The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-01-08
W14ENA TOWN GETS SMALL
No. II of the Harlem Club of fomer AGO.
hoGc Degenerates Tells Story.

|. ysxcb<6 Chicago, which don't remember
re brake came asoag and prosasG me
ard yelled 'Cssieagu" a. Ese. and tnen got
OF
~fs was about o'clock at night whsE
tie train got inso Chicago. and tsss-e was
blizzard Is Chicago X bad sees snow-
ing harts al 9Sys and along fDward night
il ha1 got teo c9i2 70 sBoR. TIE ter1srera-
fare was ah9at sour degrees below zero
and The stars iaokss fFesster than bad
eyer seen f@rs. 80 I'D the huge cops attn
their tgssgs caps pzi.se9 down oyer taef-
ears. rad chs drink istf ia the iass bot
saa, AID ] Assorted IS outside % The de-
gss. Tnen was good and up against !.
fef Fair rad never been In Chicago be-
fore I dI1a know man. by DOG IN
the tosts. Hare I was broke. without aFs
osereost Ia q temperature Of four degrees
beiox zsro. rao front 30 zysak Of. no jag
fesser. fsssassg.
lie Felt Sad.
lily boy says j - myself as ! bat
toned Up my Rack coat outside tie depot.
here IL where sou get yasxed and break
rock on tas pile.
's2wt / tsSei4xht It9 take q walk around
anyhow. So dug hi hands into ny peck
81 as21 started 20 walk. TIE streets we're
tasuzr1e1 and ali az tbs men lad On snEsa-
thick es*tsgs anu 81 OF the women electric
seal saeqsses. II made Yse feel sad ard
eaId. that Gid. TIsen could see the ducks
Dropping into tie booze factories Ia pairs
and threes--sai. Of EN- dressed ap and with
thirty or forty esnts each IN sfeir clothes
aud it was very ba9d~honeSt Il was. /
KEEP. on walking untE l reached corner
where there were a couple % newspaper
Offices catty-cefnsred from each other.
afterwards found out IL was at the corner
OF Dearborn and Madison ytreets. Now
In front OF one these newspaper o1ices
there were a coupis OF cabs. Tie drivers
weren't hear that / could see. and the
fash came to me ali of a sudden.
" hats the matter with my making
an honest dollar or two with one OF these
cah@y thought.
go stepped UP to the seat OF one OF the
eabs, wrapped sns lap robe around my
legs. pulled up tbe retns, and we were of
IN bunch. / confidently expected to hear
somebody yell after me. bat I thought
that would be as good a way to get
plnchsd ~ any other. Nobody yelled after
raa 1, was all right. had a good cab
and . good horse, and IL was up to me to
Use EN-
AS / say. i didn't know any more abont
Chicago than did about Timbuctoo. bu:
just pulled tbs horse around the corner
where I saw the biggest crowd. / was
driving along street that I afterward
found out vas Wabash avenue, several
blocks away from where had swtped the
oao. and keeping eicse 10 the curb fsr
possible passengers. when a couplc Of
warm members. all togxed out In fur coats
came out OF a rum repository ana ya.AA
at me. I drew zap alongside the curs-
Hey. BIZ said one Of EN-. just khn0
us cut 20 tbs fight, will your
"Of course / would, said ]. / dSAt
know any more about any fight than
did them about thu House OF David on
Clark street bit / had 10 make blufY
How many for the pair OF use" asked
the hot tarnaie that had hailed ne.
- Ten apiece" said I.
"'Ali right" they both said at once
ard ther l Was in a fair way TO win out
BY finding -. After they both hoped
into the calasn. I made q rnurnb.inx ex-
c1se 60 hNtle into tho saloon.
Hey says i to tie barkeep. where's
this eight coming on tonightT
He Found II.
'.Ths oarkeep looked At me ~ II he