The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-04-03
APPEAR WEALTHY TO STRANGERS.
Conversation of Cheap Young Men at the
ChophOuse Table.

1t is surprising that hundreds of Chi
cagoans who are daily forced to take
luncheon at the downtown restaurants
do not become candidates for kankaEee.
The average stranger sitting opposite
YOU becomes bore of the worst type,
although he says nothing to you. He
sometimes eats as hog roots his nose
into fresh bucket of swill, he sips his
coffee and soup so that the noise can
almost be heard above the din of cable
cars.
But worse than all else is when two
gentlemen from another town come in,
sit opposite YOU, and by their conversa-
ton with each other proceed to impress
you with the idea that they are leading
tinanciers of their rural bailiwicE.
Two gentlemen from Dubuque, Iowa,
entered downtown restaurant one
| dav last week and sat down opposite
another gentleman who lived in the
same town a few years ago, but did not
recognize him. They took him for a
stranger and started in.
Il was up to see B. in the Rookery
this morning and we closed that deal, !"
said one. ''ft will net me a cool $50, 900
cash, with $4,000 worth of bankrupt
paper to boot"
"Good boy!" responded his partner.
"But | have some good news, too. You
remember that $40. 900 | invested in the
Leadville mining deal six years agog
Well, | supposed it was as good as lost,
but several Chicago capitalists are hot
after the property, and today we signed
the documents making the transfer.
Do get anything out of it? Only the
I 11nt in, of fi1Sf anH TX cent
additional"
One of the fellows is a cheap bar
tender in Dubuque and the other lives
on his father, who is a broken-dOwn
merchant. They we're always lucky if
they had spending money, and consider
themselves so now when they can raise
barely enough wealth to visit Chicago
for day and two nights.
But the country cousin" is not the
only bore at the chophouse table. The
ex-countryman, now a metropolitan,
can assume a Vanderbilt air that will
freeze Fourth of July atmosphere. At
| the same restaurant. three days later,
another pair of gentlemen entered.
"Well, George, how are you prosper
ing," said no. 1. "The people of War
ren speak of you often and wonder il
you are getting rich since you moved
to Chicago"
"Rich?" said the ex-Warrenite, now
of Chicago. No, not rich, but il
pretty fair circumstances. | have been
dealing in securities quite little of late
and always struck the right side of the
market. l am neither bull nor bear.
l play them both ways. Six months
ago cleaned up S., 600 in one deal, and
| since that time l have added to the ac-
count, until now my balance in the
First National is something like $110,-
600. My private secretary has the ex-
act figures. Besides my broker has
| So 900, which he is going to place for
me when change opens in the morning.
1t was a boss thing for me financially
when | left Warren last winter"
And the unassuming gentleman who
still lives in Warren innocently drank
in that Aladdin-like tale, never think
ing for moment that six bits would
represent his Chicago friends pile after
paying the midday check for lunch, and
never knowing that his friends tailor
was at the Office waiting for his return,
that he might ascertain when that long
unpaid bill would be liquidated.
1t can truly be said that tickle woman
does not practice al the deception there
is in Chic1QO Times