The Mineral argus., 1884-10-16
IT ~vALUABLEs.
quests Who Leave Their Property a. the
Hotels They Frequent.
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"For Heavens sake send my spectacles at
once. 1 can't see. I left them in room Is
night before last"
Have this attended to at once" said
Mr.. Kingsley, handing the dispatch to
Cashier Stokes.
The cashier went to the big safe back
of the key rack and pulled out a basket
full of gold watches, spectacles, rim gs
and other things. They had all been
left behind in the course of years by
guests of the hotel. The cashier 6shed
out from the collection a pair of specta-
cles, to which was attached a little tag
on which was written Found in room
Is, September 3, 1884," The specta-
clez were Immediately mailed to their
owner at Saratoga.
do you receive many communion
tons like that telegram? ?" a Times re-
porter asked.
Eyes; kilograms or letters inquiring
for watches, rings, pocket-books and
everything a traveller carries come to us
every day. We've got lots of things
that have not been asked for. We shall
keep them 50 long as we have a hotel
here. Everything found is put away and
carefully IdAHb0 MAJn = hAobOAJ
"Do guests frequently leave valuables
after them?" said Clerk Cormack, of
the Girard House, echoing the report
ers question. AZ should say they do;
so frequently, indeed, that we've got a
man, known as property clerk, whose
duty it Is tostake charge of everything
left in the rooms and try to trace the
owners. Sometimes he succeeds and
sometimes he does not. Only this
morning we received a letter inquiring
for a seal ring that was left on a wash
stand. The writer said that he val ued
the ring because it was an heirloom.
We hunted up the mans name on the reg
ister and found what room he had occu-
pied and then went to the safe and
found the ring labeled. The rings on
its way down to Wheeling, W. Va. A
guest with barely time to make the train
and a thousand n things to do in tn at
time will be pretty sure to leave a pair
Of slippers under the bed, a night gown
under the pillow, Dr. a watch on the
mantel- peice, or an umbrella or cane In
the corner of the room. Gen. Simon
Cameron, with just three minutes to
reach the Broad Street Station, started
one m orning in a carriage to meet the
IL o'clock train. Ten minutes after
ward L was surprised to see him walk
into the hotel office. j had to let the
train CO. he said laughingly, i left my
spectacles upstairs. l can't go with
out them; 1 swear by EN- A porter
found the glasses, but Gen. Cameron,
had TO stay until 5:3O before be got an
other train.
Last week a 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
up at me with a puzzled expression and
said: 4 haven't any money; why, I've
been robbed. l know all about it now.
[ went to the theatre last night, and
afterwards rode in a horse car. The
car was crowded, and / stood up and
grasped a strap with my right hand
that pulled my coat away from my vest.
I had 5000 in bills in one roll in my
right hand vest pocket Or course he,
couldn't pay his hotel bill, and 1 even
had to lend 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 of bills
down to the Office. She said she
found it under the pillow of his bed.
[ telegraphed to Harrisburg that
night received a reply telling Ee
to take the amount of the hotel
bill and $40 out of the roll and transfer
the remainder by telegraph. We had
a hot time here several months ago about
a lady's solitaire diamond earring. She
lost it in bed and made q great time
about her loss. We took all the furni-
ture apart, ripped up the carpets; in
fact, pulled everything out of the ROOM.
But the diamond could not be found.
The woman accused the poor chamber
maid of stealing it, but we felt satisfied
that the servant was innocent. Two
months afterward the diamond was
found in the mattress. 1t had caught
under one of the buttons that holds the
hair in place and had remained secreted
there all that time.
1--WE have several watches in the safe
that have been left under pillows, a few
pairs of bracelets, lots of gum shoes and
slippers, a book case full of novels,
pack of playing cards, pocket-knives,
razors, hair brushes and combs and va
rious other things-I suppose enough
to start a regular pawnbroker's auction
store. There is any number of um-
brellas and canes. But night-gowns
beat everything. They have been accu-
mulating for years and we've got over
500 of them, some deliberately embroid-
cred. A few are trimmed with expen-
siva lace and a great MANY are p%rettilv