St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-25
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SARATOGA spnrNGs-For heavens sake.
Pend my speetacles at once. i can't see. ]
eft them in room Is night before last.
.'Have this attended to at once. -
Baid Mr.. Kingsley, handing the dispatch
10 Cashier Stokes.
The cashier went to the big safe back
of the key-rack and pulled out a bask-
etfu! of gold watches, speetaeles, 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: 'Found ia room
Is, September 3, 1884, The Specta-
cles were immediately mailed to their
owner at Saratoga.
"Doyou receive many communica-
ti9ns like that telegram" 9 Times re-
porter asked.
''Yes; kilograms or letters inquiring
for watches, rings. ocket-books, and
everything traveller carries, come to
as 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"
s'Do guests frequently leave valuables
after them?' 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
uel 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
safe and found the ring labeled. The
rings on its way now to Wheeling, w.
Va. A CREST with barely time to make
a train and a thousand and one things
to do in that time will be pretty sure to
leave a pair of slippers under the bed, a
night-gown under the pillow, or a
watch on the mantelpiece. or an UNI
brella or cane in the corner of the
room. General Simon Cameron, with
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Street Station, started one morning in
carriage for the eleven o'clock train.
Ten minutes afterward / was surprised
to see him walk into the hotel office
y had to let the train go, he said,
iaughingly; 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: 4 haven't any money; why,
I've been robbed. / know all 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 away from my
vest. I had $500 In bills in one roll in
my right-hand vest pocket OF course
he didn' pay his hotel bill, and even
had to loan him $40 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
il under the pillow of his bed. tele-
graphed to Harrisburg, and that night
received a reply telling me to take the
amount of the hotel bill and $40 out Of
the roll and transfer the remainder by
telegraph. We had hot time here
several months ago about a lady's soli-
taire diamond earring. She lost it in
bed, and made great time about her
loss. We took sill 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 sat sled that
the servant was innocent. Two months
afterward tho dianio Ill wa, found in
the mattress. 1t had caught under one
of the buttons that hold the hair in
place, and had remained seceeted there
all that time.
awe have several watches in the sale
that have been left under pillows, few
pairs of bracelets, lots of gum shoes
and slippers, q book case full of novels,
packs al playing-e ards, pocket-knives,
razors, haiT-brushes and combs, and
various other things II suppose enough
to start d regular pawn-broker 8 auc.
ton store. There is any number of
umbrellas and canes. Bat 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 ands a great many
are prettily marked with the owners
initials. Hardly a day passes without
an. r.nc,aiuirnn. q letter asking after the