The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-13
PERSONALLY CONDUCTED ok.AroRE.
The Game Suppers n Spelibinder Found
Every Night on His California Tour.

The Game Supper n Spellbinder Found
Every Night on His California Tour.
1t was one Of those little details over which
they do not take the trouble to pride them
selves in California they Just do things right
I'D to the top notch and look on il as no more
than a matter of course. That statement may
not altogether accord with the braggart Cali
fornian OF the books but everybody who has been
on the coast" will recognize in il the Califor-
MAN OF real life. The State Central Committee
had imported at a critical stage OF the campaign
an eloquent and convincing orator from the
Rocky Mountain country and had assigned a
representative tosaccompany him on his tour.
which was planned to carry him between such
widely separated centres of civilization as San
Diego and Siskiyou. This representative was
to serve as agent in making arrangements with
local committees and to see that everything
Eas made as agreeable as possible for the
to DO much political good.
Tho orator is most a~bstemious: In fact he
it. ~llveliest by sticking rlGidly to half milk.
half cream" a drink which was enough to
~ntation Of his oddly in this respect spread so
eyer thought q suggesting anpGy other GIuid for
he fopnd awaiting him. by way OF ,refreshment
after his speech. 9 supper. and night after night
%ents--n bottle ami a bird Every night With un-
failing regularity he asked ~ he might be accom-
modatcd with n bowl of crackers and milk and
turned aside from the other viands with some
word OF apology. At every town where he
spoke this supper was offered with never vary
ing regularity and as. regularly despatched by
his companion on the trtp. When the guest
comm ented on the sameness of this succession
OF re RESENTMENT the young man whom the State
Central Committee had put in charge OF the
trip assured him that as it was just then tho
right season every town was prompted by the
same impulse To give him the best it had to
offer-a well-cooked bird and champagne.
This was repeated night after night until the
tour was all hut finished. After the address
had heen delivered at one Of the smaller towns
tho Chairman of the local committee was
apoiogetic TO the guest.
I'm awful sorry, Colonel" he said. land !
hope you won't think we amt treating you
right, particularly rs you asked special for It.
or course your champagne's all right: there's
oceans of il. But I've had this town searched
high and low. and there amt q bird In IL. /
told 'cnl at the hotel to cook something of
everything there was. SOS you could take your
choice among the lot. but Il bird can't be had
for love nor money"
In tho explanations to which this led it de-
veloped that his travelling companion had an
appetite for game suppers that had never been
satiated. He 1t was who had impressed on each
local committee in turn that the orator from
Colorado had expressed a wish to sample the
California game, and every night after the
speech WINS over he IL was who fed himself with
the game and the wine, while the orator in
whose honor they had been furnished was con-
tent with his bowl OF crackers and milk.