Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-07-13
HE HAD FOURTEEN
BROTHERS TO
LOOK AFTER
BOY WANTED TICKETS FOR
THE WHOLE DAM FAMILY
Some Incidents Of the Morning
journals Distribution Of the
Tickets for the Matinee This
Afternoon,

Between 1000 and LOO children
came to the Morning Journal office
yesterday morning between tho hour
OF . and - 10 get tickets for tn
Morning Journals children's matinee
this afternoon. They came in twos and
thrces and hair dozens and dozens and
they came all morning. Family car
rlages drove up literally filed with
children while delivery wagons, bug
gles and bicycles brought their crowds.
At . O'Clock when the distribution u
tickets began there was "A Jam In the
office doors and for fifteen minutes
three perApiring mon were as busy as
three men can be handing out The lii
tie blue and yellow checks which en-
title the children 10 a free ride to and
from the Casino and everything the
Casino holds. during the performance
Of "The Mascot which the Boston
Ideal Opera company Is putting fN
again. especially for the littlc people.
II was demonstrated yesterday sev-
Crdl times that the American small
boy believes IN getting all that f. com
ing To him and getting IT good and
strong.
one small boy who could barely
SOC ONfHl tue counter hillIflIf iltN AltRi
the rush was oven ana asked for tick
cts to the matinee. A ticket was
handed To him by the man behind the
counter:
~ wants more" announced Young
America, with great seff,posscs ION.
And how many more do YOU want
young m9n?' asked the distributor Of
joy in ]pastboard form.
~ wants fourteen" announced the
youth without changing countcnance.
The man behind the ountcr looked
a tTIDc amazed.
Aren't YOU going It a littlc strong 20
he asked. "What viii you do with
fourteen tictets?"
81 wants them for me brothers.
said The boys calmly.
Have You got fourteen brothers.
"Ycp."
AN Younger than you?'
yep
"HoW old arc you ~
I'm seven in August"
well said the man behind tine
counter. as his jaw dropped. heres
fourteen tickets, and IL YOU want any
come around"
81 want another ticket for my size
Bob said "a small girl, Whosc blue
of the counter.
"N'our sister Bob" asked the man.
t"H Aihi q IhlIiA iAaHi' lbi a FiH
- don't know" said the small girl
but I van another ticket, too, for
my brother Mary"
"IlaVen't you got Your fumily
twisted "a little2' said the man solici-
NO. / haven't" said the small gitl.
"When sister Bob camo
10 our house she wasn't "a boy named
Bob like my papa thought SHE was go-
nH to be, So ne called her Bob. any
way, and my brother had to Dee Mary.
~ want another ticket. please" sail
mother little girl who got in lust az
crowd was thinning out ITS for
uy brother. Hes ovor fourteen. but
herell be SO many he won't be- uo-
lcDd'-Hnd She got her ticket.
There nave been lots and lots OF
ickets given out for Morning journal
n%atinces IN n past, but Yesterdays
distribution broke the record. More
han fourteen hundred tickets were
out during The morning ANA as
here We're a good many strugglers
Who. for some reason or other couldn't
down during tho morning the days
distribution will reach nearly sixteen
hundred.
Ample accommodations have been
FOR them all with plenty of
mrs, SO that while the crowd win be
large ~ AN viii he comfortably
AIRED for,