Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-24
KNIGHTS Of THE GRIP
Tributes By Ladies Which Won
Prizes at the Travelling Mems
Picnic Saturday
GREAT TIME DESPITE WEATHER
Waterloo Sends a jolly Lot to the
Gathering = Two Veteran Statesmen
Given Honor Prizes - Visitors Roy
ally Entertained - Weeks Happen
inas in Commercial Circles.

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The following tribute to the trav-
| cling men, written by Mrs. L. j. Jar
rett, of this city, won the prize at the
picnic Saturday:
Shakespeare says. Home keeping
youths have ever homely Wit 1t is
hardly to. be presumed that when
| Shakespeare wrote those words he
| had in mind the commercial travellers
of the Twentieth century, but he un
doubtedly meant to convey the idea
that it was travel that sharpened the
wit and made wise the men of the
| world. If this be true of the man who
travels for pleasure, it must apply
with far greater force to the CONNER
cial traveller, for his occupation brings
him into the closest touch with man
kind and affords him a golden oppor-
tunity for most earnest study of that
greatest of all studies-humanity
From the ever open page of the book Of
hfeA he learns that greatest of all les
sons
''He learns to know himself. Thus
, he is of all the best fitted to cope with
the cunning. the weakness, the love OF
f1attery and honor, which are inherent
in all men to a greater or less degree
and which are the great forces that
dominate and rule the world.
The lives Of the great majority Of
business men Of this and all nations
are passed: within the narrow con-
fines of their offices and stores, which
form for them the bounded world. The
lives of the travelling men are bound
ed only by the blue canopy that en-
velops this great globe of ours, peo-
pied with it's teeming millions of hui
man beings, whose souls are af1ame
with hopes and ambitions, the realiza-
ton of which, makes of this earth a
paradise-the destruction of which,
turns the sunshine of life into the
dark shadows of despair.
ut is these hopes and this anlbi-
ton which spur the travelling men on
to achievement and 1t is upon their
chants Of the country most depend. 1t
is this vast army, numbering upwards
Of 100000 men, spending annually sew
en- hundred million dollars, who keep
turning the fast running wheels of
the factories and mills OF America,
the wl1irr and hum of whose machin-
cry is singing that sweet song OF in
dustry, that tells of happy homes and
prosperity.
Thru the hours Of day and long
after Old Sol has sought his weary
couch, behind the red and crimson
clouds Of sunset, they toll on ever
adding to the wealth of their en-
ployers.
Ear into the shades and shadows
Of the night they work on while the
weary laborer sleeps the sleep that
slowly knite up the raveled sleeve of
care and while all the world is in peace
and quiet, they are far away from all
they hold On earth most dear and by
this enforced absence they are barred
from all true pleasures and happiness
for that is found and it fingers only in
the glow Of the freight, in that place
to them Of all the world the best -
their home"
The prize for the pitaph for the trav-
ling men was won by Mrs. A. H. Simon,
her tribute following:
Here lies everybody's friend,
A jolly good fellow; ready to lend
A helping hand, or his purse if need
To the worthy sufferer in misery.
Often misjudged and maligned by the
world,
But smiling thru all, in the rush and
the wllirl
OF endless existence, he goes to the
With the best of eulogies, "a travelling
man."
Every one attending the travelling
mems picnic Saturday last speaks very
highly Of the trea tment received while
here at the hands of the citizens and
Marshalltown travellers. Marshalltown
has always had a good reputation for
entertaining visitors, and surely the
picnic helped to increase the reputa-
ton. The Marshalltown travelling men
wish to thank the citizens who helped
to make the picnic and Ministries such
grand success
The Waterloo travelling men, includ-
ing their base ball club. to the number
of twenty-five or more. who attended
the picnic Saturday, were jolly lot Of
boys They all reported good time.
and returned home on the midnight
train feeling well paid for the day spent
at Marshalltown. Come again, Wa
terloo, we would like to give you an
other game.
We don't know what we would have
done with the crowd had the weather
been fine Friday night and Saturday
morning. AS it was, we had about A.
900 people on the grounds to witness
the sports, and two Of the best ball
games of the season.
Mr.. James Fenlon, Of Des Moines,
with an Illinois implement firm, ana
Lot Dean, of our city, salesman for
the Marshall Vinegar and Pickle
Works, were the two oldest travellers