Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-28


make a special effort 20 be present.
r. y. wADTHALL, Secretary.
The above notice has been tent ont 10
a large number Of r. p. AS and heads
Of houses, and it is expected that the
meeting Monday night will be largely at
tended and some good work will be done.
Several Of the active workers Of the asso-
citation will be on hand, to be formed
into a committee to carry out the wishes
of the officials, and make the move for
the good Of Richmond a success.
The following letter has been sent out
to the members Of the Travellers. Pro-
tective Association Of America, by
Charles r. Dufin, National President Of
the association;
ST. Louis. Mo-, August, 1898.
Dear Sir,-It is my earnest desire and
intention, with your assistance, 90 in
crease the membership of the Travellers
Protective Association before January
list, to the 1900 mark. l hand you here
with an application blank and ask as a
personal favor that you nave some one or
your many eligible acquaintance I'LL 1t
out. and then send 1t to your State Sec
rotary. BY complying will this request,
you will be fulfilling a duty to the Travel
lers' Protective Association, besides doing
me a kindness, and II may prove OF last
ing benefit to the family OF the MEMBER
you induce to join. You, at the same
time. contribute to the upbuilding of the
grandest association Of commercial trav-
ellers on earth, an organization that mas
accomplished more for the travelling
man and his employer in the past, ana
is putting forth greater efforts at pres
ent. and has more work mapped out IN
their behalf for the future, than any
other association of Ike character IN
his country.
With the cooperation OF the members.
the task ! have set out TO accomplish
will be an easy one. VIII you assist me
bv sending in one applications To do
this il will take but a slight effort on
vour mart. Try it! DO not put the ap-
pIication blank in your pocket and Tor
get il. Have il filled out to-day, II posi-
bic. and it is possible. Put forth the
effort and the battle is half won.
I remain. awaiting any suggestions you
NAV have 10 offer for the increase OF our
membership or the better government Of
our association. fraternally yours,
CHARLES r. DUFFIN,
National President.
The Louisville Dispatch has this 10 say
of one of the members or POST a.
Mr.. Burwell II. Marsh, formerly a pop
Mar Louisville boy. but who eight years
200 cast his fortunes I'm the South, is here
on a visit to old friends and rela-
tives When Mr.. Marsh left this city he
WAS but little more h a lad, n IN
This short period Of time he has risen TO
a p%osition Of trust and responsibility WIN
the Standard Oil Company. He has en-
tire charge Of this great corporation 5
business i'm several OF the Southern
States and enjoys the confidence OF both
his employers and Of the men under him.
MIR. Marsh's friends here have congratu-
lated him most earnestly on his recent
PROMOTIONS and are giving him a royal
time. I'm
Mr.. Marsh is an earnest 7. A. p.
worker. He did more than perhaps any
other man TO build I'D the Virginia DiVls-
ion. i'm which he has filed with credit
important offices. He was for several
wears secretary Of Post A., Travellers
Protective Association, at Richmond, Va.
Mr. Marsh's mother resides at O'Ban-
NON a uGlElllul klll11t q tiD A''8AAN
from louisville, and he IS spending a
nart of his visit to Kentucky with her.
He will return to Virginia and the Caro-
linas next week.
The following is an extract from the
speech of Hon. Jerry NJ. Porter before
the Travellers Protective Association, al
Omaha, Neb: .,
"Tbe drummer is the busiest man In all
the world. He comes into the world WITH
one of the greatest missions TO perform
| and the davs are so short and his work is
| so great that his moments, his hours, are
pracious as silver. and his moments are
| gold. And while there are many Things
| connected with Nebraska and Omaha
about which we should like to speak, ye'
we haven't the time 10 do ii. Speaking
las a Kentuckian, it is very importan'
| that we should get away from home now
and then. and come in contact with other
worlds. for there we are a little world OF
| our own. and if we didn't get out now
and then with the other world we SHOULD
grow narrow and selfish, and disinte,
CRATE. In Kentucky, when we speak OF
our having the prettiest girls that evei
| connected with mortal drummer-or mar
ried themselves to some sunsof-a-gun
| when we go to Nebraska and Omaha, We
| find there are others IN Kentucky
when we. speak Of our mother the
sweetest woman that ever rocked the era
die where the baby form of a great MAI
/ slept (and | have so often thought If only
| the baby forms of great men had 10 be
| rocked that the mothers in Kentucky
could rock them alD-when we come tC
! Nebraska and Omaha, we find there are
| others Npplause) In Kentucky We
have plentv of mothers-in-law-the only
woman in the world that never made a
mfstake-and If they rock the infant form
of a human being. it's got 70 be more
than ; feet long, or they won't take the
lob; and if there are not others in Ne.
braska and Omaha. then this must be q
very quiet, lonesome-very quiet world
Uaughter) And in Kentucky, when We
boast Of Kentucky's Pride one unmen.
tionable article that we prefer YOU tC
\ take rather than talk about; blue grass
beautiful cities-such as Louisville; fine
/ horses. fast drummers; but when We
| como 10 Nebraska we find there arr
others There are many striking similar.
| ,ties existing between Nebraska and Ken.
,rckv about which l should like TO speak
| onr Governors are both statesmen; Ken
tucLv and Nebraska always have a lev
stotcsmen left. and plentytof politician:
90 make life warm; and both States ar,
Cor free and unlimited sixteen 10 one Oh
t,,st But we haven't time 10 speak Of
,heee unfortunate things. daughter anC
a%pplause)
is king in this world. and
o+her one cause will the drum.