The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-09
THE GEORGIA PRESS
GUESTS OF SAVANNAH, THE FAIR
AND OF COL. j. III. ESTILL.
EDITORS OWNED THE CITY.
WE'RE THE RECIPIENTS OF MANY
Graceful COURTESIES.

More Than Two Hundred Strong,
fected an Easy Conquest of Her
People-Brought Their Wives and
Daughters With Them and Ladies
Served to Make the Victory Com
pIete-The Guests of Col. EstiIl, at
WimberIy, Where President Cab
aniss Drank TO Their Host as the
Next Governor of Georgia.
Savannah and the Fair were in the
hands of the members of the news
paper press of Georgia yesterday and
last night. From the time the editors
arrived, with their wives and
daughters, more than 200 strong,
all through the day and until late in
the night, they were collectively and
individually the recipients of that hos
pitality they all agree in saying Savan-
nah alone knows how to dispense. No
small part of their entertainment was
the dinner given by Col. ]. H. Estill
at his summer home, "Wimberly." at
Isle of Hope.
Some few and scattering members of
the Georgia Press Association and the
Georgia Weekly Press Association had
reached the city the preceding day and
were on hand to join in the welcome
with which their fellow members of
the craft were greeted. Most of them,
however, came in on the early trains
yesterday, the largest delegation arriv-
ing over the Central, headed by Mr..
II. H. Cabaniss Of the Atlanta Journal,
president of the Georgia Press Associ-
alton. This delegation made Its head
quarters at the De Soto.
At $3.50 o'clock President Cabaniss
called the editors to order in the BAN
quet room and Col. Estill well
coined them to Savannah and the Fair.
Badges and tickets over the Plant Sys-
tenn and the trolley lines to the Fair
grounds were distributed and cars
were taken for the Fair, where the
forenoon was spent.
The editors received a royal welcome
at the Fair grounds. Members of the
Executive Committee were on hand 20
point out to them the various exhibits
of the agricultural and mechanical in
dustries of the state and to show them
over the grounds. The tilt of the dash
ing cavalrymen of South Georgia was
in progress, and many of the editors
watched this exhibition of equestrian
skill and the use of the saber with
keen admiration and interest. The
shows on the Plaza received their
u. .s,1 49,, TO-. .,I
admiration, and though of course the
wielders of the pen and scissors and
paste brush, who make it their BUSH
ness primarily and their pleasure in
cidentally to attend all the fairs and
exhibitions that are given, had seen
these shows, or something like them
many a time before, they yet saw an
abundance to catch their attention and
hold their interest.
Through the buildings they made
their way. The ladies with the party
were almost as numerous as the men,
and their presence added much to the
attractiveness of the scene.
BY special invitation of Col. Estill,
the editors made the Morning News
Bureau their headquarters at the
grounds They assembled there at L
o'clock and from that point took spe-
cial trolley cars for "Wimberly," Col.
EStlllS country place at Isle VI I1Opc.
There the afternoon was spent and the
brand of hospitality the visitors were
fond of reiterating is indigenous and
peculiar to Savannah, with some more
substantial accomplishments, fluid and
solid, was delightfully."- dispensed.
1t was approaching z o'clock when
the editors and the ladies of the party
returned to the city. From that hour
they followed their own whims and
pleasures, many of them returning to
the Fair to see the vaudeville and to
spend a pleasant hour or two amid the
scenes of the Plaza. Confetti was
plentifully dispensed during the even
ing, and the editors entered into the
sport with ready good will and enjoyed
themselves to the utmost.
The day was filled with entertain
ment and pleasure for the visitors, and
they found themselves somewhat tired
when they at last returned to the city.
Many of them left on the trains. but
others will be in the city during the
| day. and some until the early part of
next week. There was not a man in
the party who was not anxious at every
opportunity offered to sing the praises
of Savannah and the Fair.