The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-09
VIRGINIA EDITORS
PLAN GREAT TRIP
Leave Richmond on Wednesday
and Will Hold Meetings on
Boat.

Members of the Virginia Press AS
ISOLATION are looking forward with a
great deal of interest to their annual
meeting, which will be held next week.
These meetings have always proved
interesting and enjoyable; but the one
this year promises to be more than or
dinari1y so by reason of the very
large attendance which Is expected
and the many novel features that have
been arranged.
The delegates will convene in Rich
mond on Tuesday. Following short
business session which will be held at
Murphy'S Hotel at p. NJ, at which
addresses of welcome will be deliv-
cred by Governor Mann and Mayor
Richardson, the members Will be taken
around the city In special cars Iur-
| nished by the Virginia Railway and
Power Company, after which visit
will he paid to the Country CLUB.
seats will be reserved for the visitors
at the Academy of Music. City otti-
Gals, the Chamber of Commerce and
the newspapers will enter actively into
the entertainment of the association,
Hold Meetings ON Boat.
The various business sessions Will
be held on moving boats on the waters
of the James and Rappahannock Riv-
ers and Hampton Roads. On Wednes-
day morning the association will take
boat for Norfolk, and while the trip
down the river is being made the first
real business session will be held. Nor
folk will be reached at 2. M, and
! the night will be spent there or at
| apcnrHfnY the desires
| of the members.
| Thursday morning the association
will again take the water. this time
| for lrvington and Rappahannock, and
! on Friday the steamer will proceed ia
] Tangier Island and Onancock. The To-
| cal newspaper men and citizens of r.
| vinSton an Onancock are preparing to
| give the association big reception
| To Mcdonald Lee is due the main
credit for this interesting and novel
/ trip.
The attendance this year promises
to be unusually large. The Norfolk
and western and the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroads have agreed to repeat
/ the arrangements Of last year for the
members In regards to transportation
! charges and in Richmond special rates
], will be given at Murphy's Hotel. Many
women will be included in the party
TO Receive Visitors.
The executive committee, to which
was entrusted the selection of the
place of meeting, decided on the water
trip after having considered numer-
4 GUS Invitations from cities and resorts
because OF its many novel advantages
and the many pleasures 1t will afford
The president of the Virginia Press
Association is Alfred B. Williams. OF
Roanoke, and the secretary is j. l.
Hart. of Farmville, to whom applica'
tons for new memberships or for res
toration of those that have lapsed
should be sent.
Among those who will receive ant
| welcome the representatives of TIT
4 press of Virginia are. Governor vii
J, liam Hodges Mann. II. w. Wood, pres
ident Chamber of Commerce; Mayor d
C. Richardson, City Attorney Fl. r
Pollard, H. r. Pollard, Jr.. r. f. Lee
Peters. Robert Whittet. Jr. w. I
Reed, T. M. Darlington. r. A. Dunlop
John A. Coke, Jr, G. b. Borden, j.
Hemphill Allen Potts, st. George Bry
an, John Stewart Bryan, r. B. Jones
s.. B wtoodfin. S, W. Meek A. r Hold
erhy, .Jr., C. B. Cooke, r. NJ, Lynn, !
D. Murrill r. L. Gray, Louis A. Nc
! Ma hon.