The herald., 1897-05-19
The Delayed Pennsylvania
Special Arrives
CLOSE OF THE CONVENTION
THE NEXT MEETING TO BE HELD
AT DETROIT
Secretary clough Presented With a
Watch-Conductors Scattering
70 Their Homes

stack OF the locomotive, and with every
toot Of the whistle snort of scornful
derision for obstacles overcome, the
staunch train from Pennsylvania. bear
ing the delegation to the convention of
the o. r. c., pulled into the Arcade depot
timistic individuals from various points
in that state, from Maryland, from Del
aware and from New Jersey. Optimis-
ic they must be, because to a man they
displayed a stay-with-itiveness through
all the five long days and nights they
were stalled on the desert the other side
Of FL Paso, and not a soul Of the whole
eighty deserted and went back.
The executive committee in charge OF
the party are c. e. Wyman, president
and manager; VIM. ]. Maxwell, secre-
tary and treasurer; George H. Brown.
John H. Reagan and Walter w. Torrey.
The list Of passengers Is: Mr.. and Mrs.
g. w. Brown. Philadelphia, Pa: p. J.
Barrett, Miss Barrett, Bristol, Pa. Mr..
and Mrs. ]. N. Climenson, Philadelphia.
Pa; Mr.. and Mrs. I. M. Cohee. Philadel-
phia, Pa; ]. B. Crispen. Remove. Pa. I.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Dougherty, Trenton, N.
j.; T. j. Denniston, Jersey City. N. J.;
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Dale. Philadelphia.
Pa; Mr.. and Mrs. r. T. Elder Philadel-
phia, Pa; Mr.. and Mrs. r. ]. Toulon.
Philadelphia, Pa; Mr.. and Mrs. c. E..
Foster, Philadelphia, Pa; Mr.. and Mrs.
J. w. Goff, Camden, New Jersey,
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilliland, Harrisburg, Pa. /:
Mr.. and Mrs. M. M. Houston. Norris
town, Pa. Mr.. w. A. Haas, Allegheny
City, Pa; Mr.. and Mrs. H. r. Haefner,
Columbia, Pa;Mr and Mrs. s. w. Hor-
ner. Philadelphia, Pa; Mr.. and Mrs. s.
N. Kilgore, Philadelphia. Pa: Mr.. and
Mrs. T. j. McKernan, Jersey City, N. j.;
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Kalkman. Baltimore.
Md: Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Leary. Norris
town, Pa; Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Layfield
Wilmington, DEL; Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Nj
Matthews. Norristown, Pa; Mr.. and
Mrs. w. J. Maxwell. Philadelphia, Pa. {;
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Moore, Manasquan,
N. j.. Mr.. c. J. McCarty, Columbia, Pa. !;
Mr. and Mrs. c. r Mattson, M D.. Phil
adelphla, Pa; Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Nor
ris. Wilmington, Del: Mr.. and
Mrs. Roland Mitchell. Baltimore.
Nd; Mr.. w. H. Post. Philadelphia. Pa. !;
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A. Reilley, Philadelphia,
Pa: Mr.. ]. H. Reagan, Philadelphia, Pa. +:
Mr.. J. J. Ristein, Delmar, Del; Mr.. and
Mrs. c. L. Springer, Philadelphia, Pa:
Mr.. and Mrs. L. e. Sheppard. Camden,
N. j.; Mr.. and Mrs. M. M. Shaw, West
Chester, Pa: Mr.. c. H. Sloane, Philadel-
rhia, Pa; Mr.. j. G. Schuler, Pittsburg,
Pa; Mr.. and Mrs. C. F. Smith. York, Pa. !;
Mr.. and Mrs. d. r Sparks. Camden. N.
J.;Mr. and Mrs. w. w. Terry, Philadel-
phia. Pa; Mr.. H. H. Taylor. Trenton, N.
j.: Mr.. G, G. Waddington. Philadelphia.
Pa; Mr.. Oscar Williams. Philadelphia,
Pa; Mr.. and Mrs c. e. Wyman. Moores.
Pa; Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Wilson, Glass
boro. N. J.
That they were all tired In more ways
than one goes without saying, but they
all had an expression of conscious recti-
tude, the serenity that bespeaks a real
ization Of the superiority Of mind over
matter. They had all had the experi-
ence before of delay on the road, but it
was generally when they had no espec-
ial interest in getting to the end of the
run. their pay went on just the same,
and they could afford to be philosophical
with their irritated and restive passen-
gers. This time, however. they had
chafed at the delay; it was a case Of
putting In practice what they had
preached-and they had done 1t. and were
proud Of it.
Said Mr.. Wyman last night: "Yes,
sir, we were five solid days at Alfalfa
they call 1t Alfalfa, because that's the
kind Of grass that grows there. It's six
or seven miles away from anywhere, a
little siding out there on the desert, and
there was four solid miles Of water be-
fore US. You see, the Rio Grande is a
very shallow river along there, and it
overflowed the narrow channel and
spread out over four miles Of track; and
there we stuck five days-from Wednes-
day till Monday. Finally, when we got
started it took us three hours to get out
over the new track they had had to lay
under the water, and the diner was so
heavy 1t sunk in one place eighteen inch
es. We thought the whole train was go
ing to be ditched there, but after cou-
pie Of hours hard pulling we got her
started, and then 1t was plain sailing.
Luckily we had plenty to eat in the
diner, and except for the aggravation Of
just sitting there we were comforta biz
enough.
I'VE saw a lot of Mexicans camping
along there, and we saw the train that
followed the day behind us and was held
up just before 1t got to the washou..
They had blown the roof of the car and
the safe open, and then the same train
was held up a little further on and the
passengers who had escaped the first
time had to hand over their money. They
were transported around the washout by
stages and we had to watch them 60,
and then the next day some more pas
sengers were brought back by stage
from the west and that old blown-up
car was taken with them.
But we got some souvenirs out of It,"
continued President Wyman, triumph
antly. There was a rooster and par
rot In the express car, and we got pieces
OF the safe and feathers from the rooster
and the parrot, and when they started
back east they looked as II they had been
moulting."
The delegation Will leave Thursday at
? O'Clock for San Francisco After a
couple Of days there they. viii Journey
north again to Portland. thence to Ia
coma and sppkanes to Ogden viz Hell
enn and Butte. Montana; to Salt Lake
City; to Denver viz La&dvills. MaxshaJl
Pass, Royal Gorge and Colorado GprinGo.
and thence to omahai chicaeo and rlttss