Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1899-05-02

pied out to the grounds ahead Of tn.
boys, so as TO pick out some cappers TO
start the games. l hurried into the
grounds, and saw four or five Reubs
standing together in front of lemon.
ade stand. so hauled them TO one side |
and said 10 them. 'Herel There's go
ing 10 bc fellow out here pretty soon
selling buggy whips. He'll be in an
open carslage. As soon as he finishes
his talk each one Of you fellows 60 up
and buy whip for 81. As soon as you
do that my agent in The crowd viii put
81 more In your pocket. and you can
keep that Wen. gave them the mon
ey. and hustled Oft to pick out a place
for the wheel. In a little while l saw
my man with the buggy whips drive in
and begin 10 draw o crowd. but wasn't
paying mu,h attention 10 him until
heard lot OF bowling and laughing
over his way, and then one of The boys
came running up TO me with his eyes
bulging out: Say. where did you get
them booste:sg he says. told him
picked EN- out down by the ente. Well,
he says. the crowd won't stand for en-.
They're all from the insane asylum
across the road hurried over to the
crowd. and sure enough. here were the
pluggers with their S2 bills and my boy
up Ia the carriage so mnd he couldn't
see Get 'em awayl' he hollcrcd at
me. They're all dniry.' Then / no
ticcd for the first time that all these fell
lows had straw hats and linen coats
Just alike. and wore these carpet slip
pers. 1 had an awful time drogging
'em away. and they came mighty near
queerin the graft for all day. When the
boys from the crazy house began TO
butt in and buy whips at So apiece the
farmers knew something was wrong.
There must have been 200 of the
boys from the insane asylum On the
grounds that day. They stood around
everywhere blocking of good money.
and, Of course. they were all dead ones,
not having 10 cents apiece. The ladies
OF the Methodist church were serving
meals in the dining pavilion out at the
fair grounds. and when l went over 70
get my dinner l told the woman who
was taking tickets that was the new
I chaplain over at the asylum. She said
she was q little nervous. haylnga all these
crazy people on the grounds. and thea
/ told her that one Of 'em had stolen a
saw and got under the grand stand and
was saving down tho support when we
caught him. | told her that in 10 min
utes more the whole stand would have
fallen in and killed hundreds Of peo-
pie.
about an hour later happened 10
be going past. and l went over and told
her that one Of the patients had just
tried to set FIRE TO the floral hall. Then
a little while after that l called in and
said: 1 sposo you heard what hap
pened over In the chicken Department.
She said SHE hadn't heard n word about
/ Il. why says 'one % the men from
the asylum just chased little girl on'
nearly bit her thumb on Well, sh'
was up in the air.
"A little while before supper time
went in and said 20 her: I'm going Il
bring one OF the patients in here TO sup
per. You'll see him come in with me
He's tall man with a black mustaehe
and he's all right as long as he don
drink any coffee. He always asks 70
coffee-thats his mania-but II b
drank cup Of coffee he'd begin TO raw
in less than five minutes. When he ask
for coffee don't pay any attention 4
him. Now, there's another thing. Thi
man Is q kleptomaniac. He'll stea! any
thing he can lay HIS hands on, so yo
want to watch him while he's here
"In n little while l came IN with on
% my men, fellow named Eddie, am
one OF the best IN his line. He was
hend for coffee-drapk IL all the time
When he sat down three OF the womc
came and stood across the table fron
him, watchin' every move he made
Eddie thought they were stuck on him
lie was swelled up there like toad j.
thunderstorm.
'Srhe first thing he SCALED for was COD
fee. Nobody paid any attention 20 hin
They brought him milk. He told III
woman to take is back and bring hin
some coffee. She took the milk away
but no coffee would she bring. II
nslSed everybody around the place fo
= coffee, and all the satisfaction be SO
was TO see them line up and watch bin
so that he wouldn't steal anything. 4
/ last he was so mad that he broke GU
F. He brought his fst down on the tabl
70 until everything jingled, and hollered
2 4 want a cup Of coifee' That settle
t il. Every woman let out u squeal an
2 mhde a run for her life. A lot of va
policemen, with tin stars, came up o
D the run. and we had an awful tim
S squarin' it."-Chicago Record.