Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-23
THAT CmOAGO EXCURSION.
ALady ExeursIonist SqueaIs ON
the Phoenix City.

uuempnls depot, tired, disguised an(
baggageless. A LEDGER reporter me
her next morning, and, surprised a
seeing her so soon returned, exclaim.
ed: What back already9 Have
good timer" "Well, rather" she an
swered sarcastically. II always die
object to being squeezed, but to hay,
been so scientifically and systematical
ly squeezed as l have been, was some.
thing more than Objectionable.
The reporter, a painfully modes
man, stunned and shocked at the ide,
of a lady having been squeezed, leaned
against a lamp post until his breath
came back to him, and asked for al
explanation. After hearing her tall
a few moments, the modest reporter
discovered that the squeezing was
purely financial, and he need not have
tainted at all.
did you meet your sister," he
managed to inquire.
"Yes," she answered, 81 met her at
the depot, and we went from there to
the Palmer house, where the clerk told
us everything was full, but a widow
woman, at AZ Cass street. would take
us. There we found one room vacant,
a little cuddy hole, six feet by eight,
one bed and one towel. We engaged
the room for two nights at two dollars
a night, paid for it in advance and got
a receipt, but when we we're ready to
60 the woman commended for four dol
lars more, saying she had meant two
dollars each. | told her l wouldn't
pay it. We'll, III attach your bag
gage, she said, depositing herself on
my trunk, and two dollars l was
obliged to pay her to regain possession
of it. l then paid two dollars more to
get it to the depot, where l had moral
courage enough to keep from crying
until [ could get it checked, though l
noticed many lone females who ran
about the platform, half crazy and
crying like anything, being jeered at
meanwhile by the railroad employees,
who coarsely told them to cheese it.
and when reminded that there was
such a thing in the world as polite
ness, replied that they were not paid
to be polite. One lady tainted, and
another, while attending to her bag
gage, saw the car move off with her
three children aboard, one of them
only three months old. She tele-
graphed to the next station and stop
ped them, being separated from them
three hours. | have never found my
trunk yet"
Where did you take your meals
while in Chicago2"
"At the Palmer house, on the
European plan"
sort Of call for what you want
and pay for what you get arrange
ment, eh2"
Decidedly so, Called for boiled
potatoes and got two cold ones with
the peeling on, Is cents; a piece of
bread, Is cents; fish, 50 cents; slice of
beef, 40 cents; macaroni, % cents; cab
bage, 10 cents; sliced tomatoes, 20 cents
cucumbers, Is cents; coffee, Is cents;
a piece Of chicken boiled in cold
water, 40 cents making, altogether
just such a dinner as can be had any
where in a civilized country for fifty
cents, yet | had to pay two dollars and
sixty cents for it. The lowest priced
champagne was $3.50 a glass, and lager
beer 20 cents"
"How did you like the procession?"
was the next inquiry, the reporter fig
uring up how many houses and lots he
had saved on the little item of beer
alone, by not stopping at Chicago. He
had got as far as eighteen brown stone
fronts with dogs on the stoop, when
the lady interrupted his revery with
II was squeezed there sure enough.
AS for the procession it simply
amounted to six or seven miles of ir-
regularity. They had a ball that
night, but having issued three times
as many invitations as the house could
accommodate guests, many ladies,
splendidly arrayedin evening costume,
were unable to get nearer than two
blocks, and had to leave, disguised
and badly damaged. Nobody but
strangers Jared badly, however. l
overheard an aboriginee say he had
called for a glass Of beer at some sa-
loon, and handing out a quarter, ask
ed for the change, and was told there
was none. Look here, I'm nc
stranger he said, give ne twenty
cents, -and he got it. So maybe you
don't believe l was squeezed" she
concluded, as she walked off to hunt
up her trunk.
Nerve Power.
Few people suffer so much nervous