Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-09-11
DANDY HOTEL GUESTS.
A Veteran Clerk Tells of a Few Encounter
He Has Had.

hotel countersP" asked George Fuller,
clerk of the Russell House, replying to
aquestion.
Eyes, that's about it."
"Well," said the clerk, 81 have in
the course of my experience, met sever
al rather noted travelling men. Now,
when l was day clerk of the Hame-
hameha House in Honolulu"
"Here, come off on that"
''Do you want to hear my story or
not, young fellowP"
''YeS. of course"
"Well, then, don't make any unnec-
cSsary comments. Now, to proceed.
When | was clerk of the house there
arrived very high-torel Kanaka from
Waui in the Hawaii Island. He came
over in little boat. He wore plug,
and nothing else to speak of except
some highly -interesting flesh-tint illus
trat,Ons. He engrossed his name on
the register, l gave him check for
lis grip, took his overcoat-you see
they have no bell boys in the hotels of
Hawaii"
"Ain't you getting little tangled
upP"
Il should curl my mustache that 1
wasn't. We ought to have had bell
boys, but we didn't"
Il didn't mean that l simply de-
sired to intimate that saying the fellow
was naked and had an overcoat in the
same breath Is rather suggestive Of in
consistency
We'll, are you telling this storyP"
"No, but"
VERY well, then, you keep still and
take reef in your jaw, while pro-
coed. He asked: What's the price of
your finest room, first floor, front, with
BATH? | told him, and l gave him q
figure high enough to buy the ransom
OF Kalakua. He planked down two
weeks pay at this figure all in crisp,
brand new United States green.
backs"
New greenbacks in the Sandwich
Islands? Now. George"
..'Shut up! You're listening. I'm
telling the story. was little para
lived already, but when he asked for
the worst room in the house l was
simply killed dead. The fellow said, i
know I'll get it, anyway, so asked for
it. You can charge the figure YOU
have specified, however, He flew
very high while while he stayed. We
(ondled him too, you bet, for he was
altogether the tlushest guest we had
hadin months. But when he left-it
makes me kick myself yet to even think
of tive discovered that the money he
had paid was counterfeitv'
He was good deal of a dandy,
wasn't hep"
Quite, but he couldn't compare
with n lady boarder that | had with me
when | clerked in the Alexandrovitch
KotZebue House in Sitka in 1S64-that
was lefore America invested in Alaska.
She drove up one afternoon in phae.
ton drawn by four white horses
Here, here. l can't stand every.
thingr'
"Wcll, it's for you to hear-you're
right. But quit your Ginning and
Listen. She alighted rather grandly
and greeted me smilingly. She or
dcred the whole first floor assigned tc
her and | consulted the proprietor, and
we laid ourselves out to accommodate
our distinguished guest. She said she
was the Countess Rolcaczy, whose
husband had been appointed by the I'm
perial Government Governor of Rus
sian-America. He would arrive by the
next Pacific steamer from Petropau-
lovski, Kamschatka, where he was To-
Gated. The commandant at Sitka gave
in his allegiance all right and for a
time the Countess reigned in great
shape Everything went swimmingly
until she began to get large advances
on credit from all the Sitka banks"
Banks? This is too much"
"Will you quit interruptingp We
thought it was little queer that she
did not offer to pay us some portion OF
her very large hotel bill One night
the Countess disappeared, and she left
great deal ahead of Sitka. ] was dis.
charged next week for not having de-
tectcd her as fraud at first sight"
'Who was shep"
"a milliner-named Smith-from
San Francisco"
but these cases are of rank swim
oilers. can't SEQ that they were ad
mirable guests. 1 mean guests thai
delighted your soul"
when | leased the Hotel de Fem
pereur Napoleon on St. Helena, / gave
a Brazilian nobleman an inside room,
four floors up near the kitchen, and he
never kicked. He was darling. Then
again when l kept the END of the
World at Cape Horn, my only guests
were Argentine and Gillian General,
who were holding Terra del Fucgc
for their respective powers. Grub got
little short. You know Port Famine
is in that region, and we had to feed
the boys once in awhile on soup made
from able-bodied Fuegians. The Gen
erals entered no protest. When
clerked in the 'Geyser' at the base o.
MT. Hecla In Iceland"
That settles it. You yank the bel
away from Ananias in the greatest kline
of shape"
4. And the clerks victim made hi,
escape, with something about The
"Grsnd Llama's Delight" at Lassa il
Thibct and the virtues of Buddhist
priest who stopped there ringing in his
ears as parting shot-DctroH Ere,
Press.