Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-04-23
EDITORS TRAIN
IS VERY NIFTY
N. e. A. SPECIAL PASSES THROUGH
oTTUMWA OVER MILWAUKEE
TUESDAY EVENING.
PRINT PAPER ON TRIP
Publish Four.Paee Sheet on Way to
Houston Where Twenty.NInth
Annual Convention Opens
Wednesday.
PRINT PAPER ON TRIP

There were two N. F.. A. specials
in Ottumwa Tuesday evening. One
went south and the other remained
here. The big special was splendid
siX-car steel train which had about ev-
cry convenience and luxury that
might be found on wheels. The other
was fonr-page, four-column paper
published on the train en- route from
Chicago to Ottumwa and full of mat.
ter of interest to the editors who were
on their way to Houston, Tex, to at
tend the twenty-ninth annual conven-
ton of the National Editorial associa-
ton which will be in session from
April % to 25.
About forty-four persons made up
the list of passengers en- route through
Ottumwa and these were both men and
women. Three superbly finished sleep
ing cars, diner and well stocked bag
gage car, and a handsome compartment
observation car furnished the means
of comfortable transportation over the
Milwaukee road from Chicago to Kan
sas City. The same equipment will be
taken by the NJ. K. & T. from Kansas
City to Houston, where the journey
ends.
Every courtesy was shown Ottum-
vans who visited the train, both by
the delegates and the railroad ottici-
ais accompanying the party, as we'll
as local railroad officials who assisted
in the comfort of the visitors while
on the company's lines. Division
Freight and Passenger Agent P. l..
Marley and Local Agent Jacobs were
on hand to assist the editors. Seldom
has as handsome a train entered OF
tumwa and remained here long enough
to give the visitors a chance to walk
about the station. For fully fifteen
minutes the train lay at the Jefferson
street depot and most of the passen-
gers alighted from the train and ming
led with the Ottumwans gathered
there. Secretary J. N. Weidenfeller,
with others, passed through the train,
leaving Ottumwa literature for the pas
sengers and receiving in return SOU
venirs of the N. E. A. special. One
of these was the nifty menu card that
was printed by the railroad company
for the trip. This was a fac smile
of a newspaper, a IN. E. A. Special"
telling of the last convention and re-
duced in size to six by seven inches.
This was entitled, "The National Edi-
torial Menu" The front page in a
space torn out of the center stated
that luncheon and dinner Is served
on the train. The two inside pages
announce the menu for both meals,
while the fourth page carries "a pic
ture of the N E. A. special observa.
ton car with party of several sitting
on the rear nlatfOrm
The other souvenir was the IN. E..
A. Special" small newspaper print
ed in the printshop carried on the
train, which had an editorial room with
twa active newspaper employees busily
engaged in grinding out copy and in.
cidentally supplying news for press
associations en- route on the trip. This
paper carried a cartoon by Charles
Lederer, the well known cartoonist,
and described in picture the joys Of
the journey and the gloom of those
compelled to forego the trip. 1t was
full of spicy reading and cleverly pre-
pared.
Under blackface head the person
mel of the party by car is shown in q
column of the N. E. A. Special printed
on the train en- route, as follows: