Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1910-07-14

night, on Monday, June 6, Mrs. New
conner and myself arrived at St. LoulS
at 1;26 p. m. "Wednesday, At Blrm-
ingham we had to wait s ~ hours,
and there fell in with Mrs. Garrett
Conn, a DELEGATE and representative
from Tallapoosa, Ga, who, of course,
was also going to the Convention.
We found Mrs. Conn to be quite con-
genial, so we joined the company for
the rest of the trip, Mrs. Conn and
Mrs. Newcomer also taking a side trip
to Chicago and return.
On leaving the train at St Louis,
we were at once taken in charge by
a young lady wearing the League col
ors, purple and white, we being re-
cognized by our badges. She escort
ed us to the League both at the rail-
road station, where we were lmmed-
lately given our papers assigning US
to quarters a. the Buchanan Annex
Hotel on Kings Highway Mrs. Conn
being also assigned to the same place
Our young lady then plotted us to
the proper car to take us to our no.
tel. where we found Miss Ora WEIGH
of St. George, Ga, who had preceded
us by few hours. Of course this
careful attention which was provided
for each delegate and member on her
arrival at the railroad station was
highly appreciated by US all. The
name of our hotel sounded to US quite
English and it is indeed located IN
an aristocratic section of St. Lousls
and has the reputation Of being one
of the finest hotels in the city. We
certainly had reason to feIlcltate
ourselves over our good fortune IN
the matter of entertainment. We
found others who were not so fortu-
nate, yet everybody seemed bent on
making the best of things. Few, II
any complaints were heard, and 1t
was certainly a very good-natured
assembly of over 7,00Opeople Prob
ably every one had tried to come IN
the true league spirit" as Mr.. Lewis
had requested.
On reaching our hotel we decided
not to 90 out to University City until
the morning. We were sadly IN need
of rest after our long trip, and the
weather had developed into some
thing of a tempest of high wind and
much rain. By morning the wind
and rain had nearly demolished all
the beautiful decoration which had
been furnished the day before, The
Festoons of flags and the purple and
white were generally hanging in tat
tiers and had to be removed.
On Thursday morning, we Wended
our way to University City, to see
with our own eyes and to hear with
our own ears all the wonders and at
fractions of the Capital City of the
American Woman's League, about
which we had read so much and
pictures seen so many times. The en-
tire morning was spent in visiting
the different buildings of the Lewis
Publishing Company and the officers
and departments of the League, all
of which were thrown wide open
to the vast throngs of visitors, we
being welcome to go anywhere and
everywhere.
Familiar with most of the scenes
through the pictures published in the
papers, we were at once able to pick
out the different buildings and
places, for the pictures in the papers
are very life like indeed. But, of
course, it was pleasure to see the
real things, and with thousands of
others we were pleased because we
were in attendance at a Convention
in which we had an interest beyond
that of the spectators. rode from
Birmingham to Columbia, Tennessee
with a lady who left us at the latter
place. She was the wife of Pres
byterian clergyman who did not
know very much about the League
movement, though she had read
very little about it. We three ladies