The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-10-06


Kingsley in the Continental Hotel and
handed him telegram. Mr.. Kingsley
tore open the envelope and read this
message:
SARATOGA sPRISGs-For heavens sake.
send my spectacieS at once. 1 can't see
tett them IN room Is night before last.
''Have this attended to at once
sad Mr.. Kingsley, handing the dispatch
to Cashier Stokes.
The cashier went TO the big safe back
, OF the key-rack and pulled out bask-
etful of gold watches, spectacles, rings
and other things. They had all been
left behind in the course Of wears by
guests of the hotel. The cashier fished
out from the collection pair of specta-
cles, To which was IT. ached little tao
on which was written: Found in room
Is, September 3. 1884" The specta-
cles were immediately mailed to their
owner at Saratoga.
"Do you receive many cOmmunica-
tons like that telegram" Times re-
porter asked.
"fes; 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 rs we have hotel
here. Everything found is put away
and carefully tagged with it's history"
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 =
man. known as the property clerk.
whose duty il 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
ued 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 10 the
safe and found the ring labeled. The
rings on its way now TO Wheeling, w.
Va A guest with baSely time to make
a train and thousand and one things
To do in that time will be pretty sure to-
leave pair of slippers under the bed,
night-gOwn under the pillow, or
watch on the mantelpiece, or an UNI |
brella or cane in the corner of the
room. General Simon Cameron. with
Just three minutes to reach the Broad
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
Il had Co let the train CO. he said,
laughingly; L left my spectacles up
stairs. 1 can't 90 without them;
swear by EN- a porter found the
glasses, but General Cameron had to
stay until $50 before he got another
train.
Last week a patron of the house,
who lives in Harrisburg. came down
and staid ever night. When he came
to- the office in the morning to pay his
bill he fumbled through his pockets.
looked ut me- with q puzzled expression,
and said: K haven't any money; why.
I've been robbed. ( know all shout it
now. weTt to theater last night,
AMI a!tcrwarl rode II hOrSe-csr The
car was crowded, and | stood mp and
graspcd strap with my right hand. |
that pulled nv coat away from nv !
vest. ] had $500 in hills in one -oll in !
my right-hand vest pocket OF course !
he didn't pay his hotel bill. and | even
had TO loan him 80 10 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 mars ro1
down to the eficc. She said she found |
it under the pillow of his bed. tele- |
graphei To- Harrisburg, and that night !
received Il ply telling me To take the !
amount of the hotel bill and 80 out of
the roll and transfer the remainder by
We had q hot time here !
several months ago about lady'S sOli-
taire diamond earring. She lost 1t 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 wO-
man accused the poor chamberm3id o.
stealing il. but we felt sat SIZED that
the servant vas innOgent. Two months
aSterward the diamond WAS found III
the mattress. 1t had caught under one
of the buttons that hold the hair in
pace, and had remained sec 'eted there
all that time
1--WE have several watches in the safe
that have been lett under pillows, few
pairs os bracelets. lots of gum shoes
and slippers. n book case full Of moves.
packs OF play ng-card~. pocket-kniyeS.
razors, hair-brushes and combs, and
various other things-I suppose enough
to- start regular pawn-broSer auc-
ton store. There Is any number of
and canes. But night-gowns
beat everything. They have been &C
for years, and we've got
over i've hundred of them. some elabo-
rately embroidered. 4 few are trimmed
with expensive lace and 4 great many
are prettily marked with the owners
initials. Hardly day passes without
our receiving a letter asking after the
fate of a certain n;ght-gown. Some
people won't write for them, and
wouldn't admit the ownership OF them
if we should forward them. L received