The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-11-08
Forgotten YaInahles.

message:
SARATOGA sPRINGs-For heavens sake.
send my spectacies at once. can't see.
left them in room Is night before last
Have this attended to at once"
sad Mr.. Kingsley, handing the dispatch
to Cashier Stokes.
The cashier went to the big safe back
of the key-rack and pulled out bask-
etful of gold watches, spectacles, rings
and other things. They had all been
left behind in the course of years by
guests of the hotel. The cashier fished
out from the collection pair of specta-
cles, to which was attached little tag
on which was written: ''Fouud in room
Is, September 3, 1884" Tho specta-
cles were immediately mailed to their
owner at Saratoga.
..Do you receive many communica-
tions like that telegram?' Times re-
porter asked.
..Yes; telegrams or letters inquiring
for watches, rings, poeket-books, and
everything traveller carries, come to
us every day. We've got lots of things
that have not been asked for. We shall
keep them so long as we have hotel
here. Everything found is put away
and carefully tagged with its history
'tDo guests frequently leave valuables
after themp" said Clerk Cormack, of
the Girard House. echoing the report
er's question. II should say they did;
SO frequently, indeed, that we've got a
man. known as the property clerk.
whose duty it Is to take charge OF
everything left in the rooms and try to
trace the owners. Sometimes he sue
ceeds and sometimes he does not. Only
this morning we received letter in
quiring for seal ring that was left on
a wash-stand. The writer said he VAL
ued the ring because it was an heir
loom. We hunted up the mans name
on the register and found what room
he had occupied and then went to the
rings on its way now to Wheeling, w.
Va. A guest with barely time to make
a train and thousand and one things
to do in that time will be pretty sure to
leave pair of slippers under the bed, q
night-gown under the pillow, or a
watch on the mantelpiece, or an um-
brella or cane in the corner of the
room. General Simon Cameron, with
just three minutes to reach the Broad
Street Station, started one morning in
a carriage for the eleven o'clock train.
Ten minutes afterward | was surprised
to see him walk into the hotel Office.
I had to let the train GO, he said,
lalghingly; I left my spectacles up
stairs. / can't go without them;
swear by 'em.' A porter found the
glasses, but General Cameron had to
stay until $50 before he got another
train.
.'Last week patron of the house,
who lives in Harrisburg, came down
and staid over night. When he came
to the office in the morning to pay his
bill he fumbled through his pockets.
looked at me with puzzled expression,
and said: 1 haven't any money; why,
I've been robbed. I know I'll about it
now. | went to theater last night,
and afterward rode in horse-car. The
car was crowded, and / stood up and
grasped strap with my right hand,
that pulled my coat sway from my
vest. had $500 in bills in one roll in
my right-hand vest pocket Of course
he didn't pay his hotel bill, and / even
had to loan him SO to take him back
to Harrisburg. He hadn't got twenty
miles out of town before the chamber
maid who fixed up the room that he
had occupied brought the mans roll
down to the Office. She said she found
it under the pillow of his bed. l tele-
graphed to Harrisburg, and that night
received reply telling me to take the
amount of the hotel bill and SO out of
the roll and transfer the remainder by
telegraph. We had hot time here
several months ago about lady's soli-
taire diamond earring. She lost it in
bed, and made great time about her
! loss. We took all the furniture apart,
ripped up the carpets. in fact pulled
everything out of the room, but the
diamond could not be found. The wo-
man accused the poor chambermaid Of
stealing it, but we felt satisfied that
| the servant was innocent. Two months
afterwaxd the diamond was found in
the mattress. 1t had caught under one
of the buttons that hold the hair in
| place, and had remained secreted there
all that time.
.'We have several watches in the safe
that have been left under pillows, few
pairs of bracelets, lots of gum shoes
and slippers, bookcase full of novels,
packs of playing-cards, pocket-kniyes,
razors, hair brushes and combs, and
various other things i suppose enough
to start regular pawn-broker's auc-
tion store. There is any number of
umbrellas and canes. But night-gowns
beat everything. They have been ac-
cumulating for years, and we've got
over five hundred of them, some elabo-
rately embroidered. A few are trimmed
with expensive lace and great many
are prettily marked with the owners
initials. Hardly day passes without
our receiving letter asking after the
fate of certain n;ght-gown. Some
wouldn't admit the ownership of them
if we should forward them. I received
letter from lady this morning ask
ing us to look up night-gown that was
left here more than two months ago.
I suppose we'll be able to find it.
Nearly every day night-gewn is sent
to the laundry; a label is then put on
it, showing the room it was found in
and the date, and then it is packed
away with the other night-gowns to be
: kept until called for. There are hun
dred of them, yellow with age Annie
: Pixley, the actress, left a white satin
nioht-dress here the last time she
PLAYED in this city. It was embroidered
all down the front with dozen differ
, ent kinds of sewing silk, and must have
cost seventy-five dollars. We sent it tc
her in q few days after she left here. -
Philadelphia Times.
"A policeman who was patrollins
MontcaIm street east the other day