LIABLE TO " INCARCERATION " 



paper, a few good plums which had not appeared in 

 America but had in England were put in. 



After the second issue I had a letter from the 

 Deputy-Assistant -Attorney-General, or some official of 

 a similar title, saying that I was liable to a fine of 

 ione thousand dollars and six months in the peniten- 

 ;tiary. That put the lid on it, so the publication 

 stopped. In the meantime Queensberry had decided 

 to give up his job on the Tribune, in which I shall 

 always think that he made a great mistake, for six 

 I months more of his agreement had yet to run, and 

 ithere was no chance of getting out of it on the part of 

 ithe proprietors of the Tribune. Of course it meant 

 a serious loss to me, for apart from the partnership 

 arrangement, which was not working altogether suc- 

 cessfully, there was some Sunday stuff I was doing 

 on old-time fighters in Queensberry's name which 

 was with other things bringing in a living. At all 

 events he left. 



In the n>eantime a syndicate in Chicago had put up 

 a good deposit for the island club in Canada, and it 

 came about that the idea was formed of me seeing the 

 principal men in Toronto and Montreal with the view 

 of possible membership and taking a financial interest 

 in the scheme. I therefore moved on to Toronto, only 

 to find that the vendor had not made good his title, 

 and was not likely to for a long time to come. I went 

 to Montreal to see the prospects there, but hearing 

 again that the completion of the deal was in the dim 

 future I determined, after being away from Europe 

 now for nearly eighteen months, it was no use hanging 

 about and I had better come home ; which I did. 



Of all the men I met in Chicago there will always be 

 a grateful recollection of Mr Samuel Insull, an English- 

 man, who has accumulated an enormous fortune and 

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