Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1915 — Finds New Way of Paying Peanut-Pushing Bet [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Finds New Way of Paying Peanut-Pushing Bet

EAST ORANGE, N. J. —George W. Magee, an ice dealer of East Orange, N. J., could not believe that Jim Savage could be outpointed in his fight at Madison Square garden with Charlie Weinert. Jack O’Neil, who has a

case in East Orange, was as firmly of the opinion that Weinert could not lose. So Magee and O’Neil made a wager. Weinert got the decision, and Magee fulfilled the loser’s share of the bet. Its terms were that he should push a ’peanut from St. Mark’s. triangle, West Orange, along Main street to J. F. Cronen’s case, one and threefourths miles to the eastward. O’Neil fulfilled the winner’s privilege of seeing to it that everybody who ever had

heard of Magee should be apprised of What was at hand. Generous estimates put the crowd at 10,000. Until Magee appeared at the triangle at eight o’clock no one know how he meant to do the pushing. The first and heartiest laugh was with him therefore when he brought to view a painter's ladder truck, between the unrights of which had been drawn a wire, from which depended a Japanese lantern. To the top of this lantern had been affixed a tiny pole and from its peak dangled the peanut. It took Magee half an-hour to push his peanut-laden truck over the prescribed course. There were loud and vehement expressions of disappointment from the throng of onlookers, for they were all there to see Magee crawling nearly two miles on hands and knees. O’Neill also protested earnestly at first that the loser was evading the terms of the wager. But soon he showed himself a good sport, admitted Magee had outwitted him and good naturedly accompanied Uie peanut pusher over the prescribed route.