Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1901 — New York's Cramping Party. [ARTICLE]

New York's Cramping Party.

Walter Page of New York has organized a party to walk through the most romantic parts of the mountains of North Carolina this summer. An old negro—“Uncle Isaac," a former slave of the Page family—will act as guide and drive a strong pair of mules to a wagon which is to contain the tents and provisions. There are to be fifteen in the pkrty, and they will tramp for 30 days. The young sultan of Johore will spend the summer in Europe and is now in Paris with a large party. The sultan was born in 1875 and succeeded to the sultanate on the death of his father six years ago. He is fond of sport and has a large string of race horses, his colors being well known on the courses in Singapqre and Calcutta. In a special workshop in Constantinople more than fifty men are employed in making the various objects which the sultan gives away as presents. He usuallly examines the designs and sometimes makes suggestions.