and wife Sud Dakota Ekko,
Sioux Falls.
John 9. Ropes. Amour Chronicle.
w. =. Benedict and wife, Hermosa