Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-07-15

didn't care or - II they were used
seeing people come there every ds
to pay homage to old ocean.
! The only people to greet the ed
tors were the hackmen. and the fra
ternity being poor, asted upon th
1rishman's advice, which Was:
"Wben your rich ride in chasss,
when yssf psor walk BY Jsbsrs."
The editors and their wives an,
daughters walked, following . pilo
on Atlantic svepue to Virginia aver
ue to the Grand Atlantic Hotel
which was Just opened with as man,
editors as could find room in its spac
iors chambers as its first guests
The gucst capacity of the hotel i
three hundred and fifty people. tn
editorial patty numbered many NOR
than the hotel could accommodate
and those of the scribes who wer'
struggling to secure quarters there
remindsd one of Mark Twain's limo
cence abroad, to first get at the reg
ist-r and have their names enrolled
for room assignment. Those of tht
fraternity who were not playing In
nocsnce Abroad IN scramble for reg
;s.ration and room assignment, look
ed complacently on, in c0ntsmpla
ton of the fe ct that the Grand At
lantic could hold 50 many and nc
more, and that there yet remained
two hundred other hotels in town.
The Grand Atlantic is one OF the
largest hotels in the city, and is furn.
ished in the latest and most artistic
style. 1t is fully equipped in every
department to giatify the honest civ.
il-zed appetite and sense of man.
BUsTN ss MEETING.
The Oath annual business meeting
Of the Association convened in the
Grand Atlantic at 3 P. Al IA. Ma
10y of the Lensdown Record, presid-
cd with R. II. Thomas Of the Farm
ers' Friend for Secretary. One hun
dred and thirty editors answered the
roll call. Many others were in the
city. but not present at roll call.
The free lance edit n, the taffy sditsr,
the sensational editor, the organ cd
itor, the perty editor, the school cd
itor, the religious editor, were all
there. Indeed every phase of journ-
a'ism was there. excepting the spirit
ua'istic, the infidelic and tho close
sect -ian. Months ago Secretary
Thomas assigned the preparation and
reading of certain papers to certain
editors for this summers meeting.
The papers were called for. The
subject Of Sensational Journalism"
was presented by Hon. Thomas v.
Cooper of the Media American. The
Senator did not read but speks off
handed. The next was the "basinsss
and mcdaniel Departments of the
Country Paper and the Editors rela
ton thereto" H. F.. Snyder, Courier,
Connellsvi,'e; The Advertising De-
pal tment," Henry Guintond, mana
ger Valley Spirit, Chambersburg;
position of the Country Newspaper
in Politics." W. G. Krsp, Echo and
Pilot, Grtencastls; "Tbe Daily OF
smell Towns" L. Rogers, Eopubli-
cen of Kene; s.The Electric Eye"
Professor G. G les, Storms and Signs,
Kingston; "My Method of Conduct
ing a Country Newspaper" ]. s.
S-nders, Telephone, Wilkesbarre;
The Country Newspaper" A. B.
Erumbaugh, Juniata Esho, Hunting.
doD; The Editors Received Pay
ment," B. Whitman Dandy, Trans
cript. Skippack.
Mayor Stoy wcs introduced and in
a rsat 81 eech welcomed the visitors,
and extended to them the freed om Ct
the city.
Ex-President OF the Association L.
L. Rodgers of Kane, responded to
the addre-s of welcome. A telegram
of congratulation was received, and
Immediately acknowledgement made
by telegram to the New York Press
Association in session 1t Glen Sum
nit, Pa. Quite a spirited discussion
took place over what should be omit
tod from the address Of free lance
editor, from the published records Of
the Association meeting. A resolu-
tion was pessed providing for the ex-
pulsion of any and svery editor who
transfers or sells transportation tick.
cts to any one excepting to persons
directly connected with his paper or
to members of his family.
The meeting was a protracted one
and it was late in the afternoon when
adjournment to meet next day at
T. NJ, took place.
THE OCEAN.
Tie editorial meeting is over for
the day, aud you stroll away along
Virginia avenue to the Ocean, and
stand on the boardwalk that is fifty
feet wide and five mics long, five
fe ct above The streats of the town
and ten to 6ftesn feet above sea level.
The town o. $4,000 inhabitants with
thousands of visitors il ,hind you.
You are looking at tho sea.
What . sighti
Fudge! It isn't much, you say.
That's your first impression, aud il
you live in the Juniats Valley at Mif.
fintown you will say: "How much
like the color of the Tusc lrora noun
tain on . clear July day about five
o'clc * in the evening, and out there
not many miles away sky and sea
seemingly come together. You SEQ .
sail or two, smoke stack or two send.
ing forth smoke out whore sky and
sea seem to blend. The curve of the
OCEAN keeps you from seeing the
steemer, bat still you arc not i'm.
pressed. While your eyes are alb
sorbing such things, and that is
about all there is to see along tho
horizon, your ears are greeted by q