The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-09-08
STATE EDITORS OUTING
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Imagine q series OF drawing rooms
filled with happy, informal Party
Of jolly visitors, gliding along
through an ever-c changing panorama
of typical Minnesota scenery, and
" you have mental picture OF the
Minnesota editorial party on it's way
from St. Paul and Minneapolis to
Duluth, in the first part of the outing
Of 1905. Just at what moment the
s'ice was broken" no one would be
able to say--in fact, there seems to
have been no social "ice." There are
no very formal introductions re-
CURED between members on these
editorial outings. Everybody seems
to begin sociability at once, and no
one ever faded into q wall flower on
any editorial trip. s 4 .s5.s
The coaches containing the outing
party were attached to the Great
Northern train leaving st. Pau! Pau! at ct
I nine O'Clock Sunday morning, Aug
20. To make doubly sure that none
Of the excellent arrangements for the
comfort and enjoyment Of the edl-
torial party should miscarry In any
particular, Mr.. F. I. Whitney, general
traffic manager Of the Great North
ern railway company, had provided
a personal representative in Mr.. kel-
lar, of the advertising department,
who left nothing to be wished for:
, The daylight ride between the
Twin Cities and Duluth is always
enjoyable on this line, and now the
hours rushed by all too quickly in
the infectious sociability of the out
ing party. Nor was the scenery
sighted. Soon the end of the de-
lightful trip approached. The Great
n Northern railway, as it enters
Duluth, affords excellent opportunity
FOR viewing many Of the interesting
features of that city of tall elevators,
monster, docks, great steamers, I'M
mense shipping, magnificent harbor,
IN aerial bridge, picturesque scenery
and unlimited vitality. The editorial
party missed none of the attractive
sights-it never does-and promptly
Mt two o'clock, Sunday afternoon, the
train rolled into the Duluth depot.
Within a few minutes thereafter, the
excursionists had been assigned the
rooms in the st. Louis and LenoX
hotels selected by the executive com
mittee and were soon busy at lunch.
I. Only the day before there had ar
rived in Duluth, the United States
training ship "Fern," which had been
stationed there for the use of the
naval reserves of that city, an auxil-
I iary of the national guard of Mime
sofa. Commander Guy A. Eaton at
once placed it at the disposal OF the
editorial party. A hurried lunch at
, the hotel was followed by cruise on
E5 the "Fern'' around the Horn. 1t was
. certainly a charming trip and was
voted a delightful experience. The
weather was perfect and the many
little attentions showered upon the
party not only by Commander Eaton
but also by Assistant Adjutant Gen.
eral Whitney, and by every member
of the gallant crew, will make the
afternoon treasured as one OF the
brightest. stages of the outing. "A
number of citizens of Duluth had
also been invited and these added
materially to the pleasure of the
trip. Fruit and cigars were served in
lavish abundance, through the
I|thoughtfulness of County Auditor
Odin maiden, and every group had a
ready guide to point out the many
interesting features of the rapidly
changing view. BY six o'clock the
party was back ut the hotels with
good appetites. Then came sight
seeing in small groups, and the prep.
Narations for an early start the next
morning. g. 'fn~~.
At 1880 a. m. all were aboard the
special tram of the Duluth, Missabe
& Northern. railway for the iron
range trip which had been made pos.
sible through the efforts of Messrs
Kellogg, Cotton and other officials
The train was in charge OF Supt
John w. Kretter, who certainly "saw
us through" a trip that was keenly
enjoyed and left the editors with 9
much clearer understanding of the
wonderful and important part the
iron. mines play in the. states re-
sources and riches. ..4'E r..
/ The first stop 4. was at Hibbing,
Very evidently that wide-awake burg
was bent on giving correct concep.
! ton Of the situation, for it's council
had given carte blanche to its com
s mittee of arrangements, consisting
of Claude w. Atkinson Of the Mes.
sabe Ore and A. E. Pfremmer of the
Hibbing Tribune. To many of the
party -itwas their first visit into this
wonderland of the. great iron riches
Of Minnesota and it proved an aston
ishing lesson i'll the enormous wealth
of that section. The special train
was met by q large reception com.
mittee of citizens who did the honors
like veterans. The train was first
taken UP to the Mahoning mine,
where the iron ore seems found prac-
tically from the top of the surface
down indefinitely. Standing at the
edges of the vast pits that covered
blocks and blocks of ground, one
could see and hear the great steam
,shoyels in every direction busily dig
ging up the valuable ore and loading
It into long strings of ore cars hold
ing 81 tons each. As fast as train
Of these cars was filled it was drawn
out of the great pits. zigzagging its
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