New Ulm review., 1913-08-06
Editors Gather
In Convention
Fairmont Proves a Splendid
Host5sto Visiting scribss
z and Ladies'.
Trips by Automobile and
Boat Display Beauty
Spots Of City.

Spots OF City.
Such of the End District editors -
are not locsted 80 that they can have
the pleasures offered by , lake found
the visit at Fairmont especially enjoy
able for it afforded . new manner OF
entertaiDment A boat trip is always
: pleasure TO the person whose expert.
epce in that line 10 limited and when
toit 10 added the items Of splendid
banquet with unusually good after
dinner speeches and . trip home BY
boat with music, dancing and other
diversions, nothing moro can be asked
save ! good stopping place 70 rest
after long day Of pleasure. Nor il
the last named item lacking for the
Fairmont hotels ore among tie best in
southern Minneaota and no complaint
could be heard on any side.
While it ia true that the gathering
of the editors was not entirely for
pleasure, still it 10 the understood
hing that the midsummer meeting 10
mainly for the purpose Of getting the
editors together for IN outing which
will help them to forget every day du-
ties for brief space Of time and q
hosts for such On occasion the people
OF Fairmont can not be excelled.
Friday morning . large number Of
automobiles congregsted at the Com.
mercial Club to take tho visiting edi.
tors and ladies for . tour about the
city which included . trip to the. many
places of interest and beauty which
Fairmont can boast. The drive about
the lakes was particularly enjoyable
and in making the rounds Of. the resi-
dence portion of the city one could
but notice the homelike appearance Of
the houses. So many of them are
painted white and set amidst green
trees and we'll kept lawns that it gives
the entire city an appearance OF cool
restfulness that is very grateful to an
eye that 10 accustomed to seeing brick
buildings day after day. The streets
while narrower than at home here are
cleaner than those OF the average city
and the business blocks have an air of
prosperous progressiveness. In short,
outside of New Ulm, Fairmont looks
cleaner and better kept than any other
small city that We have had the pleas
ure of visiting recently. The Martin
County Court House located just away
from the center of the business dis.
trict stands we'll back from the street
in the midst of terraced lawn that is
very inviting and when one enters the
door he is instantly struck with the
beauty of design and decorations. We
do not believe that the building is SUR
passed by anything of it's kind in the
state outside of the State Capitol at
St. Paul altho this may be too broad
statement to make. At any rate it
is very handsome and at the same time
is practical. The afternoon session
was held in the court room of this
building and was attended by some
fifty members of the Association. Sew
eral good papers were read and dis.
cussed and at 5 O'Clock in the after
noon reception was held on one of
the Fairmont Boat Company's large
boats which conveyed the visitors and
a number of Fairmont citizens to
Hazelmere, large summer hotel at
the far end of the chain of lakes where
banquet was served.
Fully q hundred and twenty-five Ia
dies and gentlemen sat down to the
banquet tables which were spread in
screened paw lion. A seven course
dinner was ser we'd while an excellent
orchestra furnished music. Alfred
Torngren of the Fairmont Independent
acted as toast-master and his handling
OF his duties could not have been ex-
celled. He was witty, interesting and
brevity was also one of his virtues as
q speaker. The first speaker called
upon was Capt. Albert Steinhauser
who responded to Laws, Good and
Bad''. The greater part of the pro-
gram was in . light and humorous
vein and Fairmont exhibited an
amount of after.dinner speaking talent
that can not be equslled in quantity or
quality We venture to say by any other
city of its size. "Col'. Frank Day of
the Sentinel Office was there in the best
of spirits and with him we're q choice
group of other "Colonels'', old war
horses of the pOlitical hattie fielde