Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-11-27
NYE ON HIS
Rie Describes a HosteIry Called the
Fifth Avenue Hotel.

FifEN AfCflUG TIOtSi.
| am writing this at an Imitation hcfeI
where the roads fork. / will call it the
railroad junction is generally called the
Fifth Avenue, or the Gem City house. or
the Palace hotel. ! stopped at al inn
some years since called the Palace, and I
can truly say that if it had ever been a
palace it was very much run down when |
visited it.
Just as the fond parent Of a white-eyed,
two-legged freak Of nature loves to name
his mentally & son Napoleon, andsfor
the same re t a prominent horse
owner in Iii. 81 yearsocked my name
en a tall. brck-skin colored colt that did
not resemble me, Intellectually or physic-
ally. a colt that did 10 know enough to go
around a barbed wire fence but sought to
sift himself through it into an untimely
grave, 50 this man has named his sway
backed wigwam the Fifth Avenue hotel.
1t is different from the Fifth Avenue in
many ways. In the Eirst place there is not
so much travel and business in its neigh
.borhood. As | said before, this is where
two railroads fork. In fact that is the
leading industry here. The growth Of the
town is naturally slow, but it is a healthy
growth. There is nothing in the nature
Of dangerous or wildcat speculation in the
advancement Of this place, and while there
has been 20 noticeable or rapid advance in
the principal business. there has been nc
falling off at all. and these roads are fork
ing as much today as they did before the
war. while the same three men who We're
present for the first glad moment are still
here to witness its operation.
Sometimes d train is derailed, as the pa
pers call it, and two OF three people have
te remain over, as we did all night. 1t is
at such a time that the Fifth Avenue hotel
IS the scene of great excitement. A large
Goldfish, with q broad and sunny smile and
his bosom full Of rock salt, is tied in the
creek to freshen and fit himself for the re-
sporsible position Of floor manage of the
Goldfish ball.
A pale chambermaid, wearing a black
Jersey with large pores in it through which
she is gently percolating, now goes joyous
1y up the stairs to make the little postotice
lock-box rooms look ten times worse than
they ever did before. She MARBLES a low
as she nimbly knocks loose the
venerable dust of centuries and sets it
afoatthroughout the rooms. All is hustle
about the house. Especially the chain
bermaid. We were put in the guests
chamber here. 1t has an atrophied bed
made up Of pins and counterpanes.
: This last remark conveys 10 the reader
the presence of a light joyous feeling
which is wholly assumed on my part.
The door of our room IS full of holes
where locks have been wrenched off in or
der to let the coroner in. Last night |
could imagine that I was in the act of
meeting, personally, the famous people
who have tIv4 ) her. and who
moaned through tins .. who died
Wnlle waiting TOT Ine uaWli.
The chambermaid is very versatile, and
waits on the table while not engaged in
agitating the overworked mattresses and
puny pillows upstairs. In this way she i'm
parts the odor Of fried pork to the pillow
cases and kerosene to the pie.
She has q wild, nervous and apprehen-
1ool, IL, how ayo as 4hprrh sba faoroI
that some herculean guest might seize her
in his great, strong arms and bear her
away to a justice of the peace and marry
her. She certainly cannot fully realize
how thoroughly secure she is from such a
calamity. She is just as safe as she was
forty years ago, when she promised her
aged mother that she would never elope
with anyone.
Still. she is sociable at times and con-
rerses freely with me at the table, as she
cans over my shoulder, pensively brush
ng the crumbs into my lap with a general
towel, which accompanies her in her
rarious rambles through the house, and
The asks which we would rather have
tea or eggs"
This afternoon we will pay L bill, in
accordance with a lifelong custom of ours,
nd go away to permeate the busy haunts
# men. 1t will be sad to tear ourselves
way from the Fifth Avenue hotel at this
lace; still, there is NO great loss without 4
ONE small gain, and at ON next hotel we Z
nay not have to chop our own wood and