The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-16
STATE EDITORS
 AT GREENWICH, Wait in Vain for Senator Walsh and Congress- man Lilley to Con
 fess.
SPHINX. IS PUT
 OUT OF BUSINESS
An Invitation to Washing ton Congressman Lil- ley's Only Guber-
 natorial Hint.

Special to the Journal and COurter.)
 Greenwich, July 16.-Sorne thirty editors and newspaper workers invAd- ed the town of Greenwich to-day and were greeted at the railroad station by State Senator James F. Walsh and Frederick W. Lyons. editor of the Greenwich News. Seven automobiles loaned by residents and decorated with American flags, were in waiting for the party. The cars were quickly loaded and the trip began to Belle Haven. "the Newport of Connecticut.' and thence to the Indian Head Yacht cub where appropriate introductions were made and the basis laid for longen ride to the vast estate of MT, Converse, president of the Unltad States Smelling company, to the north of the town
 The Converse property consists of twelve hundred acres and employs over thousand laborers, who are lodged and fed on the premises, From there the party headed for the F-dgewood Inn at various rates of speed. The leading car contained among others Congress- man Lilley, who could be seen for 9 moment frantically and then reluctant- | ly arguing with the driver to the ef- feet that he was a law abiding cttizens 1 who knew what the speed limit law was, knew how to obey it in his own | car when no one was looking and on | general principles thought that not to obey the law was to encourage others | to break 1t. Tn the car following was | State Senator Walsh, who as he pass l ed the car containing the representa- tive of the Journal4and Courier, travel- | ling at snail's pace, was seen to be f preparing a word of rebuke for MT. Iilley as he undertook to catch him with rapidly moving Thomas. It was observed with what faithfulness Sena- tor Walsh was attempting to enforce the laws of the state to the extent of catching up with Congressman LalleY and chiding him. By the time the two cars reached the Inn the state limit law had been shattered into thous- and pieces which the president of the Editorial association undertook in vain to put together for reprinting in 1 the columns of the Bristol Press
 The dinner was held in the private dining room of the Inn and the follow ing were present at the tables: Com gressman-at-large George L. Lilley, of | Waterbury, Hon. James F. Walsh of 1 Greenwich, the leader of the state sen- ate; Charles H. Frost, publisher of the Plainfield, N. J., Courier-News; J Olin Howe of the Publishers Press; Arthur | $. Barnes of the Bristol Press. presi- dent of the association; R. H. Gillespie of the Stamford Advocate; Norman Talcott of the Greenwich News, Benja- min E. Kelley of the Greenwich News Frederick W. Lyon of the Greenwich News, H. B. Hale of the East Hart ford Gazette, E. l.. Prann of the Deep River New Era, James D, Beales of the Berlin News, c. H. Scholey of the Shore Line Times, F c. Norton of the Hartford Courant, w. J. Flood, J. w. I Flood and Harry M. Burke of the Solx& Manchester News, R. E. Fyne of | the Connecticut Newspaper company, Hartford; w. O. Sharpe of the Sey- mour Record, Newton Dexter of the New Haven Silyersmith and Goldsmiths | w. s. Jones of the Westport Herald, 1 IuWlH II. AUTdGIlS lOlillCIfy VI sl4Q Greenwich News, George M. Woodruff of the Litchfield Enquirer, Charles Brainard and Charles Brainard, jr., of the Thompsonville Press, G. H Blakes- ly of the Bristol Press. A. E Knox of the Woodbury Reporter S. J. Thomas of the Norwalk Hour, ana Colonel N. G. Osborn, editor of the New Haven | Journal and Courier,
 After an excellent dinner for which this famous inn Is noted the formal addresses were made by MT. Frost of the Plainheld Courier-Ne who dealt technically but interestingly with Re- lations with Advertising Agents" and by Mr. Howe of Waterbury, who re- lated some of his experiences as z legislative correspondent which Sena- to Walsh and Congressman IAffey listened to with an abstrscteds air as if they might fill in the chinks in case his confessions were incomplete, Tt is Mir. Woods conviction that the organiza- tion controls in the halls of legislation, and that men of the stamp of Senator Luther delap the progress of things by