Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1899 — Sold Tickets on Him. [ARTICLE]

Sold Tickets on Him.

It is good to be a celebrity, and it la sometimes profitable merely to recognize one. While Chauncey M. Depew was at the Omaha exposition, says the New York Times, he and President Callaway of the New York Central chanced to go into a booth on the Midway Plaisance. It was a tame entertainment and there was only a meagre attendance when Mr. Depew and Mr. Callaway entered. Their stay would have been very brief except for the fact that they had scarcely taken their seats before there began a steady inpouring of people, which continued until the small auditorium was crowded. Taking this extraordinary Increase of spectators as an indication that something of an interesting nature was about to be disclosed, the two NewYorkers concluded to sit It out. Half an hour’s waiting failed to reward their patient expectancy, however, and Mr. Callaway suggested that they move on. Juet then ex-Secretary of Agriculture J. Sterling Morton pushed his way through the crowd, and extending his hand to Mr. Depew exclaimed: “Well, Doctor Depew, so you are really here! I thought that ‘barker* was lying.” “What do you mean?” inquired Mr. Depew. “Why, the ‘barker’ for this show is .standing outside and inviting the crowd to ‘step up lively’ and pay ten cents for the privilege of seeing the ‘great and only Chauncey M. Depew.’ ”