Show AS AN EXPRESS PACKAGE The Odd Way an Austrian Tools to Get Money and to the Worlds Fair CHICAGO July 28 Ignatz Leikovtc of 337 East Fifth street New York has made the most sensational trip on record to the Worlds fair He arrived as an express package consigned to the Old Vienna in the Midway Plais ance Lefkovtc is an Austrian and had been out of work for several weeks He yearned for fame and incidentally dollars and thought trip to the Worlds fair in a box might pave the way for a dime museum career and he promptly put the scheme in execution He secured his box and being without funds negotiated an emergency loan with which he purchased a small stock of provisions and drink He climbed into his box last Saturday afternoon Thearticles put in with him were Two bundles of shavings one picture of Grover Cleveland Cleve-land one picture of the Emperor of Austria Aus-tria one American flag one Austrian fag twentyfive pounds of ice wrapped in a blanket one chunk ot Frankfurter Frank-furter sausages one loaf of bread four bottles of lemonade two bottles or ginger ale one bottle of rum one bottle of vinegar and one thermometer His friends carefully nailed up the box and consigned it in this way Glass this side up handle with care Old Vienna Jackson park Chicago The box was handed over to the American Ameri-can Express company at the Forty seventh street office and it left New York Saturday evening I reached Old Vienna Vi-enna this afternoon The manager mana-ger protested violently against paying expres charges of 1250 on n box of glass of which they had no record When the cover was knocked of out sprang Lefkovtc to the great astonishment aston-ishment of those present Waving the American and Austrian flags above his head he shouted I am a Viennese myself my-self I Hurrah for old Vienna The spectators thought he was a madman mad-man but he soon explained how he reached the old square without paying a cent and from that moment he was a i heroHehadnotbeen He had not been long out of his box before the blistering sun began to effect him Taut ho soon recovered He was celebrating famously when the hardhearted exposition officials heard of the incident and ordering out the Columbian guards Lefkovtc was arrested for beating his way into the fair and landed in the Woodlawn police station Friends came to his rescue and he was released on ball |