Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-29

The ninth annual convention Of the
Travellers Protective Association of
America will meet next Tuesday in the
beautiful city OF Omaha, Neb.. and re-
main in session through Friday. The va
rious details attendant upon the business
session and the entertainment OF the
delegates and their friends have been
completed. The members of the Nebraska
Division have labored zealously to make
every detail complete. and TO insure Its
! being one OF the most attractive conven-
tons in the history of the association.
One of the features OF the entertainment
will be given by the Knights of Ak-Sar-
Ben, who desire to extend an invitation
to the delegates to see the workings OF
their organization. and those who attend
| are promised that this feature of the
weeks entertainment will produce more
real fun than any entertainment given at
prior conventions.
The Trans-M Mississippi Travelling Mems
| Club will also attend the reception and
make IT generally pleasant for all the
delegates. They will give grand ball at
| Creighton Hall, corner Of Fifteenth and
| Harvey streets. on the night of June I'd.
| The business session will be conducted
without interference by the social enter
tainments, and yet the latter have been
so arranged that there will be ample OPP
| portunity for all to enjoy themselves in
a very happy manner.
The second day Of the convention will
witness the opening of the great Trans
| Mississippi International Exposition,
which promises to be the greatest State
exposition ever undertaken, and well
worth a visit and inspection. The Gov
ernors Of several States. accompanied by
their stats, will attend the opening exer-
cises of the exposition, and also many
distinguished citizens from various parts
Of the country will be there.
The programme has been so arranged
that the delegates to the convention will
participate in the opening exercises Of
the exposition. 1t is as follows:
Tuesday May 81, 1850 A. NJ, Omaha's
Greeting to the Travellers Protec-
tive Association of America, at Boyd's
Theatre; Prayer, Rev. 7. j. Mackey, ID.
D.; Welcome TO Omaha, Hon. Frank Il.
Moores. Mayor of Omaha; The travellers
Protective Association Of American, Jo-
seph Wallerstein, National President;
Nebraska's Greeting, Hon. Silas A. Hol-
comb, Governor of Nebraska; Response.
Hon. Jerry NJ Porter, a Drummer from
Pennyroyal District, Kentucky; THE
Commercial Tourists of the World" S.
Wright Butler, D. D., representing the
blouse of the Lord; las Cold Water
to a Thirsty Soul, so Is Good News from
a Far Country" Rev. Homer 7. Wilson.
of Texas, National Chaplain Travellers
Protective Association of America;
America" Jules Hubbard, the original
singer of the Battle Cry Of Freedom"
Tuesday Evening" Z. NJ, Regular Bus
mess Session; T. NJ, Trolley Ride
for the Ladies of the Members of the
Travellers Protective Association Of
America; p. NJ, Reception to Visiting
Delegates by the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben,
at their Den" north Twentieth street;
SP. NJ, the Ladies of the Members OF
the Travellers Protective Association Of
America will visit Lininger's Art Gallery,
escorted by the Ladies' Reception Com
mittee.
Wednesday, June 1st-Opening of the
Trans Mississippi and International Ex-
position.
Thursday, June 2d-10 A. NJ, Regular
Business Session; 2 p. NJ, Regular Busi-
ness Session; p. NJ, Reception to all
Members of the Travellers Protective
Association of America and their Ladies,
at the T. NJ. T. NJ. Clubhouse, Sixteenth
and Harvey streets; 9 P. NJ, Dancing at
Creighton Hall, Fifteenth and Harvey
streets, rendered by the Travelling-Men's
Trans Mississippi Club.
Friday, June 3d--10 A. NJ, Regular Bus
mess Session; p. NJ, Regular Business
Session.
The Travelling Mems Trans-Mississippi
Club is a feature that will be enjoyed
by all T. p. AS that go to Omaha. The
club house. containing about dozen
rooms, is situated on Sixteenth and Har-
ney streets 1t is an old residence. and
is up on a bluff about sixty feet above
the street, and from its porticos and
lawns good view Of the city can be
had. 1t is nicely furnished, and very
cosy and homelke. A large parlor, with
an upright piano. occupies one side OF
the first floor. and on the other are the
reading and card-rooms and secretary's
office. Downstairs are the billiard-room
and cafe, where liquids and solids will
be dispensed. On the upper floor are
number OF rooms used for various pur-
poses All the privileges Of the club will
be open to members of the Travellers
Protective Association. The club has
membership of 1856, and is growing every
day. Nearly every member or Nebraska
Division is a member of the club.
Preparations are being made TO enter
tain the visiting delegates in good shape.
On Tuesday night all the delegates Will
be initiated into the mysteries OF Ak
Sar-Ben, and a ''hot time" is promised
to all the participants. While the male
portion are riding the goat the ladies
will be taken to view the art gallery,
which is said TO be one of the finest In
the West. Thursday evening, the Trav-
cling Mems Club will give the ladies and
delegates a reception at the club-room.
New Orleans, La, wants the next
Travellers Protective Association Ma
tional Convention. In this connection.
the San Antonio press says:
New Orleans, one of the most beautiful
cities of the whole Southland, will tender
an invitation to tho delegates Of the Ma
tiona. Convention Of the Travellers Pro-
tectiye Association to hold the next annu- |
al convention in that city. The delegates
from New Orleans will supplement the in !
vitation with one of their own, and will |
then go TO work to secure the prize. The |
New Orleans boys never were known 10 |
go after anything but what they got It. |
The editor OF this page whispers TO the
membership confdentially that II they |
do give New Orleans the convention. and |
they go TO New Orleans, they will have
one more glorious time" There are
things to be seen in New Orleans that