The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-02


twenty schoolteachers from Syracuse
and Utica, N. Y, arrived in Richmond
yesterday morning enroute to the
jamestown Exposition. and spent tho
day seeing the sights Of the city.
They are registered at the Lexington,
and will leave for the exposition at
Z o'clock this morning by boat
To be perfectly accurate there are
one hundred and eleven in the party
here. about half a dozen having stopped
over in Washington and returned home
from that point. All save seventeen
are from Syracuse, the rest being from
Utica.
Moving Day at Home.
The story of this excursion Is full
of interest and perhaps no one can
tell it so well as Mrs. NJ. II. Greenland,
who is chaperoning the party, and who
talked in a most Interesting manner
resentative of The Times Dispatch
at the Lexington last night.
Mrs. Greenland is q very accomplish
ed woman, and has travelled all over
this country and Europe several times.
1t Is almost entirely through her
efforts that this trip was made. 1t be-
in the third she has personally con-
Quoted for the female teachers Of
Syracuse.
"You see," said Mrs. Greenland,
"this is moving time. In Syracuse, and
while there Is so much confusion go
ing on in tho tenament districts. the
teachers are given q weeks holiday
from about May 1st each year.
II taught school myself for some
years. and became greatly infatuated
with the work and with those who
do it. feel that they deserve a vaca-
ton once year. and am always ready
to help them All T do Is to make tho
transportation and hotel arrangements
and conduct. the party. Each teacher
pays her own expenses. and to snow
you how I8have figured 1t down, the
expenses of5the entire trip of nine days
from Syracuse and return Is just SIG
per head.
Forty Cents Each.
'"rhe hackman says he lost money
taking us driving this afternoon, but,
of course, he didn't.
This is the third excursion Y nave
conducted, and up to this trip. have
paid my own expenses. I told the girls
this time I would look to them. and
they chippod In forty cents each, which
I find WILDE ample.
Mrs Greenland has been twice mar
ried. During her widowhood shs
taught school and ran drugstore, ana
having been thus. active as a bread
winner, she K observed blnlL gSllc hHcN
what it meant not to have to teach
or sell drugs any more. The trip has
been o most delightful one said Mrs.
Greenland, There hasn't been single
lar or misunderstanding, and there
won't be any from present Indications
.'The teachers are fairly delighted
with the beauty and size of Richmond,
+ have been here before. but many OF
them had an idea that 1t was a place
OF much less significance than they
find it,
The Lone Man.
The only man OH the "trip Is MI. Y
s. Horton. OF East Syracuse, VINO IS y
charge OF tho baggage OF the ran
pleasure seekers.
Mrs. Greenland is showing much ski
In the management OF her charge 1h
party had engaged quarters at thu
Lexington far In advance. The list Q
names had been forwarded, and Whel
the young ladies' arrived ut 1l.5
o'clock from Washington, they fount
! they had all Tcen registered and thei
rooms assigned, When they entere
| tho lobby they cXcitd much interes
among the other guests, rs 1t is u rar
sight to behold over ono hundred wo
men travcli.Sy in ono party and stop
ping at one h~tel.
They met quite {; number of guests
and chatted In most pleasant man
ner concerning their trip, and wer
loud in their praise of Richmond.
entered the dlning-room for lunch, an