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Recalling that a controversy has been raging between the Pullman Co. and the all-Negro union of Pullman porters, newsgatherers made haste to inquire if the twinkling twelve in Chicago were the first recruits of a force of Orientals whom the Pullman Co. might be mobilizing to dissolve a unique racial monopoly. Pullman officers "scouted" the notion; declared that Orientals, while deft as club car waiters, lack the physique required in a luggage-lugging, berth-boosting, window-opening Pullman porter...
Minnesota blacksmith's son, Iowa farm boy, teacher-lawyer, able attorney, Spanish-War officer,* son-in-law of George Mortimer Pullman (sleeping cars), thrice a Congressman (1906-11), firm and constructive Governor,† grand-scale agriculturalist-Mr. Lowden is a pleasant, capable, 66-year-old city-man-turned-squire who stands looking at the Presidential chair with ambitious interest but with a gentlemanly restraint. He would not think of trying to climb up and sit in the chair without a genuine invitation...
...Keefe. Governor Len Small of Illinois was there and Senators James Enos Watson of Indiana and Pat Harrison of Mississippi. There were business boosters from St. Louis, Vicksburg, Natchez, Baton Rouge; rooster-boosters from Cairo, Keokuk, Dubuque and Quincy. There were a policemen's octet, a quartet of Pullman porters, an Italian band dressed as sailors. One and all wore huge bullseye badges inscribed "America First," "Farm Relief," "Inland Waterways to Double Exports," "National Flood Control to Prevent Disasters." Singing, grinning, shouting, backslapping, this horde converged upon the Mayflower Hotel in an uproarious phalanx around their loudly lumbering leader...
...sinister smile. To him the Othello of Louis Leon Hall was an excellent foil. Mr. Hall is portly, with a cheerful rotund face, which, well darkened, brought out the whites of his rolling eyes, and gave him the jolly aspect of a Moor who has made up many a Pullman berth in his time. It was perhaps to attain more dignity that he thundered and declaimed his lines, with sweeping gestures; but he did it well, and in his scenes with Desdemona he was all simple sincerity...
With the financial road made smooth for the eastward anabasis, the Board of Trustees of the college raised a forbidding three fingers. Unwillingness of the authorities to allow the bandsmen to miss four days of classes cancelled the Pullman reservations, and the only music in the Stadium will be partisan to the Crimson...