The record-union., 1899-03-07
EDITORIAL EXCURSIONS.
The National Association to Meet
at Portland.

IT. G. Daniels, editor of the Alameda
ARGUS" the Executive Committeeman
for California of the National Editorial
Association, representing the Callfornla
Press Association, returned lately from
a meeting of the National Executive
Committee held at Buffalo, n. Y. Re-
ferring to the annual meeting he writes:
The excursion will go out on the Great
Northern road, and return on the North
ern Pacific. stopping if it is desired, to
visit the Yellowstone Park. The bust
ness session will continue three days.
The time of the trip will be limited to
four weeks.
The citizens of the city of Portland
are making great preparation to enter
tain the visiting editors. of whom there
is likely to be somewhere near one
thousand They will take them up
the river and down the river, to Clatsop
Beach, to The Dalles, to Oregon City,
TO the mines, and the Pineries. and the
Glaciers, and every which place. They
will entertain them with banquets and
clambakes, clam roasts and clans 9TH
erwise, and altogether expect to send
them home infinitely glad they came,
to the last man, woman and child.
The excursion will not come down
through California Seven years ago the
association visited California, and while
not one of the members has ever been
heard to say aught but that he had the
best time that ever was, it was voted
to keep in the northern country and
fully exhaust sight seeing
California was represented at the
meeting by two delegates-the writer,
sent by the California Press Associa-
ton, and Charles A. Gardner, sent by
the Southern California Association
The writer addressed the committee on
the lines that while California under
stood that Oregon was to be the host
and do the honors, it would neverthe-
less, feel highly honored if the great
newspaper excursion would see fit, eth
er going or coming, to traverse the
State, stopping to view and enjoy such
of its many wonders and interesting
features as might be desired It was
pointed out that excursionists coming
out by northern route might find it
desirable to return through the Gold
en- State. via Central or Southern Pa
cific or Santa Fe. But the members
voted otherwise, and. except in some
individual instances. the Eastern edi-
tors on their annual tour will not come
to California.
One of the features of this annual
meeting is to be a Eugene Field Mem
orial session. 1t is proposed not only
to dwell upon the work and virtues of
this much beloved newspaper man. but
to start a movement that may establish
Field scholarships in some of the col
leges of the land, and possibly to aid
in completing monument to his mem
Dry Melville E. Stone. manager of the
Associated Press and formerly a fam
Gus journalist of Chicago, has agreed to
prepare paper on the late poet Mr.
Stone was his intimate friend and took
him from Denver to Chicago, where he
| made his chief fame as the author of
the Sharps and Flats column Of the
Chicago News Miss Mary Field.
the daughter of the poet. will be asked
to read some of his writings. Frank
Stanton of the Atlanta Constitution. .
Edmund Clarence Stedman,t the banker
poet. Sol Smith Russell the actor.
| and other friends of the poet, are to be
requested to send something to be read.
The occasion is expected to be highly
Interesting.