Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1883-04-06
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On a Bridal Trip.
SOME OF THE TROUBLES THAT A WEST
ERN PAIR ENCOUNTERED

keep said a green looking man, as he
stepped up to the counter and regis
tered his name and added sand wife
after it.
Can a new married couple settle
down here for two or three days and
have a quiet visit with each other and
not be scared out of their bonts?'
The hotel man said that they could
could 60 right to their rooms andstay
there three days or three weeks, and
never come tc their meals if they
didn't want anything to eat.
But what is the matter? Have YOU
been annoyed:' asked the hotel man
Annoyed" That don't expr ssed it.
We were married day b fore yesterday
at St. Paul, and went to hotel.
Il live about sixty miles west of St.
Paul, and the travelling men put up "a
job tn make ne tired. There were
about hundred 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 a bridal couple, and
they bribed the bell boys and porters
! to let them. and when we rung the
bell for the bell-hoy, d drummer for
Chicago cigar factory came in and
wanted to know what was wanted. l.
ordered a pitcher Of ice water, and
/ Milwaukee drummer from IA grocery
house brought it in, and be looked at
my wife. Who is bashful, and made her
/ feel real bad
/ i didn't know they We're drummcrs
until the next dag or | should have
killed some of them. l rung the bell
/ Tor coal and travelling man who
posts railroad cars around and works
/ up excursions, he came in and fixed
/ the fir" and he STAYED and poked it
! for half an hour. He asked so many
questions about how long We had been
married that wanted TO tbump him,
/ but my wife said We didn't want to
/ have no row the first day We were
married. | rung 'or Il chamtermaid
! to clear up the room aud brng some
towels and it was about half AN hour
before she came, and | went d"wn to
the otlice to see about my trunk, and
the cham hermaid STAYED about half an
/ hour and was very interesting, and my
"lie SAID she Was real pleasant, aiiec-
tIonate Sort OF creature, Tar above her
station. aud tell you was mad when
found ,ut that II M&.s a snlnath- faced
handsome young Jewish drummer for
\ Mlwauk clothing house, who was
in with the gang, and he gave the
chambermaid s. TO loan him an old
dress, so that he could play chamber
maid. When my wife told me that
the chambermaid patted her on the
cheek and said she was the sweetest
bri'!e that was in the hotel and asked
for Hiss, and my wife said she
though it would be no harm to kiss h
poor chambermaid and encourage her,
| wanted to killed him, and | went
down to the office the next morning,
but the smooth faced cuss had gone to
Fargo. 1t was all the landlord could
do was 20 hold me. Well, while We
were at supper somebody got into the
room and put cracker crumbs into our
bed. and We found acold oil cloth floor
mat over the top sheet, enough to
freeze anybody. But the worst was
at night. We had just got comforta-
ble in bed when there was knock at
the door, and | got up, and the watch
man was there and he said he wanted
to pint out TO me the tire-escape SO
could get out in case of fire; and
went out in the hall, and he took NE
way out to the end Of the building to
show it TO me, and while | was looking
ont of the window my wife came run
ming down the hall aud b gging me t.
save her. | asked her what was the
matter, and she said as soon as | went
ont a man that looked like a porter
came into the room and told her to fly
and save herself and to follow her
husband. She felt awful when she
found there was 10 trouble, and we
got back in our room half frozen. |
have got them fellows down fine. The
fellow who called me out to look at
/ the fire escape is drummer for a
Philadelphia millinery house, AID the
one that scared my wife out of h wits
travels for hearse factory at Roches-
ter, n. Y. My wife says she would
know him, because he has big gray
moustachc and wears a diamand collar
button in his shirt. She said she
thought he was pretty stylish for a
porter at the time. They woke us up
several tim in the night to tell us
what to do in cas- we were sick, and
in the morning, before We We're up.
waiter brought up our breakfast. He
said the landlord sent it up, and he
Just stood round until we had to sit
up in bed and eat breakfast. thought
at the time that it was very kind in
tke landlord to send up our breakfast,
but when found that the waiter who
brought it up was travelling man for
a reaper factory at Rockford, and re-
membered how Garued impudent he
locked at my wife, | could have mur
dered him, Eut the clerk said he had
gone to Winnipeg. 1t was just as
, bad coming down here on the sleeping
car, and think half the passengers
on the car were those same drummers
that were showed in. 1t was colder
than Alaska, and | would order extra
blankets and they would steal them.
had alb twenty blankets put on
/ the bed, and in the morning there was
nothing but sheet over US. And
every time there was blanket spread
over us there was IA different porter
, put it on. and | think they were all
travelling men. Every little while
: somebody would pull open the cur
tains and sit down on my berth and
begin to pull off his boots, and | would
: tell him the berth was occupied and
that he must have made mistake,