The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-20
THE FARMER: JUNE 20, 1912

| Plum crazy" commented some New
 York delegates who were sitting wide. l mouthed at nearby table.
 | T hate to think what's going to l CT. "and it won't help it any thai young Johnson Is the amateur light.
 weight champion of the Pacific Coast
 Millionaires Row is in a little bal cony that hangs underneath the main gallery of the coliseum. Millionairee Row is practically solid for Taft,
 housing as it does among others, Mrs. Charles P. Taft. the richest woman
 in Ohio. Mrs. Coleman Dupont. whose family is to some slight extent in the
 powder business, Miss Maude Wet
 more daughter of the Rhode Island wealthy senator, Mrs. John Hays Hammond wife of the $100,O0O a year engineer of the Guggenheim syndi- While writing pieces for the papers, William J. Bryan, who is in the press
 stand as reporter. is also courting
 writer's cramp through his generosity
 in writing autographs for admirins
 progressive Republicans.
 This" explained Bryan, as he
 wrote his name in delegates note-
 book, lis not to be taken as an en-
 dorsement of what's going on here"
 Governor Hadley, floor manager for Colonel Roosevelt, and James Wat son. enacting like role for President Taft, will be able to sit peacefully beside each other in a convention next week. Both are members of the Phi Kappa Si fraternity which will hold a session.
 A we'll organized movement to have the platform builders insert blanks recommending retirement of supper annuated civil service employees was tions and societies of the government clerks appealed to the parties at this end.
 If the reading clerks of the conven- ton had had the right to say. MT. Jonah K. Kaldnianaole would not have been sent here as delegate from Hawaii. They would have pick ed instead some man with simple German name Like Schweinfuskalter- braten. They stumble all over MT. Kalanianaole every time they call his name. Delegates Jorge Silva and Ma teo Fajardo of Porto Rico, present similar lingual difficulties to say nothing of Delegate Benegino c. Her nandez of Tierra Amarailla. N. M.
 Pretty girls selling carnations for charity in the Congress lobby. gave the politicians some new ideas in salesmanship today. Stationed in remote corner of the big space, one girl, one by one, disposed of a big bunch of red carnations. Her fellow worker. in another part of the lob- by, picked out each Taft man to whom her partner had sold the red flowers-1 easily done by looking at their badges.
 Don't you know" she would re. mark to those almost willing victims, that the white carnation is President Taft's flower? You ought to wear purple with T. R. badge" Ninety percent purchased a white flower and gave their red ones back to the first girl.
 The most noted and popular spot around the coliseum, today, was . tiny little cement runway. down underneath the floor. The space is a runaway from the telegraph office to the lunch room The reason for its extraordin- ary popularity is That 1t is positive ly the only place within the big buiid- ing where fire ma1hals permit smok. ing.. The alley is poorly ventilated at best and the clouds of smoke com- ing from grateful throats, today, made the air positively solid, Not one of the smokers minded 1t however.