The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-06-10
NEW JERSEY EDITORS, REUNION.

The New Jersey Editorial Association
has completed the preliminary arrange
ments for reunion and tour of the
editors of the State and their families, to
take place during the week of June
81 and July 2, the tour to be made to
Thousand Islands, in the st. Lawrence
River, for many years one of the most
popular of summer resorts and now more
attractive than ever. The party will
leave at 10 80 o clock on the 9th instant,
t by special train over the West Shore
Railroad, and quick run will be made
to Utica, which will be reached in time
for dinner at the commodious and finely
appointed Butterfeld House, where the
party will be entertained during their
brief stay i'll that city.
Oa Tuesday morning, June %, car
riages will be provided for ride through
the city and environments, getting back
to the Butterdeld for lunch.
At 1890 the northward journey will
be resumed by, way of the Rome, Water
town & Ogdensburgh Railroad to Clay
ton, on the St. Lawrence, which is
reached at 6 o'clock or earlier, and an
express boat will make a direct run to
Alexandria Bay, the destination of the
party, which will be reached at Z o'clock.
There the party will be entertained at
the Crossmon, the oldest in years of any
house on the bay, but the most modern
! in equipment and furnishing and method
of conduct of any in all the Thousand
Islands. Wednesday morning, June go,
a daylight trip will be made by steamer,
which will make complete tour of the
most beautiful of the American and the
widest of the Canadian Islands, and on
the evening of same date a searchlight
| tour will be made, tie route to be varied
from the daylight trip.
Thursday, June 80, will be open to an
unlimited variety of entertainment, sug
gestions for which will be posted in the
hotel on the day before. There is
splendid fishing for those who fish, in
Guiding island dinners cooked by the
guides, every one of whom is an adept in
his art. There is a steamboat ride to
Kingston, Canada, thirty-six miles each
way, and there are steamboat trips down
the ST. Lawrence. It is impossible to set
forth in brief announcement 1.-THE of
the attractions of the Thousand Islands,
which could not be exhausted in So
journ of six months. On the morning of
July an early breakfast will be served,
when the start will be made for home.
the special train from Clayton making
an unbroken run to New York, reaching
there at 100 o'clock in the evening
This trip as laid out promises to be one of
the most attractive ever undertaken by
the association within the same number
of days. Every necessary expense will
be covered by the price of the tickets, $50
each, and include the carriage ride in
Utica and the daylight and searchlight
trips at Alexandria Bay.
In order that final arrangements may
be completed as early as possible, it is
desired that all who contemplate joining
the party will notify the representatives
of their counties not later than June 10,
and those who can would promote the
success Of the excursion by doing so at
once.
Applications from the different coun-
ties of the State may be made as follows:
Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and
Acknowledgement D. Stokes. Mt. Holly.
| Somerset and Union-W. B. r. Mason.
Bound Brook.
Mercer and Middlesex-C Bechtel.
Trenton.
! Monmouth and Ocean-James S. Yard
and E. Maxy Applegate, Freehold.
Essex. Hudson, Morris, Bergen and
Passaic-Frank W. Baldwin, Orange,
and Charles Starr. East Orange.
Warren, Sussex and Hunterdon-Jo Josiah
Ketcham, Belvidere.
Cumberland, Salem and Cape May
George w. MCGOWAN, Bridgeton.
Applications will be considered in the
order in which they are received, prefer
ence being given to those from newspaper
men.