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Show AT THE TOP OF THE HEAP Champion Hot Spender and Cutup Found at Pittsburg Amusement Amuse-ment Park. "Talk nbout your hot spenders nnd regular dare-devil cutups," said a Pittsburg motorman, "but. I saw the champion Coal Oil Johnny of tho lot a an amusement park the othor day We were standing outside- tho gate, waiting for the car to All up, when a bunch of bold young hlndes , came romping out of the park and made ror the car. They were rroni th8 coun try and had been having n blgh old time with pink drinks and Btrawberry Jiggers, and you couldn't stop 'em with a breakwall. One or them suddenly broke away from the bunch and made a dash for the front end ot the car, but I blocked his way and told him he couldn't get on at this end. ' 'O I tot the price,' he shouted, 'an' don't you think I haven't.' And he hauled nut a handful of small changr I Insisted on his going to the back end and he put up an awful argument and got all fussed up. Finally he strode back to the rear platform, paid his nickel. ind, striding straight through the car with a glare of deflrnco at me, he stepped off and marched around to the real again Slapping down another anoth-er nlikel. he repeated the performance, perform-ance, and blamed If he didn't make the circuit six times before we got started, each time with his chin n llttto higher as he passed me. His friends cheered btm to the echo, and I suppose they'll be telling out In Blngvllle for years t come how he socked It to the Pitts-butg Pitts-butg Railways company." Pittsburg Gazette-Times |