The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-07-25
DANDY HOTEL GUESTS.
A Veteran Clerk Tells of Few Encounters
He Has Had.

He Has Had.
''Who was the most admirable guest
/ ever came across in my career behind
hotel countersp" asked George Fuller,
clerk of the Russell House, replying to
question.
Eyes, that's about it,"
WELL" said the clerk, al 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"
Eyes, of course"
"Well, then, don't make any unnec>
essary comments. Now, to proceed.
When I was clerk of the house there
arrived very heightened 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
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"
"Ain't you getting little tangled
upp'
Il should curl my mustache that l
wasn't. We ought to have had bell
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"
We'll, are you telling this storyP"
mo, but"
every 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
bathP' l told him, and 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 up! You're listening. I'm
telling the story. l was little para
lyzed 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 asked for
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 fushest guest we had
had in months. But when he left-it
makes me kick myself yet to even think
of tive discovered that the money he
had paid was counterfeitr'
He was good deal of dandy,
wasn't hep"
"Quite, but he couldn't compare
with a lady boarder that had with me
when / clerked in the Alexandrovitch
Kotzebue House in Sitka in 1864-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
thing"
"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 commandment 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"
"Banksp This is too much"
"Will you quit interruptingP We
thought it was a 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
a great deal ahead of Sitka. Twas dis
charged next week for not having de-
tected her as fraud at first sight
"Who was sheP"
"a milliner-named Smith-from
San Francisco.
''But these cases are of rank swim
dlers. / can't see that they were adj
mirable guests. | mean guests that
delighted your soul"
when leased the Hotel de rEm-
pereur Napoleon on st. Helena, gave
a Brazilian nobleman an inside room,
four floors up near the kitchen, and he
never kicked, He was a darling. Then
again when | kept the End of the
World at Cape Horn, my only guests
were Argentine and Gillian Generals
who were holding Terra del Fuegc
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"
And the clerks victim made hi
escape, with something about tn,
''Grand Llama's Delight at Lassa il
Thibet and the virtues of Buddhis
priest who stopped there ringing in hi
ears as a parting shot.-Detroa FIRE.
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