Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-04-12
FAIR COUNTS.
An Aristocracy of RE
spectacle" Thimble-
Riggers.
The Talented Tuft Hunters Of
the Worlds Fair Com
mittee
Evidently Determined that They
Will Run Things to Sut
Themselves.

The aggregation of pleasant-man
nered wolves who are going to make |
all that they can out of the Chicago |
Worlds Fair, put up nice Job on the
stockholders.
They made up slate in secret eau
Gus, kept it secret and then sprung it
on an unsuspecting public in time to
carry most of it through. Some out
siders, however, managed to break
into the Board of Directors.
Since that election the bosses have
been spending their time counting
some men out and counting others in.
They have counted out the real es-
tate men entirely. There is going to
be big row, and the real estate men
are likely to take hand in it. And
all on account of w. d. Kerfoot being
counted out.
81 don't care to say much for pubIi-
cation, remarked Willis G. Jackson,
the President of the Real Estate
Board, "but the way we have been
treated is shameful, while thiS last deal
is simply an outrage"
Mr.. Jackson nervously paced up and
down the room. That he was really
and earnestly indignant was patent.
How have we been treated?' he re-
peated after the reporter. We'll, I'll
tell you. w. ID. Kerfoot was the duly
chosen representative of the Real
Estate Board. We did not, however.
decide upon q man until at least two
weeks after a number of our members
had been sending in their proxies to
Lyman ]. Gage. Just how many
proxies were sent l could not exactly
state more than one half anyway
After Mr.. Kerfoot was selected com
mittee of three, of which | was a mem
ber, and George r. Warner and Josiah
i. Lombard the other members. waited
upon Mr.. Gage. We had subscribed
500, 900 to the fund. and we told Mr.
Gage that it was the desire of the real
estate men to secure a representation
on the Board Of Directors. OF course
you shall be represented, said Mr.
Gage; Just write me letter embodv
ing those wishes, and they will be re
! spected. OF course we relied on that
( promise and wrote the letter. The las
meeting of the executive committee wa
. held Thursday afternoon. The slat,
was made up for fortyfve directors
5 Mr.. Kerfoot's name was among the rest
= Everything was all satisfactory thu
D far But imagine our consternatiol
| next morning at the eleventh hour
G was 9 80 o'clock and the meeting wa
a called for 10 o'clock when we dis
4 covered that Mr.. Kerfoot's name ha,
F.; been left out of the list altogether
e Instead of list of forty-five the lis
e contained only forty names. We sough
t Mr. Gage and he blankly told us h
t thought we had enough votes to elec
G our man anyway. We would have had
t only Mr.. Gage had already then r.
2? ceiyed the majority Of the proxies II
j, had accepted our proxies with the VI
il derstanding that they should be use
TO elect one representative Of our in
terests, buc instead Of using the vote
i for us had simply used them for him
o.. self and his friends That's the dea
ne gave us. Well, We hustled out. an
n in spite OF all these drawbacks "
!, elected Mr. Kerfoot. And now, thel
1, DAYS after the votes had been al
o.. nouuced. kerfoot is deibcratel
"a knocked out am Just as sure a.
,. can be of anything that W D. kerio
N was elected aud counted out That
all thyrei is 20 it'
be- What are sou going Co do about it
s What can sy da agsinat thp rstuH
a us taald lhet have invited ua
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