The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-17

go to fhe telephone and call up the near
est drug store or other telephone place TO
the circus grounds and ask them TO send
over to the ticket wagon and ind ont
whether the name on that pass Is good
for what it calls for
Hurry retired TO the rear Of the room
and sat on the edge OF a billiard table and
awaited developments with dignity. The
saloon keeper had a heart TO heart session
with the telephone, and then came back 10
Hurry with a nystiied expression.
What is this game, anyway? he asked.
Are you a part of the SHOVE Is this some
new advertising gamer
Not at ALL said Hurry. with the ut
most dignity. Il merely wanted TO eSta3-
lish myself as a person OF credullty. Now
| think you can afford TO indulge IN a tin
roof
The saloon man apologized. and several
tin roofs were put up.
Now said Hurry. L want you to go
around to one orltwo OF the stores with me
and certify TO these ticket orders.
He went right up the main street OF the
town, and by a judiciOus distribution or
ticket orders along the way he accumulated
a long yellow buster, n broad-brimmed
straw haying hat. a hreman's red shirt.
some green carpet slippers and a pair of
the lOudest checked trousers that ever
draped human legs. He also procured a
wonderful barber-pole pair of socks. Then
he got a few square yards of white cotton
sheeting and a can of marking paint and
repaired to the saloon again. There were
a number of small boys on his trail by this
time. He persuaded three or four of them
TO go out 10 look up n brass band for him.
They told him hat the only brass bard in
town was the one that was already en-
gagged to welcome Bryan. Hurry said that
was just exactly the band ne wanted.
HE MET THE TRAIN.
The saloon keeper had become quite en-
amored of him by this time and a number
OF prominent citizens were gathered around
the place vying in their efforts to get Hurry
into a condition such that he would break
the mystery with which he had surrounded
himself. He became visibly encouraged.
At last he went TO the telephone himself
and called for one OF the proprietors of
the circus. He said he wanted their biggest
elephant down at the railroad station right
away with a hOudah and q mahout. The sa-
consult the chief of police about the laws
governing the control of the pauper and
INDECENT insane. But in about twenty min
utes there was "A big row up the street
and with n crowd of countrymen around it
the boss elephant of the show, with red
and sold trappings on him to beat the Shah
OF Persia, came numbering down to the sa-
loon. The mahout had a note for his excel
lency, Hurry Peterson, King of the FaIk-
land Islands and Emperor of Bunco Land
Inc elephant knelt down and Hurry took
one more tin roof and climbed in.
About this time the band came along on
its way to the station. From his perch on
the elephant Hurry was able to convince
the that his voice was the
voice of authority. He told the bandmaster
tndt the band was to escort him to the
station. II was Colonel Bryan's special
wish, he said, that this should be done.
Inc saloon keeper and the chief of police
assured the -bandmaster that Hurry was
telling the truth. They got over into the
railroad yard just ten minutes before the
Bryan train was due.
Meantime We had discovered that Hurry
was missing. We found his clothes and =
hrst We're a little frightened because we
thought he might have fallen off the rear
platform. But our porter remembered see
ing MIN go forward into the Pullman on the
regular train, and then. Of course, We real
lied what had happened. We supposed that
he would get off at the next station. None
or US realized that the regular train. would
take him into Jenkintown ahead of us. We
pictured Hurry locked up in a baggage
room In a way station sending rush tele-
grams TO us for money ard identification.
We drew up all sorts of insulting messages
for him. We We're going to send them all
or at once from JenkintoWn. We had a
beautiful time thinking up situations in
which we would make Hurry miserable for
the rest of his natural life. We rolled into
the union station at Jenkintown with pref
~ much everybody on the platform with a
telegram in his hand.
In the very center of the multitude that
had come out to cheer Bryan there was an
elephant all glorious will spangles. Around
his legs was a brass band playing On
ward, Christian Soldiers" And on his back
was Hurry in dress such as never mortal
wore before. over the elephants side ne
was waving a banner On which were in
scribed the words: