New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-05
CORN TOURISTS
HUSK new YORK
Youths and Maidens For
get Native Ohio in the
Joys of Big City.
1000 OF THEM,
ALL RED EARS
Rapid-Fire Sightseeing Shows
Them High Spots of Me"
tropolis in One Day.

Corn. That was the big word yeter-
day. New York learned what it means
to Ohio when 1000 representatives OF
the Buckeye State dropped in to see
all they could in one day. Starting
with breakfast at the waldorf ana
winding up at the Hippodrome las'
night, the travellers put IN the dust
est day of the FIVE since they ieft nome
for what was the first Eastern 'rip
for most of them.
1t was corn that sent them mere
Corn and the State OF ONO AsricuI'u
raj Commission. For the young men
and women had won their chanSe "
see the world through their excellence
in agriculture and kindred pursuits:
Yesterday the New York Chamber OF
Commerce looked after the comfort Oh
the guests and Dock Commissioner X.
4 G. Smith co-operated 10 the extent
of providing one of the municipal Terry,
boats for a trip about the narDor anu
out as far as Norton's Point,
Crowded into one short day were
visit 70 The Grand Central Station, 81
Patrick's Cathedral, Bronx farH' the
harbor trip. dinner at the Martinique
the Hippodrome and the task OF en-
training at the Pennsylvania station LOT
CLEVELAND. Besides minor trampS, inc
marty marched from the City nan,
Who're Mayor Mitchell made an address
al noon. to the Battery and, after the
hoat ride. covered on foot the ais
tarca from the AID at, pier TO the
Martinique. to say nothing OF the jour
80 tom the hotel to the theatre and
thence TO the Pennsylvania station.
The visitors admitted that they had
wonderful time and also that they
worked hard at 1t. -. u
Rnt there was no complaint, even
tbouoh the ages represented rahgeu
from nine years to eighty-one years.
Tho tour. which included two days
in washington and a day in Phliadel-
mia was conducted on military
basis. Four special trains were re-
ouired for transportation, ana the
small army was divided into compa...
mics. each in charge Of captain,
whose duty was to keep his company
intact at any cost. The penalty for dis
obeying rules was being sent nome I'M
mediately.
sixty per cent Of the party were
Rows and men; the balance girls ana
tfomen. Dignity was furnished by
about two hundred citizens who are
not engaged in corn raising, but are
interested in the work of the young
sters.
And right here it may be said that
the feminine wing of the army was
thoroughly indignant yesterday over
what they termed the unfair manner In
which the women had been treated dur
ing the tour.
The trouble was that wherever any
body addressed the partv the speaker
invariably dwelt upon the work of the
"Ohio corn boys" and nothing was
said about the girls.
The reporters who accompanied the
party yesterday were surrounded most
Of the time by groups of protesting
beauty. "Dont we COUNT" was the
cry. aren't we 40 per cent? And Sec
retarv BRYAN never said one word about
us. Neither did Senator Pomerene
when he spoke to US in Washington.
We won our trip by our work in do
nestle science, and making good jelly
counts for something. doesn't it,"
The leading spirits in the rebel
lion" were Miss Dorothy Smith and
Miss Ruth Palmer, both of Cleveland.
They were supported in their opinions
by Miss Henrietta d. Grauel, the eff
fcient chaperone Of the young women.
Gazing at the young women, who repre-
sent the youth and beauty Of the Buck
eye State, it was hard to understand
how Messrs. Bryan and Pomerene could
have been so careless
The Chamber of Commerce was rep
resented yesterday by Seth Low, presi-
dent, and Charles Gwynne, secretary.
The jaunt just missed being married
by an accident at the finish. When
the municipal ferryboat was being
warped into the slip at West AID st.
the large fagpole on the boat, weigh
ing 200 pounds, struck the piling and
snapped off. It fell to the crowded
deck and only by good luck missed hit
ting a score of people.
At the Hippodrome last night the Wis