The Omaha guide., 1934-09-22
SWEET MEMORIES OF
MY TRIP 7 OCHICAGO


On Friday, Aug. "a | left my
office without a hat, of course / was
gong to pick n up at Holmes Tailor
Shop. Stopping by, ! was informed,
the cleaners had not returned it. |
had 1r minutes to catch my train,
and had no time to rel i'm home
for a hat, which worked hardship on
my small amount of finance; for I
had to stop by a store as | went
through the city and buy a new hat.
i had no choice in the hat store, be-
cause they had only one hat in my
size. Things quikly picked, some
tines proves to be the best, for I've
had many compliments on the new
hat.
Or arriving at tn Union Station
at the taxi cab entrance, | was met
by Mr.. W. w. Slaughter, assistant
passenger agenet of the Illinois Cen
trail. Not thinking the train was wat
ng for his orders to leave, when he
bean to talk to me about the accom-
mcdations he had arranged for the
comfort and pleasure Of my party,
which was supposed 10 have been
fifty or more, I attempted to rush
on through the station to the train,
and he was finally able to attract my
cttention by informing me the train
would not leave until the final order
was issued. After finishing u
't+le business transactions n the
N '"rfuli full Union Depot with Mr..
Slaughter, | rushed through the
gates to track 4, and there I found
an,l Mrs. f,:l+on Johnson. and
c''rc~3 waiting to board the
:-sin. TIE first nan to approach
.no 1+tcr ny landing on track 4, was
the Fairmont ice Cream man, with
80 dozen individual reedetss, that had
been ordered by the refreshmHt COM
mittee. Of course Mr.. Lovejoy Craw-
ford was chairman Of that COM
mittee, and that was the man he
wanted to see. Well, in fact, | spent
the first four or five minutes dis
posing of different refreshment ven
ders for our special car. You know
we had ordered a special chair car
for u parking space, and a special
baggage car for our frolic between
here and Chicago, and we needed all
kinds of refreshments to keep our
temperature down, for we were to
have danced out Of Omaha into the
Werld's Fair.
The change of the weather and the
lack of finance to purchase suitable
fall wearing aprarels, on the part of
some Of the parties that had made
reservations for the trip, was the
cause of quite a few changing theil
mind on the Chicago trip.
Just before the train pulled out
MI. and Mrs. Lovejey Crawford, &C
companied by Mrs. J.. billiard Craw
ford and Mr.. George W. Watson, ap
peared on the scene. Ny friend, MI
Graham and myself, boarded GU
train. Mr.. Graham was on time. W
had a very enjoyable trip between
, Omaha and Chicago. At each stop
quite a few additional passenger
boarded the train. The crowd VIII
boarded the train, was sprinkled wit
q number of colored passengers. Tn
Illinois Central officials were force
to add additional chair cars at eac'
large ity, until it looked to me lk
we bad the longest train I've ever ha
q chance to view, with passenger
standing in ais1es when we arrive
in Chicago at 8:O5 a. m.
Well, the first familiar face I saw
after getting eff the train in Chicago
was my lifelong friend, Mr.. Irvi
w. Gray. MIR. Gray handed me
Worlds Fair ~suvenir, a large walk
ing cane. He is superintendent o
service at the Del Prado Hotel an
the Cooper Carlton, a position he ha
held with credit for IA years. On
first acquaintance was in what the,
called the millionaire Row" in tn
large dining room n the Eastman Ho
tel n Hot Springs, Ark, in 1900, wher,
we were both sewing in the ca
pacity as walters, under old MAJ
Nalker, from Jacksonville, Fldrids
as head waiter, and Lee Lampkins o.
Louisville, Kentucky as second waiter
and Nj. Saunders OF Chicago e.
third waiter.
Ny next contact WIS the city pass
enger agent CT the Illinois Central