Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-29
FROM THE PEOPLE


Some time ago ate q real Chinese
dinner in q Chinese restaurant. The
main dish was chow, which is the real
national dish Of China, chop seey or
suey being American Chinese. l will
give you the receipt for making chow.
Take two shredded wheat biscuits and
unshred them. Card them out nDtil
each fibre is almost straight. Soak in
hot salty ham gravy mixed with steak
gravy and a little celery and onions
until they are no longer brittle but
soft and plisble. Cover with hot cab
bsge slaw also salted. Pour on q little
pepper sauce, vinegar, bay rum, horse
radish, witch hazel and tomato catsup.
Serve warm.
The Chicago Art institute is some
thing the city is proud Of. 1t has
copies of most all the famous statuary
and paintings and some really fine
pieces of modern sculpture. I spent an
hour or so there the other day. Looked
only at the statuary as too much sight
seeing of this sort leaves only a
blurred impression Of anything. There
Is some fine models Of Egyptian and
Abyssinian sculpture, too. Notably
the image Of Rameses I, who 10 sup
posed to be the Pharoh Of Moses day.
He looks like Alice Connors' older
brother might look. There Is certainly
a strong family resemblance.
Last Sunday friend took me out in
one of those fine autos made in Detroit
by --. I forget the name but Jim
Horton knows it. We rode about 56
miles, all over the boulevard system Of
Chicago. The boulevards are fine
broad streets and avenues connecting
the parks and running around the CEN
trail part of the city. No drainage or
hauling is allowed on them, and q rapid
speed allowed. They certainly consti-
tute magnificent series of driveways
and the parks are large-one, at Least,
is a mile square, and beautifully and
exquisitely kept.
The more l see Of Chicago the better
I like it. The people are cordial, that
is the better class are, and see no
particular difference between these
people and our people except that they
live in q big city and those don't.
Ihave found the pIeasantest place in
Chicago. 1t is French restaurant,
the De Jonge, where the newspaper
men generally dine in the evenings.
I have met good many of them and
they are a pleasant lot. and some of
the finest are Tribune men. In those
I have met there is not the slightest
particle of the spirit or feeling that
animated the Tribune editorial against
the south last summer. It is quite
the contrary with them. To me it is
quite delightful way Of spending an
hour or SO in the evenings. OF course
the dinners are simple. You know
that or the newspaper fraternity would
not be able to eat there often. But
we sit and smoke ond talk for an hour
or 50 after the meal. I get to know
what 90 and so will have in the next
mornings paper, which makes the
,ext mornings paper more interesting.
am working nights now about half
the week. Not working, either, much.
come back to the Office at nine and
wait until the New York telegraphic
news comes in-we have an operator
in our office-read them, correct them
and then O. X. them. Then the oper-
ator here gives the main ..office the
signal and the stories are telegraphed
out to all the dailies we send to from
this division. 1t is now 1920, the
story, there was only one tonight, has
come in and is being sent out, and the
New York headquarters has tele-
graphed "good night" which means
nothing more doing today.
Last night the manager Of the Postal
Telegraph company took me over their
main Office. Only about 80 operators
were on duty at the hour, IL, and cnly
one of the three big rooms where they
work was being used. There were
nearly . thousand instruments in the
room. Some of the ordinary ones we
are accustomed to, some that would
take in message from New York at
one end and send it out under new
current to San Francisco from the
other end, some that did various other
stunts. ! saw some machines like
typewriters where the operator was
writing the message here and the re-
ceiving machine was writing it in
Denver. Next to this q receiving
machine was writing q message on the
typewrites attachment which an oper.
ator in St. Louis was writing there. ]
| saw the date appear at 1l.03 p. m.
looked at the clock on the wall and il