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EVERYBODY WANTS A TICKET nonAf r71 nl-rTT J VBht ra9r If you stand in the lobby of the Coliseum Annex and offer town lots in Paradise at 10 cents a front foot, there's one chance in 20 that you'd make a sale. But if you'd lift your voice anywhere in Chicago, Wave1 two convention tickets above your head and yell "What am I offer ed?" you'd find yourself a rich man or the victim of a jimmy in three seconds. That's just about a fair hunch on the scramble for and the value of seats for the great Taft Roosevelt knock-about bout. "Everybody's doing it." Do ing what? Coaxing, begging, pleading, stealing," fighting for, and, when possible, buying, tickets to the Republican convention. Every man, woman and child in Chicago and that's two million every person within a radius of 500 miles who can scrape up the rail road fare, and politicians of high and low degree from the four cor ners of the country, are clamoring at the doors of t;he Coliseum. Inside, quaking at the uproar, clutching each other wildly, are the Republican national commit tee, which has received more than 100,000 requests for tickets and thousands of them from people it's mighty dangerous to turn down. The Coliseum has '11472 seats. The first 2,156 go to delegates and alternates, one apiece. Then 2,156 more go to them, for fam ily and friends. Then 1,500 go to Chicago. That leaves 5,360. And they must be spread over 100,000 applicants! It is reported that some dele gates from outlying states are selling their extra tickets for from $100 to $250 each. o o "What are you crying about, Willie?" "One of th' boys called me 'teacher's pet' an' I Went an' told her an' she licked me to prove I wasn't." Safest cracker for the kids on the Fourth is the soda cracker. m ; i ,itoTiT i