The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-15
oRGENTALs At THE AUDITORIUM.

Three representatives of liberalization
of the east, filed with whisky made in
the west, walked in the Auditorium hotel
yesterday afternoon at ; O'Clock to CON
duct an investigation. They were Turks,
and they went into the Auditorium to see
what manner of place it is and to REIN
burse their supply of stimUlants. They
were clothed in their roomy costumes,
which seemed to hold gallons of the
rain that had helped make the day I'M
pleasant.
Inside the hotel they were in the com
pany Of 100 or more prominent men from
all parts of this country and Europe. A
score or more landlords of big hotels, who
are here visiting the fair, were there.
Gov. Peck of Wisconsin, who was also in
the crowd, adjusted his glasses and he
looked at the three strangely dressed and
decidedly intoxicated men from the old
world. Prince Roland Bonaparte, the
man who owns the bank at Monte Carlo,
beheld them, and declared the trio to be
the best three of a kind he has yet seen.
In the busy lobby, too, were number of
ladies, and their attention was attracted
by the peculiarly hammered men.
BY a series Of gestures the Turks made
it apparent to the crowd that they
wanted money to buy drinks. They
seemed to know by intuition that drinks
can not be had at the Auditorium without
money. They seemed so in earnest that
Gov. Peck looked at them pityingly. The
money not being forthcoming one of them
proceeded to show his willingness to give
collateral security. He pulled his blouse
over his head and threw it on the floor
and exclaimed "How much?" which ex-
preston "Prince" Roland interpreted as
asking how large a loan could be given on
the garment, He pulled off another and
again asked the same question. The
Turks breast was then bare, and there is
no telling to what extremity his desire
for drink would have driven him if Man
ager Trip had not appeared on the scene
with a big porter. The latter walked up
to the Turks with a "Billy-the-kid''
swing and said with emphasis:
Cit yees out of here"
Although the Arabs could not diagnose
that sentence they knew what was meant,
low salaams to the king of baggage smash
erS at each step.
Once outside of the hotel they fell into
the hands Of a sparrow cop on Michigan
avenue who put them on cable car
headed toward Jackson street.
cALIFoRNIAN's CHEEK.
A big redwood tree is raising a row as
big as itself in the viticultural depart
ment at the horticultural building. Of
course this big tree is being put up by
California 1t is safe to say that if any
thing big, from oranges TO stories, is look
ing for a foster parent it will find it in
the Pacific coast state. The breezy
people of that breezy section do nothing
by halves, and they do everything in the
best of taste
Certainly this redwood tree which is
kicking up such a rumpus comes under
the latter criticism. If it were tree
whose great girth was all genuine it would
not be so bad, but it is a tree which has
been put together, and therefore it is a
spurious article and delusion and
snare.
But that is not why the exhibitors and
the officers of the various states are max
ing objection to it, The most serious
fault to be found with it is that it OBJ
scures other displays, keeps the light
from them, and while to a certain extent
it is indicative of California S great hOrti-
cultural possibilities it is an eyesore and
a nuisance. 1t happens that it is near
the New York state viticultural exhibit,
and the display of the Empire state
is the one WHICH suffers most from it.
The New Workers are slow to wrath,
but when once aroused even California
must look out. and so when Executive
Officer McNaughton, Chief Powell of the
genealogical display, Chief Snow Of the
victicuitural show, aad Secretary John
Foord started out they took the warpath
TO the director generals Office to insist
that the redwood tree come down.
They did not find Mr.. Davis but they
don't propose to lay aside the paint and
feathers until they do find him, and they
viii make as big a fight as was ever made
on q seemingly trivial thing in the effort
to have the obnoxious redwood removed.