The Mankato free press., 1906-08-31
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GANG IS IN DENVER.
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Press Club Holding Session
in Colorado.
FUN FOR THE WHOLE PUSH"
Eyerj body Is Expected to Have a
Good Time; Those Who Don't
Will Be Fined.
FUN FOR THE WHOLE PUSH"
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Denver. Col. Aug. 27.-The largest
gathering of newspaper men ever held
in any American city marked the open
inc of the sixteenth annual convention
of the international League of Press
Clubs today. More than 500 of the lead
i'm" newspaper men and women OF the
country are congre9ated here and will be
rovally entertained during their stay by
the Press club and citizens of Denver.
This evening a symposium OF literary
lights of national fame will be given
under the auspices of the league and
will be open to the public. Some of the
best known writers of the country, in
Guiding novelists, poets and humorists,
will participate in the program. The
idea for this symposium originated with
this convention and will no doubt prove
a great success.
The business sessions of the conven-
ton will begin tomorrow, when a new
organization of writers, the Amalgamat
ed Order of Mavericks. will be launched
The new society will work i'll conunc-
tion with the parent body and all who
write for the press may be branded and
take part in the annual roundup.
In connection with the convention a
prize of a gold bar valued at $1,000 will
be given to the delegate who writes
the best story descriptive of Colorado.
The prize is the gift of Fred. G. Shaffer,
formerly a newspaper man of this city
but now Il mine owner. In judging the
stories the committee will be guided by
the benefit likely to accrue to the state
through their publication. Governor
Jesse f. Mcdonald, Mayor r. W. Speer
of Denver and A. j. Spengel, president
of the Denver chamber of commerce, will
be the judges. The offer has aroused
much enthusiasm among the delegates
and many have announced their inten
tion of competing for the prize.
The program of entertainment arrang-
ed by the Denver Press. club is very
elaborate and includes. in addition to
numerous banquets, luncheons, receptions
and balls, excursion trips to nearly ev
cry part of the state The visitors will
be given an opportunity to see Colorado
from the topmost peak of high noun
tains to the uttermost depths of subter-
ranean mines, and from the din of Den
ver's busy streets to the primeval quiet
of the wilderness. They will visit the
great irrigated section in the northern
part of the state and will be shown one
of the most prosperous agricultural Sec
tions on the face of the globe
On Wednesday evening the visitors
will go to Colorado Springs, where they
will spend Bohemian night in the Car
den of the Gods, sleeping on blankets
in the open air. This excursion will be
conducted by the Philadelphia Pen and
Pencil club, which has won a reputation
at previous conventions for originating
novel entertainments.
Saturday and Sunday will be spent in
Cripple Creek and the entire party will
be shown through one of the great mines
and will be given practical illustration
of the industry. Souvenir nuggets and
gold badges will be given each member
of the party.
\ movement has been launched by
the delegates from Birmingham, Ala, to
for their home city As no convention
has been held in the south in recent
years their chances for success are good.