Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1912 — HE GOT THROUGH THE GATE [ARTICLE]

HE GOT THROUGH THE GATE

Resourceful Chicagoan Tampered With the TFuth, but Made His Point, Just the Same. “When all is said and done Chicago people can beat the world in resourcefnlnASß ” finJA fin finvimiß Npw Ynrkpr iuiiivoDj emu cau vl) i xVUw civn * x/a • “An exile from that city wished to see his wife off on an eastern train that positively refuses admittance to the platform without a ticket He accompanied his wife to the gate. " ‘Just wait around on the platform a few seconds,’ he said, ‘and I’ll come through and help you arrange your luggage.’ “ ‘You can’t go through,’ said a guileless New York friend. ‘lf. you have anything to say you’d better say it now.’ “ “That’s all right’ said the Chicago man. Til be there.' "Two minutes later he dashed up brandishing a baby’s milk bottle tn the face of the astonished gatekeeper. " ‘For heaven’s sake, let me through,* he said. T put this in my pocket at .the last minute and my wife has gone off and forgotten IL The baby will starve to death if she doesn’t get if "The guileless New Yorker, who lacked sufficient wit to see his own wife and three small children off, gasped in sheer envy, while the childless Chicago man, using a milk bottle as a harmless weapon, fought his way through to the platform.”