The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-06-28
FOUND 1T CONVENIENT TO DRY
HIS LAUNDRY IN PALATIAL
RESIDENCE
Was a Guest of Charles Crewdson-
Spent Three Days in Windy City
Admitting the Sights


Umatillas, was Tuning and fretting
and getting short of money waiting
for three days for Chief No Shirt to
arrive in Washington on their recent
visit to the Indian commissioner, No
Shirt was lounging amid the comforts
and luxuries Of the palatial Chicago
home Of Charles N. Crewdson, the
we'll known writer Of Indian stories
and VINO visited No Shirt on the Una
East Oregonian.
During Mr.. Crewdson's visit here
last week, he told the East Oregonian
Of inviting Chief No Shirt to visit him
in Chicago, as he went to Washing
ton, and so when the chief stopped to
call upon his friend and fingered Won
deringly for three days among the
amazements of the Windy City, Una
pine, who mad preceded his chief to
the national capital, became alarmed
at his chiefs delay, primarily because
he thought No Shirt was lost or had
become sick along the route, and Sec
ondarily, because No Shirt carried
the tribal sack" and until he arrived
Umapine could eat but once a day on
account of a shortness of funds.
Standing on the tip top Of the Au-
ditorium tower, overlooking the great
city of Chicago, CrewdsOn was point
ing out the various sights Of interest
to No Shirt, when the chief looked
down upon the crowded tenements and
narrow alleys and said to Crewdson:
white men live in them houses?''
Crewdson answered that many,
many people were crowded in the ten
ement district.
How do they live? Where are
their farms?' asked No Shirt.
At Crewdson's elegant home the
chief was given full liberty to go and
come and lounge on the sofas and lie
on the grass at will
His chief delight was in sitting fiat
on the floor of the parlor while looking
per pictures with Crewdson's 6year-
dol son-the old Indian and the young
child enjoying with equally keen in
terest the seven hued comic sheet.
One day No Shirt asked where he
could wash some small articles of his
wardrobe and after Crewdson directed
him to the laundry in the basement
he went about his work thinking nc
more Of the old Indian.
On returning home in the evening
he found No Shirts laundry, consist
ing of handkerchiefs, socks and neck
| ties, hanging on the backs of chairs
on easels, bric-a -brac and picture
frames in the front parlor, one big silk
handkerchief being spread over large
bust of Shakespeare, placed in the sun
light pouring in through a west win
dow.
No Shirt and his interpreter, Will
liam Charles, were great attractions on
the streets of Chicago, people almost
blocking the sidewalk at times, in gaz-
ing upon the wondering pair.
Crewdson, being the representative
of a large firm of hatters, took Nc
Shirt down to the store and presented
him with the best Stetson in the store
and taking No Shirts old hat, Crewd-
son was about to throw it away, when
the chief grabbed it and carefully took
about 10 $40 bills from under the sweat
band.
place for his money, but he refused to
put the bills under the band of the
new hat because he had been forced to
reveal his hiding place and would not
use it again.
During all of No Shirts liesurely
visit in Chicago, Umapine and his in
terpreter, Billy Mckay, We're wiring
from Washington to Pendleton friends
twice a day, inquiring if the chief had
yet left for Washington.
No Shirt consented to sit for a pho
tograph on the last day of his stay in
Chicago, and going down town several
hours before train time, the chief be-
gan to dress for the sitting. He ha6
a limited ticket from Pendleton tc
Washington, D. c., and he was COM
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