Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-04-20

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Say. What kind Of hotel do yoc
kept! said q grcen- looking man. - b
stepped up 10 the counter and registered
his name and added :. and wife after il.
Can . new married couple settle down
here foR two q thres days and have q
quiet visit With each other and nos b
scared out Of their bootsg-
The hotel man said they could 60 TO
their room and stay there three DAYS OF
three weeks, and never come to their
meals If they didn't want anything 10
ct.
But what is the ma;ssrs Have you
beoa annoyed." asked the hotel man.
I Annoyed. That DOM express it.
We we're married day before yesterday
at IS. Paul and went TO q hotsl. I live
about sixty miles vsst Of s.. pani. ard
tne travelling meo pot mp . job 10 make
me tired. there vers about hundred
OF them moved in at ST. Paul. and I'll
b dazned II thsy didn't keep 10 uneasy
all night. 1hsy knew vs we're . bridal
eou2le. and they bribed the bell boys
and portsrs to let them act for them. and
when Ne runa for the bell boy drummer
for Chioaae cigar factory came in and
wanted 70 know What We wanted. or
dared . pitcher Of Toe water, and Nil
vaukes drummer for grocery hooss
brought il in. and be looked at my wife,
Who u bsshiul. and made her feel real
bad. 1didn't know they we're dsummers
ontii TIE next day. or I should have
KILLED some Of them. runQ for cham
bermAid TO clean up the room and bring
some towels, and went down to the Of
nee 70 - about my trunk. and the cham
termAid eeayed about half an hour. and
vas very interesting. and my wife said
- was very pleasant, a6ectiouate sort
81 CREATURE, far above her station, and
tell you Was mad uhon / found cot
i vas . moosh-fAced handsome younQ
jewish drummer for q Milwaukee cloth
ing house, Who was in with the gang,
and be gave tho chambsrmaid three dol
lars to loan him An old dress % he could
play chambermaid. Well. while Ne were
at supper somebody got into the room
and put cracker crumbs in our bed, and
- found . cold oiIcleth floor mat over
The top sheet, enough 10 fres9s auyb0ds.
hut the worst vAs af night. We had
tuss Rot comfortably in bed wheu there
vas knock at the door, aud l got up
and tho Waterman was there. and he said |
b wanted to point ont tho fire escape, |
20 could get out in c&se Of Ore. They |
yoke Us several times in the night 10 tell |
rs what TO do in CASE we were sick; and |
IL the morning, before ve we're up. q |
waite. brought up oar brsakfas.. He /
said the landlord sent Il up, and he lost /
stood around until we lad to sit up in |
oed and eat breakfast Thought at the |
time that il Was kind in the landlord to
rend up our brea fast. but when found /
that the waiter Who brought il up was a
travelling man for q reaper factory ut l
Rockford, and remembered ho1 darnod |
impudsnt he looked at my wife. could /
have murdered him; bus the clerk ssid |
he had gone to Winnipeg. /! was lust
about 40 bad coming down here ON the |
sleeping car, and think half the pas
senRers on the car were those drumners
shat were showed 10. Il vas colder than
Alaska, and Would order extra blan-
kets and they would steal them. had
moro thsn twenty blankets pat ON she
bed, and in the morning there Vas no
thing but Q sheet over rs. And every
time there vas blanket spread over ne
there vas different porter pat il on,
and think they were all travelling men.
Every little while somebody would pail
open the curtains and nit down on nav
berth and begin TO pull on his boots.
and would tell him the berth was O.
oupied and that he must have made a
mistake, and he would look around ut
~ as innocent as could be, and ask our
pardon, and then 90 ont aud damn the
porter. Once ! felt somebody feeling
about my berth, and I asked what was
tho matter, and the fellow said he vas
looking for my wife's shocs to black.
Then about every fifteen inmates the
conductor would open the curtains and
bold red lantern in and ask for our
tickets. l think they punched my ticket
about aixty-dve times. Any way it
looked like porous plaster whom l got
mp IN tho morning. think IL was Che
travelling mon Who were playing con-
ductor, bat was sleepy and thought
the best way was to les them punch il.
Well. about three o'clock in the morn
ing somebody punched rs and said il
was time 10 get up, - all the passengers
wore up, and Ne would have breakfast
in fifteen minutes. And then Ne hus-
tied around and got dressed the beet we
could, laying On oar backs. and kicking
oar clothes up in the air, and pitching
tosm on ourselves when they came
down. got my pants on wrong side
before, and lest everything out Of my
pockets, and my wife lost her hair and
had to tic a handkerchief arnund her
head, and then 10 had our berths made |
up and eat up till daylight. Oh, never
had such night, or two such nights, il
Ill my life, and what want to know i,
Il can be quiet here, and Get 4 little |
leep aud not b annoyed"
The hotel man told him il anybody
came around 70 bother Thorn to knock |
them elea1 down stairs and he would be
responsible, and the bridegroom took |
his satchsl and his wife. and the oologed |
man showed them room and they have |
not showed up siuce. Il IL eoufouuded |
mean in travelling men 70 get showed In |
and form syndicate 70 have fan. They |
will cause themselves to be disliked II |
they keep on.