Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-10-27
Gales aud Sketthes.
Forgotten yaluables.

the envelope and read this message:
SARATOGA srRIsGs-For heavens sake, send my
ssectacles at once. can't see. l 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 basketful
of gold watches. spectacles, rings and
other things. they had all been left be-
hind in the course of years by guests OF
the hotel. The cashier fished out from
the collection a pair OF spectacles. to
which was attached little tag on which
was written: Found in room Is, Sept.
3, 1884" The spectacles were immedi-
ately mailed TO their owner at Saratoga.
do you receive many communications
like that telegram % Times reporter
asked.
Yes; kilograms or letters inquiring
for watches, rings, pocket-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 care
FULLY tagged with its history"
"Do guests frequently leave valuables
after them ?'' said Clerk Cormack, of the
Girard House. echoing the reporters ques-
ton. II should say they did. so frequent
w, indeed, that we've got a man known
as the property clerk, whose dnty it is to
take 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
letter inquiring tor a seal ring that was
left on a washstand. The writer said he
valued the ring because it was an heir
loom. We hunted up the mans name on
the register, and what room he had occu-
pied and then went to the safe and found
the ring labelled. The rings on its way
now, to Wheeling, w. Va. guest with
barely time to make train and n thou
sand and one things to do in that time will
/ be pretty sure to leave pair OF slippers
under the bed, night gown under
the ellow, or a watch on the mantle
piece. or an umbrella or cane in the cor
ner OF the room. General Simon Gamer
on, with lust three minutes to reach the
Broad Street Station. started one morning
| in a carriage for the eleven O'Clock train.
/ Ten minutes afterwards | was surprised
to see him walk into the hotel office. Il
/ had to let the train GO he said, laugh
/ ingly; II left my spectacles upstairs. |
swear by EN- A porter found the glass
e5. but General had to stay until 80 be-
/ fore he got another train.
| Last week a patron Of the house, who
/ lives in Harrisburg, came down and sta d
over night. When he came to the office
In the morning to pay his bill he tumbled
| through his pockets, looked at me with Il
! puzzled expression, and said i haven't
| any money; why, Eve been robbed. /
! know all about it now. | went to a theatre
last night. and afterwards rode in horse
car. The car was crowded, and | stood
up and grasped ii strap with my right
hand, that pulled my coat away from my
vest. | had 5000 in bills in one roll in
my right-hand vest pocket or 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 20 miles out
of town before the chambermald 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. telegraphed to Harrisburg, and
that night received reply telling me to
take the amount of the hotel bill and $40
out of the roll and transfer the remainder
bv express. We had a hot time here
several months ago about lady's solitaire
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 woman accused the poor
chambermaid of stealing it, but we felt
[ Al. III, inn mt
Two months atterward the diamond was
found in the mattress. 1t had caught un
der one of the buttons that hold 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. book case full of novels, packs
of playing cards, pocket knives. razors,
hair brushes and combs, and various other
things-I suppose enough to start regu-
lar pawn brokers' auction store. There
is any number of umbrellas aud canes.
But night gowns beat everything. They
have been accommodating for years, and
we've got over 500 of them, some elabor-
atelv embroidered A few are trimmed
with expensive lace. and great many are
prettiy marked with the owners initials.
Hardly day passes without our receiving
a letter asking after the fate of a certain
night gown. Some people won't write
: for them and wouldn't admit the owner.
ship of them if we should forward them.
: received letter from lady this morning
asking US to look up night gown that
was left here more than two months ago.
suppose Wen be able to find it. Nearly
every day a night gown 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 a hundred of them yellow with
age. Annie Pixley, the actress. left a
white satin night dress here the last time
she played in this city. 1t was embroider-
ed all down the front with dozen differ
ent kinds of sewing silk, and must have
cost $75. We sent it to her in a few days
| after she left here. Philadelphia Times.
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