Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22
N HOTEL GUESTS.
A Veteran Clerk-Tells ora Few Encounters
He Has Had.

A Veteran Clerk Tell ofa Few Encountsfs
He Has Had.
"Who was the most admirable guest
l ever came across in my career behind
hotel counters?" asked George Fuller,
clerk of the Russell House, replying to
a question. Y
Eyes, that's about it." +
SWELL" said the clerk, 81 have in
the course of my experience, met sever
al rather noted travelling men. Now,
when 1 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 fellow"
H. eyes, of course"
"Well, then, don't make any rnnec-
essary comments. Now, to, proceed.
When 1 was clerk of the house there
arrived a very heightened Kanaka from
Waui in the Hawaii Island. He came
over in a little boat. He wore a plug,
and nothing else to speak of except
some notwithstanding fiesh-tin, illus
!trations. He engrossed his name on
the register. I 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 a little tangled
Il should curl my mustache that [
wasn't. We ought to have had bell
boys, but we didn't"
81 didn't mean that. I simply de-
Qira6 to infinofo that oor:,r %Lo fol1o-,
was naked and had an overcoat in the
same breath is rather suggestive of in
consistency"
well, are you telling this storyP"
Every well, then, you keep still and
take a reef in your jaw, while l pro-
coed. He asked: Whats the price of
your finest room, first floor, front, with
'bath?' 1 told him, and 1 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 grecnbacks in the Sandwich
Islands? Now, George"
Shut up! You're listening. I'm
telling the story. I was a little para
lyzed already, but when he asked for
the worst room in the house [ was
simply killed dead. The fellow said, 4
know I'll get it, anyway, so 1 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 hushest guest we had
had in months. But when he left-it
makes mo kick myself yet to even think
of tive discovered that the money he
had paid was counterfeit
'.He was a good deal of a dandy,
wasn't he?"
"Quite, but he couldn't compare
with a lady boarder that I had with me
when [ clerked in the Aexandrovitch
Kotzebue House in Sitka in 1S64-that
was before America invested in Alaska,
She drove up one afternoon in a phae.
ton drawn by four white horses"
"Here, here. l can't stand every.
thing!'
"Well it's for you to hear-you're
right. But quit your Ginning anc
listen. She alighted rather grand,
Q and greeted me smilingly. She or
dered the whole first floor assigned t.
her and 1 consulted the proprietor, an.
we laid ourselves out to accommodate
our distinguished guest. She said sh'
was the Countess Rolcaczy, who's
husband had been appointed by the I'm
perial Government Governor of Rus
isian-America. He would arrive by tn,
next Pacific steamer from Petropau
lovski, Kamschatka, where he was 10
Gated, The commandant at Sitka CAV,
in his allegiance all right and for T:
time the Countess reigned in great
shape. Everything went swimmingly
until she began to get large advance!
on credit from all the Sitka banks
"Banks? This is too much"
evil you quit interruptingP W.
thought it was a little queer that SHE
did not offer to pay us some portion o
her very large hotel bill. One nigh
the Countess disappeared, and she lef
a great deal ahead of Sitka. Twas dis
charged next week for not having de
tected her as a fraud at first sight"
"Who was shep"
! ga milliner-named Smith-from
San Francisco"
"But these cases are of rank swim
dlers. 1 can't see that they were ad
mirable guests. I. mean guests tina
delighted your SOUL"
!! .'When I leased the Hotel de rEm
| pereur Napoleon on St. Helena, I CAV.
a Brazilian nobleman an inside room
four floors up neal the kitchen, and b.
never kicked. He was a darling. Their
, again when I kept the End of tn,
| World at Cape Horn, my only guest:
were Argentine and Gillian General!
+ who were holding Terra del Fuegt
for their respective powers. Grub go
a little short. You know Port Famine
is in that region, and we had to feee
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 kind
of shape"
And the clerks victim made his
escape, with something about the
"Grand Llama's Delight" at Lassa in
Thibet and the virtues Of a Buddhist
priest who stopped there ringing in his
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