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Puck, v. 64, no. 1643

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The cross-continent craze

The cross-continent craze

Vignettes depict transcontinental journeys by various modes of transportation. Circus performers tumble and roll their way across the country, a street railroad car from New York City arrives at the Rocky Mountains, a child travels in a pedal car with his nurse following by rail, a man golfs his way from coast to coast, members of a country club drink their way from roadhouse to roadhouse, waiters carry a tray of food from the mayor of New York City to the mayor of Seattle, an African American vaudeville couple dances across the continent, and two tramps hitch a ride on a railroad.

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S. D. Ehrhart’s theme-and-variation cartoon vignettes is a seeming fantasy — logical extensions of the idea of cross-country marathons. It deals with humorous exaggeration, but scarcely is fantasy; it was based in fact.

Did they think it was a dirigible?

Did they think it was a dirigible?

William Jennings Bryan and Samuel Gompers, looking worried, fly in a hot air balloon labeled “Labor Vote.” They are caught in an electrical storm with lightning labeled “Revolt” and are being driven by winds to an uncertain fate.

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Samuel Gompers, the immigrant cigar maker who formed the American Federation of Labor and guided the organized-movement for decades, stamped his personality and views on the role of unions in American life. He generally was conservative, at least beating back, often, radicalism within and without his AFL “large tent.” He sometimes supported Republicans, and Democrats, and usually kept his union non-partisan. He supported the Spanish-American War and immigrant-exclusion acts and American intervention into World War I when many unionists were Socialists and opposed intervention.