The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-05

ard 50 so for the return trip to Chicago
by way of st. Paul. The largest men,
brrship of the society is in the east
and the amount paid by the delegates
fer transportation will probably aver
age $65 each. With an attendance Of
10000, this would mean $4,000, 600 paid to
the railroads for transportation, not
counting sleeping car fares or inclden-
tai expenses. That is more than one
seventh of the deficit in the earnings
of the railroads of the United States
fer the last recorded official year, 1895.
But, unfortunately for the railroads,
they will not have 10000 delegates to
carry-nOt one-half that number;
probably not one-quarter. The Mon
treal convention in 1898 had only 49,
500 delegates; the distance and the cost
of transportation kept thousands of the
delegates at home. the conditions
this year are worse in that respect than
they were in 1898. The distance to be
covered is greater for most of the dele
gates and the expenses will be heav-
ier. The attractions are certainly
greater, but these cannot cancel the
obstacles to the trip. Hence, though
the society has grown enormously
the attendance at San Francisco will
be greater than that at Montreal. Fifty
thousand members of the society will
mourn their inability to attend.
EDUCATIONAL.
The Christian Endeavor convention
of 1897 is going to mean, however, a
sightseeing experience for 10000 men
and women. They are going to spend
fully three weeks, many of them a
much longer time, studying the Won
ders of the West. We send 100, 900
travellers to Europe every summer to
see the beautis of forlgn lands, and not
ten per cent of these tourists know any
thing from their own observation about
scenic America. The Young Mems
Christian association has just taken up
the tourist business and is planning
cheap trips for Americans to England
and France and Italy and the Holy
Land. Always the tide of tourist traV-
el is abroad. But this summer there
is to be a pilgrimage of Americans
across America and the young people of
the East are going to learn something
about their own country.
Who are going? A contributor to the
Philadelphia Times asked that ques-
tion of the Rev. Allen Philputt, presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania Union, which
will send the largest state delegation
TO California. "A great many clergy
men will CO." he said. 1.-The conven-
tion comes at a time when many go on
their summer vacations. Some whom
l know have been putting aside mon
ey for the trip for several years. Some
will be helped by their congregations.
GaI,I faI oh
tion begins at about the time when
the convention meets. Many men who
have business interests will go. Many
persons cannot go because of the time
required for the trip, and many be-
cause Of the expense, but the number
will be larger than seemed Likely at
first"
From Washington will go many gov
ernment clerks to whom a months
leave is given every, year, but clerks
elsewhere, who get only a week or at
the most two weeks of vacation, will
have to miss the convention this year.
Pennsylvania furnishes a good index
to the number Of those who are going.
Pennsylvania is the banner Christian
Endeavor state. Pennsylvania Is feel
ing the hard times less than any other
state in the Union. Pennsylvania eX-
poets TO have a delegation of from 400
to $50. New York will come second in
representation probably; then the New
England states and New Jersey In
the Middle States, Illinois and Indiana
are strongest, and will have probably
the best representation, but st. Louis
will send large delegation by way Of
Kansas City.
THE BANNER DELEGATION.
Pennsylvania has been developing in
terest in the convention on a new plane
Last January w. A. Gillespie, the So
ciety's transportation manager, start
ed from Philadelphia to cover the route
which had been mapped out for the