The daily sentinel., 1912-07-12
ENJOY
HOSPITALITY OF
MOFFAT COUNTY
sentinel special service.

Sentinel Special Service.
Denver, July 12.-The 240 oGG
newspaper men who are members of
the Colorado Editorial association,
with their wives and sweethearts,
unanimously re solved at the closing
session of the midsummer meeting at
Steamboat Springs Tuesday, that the
coming together was one of the most
enjoyable of any previous meeting
since the formation of the association,
and in so declaring not dissenting
opinion was heard the affair was an
unqualified success throughout and
the entertainment provided by the
citizens of Steamboat, Yampa and Hot
Sulphur Springs, could not have been
more complete and unique.
There were in the party total of
about 300 persons. The start was
made in Denver on an elegantly
equipped special train of five coaches
provided by Gerald Hughes, general
counsel for the Moffat Road, and son
of the late United States Senator
Charles ]. Hughes, Jr.
Fine Railroad Trip.
At every stop en- route, at Hot
Springs, Yampa, Coal Creek and other
points, was a round of continual
committees of prominent citizens re-
inforced with typical bands of cow
boys, and accompanied by bands OF
music, greeted the special train. No
details were overlooked in the plans
for giving the editors of the state a
right royal reception. Necessarily.
the stops were brief but long enough
to show that the citizens along the
route were sincere in their greetings.
This was evidenced in more ways than
one. s s
At Steamboat Springs a veritable
Colorado reception was rendered the
quill-drivers. Although arriving
there at a late hour, reception COM
mittees We're on hand to receive the
visitors and pilot them to their quar-
ters throughout the little bustling
mountain town, one of the best in the
state, and which is distined to be-
come the center of one of the greatest
sections of the state-where grows
the luscious Routt county strawberry
the first pickings of which command
a ready market at IS per crate.
Business Secondary.
The business sessions of the asso-
citation were short and infrequent, no
effort having been made to make OF
the occasion strictly business affair.
1t is not intended by the members that
this midsummer meeting should en-
tirely be devoted to stern business"
work, but should be the occasion for
recreation, pleasure and general
migling one with another, and in this
respect there was complete success for
no social meeting of the association
has ever proved more pleasant.
During Monday afternoon many of
the visitors enjoyed rides in old-fa sh-
ioned stage coaches over the noun
tains; some fished; others made trips
to the great strawberry fields that
surround Steamboat. In all there
now are some 400 acres of strawber-
ries in cultivation and many new
fields are now being put in shape for
setting out plants. The profits from
an acre average from $500 to $1,000.
Politics Taboo.
Political matters We're practically
given the 'snub.' Very little discus
sion along this line was had But
there were four avowed candidates
for state office among the newspaper
party. They were Former State Sen
ator E. NJ. Ammons who wants to he
governor; T. j. O'Connell, who says
he will content himself with the office
United States senator; Editor Charles
II. Leckenby of the Steamboat Pilot,
who declares to his friends that he is
going to be Colorado's next state au-
ditor, and from the unqualified en-
dorsement given him by both Demo-
cratic and Republican newspapermen
al the mpptinp tbera ic M reacpp m