Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-05-11

A Good Story of THE Forty Thieves
uInsfratiYe OF ThatT Title.

A Good story of THE Forty Thieves,
Illustrative or That Title.
Officials Of this administration,
from President Cleveland down, who
were in Chicago at the opening
ceremonies of the worlds fair, gave
vent to tho opinion since their return
home that the fair is pretty certain
to be a great success, says a Wash
ington correspondent. The general
impression is that it will be a month
or six weeks yet before everything is
in shape on the fair grounds.
While Chicago, as a city, is not
being criticised very much in the
East, the people Of that town are
being roasted by visitors from this
section who have been there and we're
unlucky enough not to have been
entertained cy the worlds fair people
and the citizens, as were the Presi-
dent and his cabinet. The impress
sion has been given out in the East
that a man Of small means should
keep away from the worlds fair city,
because of the cost in attempting to
take in the big exposition. 1t will
be hard TO convince the majority of
the people, in the East at any rate,
that every man in Chicago has not
planned to carry on a game of high
way robbery during the worlds fair
months. In connection with the
greed Of Chicago and her citizens, a
good many stories are being told in
Washington %indicativeo of the schemes
of the Chicago people in the past.
Col. Dick Bright, of Indiana, who
was elected sergeant-at-arms of the
senate at the last extra session of
that body, had a visitor in the
person of Col. Member, of Mt. Vernon,
Ind, and while the two colonies and
a coterie Of old time Indiana politi-
clans were gathered in the Press club
rooms of this city, they ''swapped" a
good many stories about their
experiences In the past in Chicago.
The best story was told by Col.
Member. At the last Democratic
national convention in Chicago Col.
Menzier says a prominent politician
from the Wabash section Of Indiana
had an experience which was TOO
good to keep, and SO he told it. Col.
Menzier, however, refused to give
the name of the gentleman who told
the following story or himself:
The Indiana politician became tired
of convention routine, and one night
said to himself that he would go to
one Of the theaters to rest up. He
looked over the theatrical announce
ments in the various Chicago papers,
and at one prominent Windy City
theater discovered that "The Forty
Thieves" was on the boards. He
decided that he would see this fierce
''melodrama." He reached the box
office fully a half hour before the per-
Torrance began. He announced to
the high-collared young man selling
tickets that he would like to have one
good seat and passed him a five dollar
bill. The ticket seller returned him
four silver quarters and a ticket.
The Indiana politician was amazed
and stared at the man in the box
Office for moment. The young mans
eyes were CLASSY, he said, and ne gave
no sign that the right change had
not been returned. The Indiana man
then picked up the four quarters and
the ticket, put them in his vest
pocket, and started to go out the door
of the theater;
ely, there" shouted the ticket
seller.
oval, what is it," said the Indiana
politician, turning around.
You are not taking the right
direction to see The Forty Thieves "
said the ticket seller in reply, and he
pointed toward the entrance.
"Never mind" said the Indiana
politician, 81 don't care to see the
Forty Thieves / have seer enc and
l guess / a get along without the
other thirty-nine."
Then he shot out of the building.
This is only of the many stories
that are being told in Washington,
and probably in other sections Of the
country, illustrative of the methods
pursued by certain business men in
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