The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-03-16
IN Love With SACRAMENTO.
The Railway Mail Clerks Were 10th to
Depart.
Their Three Hours Here Passed
All Too Quickly For
Them.

How many thousand Sacramento
camellias went away on the special
Pullman train that carried the delegates
to the Convention of the Railway Mail
Clerks Association will probably never
be known.
Just think Of it, said one of the
delegates, I'VE We're StrOlling along
around the streets abutting on the
Capitol grounds and stopped to admire
a bush of these flowers. The lady of
the house came out, looked at our
badges, and opening the network
around her bushes, and producing a
pair of shears began to denude the
bushes, and would take no denial from
anyone. Not only that, but she insisted
on giving each one of us different
variety of camellia."
Where was that?" asked another
delegation that had just arrived at the
depot before the train left, and an at
tempt was made to describe the place,
but the other delegation could not place
it, but the second party said they had
the same experience, and when the
train left for San Francisco there was
only one regret and that was that they
had not been able to deliver a parcel to
Captain L. Troy, the Superintendent OF
the Sixth Division of the Railway Mail
Service.
And this was the feature of the day
in one way. When Captain Troy had
eaten as much as he could consume
and there are few men in the Railway
Mail Service but know his capacity in
that line-he ordered flannel cakes for
the whole crowd and then disappeared
Half an hour later one of the dele
gates tried to hand him a package that
he said had been left on the table.
No sir. l never leave anything on
the table when 1 get away" he replied.
When the Captain reached the Capitol
and was listening to the eloquent ad-
dress of Governor Budd a messenger
boy found him and tried to give him a
package
He went to Suffers Fort, and there
was a boy with a telegram, and the
Captain looked at the envelope and no
ticed that his friends 60 had neglected
to put a number on the envelope. At
the depot five other attempts were
made to deliver the package, in the
presence of reporter, but they all
failed. He did not want it.
It's only those flannel cakes that did
not come in time he said, and now
they're cold, and 1 don't want them
This was only sample of the kind
of fun that was INDUCED in by the del
egation, and one and all expressed
themselves as delighted with the recep-
ton.
They said they We're hungry when
they arrived, but when they left some
hours later they were not ready for
lunch, and hoped they would have a
little time to digest the good things
they had enjoyed here.
AT o'clock in the morning they went
to the Assembly Chamber at the Cap
itol and received an address of welcome
from Governor Budd. who had just had
his luxuriant locks trimmed and was
in his best vein. He was accompa-
MED by Private Secretary McCabe.
who had had his hair nicely parted.
The Governor in his address of well
come referred to the fact that the
State of California covers more ground
than all the New England States and
the State of New York combined; that
she has more varieties of climate
without any disagreeable ones-and
could raise more varieties of products
than any other State in the Union. He
then told them to look out and see for
themselves if what he said was not
true.
p P. Waring of New York, the Pres
ident of the association, thanked the
Governor for his kind remarks, and
then they scattered, each group being
looked after by some member of the
Reception Committee, and each mem
Der of that committee being under the
watchfui care of Superintendent Flint
There We're 10 ladies in the party of
800, and there was a continued stream
appealing to Mr.. Flint for two hours
more in Sacramento, but he was in
exorable, and at 1j:50 a. M, with
kindly fareWells and pleasant greetings
to all at the depot, the train pulled out
for San Francisco.