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The morning times., 1897-02-12
THE QUESTIONABLE WAYS
OF TICKET SCALPERS

1t appears that the ticket scalpers' asso-
citation is using every means possible to
bring influence to bear in opposition to the
bill now before Congress TO amend the in
terstate commerce law, which is intended
to afford protection against counterfeit,
forged and other fraudulent tickets, the
issuance of which has become so frequent
that the Interstate Commerce Commission
has urged Congress to take immediate ac-
tion to suppress all ticket scalping-
The methods pursued by the scalpers are
shown by the folio wing telegram sent by Mr..
George NJ. Mckenzie, a leading scalper Of
Chicago, who is in Washington as the chair
man Of the ticket scalpers lobby, the mes
sage being addressed to all scalpers, menl-
bers of the association, in the United States:
"Cali meeting of all brokers and have
prominent citizens and officials wire their
members of Congress to oppose bill intro
duced by Sherman, of New York, which pro-
hibits ticket brokerage and is against peo
pies interests and favOrs aud perpetuates
railroad pools. Act promptly. Situation
serious
As a result a considerable number OF
telegrans have been received by various
congressman which contain the Identical
WOTilUB Oh MthtIlLit > liltSSdSt'
port to be signed by leading business men-
IL is believed that many OF these sigma
lures have been obtained through misrep-
resentation, the public being given to
understand that the bill enanated from
the railways in the interest of higher rates,
while in reality il Is a measure presented
by the Interstate Commerce Commission,
after investigating the matter for several
years and becoming satisfied that the
ticket scalper's business was adverse To
the interests of the public rs well as the
railways.
Chairman Caldwell of the Western Pas
srnger Association, who was asked to APP
pear before the Senate committee to pre-
sent the situation as viewed by the law
abiding carriers of the country, has filed
with the committee written statement
in support OF the bill, In which he points
out that the present law, which was
framed to prevent discrimination In rates,
is defective in permitting such discrimina-
ton by requiring that at the regular
authorized railway ticket offices the
lawful published tariff rates shall be
charged, while the ticket scalper is per
Initted to sell tickets between the same
points at cut rates.
The morning times., 1897-02-12
Friday Bargains in China De-
partment.

In connection with our regular REM
nant Day attractions We offer a large
collection Of
The morning times., 1897-02-12

Already there is hardly a room to be had
in town over Inauguration. ! had all my
rooms rented some time ago, and got a
note yesterdayfroma friend that he wanted
to bring his family on and stop with me u
week during the festivities. ! had to en-
gage rooms them two miles out OF town.
/ believe the crowd viii be the biggest
we ever had Inauguration time, -Alphonso
r. Simpson, Government Clerk.
The morning times., 1897-02-12

In northern Louisiana 90 900 people are
said TO be actually in need Of food; and it
is difficult to see why they cannot be
fed out Of the sugar bounty
The morning times., 1897-02-12

Herbert re-enforces the new Navy with a
few lighters.
The morning times., 1897-02-12

In dealing with the question OF fraud
practiced in ticket scalping, Chairman
Caldwell stated, that Il volume could easily
be filled with testimony showing the fire.
quent Identification OF the ucketscalper
with the issuance and sale of counterfeit,
forged. fraudulent, manipulated and trans
ferred tickets, and az rerutns the state
ment of MT. Nick enzie, who appeared as
spokesman OF the ticket sCalpeTs, { to the
effect that no member of the ticket
scalpers' association had ever been con-
yictet of forging or counterfeiting uckets),
Chairman Caldwell cited an instance oc-
curing during the year 1896, in which
two members OF the ticket scalpers aSso-
citation were convicted in New York and
are now serving their sentences in Sing
Sing prison for counterfelting 10 600
tickets and uttering portion OF them.
lie also stated that the reason convic-
tons for such criminal practices were
not more numerous was because OF the
extrerne difficulty in securing sufficiently
complete evidence of such irregular trans
actions. as well as because of the insult
ficiency of our laws against forgery.
He stated further that within the last
few months there had been put out at
most OF the principal cities of the United
States large numbers of forged and counter
felt tickets of the issue of leading railway
companies; these tickets had been disposed
OF to the public through ticket scalperS,
and there was good reason to believe that
the tickets were printed and put out by
ticket scalpers or their employees
The morning times., 1897-02-12

tits commonly understood in New York
that Hon. Joe Choate is candidate for
the Mckinley Cabinet, purely in New
York Senatorial sense.
The morning times., 1897-02-12

There is some criticism Of Senator Brice
because lie didn't go to the Bradley Martin
ball as the Count of Monte Cristo or the
Count of Monte Carlo; but it is entirely un-
deserved.
The morning times., 1897-02-12
Person Statistics of the Ball.
(From the New York Jo

VI fUIIt Uic 4NcW IUI JUUfHdIT
Richest man. Jacob Astor
Richest unmarried womari.
Miss Virginia Fair
Oldest man. Peter Marie
Oldest woman. Mrs. James p. Kernochan
Youngest man.. Cornelius Vanderbilt, jr
Observation-Disclosures Mrs. II enr y Sloane's
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Assuming, as claimed by the representa-
tive of the Ticket Rcalpers Association in
his address before the Senate committee,
that an occasional road would avail itself
OF the services of the scalper as medium
for the sale OF it's tickets at less than pub
liShed lawful rates, this only shows that
the law-abiding carriers have no alterna-
tive III meeting such competition but loss
of traffic or open reduction In published
rates, both of which entail less Of revenue;
or of adopting corresponding methods to
that of the read which has made the ar
rangeIaents with the scalper and which
necessarily involve violation of law. 1t is
therefore c0ntended that the law as now
In effect fails to afford the law-abiding
carrier the protection to which ii is en-
titled, in its efforts To conform thereto,
but which the present bill would in great
measure afford.
The morning times., 1897-02-12

1t has often been said that Hon. Thomas
Brackett Reed was rather proud that the
Fifty-first Congress WAS dubbed the bill
lion-dollar Congress" Mr.. Reed was the
Speaker OF that famous Congress That
Mr. Reed has developed into moral
methodical statesman is evidenced by the
fact that he refuses TO allow his Republi-
can colleagues To pass their little public
buildings bills. They say that Mr. Reed
is now madder than March hare because
Joe Cannons Committee on Appropria
tions has just brought in the sundry civil
bill, which carries an appropriation of
500, 900 900, about SIS, 100000 more
than last year. Col Reed says at this rate
this Congress will give cards and spades to
the bIllion-dollar Congress.
The morning times., 1897-02-12

Perhaps Hon. John Sherman intends TO
be Secretary Of State and stay in the
Senate also, thus excmphfylng the busi-
hess-like English idea
The morning times., 1897-02-12

Let it be seventeen guns for the new
Secretary of the Navy-whatever the sig
nificance Of that remark may be.
The morning times., 1897-02-12

A Kentucky newspaper reporrs that the
anti-corset bill was killed by the Kansas
legislature, but only by tight squeeze;
and, of course, all Kentucky newspapers
ought 10 know about such things.
The morning times., 1897-02-12

Mr.. Caldwell referred to the Associated
Press dispatch from Chicago, appearing in
the Washington papers Of January 27, to
the effect that twelve persons had been
arrested on the charge of being identified
witbtheissuanceo OF several thousand forged
tickets one of whom was a Chicago ticket
broker. He also quoted expressions made
by the Interstate Commerce Commission ia
their last report to the effectth In What-
everaspectticket scalping may be eVleWed'it
is fraudulent alike in its conception and IN
its operation. Fraud is the incentive TO
the business and in its conduct every step
is one of actual fraud
The morning times., 1897-02-12

Well, well, Here is Western newspaper
suspecting that there is no love lost be-
tween one Hanna and one Foraker. two
Ohio politicians.
The morning times., 1897-02-12

With reference to the Joneses, 1T still
looks as if old Asa Bushnell intended to
make it three OF kind.
The morning times., 1897-02-12

Miss Elsie De Wolfe escaped from the
Bradley Martin ball unscathed: and in
New York it evidently makes difference
yhose feet are bare.
The morning times., 1897-02-12

Senator Ned Wolcott has mysteriously
disappeared. In order to be polite let's
say that he is studying the early litera ture
Of Brittany.
The morning times., 1897-02-12

Every now and then some Democratic
Member of the House takes fall out Of
President Cleveland. The President has
a ''pernicious'' habit OF vetoing certain
pension bills The other day he returned
to the House with his veto n bill granting
a pension to a Mrs. Patton, of Illinois.
Amos Cummings, the Journaist-statesman
an old soldier himself, made this little
speech:
Mr. Speaker, l feel it duty which
/ owe to my comrades, and to the widows
and orphans OF men who have been COM
rades, to say one word in favor OF the
passage of this bin over the veto OF the
President. This poor woman, Mr. Speaker,
gave her husband to the government OF
.he United States. The government OF
tile United States returned his dead body
to her. She buried him at her own ex-
pense; she cared for the children for thir-
teen years. After the usual delay, she
received a pension from the government.
Then she remarked, thus voluntarily re-
linquishng the pension. The govern
ment Of the United States is today. by
her act, 81 800 to the good. She has
lost her husband: she has saved the govern
mcnu 81, 500 by her remarriage; and
now, instead OF beng credited with the
amount, she is TO be sneered at and ac-
cused OF being untrue TO the memory OF
her first husband. Had he lived, she
might have been in afrluence; today she
is again a widow in dire want.
The bin was passed over the veto i'm
medIatcly after MIR. Cummings speech.
The morning times., 1897-02-12

Mr. Mckinley will find only six members
OF tile House who served in Congress with
him One of these will be Reed, of the
First Maine.
The morning times., 1897-02-12
Manufacturers Samples Dir
ner and Toilet Ware

At prices not TO be overlooked by those
preparing for inauguration crowds. They
consist OF Dinner and Toilet Ware, in odd
and small lots (SOme Of which are slightly
imperfecD, and include Plates, Vegetable
Dishes and PIatters of ali sizes, Cups and
SaucerS, Toilet Sets, 0Gd Wash Bowls
and Pitchers, Chambers, Uncovered SlOp
Jars, ETC., etc. We have marked them
at prices which make them as cheap as,
and in many cases cheaper than, you
could hire them We name IN part:
Porcelain Tea Plates, each. 4c.
Porcelain breakfast Plates, eacb.....-5c.
Porcelain Dinner Plates, each.---.----. &c.
Porcelain Soup Plates, each &C.
Porcelain Covered Vegetable Dishes,
edCn .-.--- .-----.-....- --.-.--- -..-Suc-
Porcelain Uncovered Vegetable Dishes,
each .......... .-...- .....-.-l lOc.
Porcelain Platters, 6-inch, each -..-.- &c
Porcelain PIatteTs, S-IIcb, each ......IOc
Porcelain PlatteTs, lO-Inch, each .....-15c
Porcelain PiatteTs, 12-inCh, each. 25c
Porcelain PlatteTs, i4-lnch, each ...---4Oc
Porcelain PiarteTs, 16-lnch, each ......5Oc
Porcelain salad Dishes, e-iEch, each. 25c.
Porcelain Covered Soup Tureens, round,
Porcelain Covered sugar Bowls, each -25c-
Porcelain Fruit Dishes, each--..----.- Sc
White Wash Bowlsand Pitchers, perset. .5Oc.
Large Covered Chambers. each. 39C.
Covered Soap Dishes, each 1Sc.
Uncovered Chambers, each. sc.
Pain Soap Slabs, each. sc
Medium Sized Pitchers. each-......-..I2c.
Uncovered Slop Jars, eacb----..-...-.6Sc
The morning times., 1897-02-12
Public Lecture.

DR. W. N HAILMANN, Nat. Supt OF
Indian Schools, viii speak at Columbian
a. M; subject, The kindergarten; What it
Has Done for the School" Item
The morning times., 1897-02-12

Perhaps Mr. Sherman will try the
secretaryship of State for two or three
months and then go back to the Senate
if he doesn't like it,
The morning times., 1897-02-12

1t is said TO be a curious fact that So
per cent of the people who are lame are
afflicted in the south leg
The morning times., 1897-02-12

Senator Brice is back from the Bradley.
Martin bail feeling fine this morning;
or is he back from the Bradley Martin
ball feeling fine this morning?
The morning times., 1897-02-12

i neighbor of his in Nebraska submits
that the time is fast approaching when
Hon. julius Sterling Morton will have to
pay postage on his financial views
The morning times., 1897-02-12

The j. G. Johnson who is up in South
Dakota watching the Senatorial election
for the Democratic national committee
is a member of that organization for Kan
sas He is a keen, alert and practical poll
tician, and has done considerable work
similar in character for the committee.
He was in Idaho for several weeks during
the campaign endeavoring to secure an
arrangement for the eelection of Dubois.
He had better luck on trips to Kentucky
and Indiana, in both of which States he
did good work in promoting harmonious
fusion after it was supposed to be impos-
sible
The Democratic committee is watching
the South Dakota situation closely, be-
cause of great and growing fear that
either Picker or Plowman may win. Pick
Ter is the Republican caucus nominee and
Plowman is Populist with distinct Repub-
lican affiliations. Plowman has already
received two Republican votes. He has to
secure bat eight more to insure his election.
The morning times., 1897-02-12

The father of Mrs. Bradley-Martin was
not a cooper; nor did the guests at the
Bradley Martin ball sing the "Coopers'
Chorus in unison at half-past two in the
morning.
The morning times., 1897-02-12
Snap Shot Interviews

There have been stories in the ne wspapers
that Addison Cammack, the greatest bear
speculator of these times, is comparatively
a poor man, that he lost money, and a
big wad of it, during the bull movement al
the time of the bond sales. Mr.. Cammack
is personal friend of mine. | know that
these stories are unfounded, and that he is
very rich now. He is over seventy years
Old, Is happily married-to Il Washington
woman, too, by the way-has delightful
home, and is giving up speculation because
he thinks he has done enough. He Will
be able to leave his family a large fortune.
Why, even during his recent trip in Europe
he made large amount of money in the
big drop of Manhattan He was nearly
always successful. Col. Joe Hickey.
The morning times., 1897-02-12

Senator John H. Mitchell is now admitted
to be lost. The only puzzle that still eX-
lists about oregon is whether the Mitchell
men will permit any other Republican to
he elected If not, the Oregon vacancy
will continue until the election of "a new
legislature in June, 1898.
The morning times., 1897-02-12

There was not five cents worth of stock
left after our fire. The whole $4,000
worth was completely destroyed. About
$4,000 of this lis an absolute less To us,
but we have not lost our nerve We are
going to be furniture people again and we
are already open in a small way You
can't keep Il good man down Julius
LansbUrgh.
The morning times., 1897-02-12

y
yard, and possibly 100000 more for
the back channel; and there is no reason
Just now why Philadelphia should want
TO secede from the Union
1t will be wise precaution If Secretary
Herbert re-enforces the new Navy with
few lighters.
The sheriff of Cook county has been
charged with appropriating q rake-off of
Is cents out OF every quarter allowed for
the poor OF Chicago; but, perhaps, the
sheriff of Cook county is also INDECENT.
We hardly see how Col. Perry Heath
can get the consul generaIship TO Paris
away from Dom Jack Goudy. The time
is little short between now and the 4th
Of March to grow yellow chin wnskers.
In northern Louisiana 90 900 people are
said to be actually in need OF food; and it
is difficult TO see why they cannot be
fed out OF the sugar bounty.
Perhaps Hon. John Sherman intends to
be Secretary Of State and stay in the
Senate also, thus excmphfying the busi.
hess-like English idea.
1t is said 10 be a curious fact that So
per cent of the people who are lame are
afflicted in the south leg.
pprbgnS Mr. no
Secretaryship of State for two or three
months and then go back to the Senate
if he doesn't like it.
The father OF Mrs. Bradley.Martin was
not cooper; nor did the guests at the
BradIey-Martin ball sing the "Coopers'
Chorus in unison at half-past two in the
morning.
neighbor Of his in Nebraska submits
that the time is fast approaching when
Hon. julius Sterling Morton will have to
pay postage on his financial views
Senator Brice is back from the Bradley.
Martin bail feeling fine this morning;
or is he back from the Bradley Martin
ball feeling fine this morning?
Senator Ned Wolcott has nysteriously
disappeared, In order to be polite let's
say that he is studying the early literature
Of Brittany.
Kentucky newspaper reporrs that the
anti-corset bill was killed by the Kansas
legislature, but only by tight squeeze;
and, Of course, all Kentucky newspapers
ought 70 know about such things
With reference to the Joneses, 1T still
looks as if old Asa Bushnell intended to
make it three OF kind.
Let it be seventeen guns for the new
Secretary Of the Navy-whatever the sig.
nificance Of that remark may be.
There is some criticism of Senator Brice
because lie didn't go to the Bradley Martin
ball as the Count of Monte Cristo or the
| Count Of Monte Carlo; but it is entirely un.
| deserved.
f; Mr. Mckinley will find only SIX members
f, OF tile House who served in Congress with
/ him One of these will be Reed, of the
| First Maine.
/ Well well, Here is a Western newspaper
| suspecting that there is no love lost be
tween one Hanna and one Foraker, two
Ohio politicians.
Miss Elsie De Wolfe escaped from The
| Bradley Martin ball unscathed: and in
| New York it evidently makes u difference
| yhose feet are bare,
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-13
A MORAL GOES WITH THIS.

Robinson Crusoe's island, which
was reported to have been swallowed
up by the { "a, is doing business at its
old stand. What was swallowed up
turns out 10 have been certain kegs of
rum, which formed p!rt of the cargo
of ship which sail" / for the island
from Valparaiso. The captain kept
Systematically tipsy and could not find
the island he was after, and had to
invent a story to Justify his return to
port.
The fable teaches (what some fable
teaches every day. that we must not
believe all we read. If any word
comes, for instance, that Cuba has
been blown up 70 keep it from the
Span1ards, don't believe 1T. Cuba is
still there, and still source Of grief
and apprehension to everyone inter-
ested in it. Its chief export now is
lies, all Of which find ready market
in this country, and especially in the
United States Senate.-LJe.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-13

quality of food that could only be
gratef,l j to his appetite for adulation,
and which appealed 70 vanity rather
than spirituality. look upon this as
really the greatest act of Mr.. Cle7e-
lands life. 1t is glorious example
for the youth Of the country, for one
who has won the highest public honcrs
to prove by his later life that all
worldly aggrandizenent is but foolish
ness aud vexation, and hat the true
ambition of really great mind should
be to ronder and solve the mysteries
of eternity, giving only that attention
that is unavoidable to the petty con-
siderations of what shall be eaten and
Worn.''
LIDO not vouch for the truth of this
view Of Mr. CleVeland's momentous
conclusion % s:seftlc" at Princeton, :,
but st seems to offer an explanation Of
somethingthat has :hither+o been un-
explained. The Clevelards were sup
posed to have been welded to New
York for the winter and Buzzard's
Bay for the summer, and it mast have
5eena powerful incentive that could
lead one of the Presidents taste to fix
upon 50 hundrun place as Princeton
for the home of his declining years.
That be is off for Princeton is evident
from renorts LEe-4EIafee- .f10uo0'
which tell Us of mighty boxes bearing
upon! them the words, "Gro7cr
Cleveland, Princeton, n. j."
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-13
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SENATOR ARCHER wants to teach the
people good manners by legi-lation.
He offered bill making it a misde-
meanor to spit on the floor Of 9 cnurch
or the fcar Of court house" Anotber
illustration of trying TO regulate things,
which must be left t, adjust them-
selves. Good breeding must teach q
man that in q church is not the place
to: spit, and the general Assembly,
-asshinE, did right IN Sllllng the bill.
The statutes ought not TO be burdened
with such legislation, but if so, then
an act should be passed to cover all Of
the rules Of good manners. It shoald
ne made a misdemeanor for man rot
to lift his hat to lady, not co offer her
seat in a crowded room, car or else
where. T. should be made misde-
meauor to spit on anvbody's private
floor. Il should be rnisdemeanor to
do or not to do few thousand other
things, which are considered roper
or improper in polite society. The
truth is that if all l'e rules Of good
manners were Formulated, it would
cover great deal Of space. After all,
our manners must be learned at bone.
Good manners are a credit te any
people, but we mnst not look 70 legis-
latiOn 10 cultivate them.