Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-06-22
EDITORSON EXCURSION
Eight.Day Trip of Badger Quill.
Pushers to Black Hills.
BRIDAL COUPLE WERE WITH THEM

Omaha welcome Ihem, Treat Them
Right and show the Sevcnty.on Mem
bers Composing the Party the EXPOSE
ton Grounds Wind Cave. Hot Springs
and Gold Mines OF peadwood Country.
Madison. Wis. June 6.There are 4
few redeeming aspects t. an EDITORS
life, and one of them is the annual eN-
cursion. There are some COO puhica-
tons of all kinds in Wisconsin-dailies
weeklies. trade publications, religious
| organs, etc-and the State Press asso-
citation is made up Of as many OF these
editors as care to join. Ii was organ
ICED in the 5Os and is recognized by the
| national association rs the earliest of
state associations.
The annual trip is carefully mapped
out. Ii is the big outing OF the year for
many Of the craft. Transportation is
furnished free by the railroads. For
this reason some style these excursions
'junkets." The Milwaukee News usual
~ devotes an editorial to the affair
| denounCing it, The national associa-
tons great excursions also furnish u
text for the whimsical New York sun.
And these are great excursions There
have travelled as many as SEQ people
men. women and Children-al. the way
across the country, sometimes III spe-
cial trains.
| But the state association is more mod
est. This year less than seventy-tive
went mainly editors of prosperous
| weeklies. Last year the trip was via
the Canadian Pacific TO the coast. 1t
lasted six weeks and cost not more than
$l00 per capita, This year we were
gone eight days. The cost was about
$50 plus inCidentals 1t is an error to
think the rarity is dead-head. The
transportation is free-thats all. Ho-
tells and eating houses name the lower
rate they give to all parties of travel
| ers. The sleeping car companies hold
their prices stiff, And when the edi-
tors return they tell of what they have
seen in their papers. Thus they per-
suade others to visit the same places.
| Mexico. Florida, California, Detroit,
| Boston--our Wisconsin association has
visited many places and the benefits of
this edutation are not inconsiderabe
Jolly Party Aboard Sleepers.
There were two Wagner sleepers
loaded when the train pulled out from
the Northwestern station, Chicago, just
after supper Thursday, May %, We
were bound first for Omaha. We
reached there the next morning for
| breakfast 1t was n pleasant feeling
as we settled down in the richly cush-
toned coaches, while great engines
weighing 122 tons dragged us over the
prairies-frst, west through Illinois,
then across Iowa, to omaha. on the
muddy Missouri-the gateway to the
empire of the west. Beyond Omaha is
Il.
and destiny and desoation, romance.
mountains and history-all as inCompre-
hensible to the uniformed, provincial
down-easter as the Torrens land title
system to n babies hospital.
| All night we rode in our herths 1t
requires an even disposition and ten
dency to look on the bright side of
things to be supremacy happy on these
trips. Nervous, irritable people should
stay at home. Fastidious people, ditto
Though we had no inharmony to mar
the occasion. unless n failure to con-
meet with one breakfast could so be
called, there might easily be opportuni-
ties for unhappiness. But the party
greeted each new situation with a song:
Blow the man down, boys!
Blow the man down.
1t takes a long time
To blow the man down.
This refrain doesn't mean much as It
stands, but If the coffee is cold, or the
porter is slow In making up the berths,
just to sing it over cheers the soul.
They Make II Bridal Tour.
The married people doubled up In the
lower berths, and unattached people.
including widows and few single gem
tlemtn were obliged to use the step
ladder to the upper bcrths. But the
weather was favorable all along the
line A sleeping ear in a hot night Is
a stuffy dungeon. We had n few chill
dren with US, and they enjoyed every
thing An editor who had taken TO
himself wife the day before we started
was also Of the party. They were lone
some and silent for a Few days, and we
were sorry for them. But with the
fight Of time and the new experiences
OF the party Of tourists. smiles bright
cned their faces. and before the jour
ney was over, the new lady from In
diana, who had her fears that Wiseon-
sin was unsuryeycd, began to enjoy
herself evidently. and we all thought
her very pleasant. AS for the groom,
he said they had known each other
for a lifetime, and everybody knows
those are the best kind Of matches, with
no room for mistakes or disapopint
ments.
Then he bought a box Of Jack Rab-
Bit cigars, which the smokers said
were far better than that popular MIC
otire nprcparation known as THE
! Brakefnans Pride"
Warm Plunge 200 Feet Long.
After ride through the cattle coun-
try for hundreds Of miles, one comes
upon hot Springs" surprised 10 nnd a
colony Of expensive hotels and all the
refinements Of luxury. The Indians
knew the healing Of these springs and
bathed in stone basins carved out
mocassin- shape. Today one can swim
in a plunge bath 200 feet long and 81
wide. a building houses this great
swim" and the water bubbles under
your feet at "A uniform temperature ~
% degrees. The bottom Is gravel u