European Tour
OF THE
LITERARY DIGEST PARTY.
CHAPTER I.
Cork, Lakes of Killarney, Dublin.
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HE tour of the Literary Digest Party was inaugurated by a banquet at the Park Avenue Hotel, New York, July 6th, 1900, about one-half of the number that was to make up the company being present. After a ten course dinner had been served, I. N. Funk, of the Literary Digest, acting as toastmaster, spoke of what we could anticipate in the Paris Exposition, the Passion Play, at Oberammergau, and other scenes in the historic countries to be visited. Editor Wagnalls gave an account of his first ascent of the Alps, saying the alpenstock used was so strong that it could be placed with each end upon a chair and sat upon without breaking. Others spoke, but their voices were lost in strains of music coming from outside the banquet room. Saturday, the day we sailed, was as warm as only a New York summer knows how to
