The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-06-28
BEING Called at Hotels.

WHEN you 60 away to the mountains or
the seaside, for your summer rest, you,
doubtless, in the beginning, flatter your.
self that you are to enjoy quiet by day
and undlsturbed and refreshing sleep ut
light.
Il you desire this, then, by all means,
%, 6urn at some hotel, If such there be,
which is at least twenty miles from any
railway station, and half as far from any
regular line Of coaches. If you take UP
your residence at any of our popular ho-
tells you will run the risk Of being called
up every morning at least ten times, to
take the carly train.
Dwelling about every hotel there is an
avenging presence, dcnominated the night
porter; whose business it is to see that no.
body INDUCES in the pernicious practice
of morning nap.
He tramps the corridors night after
night, his watch beginning at twelve and
ing that nobody wants to sleep.
You reach your hotel after hot, dusty.
tiresomc journey, and you go to bed in
your close-smcliing, seven-by-ninc dormi-
tory, so tired that you could sleep on the
soft side of a plank"
just as you are in the midst Of de-
lightful dream, there comes laundering
rap at your door, followed by the infor-
nation, given in stentorian voice:
"Half-past onel Train leaves at one
fifty"
Just as if your eternal destiny depended
on your knowing that it was half past one.
You are not going anywhere that you
know oil, aud one. fifty trains possess for
you no special interest They do not enter
into your thoughts or calculations, and so
you turn over, with snort Of annoyance,
and compose yourself TO sleep once more.
By the time Morpheus has you fairly in
hand, there comes another rap at your
door which makes all The cr0ckery in your
room rattle. with alarm, and the voice of
your tOrmentOr calls out:
1.-TWO O'Clock! Train leaves at two
twenty"
You feel like swearing, but, being q
moral man, you refrain, and hear him
shifting himself from one foot to the other
outside your door, preparatory to fresh
assault, which comes directly through the
1.-TWO O'Clock! Train leaves at two.
twentyv with the additional information
"Only ten minutes for breakfast"
Then you hear him go tramping down
the passage, knocking at other doors,
and telling other innocent but unfortunate
people that the train leaves at two. twenty.
You stuff the sheet in your ears, and de-
termine in your own mind that you will
not be disturbed again; but by the time
you afe fairly lapsing into that delightful
state between wakefulness and sleep,
thump! thump! comes that fist at your
door, and that fiendish voice calls out:
Halfpast two! Train leaves at three -
You yell out to him in no amiable tone,
that you don't care when it leaves, and
that you'd thank him to let you sll e;
| and he goes off talking to himself. and
some woman in the next room giggles,
having evidently caught the purport of
his remarks.
by the time drowsiness again begins to
| steal over you, you are reused by the
familiar rap. and the fact that it is quar-
ter past three is conveyed 10 you, supple
mented by the assertion that the train
leaves at three-forty.
So the thing goes on until it is six
O'Clock. You are called about once in
every half hour as long as you are sleepy,
and when you are thoroughly aroused, and
on the point of getting up ard dressing,
the calls cease, and your tOrmentor sub.
sides.
| Now, we have suggestion to make tC
those who know how to keep hotel.
The public peace and safety demand
that everybody shall have undisturbcd
sleep when they require it.
This cannot be had at our fashiona'
BILE hotels, with that wretchcd night.portel
on his travels promiscuously through the
passages.
Now, what we propose is, that there
shall be wing of every hotel devoted ex
clasively to the use of those insane peo
pie who will want to be taking twO-twen.
ty and three-forty night trains for some
where, and that they shall never he scat
tered round among respectable, steady
slcepers. And we would have it arranged
SO that the rapping should be done will
a trip-hammer run by steam, else tina
peace-destroying porter might pcrchanct
stray from his prescribed path and in
wade the peaceful regions where pcopl,
sleep till seven O'Clock, and then get u,
when they please.-Kate Thorn, in N. Y