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Show HE GOT THROUGH THE GATE Resourceful Chlcagoan Tampered With the Truth, but Made HI Point, Jut the 8me. "When all la said and done Chicago people can beat the world In resourcefulness;" resource-fulness;" laid an enviouB New Yorker. "An exllo from that city wished to see his wife off on an eastern train that positively refuses admittance to tho platform without a ticket. He accompanied accom-panied his wife to the gate. "'Just wait around on the platform a few seconds,' he said, 'and I'll come through and help you arrange your luggage.' " 'You can't go through,' said a gullo- f less New York friend. 'If you have )j. anything to say you'd hotter say It V now.' " 'That's all right,' said tho Chicago man. 'I'll be thoro.' "Two minutes later ho dashed up brandishing a baby's milk bottlo In tho fnco of tho astonished gatekeeper. " 'For heaven's sako, lot me through,' ho said. 'I put this In my pocket at tbo last mlnuto and my wife has gone off and forgotten It. Tho baby will stnrvo to death If she doesn't got If "Tho guileless Now Yorker, who lacked sufficient wit to seo his own wlfo and threo small children oft. gasped In shepr envy, whilo tho childless child-less Chicago man, using a milk bottlo as a harmless weapon, fought hts way through to tho platform." |