The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-23
WlNONA TURNED DOWN
THE NEXT GENERAL ASSEMBLY
WILL GO TO MINNEAPOLIS.
Moderator Radcliffe Admits Location
VIII BE Changed-Temperan
Services Postponed.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

| Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
| WINONA PARK, Eagle Lake, Ind, May
22-It may be taken as settled that Winoaa
will not have the Presbyterian General As
sembly next year. This is admitted by
| Winona's friends, and is declared to be a
fact by those who have the power to recon-
mend the next meeting place. The commit
| tee having charge of the choosing of the
| next meeting place is conposd of Stated
Clerk w. H. Roberts, Permanent Clerk w.
| NJ. Moore and Moderator Wallace Radcliffe.
The moderator was asked to-day what city
| had been decided on by the committee as the
| next place of meeting.
| In reply he stated: why, it goes to Min
| neapolis. AT least, 1 know nothing to the
| contrary"
| Many of the commissioners who have at
| tended such conventions in Minneapolis say
| that there will be a great disappointment
experienced when they reach that place.
| The boarding accommodations there have
always been unsatisfactory heretofore from
| every standpoint and for the most part far
| removed from the assembly hall. In CONVEX
sation on the subject to-day, Miss Elizabeth
| Wishard, of Indianapolis, who has attended
| over fifty conventions of a religious nature,
| stated the facts as her experience has
shown them to exist Said she:
|
about the undesirability of again bringing
| the General Assembly to Winona are gener-
ally those who have not attended over one
assembly. How could a place be more de-
sirable than Winona? The Auditorium is
| really the only one that has been found
! thus far that is large enough to accommo-
! date the crowd of commissioners and visit
| ors. Everything that is necessary to carry
| on the work is close at hand. Let them at
I,tend General Assemblies in some other
places and they won't complain against
| Winona. Even in Saratoga the accommo-
dations are not half so good. and no large
| city can possibly care for the assembly so
we'll as has been done at Winona."
| Continuing, she said Il suppose, as a
matter OF courtesy, the invitation will be
| extended by Winona, but hardly with the
| expectation of securing the assembly next
| year"
| Two strange situations were apparent at
| Winona to-day. The dummy train service
| between Warsaw and the assembly grounds
was poorly patronized by comparison with
the traffic of other days. while the wagon
road between the two places as seen from
the car windows was black in spots where
| groups of conscientious commissioners wend-
| ed their weary ways from their hotels and
! boarding houses in Warsaw to the field of
| spiritual labor at Winona. Probably half of
| the commissioners living at Warsaw thus
| preferred discomfort on dusty road to vio-
lating their convictions and availing them
selves of the comfort to be had in transit
at the expense of a nickel. Many of the
commissioners braved the criticisms Of their
! fellows and rode to the park in comfort.
| OF this number, probably fifty went the
| length of purchasing their customary morn
ing cigar and Sunday newspaper. the latter
being the subject of much severe condem-
nation at a recent session of the assembly.
| along with the Sunday trains.
The temperance service which had been
| arranged for to-day was postponed until
next Friday. 1t was known that some
heavy debates and resolutions will be offered
| at the first opportunity, and with it will be
| an attempt at inducing the General Assem-
| bly, to take action against Princeton Col
| lege, in the matter of the Princeton Inn.
Foreseeing all this it was decided that to
| give the meeting the prominence it demand
ed, other meetings. of Sunday dvotional
character would be crowded out. AS the dis
cussion that will inevitably come up is likely
| to be too spirited for Sunday services, it
was thought best to postpone it and dispose
| OF the whole matter at once.