The evening times., 1898-05-25
GOSSIP or TIE LoBBIgs.

This II an immense relief, remarked
the New Yorker. as he, settled himself
at comfortable angle In one Of tho VIII
lard Hotel easy chairs last night and pro-
ceeded to light cigar with great dellb-
Grafton.
what is?'' Inquired the traveller from
Chicago.
why, don't you know? All, Of course
you don't: you're from Chicago. Well.
I'm from New York. and II there's spot
on the map where life isn't worth the
living it's the borough Of Manhattan dur
ing these war times. There Isn't minute
Of the day or nightxany more when a man
can escape from the newsboys. with thei..
fake .xtra! Al-El bout tn big battle :
Few New Yorkers buy extras since they
have been fakEd bo frequently of late. but
you can't get away from the vendors
thereof. The feather-lunged vociferations
Of the .newsies' haunt you in your sleep.
disturb your day dreamings over frothy
beer steins. annihilate your peace OF mind
at all times and provoke your most Wig
orous profanity at fnopportune moments.
II ten minutes pass without some sort OF
n new fake extra on the street. New York
feels lonesome, and Is temporarily happy
accordingly. Irepeat, II is relief to es-
cape from Sucn q nuisance az tnis extra
business, andI
Extra Moo York paper!! A-l-I-l bout
tn victory O. SIMPSONS feet! Paper?
A Washington. vehder of New York pa
pers had invaded the hotel lobby even as
the gentleman. from Manhattan was
speaking. He shuddered. made unkind re-
| marks about the stringency OF laws
against murder, and disappeared. When
last seen he was reading war bulletin
boards by way of revenge.
do you know that out where 1 come
from they barely know there Is a war.
and seem to care less?' inquired ]. ID.
| Hutson. as he registered at the Regent
| last night, with Omaha, Neb.. behind
| his name. .-Of course. they're patriotic
enough. and all that. but they have more
important things than war with which
| to concern themselves. Omaha Is swell
| ed UP with pride over her Trans-Missis-
l sippi Exposition. and Milwaukee Is run
| ming an opposition circus with her Wis
| consin Semi-Centenn!al. The life OF Wis
| consin resident is worth about Is cents
/ on the dollar in Nebraska, when he be-
| gins 10 boom his exposition. and three
| lynchings of Nebraskans have narrowly
been averted in Wisconsin during the
past six weeks. Oh. it's fine fun for an
outsider. but 1t may grow serious for
| those concerned.
"Incidentally, this epidemic Of exposi-
| tions Is going to cost a whole lot of
money. There are three in embryo now;
| ours at Omaha, the one at Milwaukee.
1 and the Pan-American. at Niagara Falls.
| That is to say nothing of the two old
| favorites. Mardi Gras. at New Orleans.
! and the Yelled Prophets. at ST. Louis.
| These are national events. so to speak.
| and being annual institutions of great
| prestige they never lose money. Other
| cities among them Cincinnati and Balti-
| more have tried to float annual exposi-
| tiOns, but without exception they lost
money and were discontinued. Last
among the losing ventures in the exposi-
| ton line may be cited the ones at Cleve-
| land Frisco and Nashville. The ones un-
| der sail now are particularly unfortunate
| in having to compete with the war in
| newspaper columns. The result is that
| many people know little Of the Trans
Mississippi Exposition at Omaha, and
| practically nothing Of the one at Mil
waukee.
They were discussing patriotism In the
| Ebbitt House lobby last night R. s.
Kitchens. Boston travelling man. took
the floor.
THE most patriotic man in New Eng
land" he declared, ''is William Clark. of
Bucklin, Conn. He is an old veteran of
the civil war and has a chicken farm of
considerable size. One morning about