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Show TOO EXCITING FOR CROKER Ex-Tammany Chief, Like So Many Others, Succumbed to the Fascination Fasci-nation of Stephenson. The ideas of Richard Croker do not run on bookish lines. Regretting this circumstance and considering that a taste for literature, once inculcated, might be a source of pleasure in his advanced years, a journalistic friend who crossed the Atlantic with the onetime one-time chieftain of Tammany hall not long ago cornered him in the steamships steam-ships library one evening and obtained ob-tained a reluctant permission to read "Treasure Island" to him. Much to his friend's encouragement, Mr. Croker listened with unfeigned interest in-terest until the lights went out and apparently enjoyed the narration of the exciting events of John Morgan, Billy Bones, Black Dog, John Silver and the others. Wherefore, finding Mr. Croker In the library the next evening, the journalist again produced pro-duced his volume of Stevenson and drew up a chair. But the one-time Tammany chieftain MUed a protesting hand. "Don't read that book to me any more,'' he said. "I couldn't get to sleep last night for thinking about those fellows." |