The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-10-19
One of Max Adeler's Stunning Facts.

"Some time ago." said the drummer, "I had
occasion to visit the city 0 Old, in the State
of Delaware, and | concluded to stop at the Blue
Hen Hotel, where had spent one night during
4 previous visit. When [ reached the spot
where the hotel used to be, l was surprised to
see that the tall building had given place to a
low structure with a single row of windows, and
the roof close to the ground. However, l recog-
nized the keeper of the old hotel sitting on a
chair IN front of one of the windows, and l asked
him where his establishment was.
There she is, sir. I've enlarged her since
you were here last"
Indeed Enlarged? l don't exactly under
stand"
ooh, l know she looks smaller but, stranger,
[ tell you that I've added four stories to this
hotel since January, rs"
What became of them 2"
"Ill 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, L reckon. Anyhow, she kept going down
and down, until the first story passed under
ground. Then | moved the barroom up stairs,
put another story on top and began business
again. Pretty soon she sank to another floor,
and we moved up a second time and added an
other story. It's been nothing unusual IN this
house to go 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 in case he comes
some morning early and can't dig out a window.
Last month l oversight myself for lorty-eight
hours 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 l
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 an
other before the week is out. If this hotel was
spread out sideways she'd be about three hun
dred yards long. Eventually l expected she'll
be six or seven hundred stories high, and It'll
take you a 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 Hongkong or
Shanghai, and maybe I'll be taking Cinnamon
for boarders without knowing it. Then, very
likely, they'll tax both ends of the hotel and take
money out Of my pocket. They're always grind
ing u poor man SOS he can hardly get along.
Costs like thunder, you know, to run a hotel like
this that requires so much to keep up a respect
able appearance. l dunno exactly what I'll do
if she breaks out on the other side of the earth
and then slips through the hole. | can't carry
on a hotel floating out into ethereal space, you
know.
81 have some hopes that may be, before she
sinks more'n a mile or two, she'll strike a vol
canic vein or something and get a shove up;
come all the way out, for all L know, and stand
on solid ground. If she does, you come round
and see me, and I'll take you up and show you
the view. Ill bet you can see Peru and Osh-
kosh, and Nova Zembla and Tuckerton, and all
those places-regular bird's-eye view. You come
round any way and I'll take you down into the
CELLAR
l said l would, and then | hunted up a safer
The Blue Hen is too original, too &C.
centric for comfort.-PhiLadelPhia Bulletin.