The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-27

quarters a hearty invitation was extended
TO take luncheon.
But I've just eaten a hearty dinner"
said Mayor Jones.
Then" said Mr.. Porch, lit is a good time
for you to take a glass of champagne with
us. hope you will join us. Mr.. Mayor"
WELL" said Mayor Jones, there was an
Irishman who was in the act of taking a
drink when friend saw him and remon-
strated. Are you taking a drink, PATTI
said he; L thought you were a teetotaler'
Well said Pat, smacking his lips after
downing the drink. I am taytotaler, but
I'm not a bigoted wan
And Immediately thereafter there was a
popping of champagne corks.
XXX
New Orleans is very proud of its success
in securing the next meeting. We're go
ing TO begin work at once to make the next
meeting the greatest ever held MIR. Rich
ardson told me- Were going to run a
special train I'D from Mexico loaded with
Mexican merchants and manufacturers
We're going to send a man out right away
to get new members for the Southern as
sociations. There's nothing that pleases a
Yankee SO much as to realize that he is on
top. We are going to take advantage of
this feeling by getting so many Southern
members that the Northern and Eastern
men will realize that they must attend i'm
force if they want to retain control And
that is what we want-the attendance of
hundreds of them"
Ore of the best boomers in the Crescent
City's party was w G. Wilmot. He went
after votes like an old campaigner I'm
D.. "A
but for twenty years I've been doing my
best to introduce in our territory the goods
of five Northern factories. I've been talk
ing about you all that time; now L want
you to go down there and show your faces.
Let our people see what you look like"
He roasted" them 10 a turn. and the hotter
the roast The better they liked it.
1--WE buy 100000 worth of goods from
Indianapolis every year" he told me, land
from Pittsburg we buy $4,000 worth every
year They ought to come down and see u.s.
Local phatelists who remember the visit
of Mr.. Warren II. ColsOn. Of the New Eng
land Stamp Company, to Indianapolis in
February will be interested TO know that
he is in Europe. In company with Mr.. A.
w. Batchelder, manager of the company,
he sailed from Boston on the 18th. They are
now in London and will visit Manchester
and Birmingham and make "a return visit
to London: thence TO Paris. Brussels. CO.
logne. Frankfurt. LeipziS, Dresden, Berlin,
Hanover and Hamburg, returning to Lon
don for five days i'm June, before coming
home. They have taken with them big
collection of unused British colonials, in
GLIDING a vast number OF expensive rari-
ties, and the famous Curtis collection of
stamps Of the Colombian Republic. prob
ably the only complete collection of these
stamps ir existence. Before sailing Mr..
Colson wrote me that he expects to be in
indianapolis in the fall and probably will
make a second visit in the late winter or
early spring.
The Salt Lake Tribune notes that There
will be no strike in the Indiana black coal
fields, district No. s. this year Nor will
there be a strike in the white coal fields.
A gentleman who recently returned from
visit to Washington broke b,ead with the
President while there, and he repor-s that
Senator Hanna, who was one among a
number of guests at the informal meal,
told a story on Secretary Shaw, of the
lows:
Mr.. Shaw is something of a farmer. as
well as a banker and lawyer. ana withal
is much of a Methodist and something CT a
Prohibitionist. Several of his fellow
Iowans were at the capital most of them
farmers and all of them cold-water men.
and Mr.. Shaw gave them a dinner. AS a
novel feature for the season he secured
some watermelons by greaI effort. and as
a still more novel feature he had them
plugged and a pint of champagne poured
into each and allowed to stand and soak
in. At the close of the dinner the melons
were served, half to each guest. They
sampled the MISUNDERSTANDING fruit and
looked wonderingly from one to another.
Another mouthful and another wondering
look. ''And then" said Mr.. Hanna,
''Shaw's waiter told me that he saw them,
one after another, carefully slipping the
seeds into their vest pockets"
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