The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-03-31
On A bridal Trip.

here for two or three days and have quiet
visit with each other, and not be scared
out of their bOOts?"
The hotel man said they could 90 ri GIT |
10 their room aud stay there three days or
three weeks, aud never come 10 their meals
If they didn't want anything 10 cat.
But what is the matter: layeyou been
annoyed 2" asked the hotel man.
Annoyed! That don't express 1t. We
were married day before long, NJ SAINT
Paul, and went To Hotel.
IL live about sixty miles west OF 81. Paul,
and the travelling men put up u job to
make me tired. There were about hun
drcd OF them showed in AT ST. Paul, and
I'll be darned if they didn't keep US awake
all night. They knew we were bridal
couple, and they bribed the bell boys and
porlers to let them act tor them, and when
we rung the bell for the bell boy, Il drum.
mer for a Chicago cigar factory came IN
and wanted to know what was wanted.
ordered a pitcher OF ice water, and Mil.
waukec drummer for grocery house
brought it In, and he looked at my wife,
who Is bashiul, and made her feel real bad.
| II didn't know they were drummers un
til the next day. or should have killed
some Of them. / rung the bell for coal,
and travelling man who posts railroad
cards around, and works up excursions, he
came in and fixed the fire, and he stayed
and poked 1t for half an hour, He asked
so many questions about how long we had
been married that wanted TO thump him,
but my wife SAID we didn't want to have
no row the first day we were married. |
rung for a chamber maid to clean up the
.oom and bring some towels, and it was
about half an hour before she came, and |
went down to the Office 10 see about my
trunk, and the chamber maid stayed about
| half an hour and was very interesting, and
lmy wife SAID she was Il real pleasant, at
| tectiOnatc sort OF a creature, far above her
station, and | tell you was mad when
| found out that II WAS a smOOth-t faced, hand
some young Jewish drummer for Mil
waukee clothing house, who was IN with
the gang, aud he gave the Chamber.maid
three dollars 70 loan him an old dress so he
lCould play cham her maid. When my VIE
told me that the chamber.mald patted her
on the cheek and SAID she was the sweetest
bride that was ever in the hotel, and asked
FOR kiss, and my wife said she thought
il would be no harm to kiss poor cham
ber.mad, and encourage her, ! wanted to
| kill him, and | went Qown 10 the Office the
next morning, but the smOOth.aced cusS
had gone TO Fargo. 1t was all the land
lord could DO to hold me. Well, while we
were at supper somebody got into the room
and put cracker crumbs In our bed, and
we found a cold olclulh floor mat over the
top sheet, enough to freeze any body But
the worst was at night We had just got
comfortably IN bed when there was knock
at the door, and got up, and the watch
man was there, and he said he wanted to
point out to me the fire escape, SO | could
get out in case Of fire, and went out in the
hall and he took me way out TO the end of
the building to show 1t to me- and while
| was looking out of the window my wife
came running down the hall and begging
me to save her | asked her what was the
matter, and she said as soon as went out
"a man that looked like porter came INTO
the room and told her to fly and save her
self, and to follow her husband She felt
awful when she found there was no trouble,
and we got back into our room half irOze,
have got them fellows down fine. The
fellow who called me out 10 look At that fire
escape is a drummer for Il Philadelphia
millinery house, aud the one that scared
my wife out of her wits travels for q hcarse
- lullDI1 1T ltpNbNcNCl, 49, -h Niit coy
she would know him because ne he has a
big gray mustache, and wears q diamond
collar button IN his shirt. She said she
thought he was pretty stylish for porter
, at the time They woke US up several
times in the night TO tell Us what TO do in
case we were sick, and III the morning, be.
fore we were up, waiter brought up our
breakfast. He said the landlord sent up,
| H.. t,l haI -,
, SIT up IN bed ami eat breakfast. thought
ut the time that il was kind in the landlord
to send up our breakfast but when found
that the waiter who brought il up was u
travelling man Tor reaper factory at Rock
ford, and remembered how darned impu
} dent he looked at my wife, ! could have
murdered him, but the clerk sad he had
gone to Winnipeg 1t was just about as
bad coming down here on the sleeping car,
and | think halt the passengers on the car
were those same dTummers that were
Isnowed in. 1t was colder than Alaska,
:. land | would order extra blankets and they
! would steal them. | had about twenty
blankets put on the bed, and in the morn
ing there was nothing but sheet over Us
And every time there was a blanket spread
: over Us there was different porter put II
, on, and | think they were all travelling
men, Every little while somebody wOulC
Ipull open the curtains and SIT down on my
berth and begin to pull of his boots, and
would tell him the berth was occupied, anC
f that eh mus, have made q mistake, and h,
would look around at US as innocent Il,
4 could be, and ask our pardon, aud then &c
q out m dam the porter. Once felt some
body feeling about my berth and | asked
, what was the matter, and the fellow salt
a he was looking for my wie's saoes L
q black. Then about every 10 minutes tn,
conductor would open the curtains ant
hold n red laniern IN and ask for our tick
:, cts. think they punched my ticket 81
n times. Anyway 1t looked like porou
plaster when / got up IN the morning.
q think II was the travelling men who wer'
playing conductor, but was sleepy, and
Il, thought the best way was to let them puncl
it. Well, about three O'Clock in the morn
i ing somebody punched Us and said II was
p time to get up, rs all the passengers wer'
up, and We would have breakfast IN ilt;eel
. minutes. And then We hustled arount
!. land got dressed the best We could, ldyini
I, on our backs, and kicking our clothes ~
n in the air and catching them on ourselve
~ la, no, I N,