Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-10-16
Stunning Facts.

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81 had occasion to visit the city OF D.
in the State of Delaware, and concluded
to stop at the Blue Hen Hotel, where
had spent one night during a previou:
visit. When l reached the spot where
the hotel used to be, was surprised tC
see that the tall building had given
place to II low structure with a single
row of windows, and the roof close to
the ground. However, 1 recognized
the keeper of the old hotel sitting on a
chair in front of one of the windows,
and asked him where his establish
ment was"
''There she is, sir. I've enlarged
her since you were here last
Indeed. Enlarged? don't exactly
understand"
''Oh, know she looks smaller; but
stranger, l tell you that I've added
four stories TO this hotel since January,
TO-
''What has become of them ?''
''I'll explain. After the hotel had
been built a year or two she suddenly
began TO sink. dunno what the reason
is. A quicksand under her, | reckon,
Anyhow, she kept going down and
down, until the first story passed under
ground. Then l moved the bar-room
up stairs, put another story on top, and
began business again, Pretty soon she
sank to another floor, and we moved up
second time and added another story.
Its been nothing unusual in this house
TO 90 to bed in the second story and
wake up in the morning to find yourself
in the cellar. The milkman has regular
instructions to pour the milk down the
chimney i'll case he comes some morning
early and can't dig out window. Last
month l oversight myself for forty
eight houas because the room remained
dark, and when | did get up the roof
was just even with the street.
''This part of the house that you see
now | built on early last week. The
property became too valuable to lease.
There are sixteen stories to the Blue
Hen now, and I've got to add another
was spread out sideways she'd be about
three hundred yards long. Eventually
[ expect she'll be six or seven hundred
stories high, and it'll take you week
to get into the cellar. l s'pose if keep
on, this here hotel will reach clean
through, from Delaware to China. The |
lower end will come bursting out into
Hong Kong or Shanghai, and maybe |
III be taking Cinnamon for boarders |
" ithout knowing it. Then very likely |
they'll .ax both ends of the hotel and |
lake money out of my pocket. They're
always grinding poor man SOS he can
hardly get along. Costs like thunder, |
you know, to run hotel like this that |
requires so much to keep up a respecta-
bic appearance. L dunno exactly what
I'll do if she breaks out on the other |
side of the earth and then slips through |
he hole. / can't carry on hotel |
ioating out into ethereal space, you
know.
Il have some hopes that maybe, be-
'ore she sinks more'n mile or two,
,he'll strike volcanic vein or some
hing and get shove up; come all the
way out, for all know, and stand on
'olid ground. II she does, you come
-ound and see me. and I'll take you up
md show you the view. I'll bet you
AN see Peru and Oshkosh, and Nova
Iembla and Tuckerton, and all those
places regular bird's-eye view; you
.ome round anyway, and I'll take you
lown into the cellar"
l said would, and then hunted M a
afer hotel. The Blue Hen is too
'riginal, too eccentric for comfort.