The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-23
SINGS LoUISvILLE'S PRAISES.
II. r. AS HAD GREAT TINE AT
THE NATIONAL CONVENTION.

Mr., Joseph Loyenstein Represented
Georgia, Among the Merry Drum
mers-Every BODY Had "a Great
Time, and the Louisville Post
Royalty Entertained the Visitors.
Trips Were Made Up the Ohio, to
Lexington and TO the Mammoth
CnVe-"Horns" Were ReIinquished
To MissOuri-Mr. Lovenstefn Said
They Were Loaned" and That
Georgia VIII Get Them Again.
The Georgia delegation has returned
from its trip TO Louisville, where il at
tended the national convention OF the
Travellers Protective Association. Mr. Joe
Lovenstein, ex-president of Post A, repre-
scented Savannah at the convention as one
OF the delegates appointed from Georgia.
Mr.. Loyensteiu got home yesterday
morning and reports a glorious time IN
Louisville. lie said the people of that city
and the members Of the local post partic-
uiarly showed the visiting delegates and
members every hospitality, and that the
convention will so down in the history Of
the Organization as one Of the most enjoy
able eyer held.
In attendance upon the convention there
were $50 delegates. As many ladies and
again many members of the T. p. A.
were there TO swell the numbers, and the
ways devised by the local post for the en-
teriainment Of them all were many and
varied. There was a trip to Lexington. an
hundred miles away where the T. p. AS
W. Fa.aftta.1 f,,
inrdge delivering such an address of well
como as years ago won him his title of tho
"silvery tongued orator" Special trains
carried the crowd TO Mammoth cave, for a
| descent into the bowels OF the earth The
finest boat on the Ohio river took 700 OF
me drummerS on a moonlight excursion
that proved very enjoyable
The convention was in session MAY 1919.
and a good deal Of business was trans
| acted. Pleasure was by no means the OBJ
| Ject of The drummers, for their principal
idea was business and the Advancement
OF the organization. They adopted sew
eral changes that will tend to the general
! good of the order and the results will be
! eagerly looked foe by the members
President Charles Dufiln OF Indiana pre-
! sided, but he did NOT succeed himself in
! office. spirited contest sprung up when
II came to filling the position for another
/ NNHis itSintIl DhIlU WIS n caluldnt9
| for reelection, and Mr. Benson of Texas
was also in the race. MIR. l.. V. LaTast
| of Montgomery was the man. however.
| and II was the solid vote of the Georgia
delegation of ten that won him the place.
| lie is regarded as an excellent choice, and
under his administration great things are
| expected of the organization.
Those who know him in Georgia would
naturally inquire about ex-President E.
] L. Smith af q Gaorpfa A 10
| was who would not resign his Office when
! nearly all the members or the organiza-
! ton IN this section requested that he do
| 50. Drummers say his administrator in
| jured the order In Georgia, and that Il
was through the differences he brought
| about that the state was not able to re-
! tain the horns" Mr. Smith was not re-
elected 20 the vice presidency of the ma
| tional organization
The horns" were delivered by the Geor-
ga delegation to that from Missouri. Last
| year the Georgia drummers brought back
| the horns in triumph from the conven-
ton. The state had secured more new
members than any other represented in
| the organization, and the trophy fell to
| II as a natural sequence. Missouri got
| in some great Hicks in the meantime how
ever and it was to that state that Mr..
! Lovenstein. representing the Georgia
| posts, had to relinquish the evidence of
| their greatness. He did II In a charac-
| terlstic speech, making the concourse of
| drummers howl with his flashes OF wit.
| The Missourians were told that Georgia
| would lend them the ''norns" for year,
| but that at the next convention, to be
held al New Orleans, they would have
| to turn the trophy over to the Georgia
| delegation again. Mr. Lovenstein said
! Georgia will then be on hand with 800
members at her back.