The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-12-23
George AIDE Writes About Santa Claus.
Recites Characteristic Fashion the Adventures 81
the Patron of Presents During the Holiday Month

It's all off with Santa Claus but
the whiskers, and he is considering
bids now from Wholesale BARRIERS who
want to take the job OF painlessly re-
moving them. His present annual
Christmas tour is positively his fare
we'll 0ne-and it's not one OF those
prima donna farewells at that, but
the kind a cashier makes after he
has learned why wise guys call a race
track Separation Park.
/ AS he lives. only couple of miles
from where do, he has asked me as
a neighbor to see that part Of his
diary for this year be published, in
order that the few friends who have
stuck may know what he is up
against. Also, he has asked me to
state that he does not by any means
intend to retire from philanthropic
and missionary enterprises, but will
start life insurance company as
soon as the graft gets good again.
Here are the extracts from his diary:
Dec. Holiday rush is fairly on
and this was my busy day. The first
always is my busy day, however.
The collectors see to that. They
keep running across me in places
where l never expect to meet them,
and I always get hoarse asking them
for the fifteenth.
| Dec. 2-My mail is beginning to
grow very heavy. I am getting as
a professional matinee. Among other
ut 1@%% TO NJ
| medicine concern asking for a ~testl-
monial. They inclosed bottle Of
! their stuff, but asked me to write my
appreciation before sampling. Am
saving the sample as present for
prohibitionist who likes whisky. Also
received an offer from a Chicago de-
partment store to pose in one of their
windows, the week before Christmas,
and another offer from a vaudeville
| manager to deliyer monologue.
Dec 3-Another heavy mail. An
anonymous correspondent calls me a
piker and says that If want to
learn little about giving away
things I should attend meeting of
| the insurance Investigating commit
tee. He adds that almost everybody
|
ed. Also received a letter from the
! tin trust refusing to furnish me with
their product unless I added to their
i regular tariff 1 per cent Of my gross
receipts. This makes it impossible to
have any tin soldiers this year, which
is most embarrassing, as I cannot
think of anything else to give Theo-
dore Roosevelt. -.
Dec. 4-Today has been one Of
those strenuous days all right. Trou-
BILE started early in the dolls house,
where it is always starting, or to be
more exact, where it never stops.
The dolls sent for me and refused to
act as presents unless they had some
new clothes. They said it was out of
the question to ask them to appear
at Christmas tree among a lot Of
strangers when they had nothing new
to wear. Then they got warmed to
| their work and called me hard names
because never took them out to din
ned or to the theater. Also, they
told me some things about my private
character that had no idea one had
ever guessed and which I would not
make public Tor the world. I tried
to argue with them, but they beat me
a block.
Dec. 5-Trouble in the dolls house
still continues. Have been too busy
and too wise to go there My ears
have been burning all day long, but
even if they had not I would know
what they were talking about. Re-
ceived letter from McCurdy, of the
Mutual Life, regarding Christmas
presents He wants 100000 for
himself, $750,0O0 for his son, same
amount for his son-in-law, same
amount for each Of his five nephews
and his eighteen cousins. Looks to
me like the McCurdy family was a
pretty good argument in favor of
race suicide.
! Dec. "a committee from the
nounced that they all wished to go
home to their mothers and would
start at once if they had ever had
any. Committee reported that I was
a brute. Report placed on file. Just
before dinner was served with an in
junction procured by J. Pierpont Nor
wan which forbids me giving him a
gold brick as a Christmas gift.
Dec. 7-Settled the trouble among
! the dolls by what consider mas
ter stroke of diplomacy. I organ
lied the minto woman's culture
club early this morning, and ever
since they have been so busy fight
ing over the offices and knocking
each other they have had no time to
bother about anything else. By the
time Christmas comes none of, them
will be on speaking terms and they
will be glad to 60 to a Christmas
tree or anything else where the others
will not be, even If they have moth
ing to wear.
Dec. 8-More trouble. A walking
delegate from the Chimney Makers
union called on me this morning and
announced that If I slid down any
non-union built chimneys I would be
branded as a scab.
Dec. 9-More tough luck today. It
begins to look as though Jonah and
Job were couple Of amateurs in the
hoodoo line when you stack them up
alongside of me- The Society for the