The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-03
BARON WAS FLY;
PAPER, STICKY
And the Continent Caused Much
Merriment Among a Chicago
Hotels Patrons.
German Nobleman, Thing of Beauty,
but His Dignity Gets a
Hard Jolt.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
Chicago, Aug. 3.--Two things there are
which Baron Alexander Won Schroeder of
Germany canont resist One Is a pretty
face the lips Of which speak honeyed
phrases and sweet fiattery. The other is
fly-paper.
Many Chicago women know the baron.
He has beautiful mustachios and a for
eign military air that lend distinction to
his charming personality. When he was
last in the city less than two weeks ago
he acquired notoriety because Of his en-
counter with a guleless young woman
who essayed to tell him of his splendid flu
ture as predicted by the lines Of his hand.
Matters were progressing smoothly when
the baroness came upon them and the for
tune telling had to be postponed.
TIL baron returned yesterday. The
baroness was not with him. Whether or
not the session of tbs palm reading was
resumed has not transpired. However,
there was another adventure in which he
participated which must not go unchron-
tcled.
At 4 o'clock the titled man descended
from his suite of rooms to the lobby of
the Auditorium hotel. He was attired in
pearl gray trousers and gloves, blue coat,
Vhite felt hat and light blue neck scarf.
it is said he strutted but no one blamed
him. From crown to toes and to the tips
Of a slender walking stick he was beau
tiful and he knew it.
He promenaded. back and forth for the
better part Of an hour. Finally becoming
weary he paused at the window Of Mich
3gan avenue and would have seated him
self In one of the many chairs but none
were vacant at a point of vantage. Wo-
men, fashiona.bly alfred and good to lool,
upon, We're passing on the outside In
groups. They could all see him and he
did not mind being seen.
He Sits Down.
No one of the lounging guests arose to
give him a seat, so he made himself COM
Portable on the window ledge, and for
half an hour he watched the passers by.
Then he arose and resumed his prom
enade.
AS he left the window the eyes of the
men who had declined to give him chair
followed. So did a swarm Of flies. He
noticed both and could account for the
one but not for the other. He walked
here and there and wherever he went
the flies went with him.
Another half hour went by, and at last
he began to notice another thing for
which he could not account. In the eyes
and on the faces that turned toward him
'as the sunfloWers follow the sum-" were
smiles. Some were of the subdued, polite
kind. Others were broad and vulgar
Searching the remotest recesses Of his
mind he could not recall that any one haC
ever smiled at him quite that way before
At last, involuntarily, he put his hanC
behind him. His fingers came in contac
with something sticky and unpleasant
AS he walked he noticed that a cracking
sound followed Immediately in his rear
He strolled again to the window on Mich
gan, avenue and his eyes fell to the ledgi
on which he had been sitting. It wa
covered with fly paper-all save one spot
broad as a. mans back, which was bare.
AS the crawflsh walks, so walked tn
baron to the elevator. He was seen NJ
more that night.