The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-21
THE EDITORS TRAVELOGUE.
Continued from last week.

| Wednesday Secretary Daniels of the
Navy Department addressed the con
Vention, besides other prominent
newspaper men. At 200 p. m. the
delegates went to Long Beach, Long
Island, as guests of the Long Island
Railroad and the Long Island Press
IClub where very pleasant afternoon
and evening was spent on the beach
The party was given an elaborate
luncheon at the Hotel Nassua. one
of the most fashionable at Long
Beach, and the Royal Marimba Band
gave very fine concert during the
course of the luncheon. Long Beach
is just building and will some day be
one of the most notable pleasure
beaches in the vicinity of New York
1t is already receiving the patronage
of the most fashionable week end
parties, and it certainly is'one of the
incest beaches we have ever seen for
bathing.
Thursday morning we were taken
ON sight seeing boat trip around
Manhattan Island, and witnessed an
exhibition drill by fire patrol boats en-
route 10 the Brooklyn Navy Yard
where the party made an inspection Of
Uncle Sans great eastern naval base.
There was all kinds of activity .there
as two large dreadnaughts, the New
Mexico" and ARIZONA" are in course
Of construction. Both of these ships
will probably be launched in October
of the present year. An army of men
was busy overhauling and repairing
other ships, and while our inspection
trip was only superficial one, it was
easy to see that there was much ac-
tivity, and especially SO as the Mexi-
can crisis seemed to loom up big at
that time.
From the Navy Yard the party was
taken to the Mergenthaler Linotype
factory at Brooklyn, where we were
taken on an inspection trip through
the factory and were afterward given
a luncheon in the factory. This was
quite interesting, especially to prac-
tical printers in the party. From
here we went to famous Coney Island
the playground of the biggest city in
the world, as guests of the Linotype
Company, but this, like all else that
we have seen, IS on too large to be ap-
preciated by one from the plains of
South Dakota. There all kinds of
amusement devices to be seen here,
with any number of catch-penny de-
vices. Luna Park and Steeplechase
Park are perhaps the two greatest
amusement parks on the Island But
we had heard so much about Coney
Island that when we really saw it we
were somewhat disappointed in what
it really was, but perhaps we expect
ed too much.
Friday, the 23rd, was spent in New
Jersey as guests of the New Jersey
Press Association. The excursion
consisted of ride down New York
Bay, passing the Statue of Liberty,
Ellis Island, Immigration Station
and Sandy Hook Training Grounds,
then up the Shrewsbury River to
Pleasure Bay, where we landed and
were taken on sight seeing trip by
auto through Long Brahch past
"Shadow Lawn" the summer home
of President Wilson, through Asbury
Park and other seaside towns to Sea
Bright, where the party was served
with an elegant Shore dinner. This
was our first experience with shore
dinner and we want to say right here
of all the eats we ever went up
against in all our life, these shore
dinners easily have anything capped
in the eat line. We would not
mind going up against one at least
once week. On this Jersey trip we
had the pleasure Of seeing some of the
handsomest homes and estates that
we have ever seen in any of our trav-
els. The estates were usually sur
rounded by living hedges, and the
grounds were very beautiful. The
good roads and shaded driveways were
also very attractive features of the
trip, and strange as it may seem we
did not meet a single mosquito in
New Jersey. The Jersey people GER
tainly showed the delegation a mighty
fine time while their guests.
Saturday we were the guests of the
American Type Founders Company,
at Jersey City, New Jersey, where we
were served another nice luncheon,
made an inspection trip through the
factory, and also inspected the most
wonderful printers library i'm the
world.
After returning to New York City
We marched in body to old Trinity
Church, where short memorial serv-
ice was held at the grave of William
Bradford, who established the first
newspaper i'm New York CITY. the