The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-02-02
TRAVELLING men
MAROONED HERE
MADISON ENTERTAINING GOOD
FELLOWS AT THE LAKE
PARK HOTEL.
THEY LIKE THE OLD TOWN
THEIR AMUSEMENT COVERS
VARIOUS HNES-NONE
ARE kICkERS.

Everyone pictures lHe lile VI 'hO
commercial traveller as a grand burst
of continual song. They picture MN
always as lolling in hotels, eating in
the swell places" calling on a few
people, and doing anything but work
ing-and all for munificent re-
muneration. There are twenty-five
travelling men" at the Lake Park
hotel who disagree with the popular
conception.
Since Monday they have been wear
ing out the chairs and the card decks
i'm the lobby, waiting, ever waiting,
with the optimism and hope possessed
only by them. that train would soon
come in to relieve their plight and
enable them TO make" the next
town. Yes, they have to work.
All of them are three, and most of
them five days behind their schedule,
not through any fault of bum alarm
clocks or sleepy clerks failing to
arouse them in time to make the
train. but because Old King Winter
is conducting transportation matters
at present and is making decidedly
poor job of il.
They have patronized both picture
houses, pestered the merchants,
taken orders, been on the job every
minute. in fact, have spent all their
snowbound hours in devising ways
and means to kill time. as we'll as do
ing the right thing by their employ
ers-and what h@ve they received for
il? Only the calrl assurance that
they could resume their operations
when the line is clear.
Even such men lose their tempers.
They know the house" is apt to call
them" very sharply for apparent IN
disposition to work and they want
Ito get on the job" before they get
those cold little notes telling them
their services are no longer re-
Quired." They are almost willing TO
commit murder If by so doing they
can make" their remaining terri
tory this winter.
But they are pleased With Mali
son, the merchants. the shows, the
coui teous hospitality of the proprie'
.ors OF the Lake Park hotel, John and
Ernest Mcdonald. and they appreci-
ate the kindness of the Madison cit
izens. with whom they have come IN
contact, in making their enforced
stay as pleasant as possible.
Being marooned. while not novels
ty to some of them. at the same time
is monotonous. But during their
visit at the hotel they have discovered
the champion card player of The
northwest" to the minds of some who
believed they could play rummie
This champion is Charles Milliner
night clerk at the hotel, who. during
this period of enforced iGleness, is
willing to meet all comers.
They are thinking of forming an
association known as The Madison
Tie-Up Veterans of 1917" They ar5
i'm dead earnest about ii too as the
hardships suffered by the veterans OF
the civil war, compared with theirs
are small. They have suffered
They are apt to suffer still more be-
fore they finish their sojourn.
The prospective members are X. b
Crouch, Sioux Falls. Butler Manufac-
turing company; r. l.. Horneffer
Milwaukee, Wis, Hansen Glove com
pany: E. C. Weir, Des Moines, Ia.
Schmitt Manufacturing company; M
w. White, st. Paul; A. N. Anderson
Des Moines, Ia. Neverslip Rubber
company; Walter Hanson, Siou1
Falls, Knapp & Spencer company
hardware; Henry Hedeen. Mitchell
Johnson Biscuit company; 7. X
Wade, Sioux City. Ia, Walrath q
Sherwood Lumber company; Z. M
Jersild, Neenah, Wis, Jersild Knit
ting company; S. s. Margulies. Siou,
Falls, Marguiles Scrap Iron company
and daughter Dorothy; S. A. Hutch
inson, Omaha, Neb.. c. A. Smith DRY
Goods company; w. r. Strehl. Chi
cago, Goodrich Rubber company
Mrs. NJ s. Trenham, Forestburg; d
L. Moore. Chicago. Jackson Corse
company; L. r. Campbell, Chicago
Reid-Murdoch company; H. Buck
man, Chicago, Dewitt Drug com
pany; p. J. Berrisford, st. Paul; Coz
Murphy. Minneapolis; J. Marshall
Sioux City. Cudahy Packing com
pany; Greemer Morris, Sioux Falls
J. M. Morrell company, and E. M
Salmonson, Chicago. John Farwel
Dry Goods company.
Any business man who has failet
to give them Z large order can repent