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Show uu THEATER TICKET SCALPERS' UNION Chicago, April 5. Chicago is to have a new 'trust" a combination of the theatre ticket scalpers, who havo stations In all the hotels. Articles of Incorporation have been taken out. Only the proprietors of hotel ticket stands will be members of tho combination com-bination which promises war against the scalpers who send -their agents out In the streets. Tho 'customary commission of fifty cents a ticket win fce maintained. f "This business corporation might bo called a theater ticket scalpers' trust," said H. n. Waterfall, one of the In-corporators. In-corporators. "The men who maintain ticket Btands in the hotels concluded to get together and the incorporation of a company followed. "But It b not the purpose of the company to try to raise tho price of ., theater tickets." |