The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-05-19
DANDY HOTEL GUESTS.
4 Veteran Clerk Tells of Few Enceuntess
He Has Had.

He Has Had.
'Who was the most admirable CUES,
L ever came across in my career behind
hotel counters?" asked George Fuller,
clerk of the Russell House, replying to
question.
"Yes, that's about it."
SWELL" said the clerk, "I 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
oot, young fellows"
Eyes, of course"
swell, then, don't make any unnec.
essary comments. Now, to proceed.
When | was clerk of the house there
arrived a very heightened Kanaka from
Waui in the Hawaii Island. He came
over N little boat. He wore plug,
and nothing else to speak of except
some notwithstanding flesh-tint illus
tratiOns. He engrossed his name on
the register. gave him a check for
his grip. took his overcoat-you see
they have no bell boys in the hotels of
Hawaii"
Amt you getting little tangled
al should curl my mustache that L
wasn't. We ought to have had bel,
boys. but we didn't"
81 didn't mean that. I 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"
Well, are you telling this story?"
mo, but"
Every well, then, you keep still and
take a 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 a
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 upi You're listening. I'm
telling the story. was little para
lived already, but when he asked for
the worst room in the house / was
simply killed dead. The fellow said, i
know I'll get it, anyway, so i asked fol-
it. You can charge the figure you
have specified, however, He flew
very high while while he stayed. We
fondled him too, you bet, for he was
altogether the flushest guest we had
had in months. But when he left-it
makes me kick myself vet to even think
of tive discovered that the money he
had paid was counterfeit
'He was good deal of a dandy.
wasn't he?"
'Quite, but he couldn't compare
with lady boarder that had with me
when / clerked in the Alexandrovitch
Kotzebue House in Sitks in 1S64-that
was before America invested in Alaska.
She drove up one afternoon in phae-
ton drawn by four white horses"
"Here, here. can't stand every
thingr'
"Well, 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
dered the whole first floor assigned to
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
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 interrupting? 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
q great deal ahead of Sitka. was dis
charged next week for not having de-
tected her as fraud at first sight"
"Who was she?"
"a milliner-named Smith-from
San Francisco"
"But these cases are of rank swim.
oilers. can't see that they were adj
guests. l mean guests that
delighted your soul"
when L leased the Hotel de PEm-
pereur Napoleon on st. Helena, / gave
q Brazilian nobleman an inside room,
four floors up near the kitchen, and he
never kicked. He was darling. Then
again when I kept the END of the
World at Cape Horn, my only guests
were Argentine and Gillian Generals
who were holding Terra del Fuego
for their respective powers. Grub got
q little short. You know Port Famine
p in that region, and we had to feed
the boys once in awhile on soup made
from able-bodied Fuegisns. The Cen
erals entered no protest. When 1
clerked in the 'Geyser' at the base of