The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-10
TALES OF THE TROUPERS---
CIRCUS FROM THE INSIDE
Being Unfortunates Who the
Road" With the Red Wagons.

"'Why you haven't received any hun
dred dollars for this lot! oh, yes have
ooh, but know BETTER, said the con
man. Tn with the show and ! know bet
ter They never pay over $40 for any lot;
not for a one day stand
right here in my pocket" says the the an
Gent citizen, and that was enough for the
"see here, my friend" says the con man,
I'll bet you a hundred dollars you haven't
got a hundred dollars in your 20 pocket" ,o..,.a
on a sure thing" says the ancient citizen:
"Never mind" says the con man, "I'u just
bet you a hundred dollars that you haven't
got a hundred dollars with you If you've
got hundred dollars my hundreds yours;
if you haven't, your hundreds mine. See?
ha Locked pretty @ TO- the 6ts
You know how they do it," And slo
That makes hundred don't it?" says the
ancient citizen.
LETS see, says the con man and he
takes the bunch and skins It over.
Why, you've only got $50 here YOU
lose, the con man says, and sticks the roll
in his pocket. The bunch comes in with the
squeeze, the ancient citizen can't tell who
the fellow was and all he gets. out OF the
show is the ten tickets for the lot. He
makes big holler to the old man, but the
old man asks him to identify the culprit and
he cant and that ends 1t: .,,o 49, o. .r,a
there, saw the cookhouse man get the
grocer to double the cookhouse bill on the
Minneapolis lot on the understanding that
he get half of It, The groceryman did the
trick and the cookhouse man got $40. Graft
ing among themselves, do you see?"
Eyes. And just to show you that grating
show don't get along very we'll these days,
that show went up just two weeks after they
were were here.'' said the reformed press
agent. THE chief of police wouldn't let
them work in Mankato and the Forepaugh-
Sells show got to the main guys at Winona
and La Crosse and saw. that the graft was
cut out there. Grating isn't what it used to
be, in the show business, anyway"
orafters In an Armored Car.
MacMa hon show?" asked the retired candy
butcher. -, "There was the tough show OF
them all. Only four cars not including the
privilege car, which had a steel plate along
each side so the gang could fatten out along
the bottom when the train pulled out and
the suckers began shooting.
leo, we pulled in there wet day and de-
cided that there would be no show. So we
all adjourned to a neighboring temple OF
chance.
big show time and along comes a lot Of ma
t1yes. They were good and tough too. There
wasn't going to be any show, but the treas
urer sold them tickets and when they. got
shells and the fiat game and one thing or an
other got to them. In less than fifteen min
utes there was the biggest kind ola fight
on and all made for the lot! as soon as
we heard the shooting.
There wasn't much to the gang and they
were cleaned out In no time, but the old man
thing down and get ont the cars as quick
as you can and everybody watch out
1--WE hadn't got a good start, tho, before
down comes the town policeman with a gang
of cowboys, all drunk and a horseback and
just spelling for fight. The old man-you
know how he was, always spelling for a