The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-06-17
NEW YORK PUBLISHERS
IN THE MOUNTAINS
A Jolly Lot Of Good Fellows Enjoy An
Outing Here and At Luke.

Last Saturday evening a party from
New York. numbering thirty-three gen.
tlemen prominent in the magazine and
periodical making world was entertain
ed at the Mountain Lake Hotel as
guests of the West Virginia Pulp and
Paper Company of New York and Luke,
Nd.
The party arrived a. Mountnin Lake
Park on the evening accommodation from
Piedmont, coming in a Pullman car
which was side tracked at the Park and
in which the party returned to New
York Sunday night.
The New Workers were a jolly good
lot of people-but all printers, with few
exceptions, are that-and they enjoyed
every minute of their short stay in
these parts. Arriving at the Park sta
ton they were received and conveyed
to the hostelry presided over by that
prince of hotel men, w. C. Huntington,
where they met members of the Noun
tain Lake Park Association, some of
the business and professional men of
Oakland, and one lone newspaper man,
the editor of The REPUBLICAN.
While the Mountain Lake Hotel had
not been formally opened for guests,
Mr.. Huntington had used excellent
judgment in decorating the banqut room
with flowers, lights arranged very ar
tistically about the tables and walls and
at the plate of each dinger was cara
nation from the famous Weber gardens.
Mr.. H. Frank Harrison, sales manager
for the pulp company, was POSTMASTER
and before the dinner began DR.. W. w.
Davis asked blessing. Quite a num-
Der of impromptu toasts were respond
ed too seriously, pathetically IN d
humorously.
On the part of the Garrett CONTAINS
DR.. Davis and Messrs. Scott T. Jones
and Gilmor 5. Hamill welcomed the Wis
itors. AS the key to the Park had been
lost DR.. Davis suggested that the WISH
tors make themselves at home even
without the key. Mcssrs. Jones and
HamIll proved their ability as speech
makers and made it evident that Mary
lands boosted hospitality was still ION
to the job"
A visit to meet the Virginia house
party at Dr. Campbell's completed a
rather strenuous day, and then under
the benign influence Of the Mountain
ozone, all was soon IN oblivion when the
call of the wild took the visitors to the
arms of Morpheus.
Bright and early the party was up
and at it for another strenuous day,
and this time six mountain coaches
were pressed into service for the eight
mile journey to the well advertised
Table Rock, on the crest of the Allie
gheny mountains to the roadhouse and
farm Of J. M. Conneway, where ample
preparations had been made for the
''inner-man. Forty-one was the num-
Der registered, including Mrs H. Frank
Harrison. Table Rock is 3677 feet above
the level of the sea.
Mr.. Conneway is boniface of whom
the visitors to the mountains are proud.
The desert was ice cream from the
separators and from the cream of his
herd of Jerseys. A genuine summer
mountain storm with the usual electrical
accomplishments topped off the with a
most beautiful double rainbow Impress
ed the visitors, Several artists in the
lot made some fine snap shot, of the
mountain scenery. After a return
drive by the way ofbOakland, the party
arrived in time for a most excellent
supper at Huntington On fast train
No. II, Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
the journey was begun under the most
favorable auspices.