The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-04-06
NUMBER 81.
THE EDITORS.
What the President tells them
about the meeting here.

the state Editorial Association--som
complimentary things said about the
town and the program--some Of the
attractions Of the meeting Champ
Clark the most Eloquent member Of
Congress Will he here--ne win be
heard by every one who can get there
A steamboat excursion down the
river Other notes of the meeting.
WEST VA EDITORIAL Ass 'TIoN,)
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT,
KINGwooD, w. Va, Mar. 2S,i9S.
To the Newspaper Fraternity of the
State:
Your President is at last able to
give definite information in regard
to the coming annual session of the
State Editorial Association. At the
Weston meeting the time and place
for holding the next convention was
left in the hands of the Executive
Committee, and Morgantown has
been unanimously agreed upon as
the place The bylaws provide that
the annual meetings shall be held on
the second Wednesday in May, and
as this just suited the good people
of Morgantown, no change will be
made in the date. The 1898 session
will therefore open on Wednesday,
May 18th, and last three days, as
very elaborate program of business
and social features are being arrang
ed for.
The University officials, local
members of the press, and prominent
citizens generally of Morgantown,
have been active for sometime in
their efforts to secure the coming
session Committees were appoint
ed and arrangements so far pro-
crossed that when we visited the
town recently to get the work under
way we found everything in good
shape and the preliminary work all
done.
The first session will be called
at 10A. NJ, Wednesday, the 18th, as
the early train arrives from Fair
mont at s o'clock, giving two hours
time to get located at hotels and re-
port at the place of meeting. How
ever, the members should try to
reach Morgantown the evening be-
fore.
A reception committee will meet
the visitors ut all trains and escort
them to the hotels.
Morgantown has three first class
hotels, and special rates have been
secured for the association, as fol-
lows; The Peabody, Sl00 per day,
and can accommodate forty in addi-
tion to regular custom. The Wal
lace, $3.50 per day, and room for fit
ty The Franklin, $l.00 per day,
and accommodate forty.
Those desiring to stop at any spe
cial hotel, should write and engage
rooms in advance.
The sessions will be held in the
Chapel Hall, of the University, a
splendid place for the meeting.
Among the special features of the
session will be the magnificent mu-
sic to he furnished throughout the
program; the visit to the different
departments of the University; the
inspection of the Seneca Glass
Works. Woollen Mills and other in
stitutions that have made Morgan
town what it is, one OF the most
thriving young cities OF the State.
The third day of the session will
be spent on the placid waters of the
beautiful Monongahela, in mag
nifcent new steamer that has been
chartered for the purpose to take
the Association down the river,
through the locks to Brownsville, AZ
miles below Morgantown, and per-
haps to Pittsburg, if time will per-
mt, as the guests Of the citizens of
Morgantown.
The session will close with splen-
did banquet at the Wallace House,
at which distinguished speakers will
respond to toasts.
The literary and oratorical feat
ures Of the program will be very
elaborate, and a feast of good things
from start to finish. Among the
special papers and addresses will be
an Grafton by Senator Stuart +. Reed,
of. Clarksburg; the Annual Poem by
James Brainard Morgan, Of Gerards-
town; addresses by Hon. George G.
Sturgiss, President Board of Re
gents of the University, and DR.. J.
H. Raymond, President; Prof. /. C. |
White, ON the Geological Survey of
the State, Hon w. f. Glasscock,
Mayor Of Morgantown, Paper by
Hon. j. J.. Peterson, of Charleston,
on Life as u S. Consul in Honduras,
Elk State Supt. of Schools, Virgil A. |
Lewis ON he Educational History of
the State.
Also poems, papers and addresses
from other prominent newspaper and
literary workers, the subject and ex-
act details of which will be announc-
ed soon in printed program sent
out to the press of the State.
In addition to the above, one of
the best and most prominent feat
ures of the occasion will be an adj
dress by Hon. Champ Clark, the ell
oquent member of Congress from
Missouri, ON Picturesque Public
Men."e Mr. Clark's recent speech
in behalf of the country editor and
in opposition to the Loud Bill, has
been published far and wide and has
made him solid with the rural press.
He was country editor himself and
former citizen of this state.
Very truly yours,
j. SLlDELL Brown.