The Washington herald., 1920-06-13
Chicago's Scinfllating Circus
Ends Amid Humidity, Feminine
Fur "Chokers'' and Suspender.

Chicago. June 12.-Chicago as a
black eye.
The weather ran furnished the
coloring by keeping the mercury
above 90 for three days. This in
terfered with the fur market.
which women visitors insisted on
booming despite the fact that the
sun kept hot enough to SINCE the
hair on mink. rabbit, otter or
muskrat.
n Inside the Coliserm today the
thermometer shinmied in tho
neighborhood of 100 or above, but
there was &c shedding of curly
neck pieces, which incidentally
showed the tyranny of fashion. Our
lady delegates may switch their
votes on occasion. but seldom the
habits dictated by the mothball
trust.
Aside from the heat ergCndered
II ky looking a. the latest in furs.
the delegates and guests acted COM
Portable. The census of suspenders
showed a return to the Prehistoric
times of Hayes ard CARRIED. - q
The only real sufferers were those
On the platform, officers and ma
tional committeeman. There were
even those wrhc wore the conven-
tional black. But this Is not meant
to allude to the wholesale burial
hopes.
Senator Lodge was master OF
ceremonies and his able assistants
included former Senator Beveridgc.
Speaker Gillett, Senator Smoot and
Col. warren. The parliamentarIans
all looked more CT less uncomforta-
BILE. Senator Lodge. however. wore
I tan colored vest. to relieve the
me notony of the bridge.
Down among the delegates II was
like a bakeoven and occasionally
II. was necessary to "Ludge" a few
during the voting. Several times
during roll call there were missing
members. magination could easily
conjurc up a nose dive from the
government pier into the cool wa
ters of Lake Michigan. After the
last ballot not a few were willing
10 remain at the srot where the
bubbles showed.
BaIloting RivaIed Mercury.
1t seemed to become even hotter
as the ba alloting grew more in
tense. 1t vas also hot race.
That has to d. with the field as a
whole. Judging from the finish,
Harding must be hard to warm up.
1t took him eight laps to get
going.
| The history of the first eight
ballots concerned everybody except
the winner. He was way back
somewhere. He only made a fair
showing in the first ballot, fell
back a furlong in the second, got
into the rub in the third, picked. mp
a little ground in the fourth and
gained q trine more in the NTH.
He began to show his stamina in
the sixth. picked up quite a little
in the seventh and became a possI-
bility in the eighth.
Warren G. Harding began to
kick up the dust in the ninth and
then the stands and bleachers got
chance to cheer. Connecticut
made a switch to the Ohio whirl-.
wind. which caused quite a convul-
sion in the Harding section.
sproul Got . Yen.
Sproul was good for yell when
Delaware gave him three votes,
but that was practically his finish
except when he came to his home
milestone. a..
Idaho and Indiana cheered for
Wood as the journey progressed.
The real racket started when
Kansas went over to Harding. Il
increased as Kentucky, with 2S
votes, swung TO the Buckeye rum
ner. Louisiana changed its votes to
Harding and the yelling BECAME a
riot. 1t stopped when Ohio, Hard
inE's own State, only delivered 80
votes out of the 4s. That was the
last setback. From then on IL be-
gan to brighten, and after Porto
Rico, last on ballot, swung to
Harding the field was ready to
straikhten out in the stretch for
the tenth lap. 's
Buckeye State Swings.
Harding forged to the front at
the start by including the votes
from Alabama Then the feld
spread out. The Buckeye streak
Ia, West Virginia, and then the in