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Show FUNNY SIDE I ' In Two Lumber Men Make H Sport of Government H Prosecution Springfield, Mass., July 5. Charles II P. Chaso and Ernest Newton Bagg, HH both of whom are named in the suit recently brought by the government H against the alleged lumber trust, H easily carried off the honors in the j Fourth of July parade here. The two men, wearing regulation prison unl- j forms and with their hair closely H cropped, rode in a steel prison cell, iH barred and bolted, resting on a float, H which was drawn by four horses. Tha H float bore this inscription. H "Local members of the alleged lum- bef trust getting free board." ' H Messrs. Chase and Bagg sat on, wooden stools. With perspiration roll- BH ing down their faces, they acknowl- edged by gestures with palm leaf H fans the continuous roar of applause H that followed the passage of the float H through the crowded streets. H Mr. Chase, who is president of tho Springfield board of trade and also president of the largest lumber cor- fl "poratlon in Springfield, was for sev- en years president of the Massachu- setts Retail Dealers' association, j which is one of the defendants in At- iM torney General WIckersham's suit. Mr. Bagg, who is secretary of the l Massachusetts Dealers' association, Is. 'M named In the bill of complaint. M oo H |