Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-08-18
THE JAMESTOWN PRESS
CLUB ELECTS DELEGATE

Norfolk. Va. Aug i0.-The cabin |
~ a Chesapeake Bay pilot boat on a /
choppy sea would not appeal 90 the !
avcraEo landlubbor as desirable (
meeting place Cor deliboratlvc body, /
yet the jamestown Press Club held |
an important business session ahQard
such a boat the lest Sunday IN July.
This club was organized a few weeks
ago, with a view 10 cooperate with
the jamestown exposition officials IN
entertaining visiting newspaper men
during the exposition noar Norfolk
noxt year.
Upon Invitation OF Captain w. X.
Boutwell, president OF the Virginia
Pilots Association, the press club
members went aboard the pilot yacht
William A. Graves at Ocean View. Is
acted beach resort near Norfolk, and
spent the day aboard sailing the
waters OF tae lower Chesapeake bay,
Hampton Roads aud the open sea or
Cape Henry About thirty men went
on the trip. The William A. Graves
is schooner rugged and IA a atanch
sea boat. taking In but little water In
the heaviest weather. Captain balch,
her commander. Is one Of the ahleat
pilots on the Virginia harborB.
"Gentlomen,' said Captain Bout
we'll. the host OF The occasion. Il
would suggest that you hold YOU
business session before we reach he
open sea-"
Some of the newspaper men pre-
/ forrod 20 walt until the yacht was
out nj sea, "lust for the romance OF
1.-THE thing" they snld, but the wiser
I ..H H.Nss AZ
the club. who had been az sea be.
/ fore, prevailed. and the house Was
called 20 order az Onee The CHIEF
business was the election OF a dele
gate 10 the forthcoming convention on
the international League OF Press
Clubs az Denver, Colo. This honor
wns conferred upon Charles Russell
Kelley, chief OF the eXpOsltiOn's de-
nartmcnt OF Press aud Publicity, aud q
charter member OF the jamestown
Press Club. Mr Kelley viii invite the
international league TO hold It's 1907
convention AZ the jamestown eXpoai-
ton.
rs the timo the deliberations Of
the journalistic club we're concluded
the choppiness OF the ga had bocoms
apparent to the men In tho cabin
and few OF them had slipped oui
/ nu deck. for reasons best known q
, themselves Presently dlnaer wal
announced Captain Boutwell, polite
/ ily suggested that those ol his gueau
, who folt perfectly well should git a
lthe first table. while those who wer'
, more or less under the weather, SO q
speak. might prefer 20 walt until
! later table
4 "Oh. we're an right" came In
chorus from several ol the noWspapo
I men who had caused suspicious Co b
dlroclod against them. Accordingly
HALL sat down aud fell 10. the deliuinu
\ clam chowdor being served az hra
4 course. n 10 related by the three me-
!. lln the party who came through ih
I ordeal of the voyage without suffer
n ing sea change. thar before n
4 Chuwdor was consumed hair duac
!. or more Of the guests m voices NOR
/. Tor leea feeble. had offered excuses ~
n retiring 10 the outer deck one ms
wanted TO get "a better View Of th
scenery. while another declared ihi
louidoor life always had appealed
d him Ia an hour or So however, th
m sea sickness had worn off and trol
al thai time until the vessel bad iane
+. ed her passengers. 90 Ocean Nie'
d. the voynFeurs iOurnuNEtlUuc uassod
9 most delightful day
,ol Captain Boutwell, gives the loc
newspaper men such an outing eyel
n. summer The jamestown Press On
1r proposes Ia take visiting bodies
TO- newspaper men 90 sea during the
y. position next summer. ana the unsl
u. phlstlcated inlander Of ne Nislth
Is. craft will ho duly luitiat'd