The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-06-03
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Official Paper Of the City and County

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For the benefit of some few captious
critics who did not join the editorial
party to st. Louis and therefore have
no kick coming, and the Brookings
Register in particular, it is we'll
| enough to remark that the South Da-
kota Press association is not in duty
bound to furnish railroad TRANSPORTS
tion to anybody. The individual
who lmagines that by the payment of
So initiation fees he has forever after
an immortal sinch on transportation
for himself, wife, children and all his
wife's relations will sooner or later find
himself mistaken. 1t is true that it
has been customary for the secretary
OF the association to look after trans
portation on summer excursions ana
in which the railroads of the state
have readily cooperated. But i'm so
doing they inyariable reserve the right
to pass upon each application individ-
ually. The endorsement Of the secre-
tary Is a mere formallty only. When
it comes to railroads outside of the
state the difficulty is increased. Last
summer the association members who
took the Salt Lake trip paid fare on
both the Burlington and the Denver
and Rio Grande. They also paid their
passage on the lake trip two years ago..
For the Wabash railroad-a corpora
ton reaching no point in the state
with any part of its systemic offer
to transport 100 people of the associa-
tions from Omaha to ST. Louis and
from St. Louis to Chicago without
charge and haul extra sleepers in do
ing it was something unusual and
which no other railroad corporation
would duplicate. The fact that Harry
%. Moores, general agent of the COM
panY at Omaha, is a friend of the
president Of the association-as the
Bookings paper says-ought net to
be anything against him. Neither
was iii his fault when his superiors
objected to issuing transportation to
people not connected with a newSpa-
per or a member of an EDITORS family.
MI. Moores was told that the party
| would number abont one hundrsd-
that being considered the maximum
number when the arrangements were
under way. When the Canadian trip
fell through and there was a scramble
for st. Louis and applications began
to run above the $50 mark and MANY
of them neither editors or members of
his immediate family, the Wabash
people cut the limit to the original
proposition-lO0-and to the overrun
one half fare. All told they passed
l04 people. Not one of those who
paid half fare had any claim on the
association or the railroads, and all,
whether they had or not, got their
transportation to Omaha and from
Chicago home outright and half rate
on the Pullmans. The association re-
ceiyed the utmost courtesies from the
Wabash people and will always be in.
debted to them-particularly to Mr..
Moores. The hotel arrangements 1T
the Inside Inn were the same as all
the other associations had, including
the National Editorial association.
The fact that the management, or
those acting as such, tried to repudi-
ate their written contracts was no
fault of the officers Of the Sonth Da-
kota Press association. Other asso-
Citations and hundreds of newspaper
men were obliged to seek other quar-
tiers. but the South Dakota contingent
stuck for what was coming to them
and got it and more, too, though
it was eleven hours of the hardest
work this writer has put up in many
a day. The association had every
possible courtesy extended to it's mem.
bers by the exposition management
about 2000 tickets on the trolley line
inside the grounds, tickets good for
admission to every attraction on the
"Pike' and all over the exposition
grounds and plenty of admission tick
cts to go in and out of the groundt as
often as they pleased 1t Will be
noticed that none oslthose who Joined
the excursion and are writing it up
have any fault to find with those who
made the arrangements. AS. usual it
is an outsider who knows so much
chat isn't SO.
That "Bob" Schaber OF the Hudson
lite must be made of something besides
the ordinary flesh and blood. Not
content wsth seeing a third more of
the st. Louis exposition apparently
than any body else he found time to
send his newspaper almost a whole