The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-02-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Exciting Narrative of a SHE
Company.
RESTRICTING THE BATHS.
Serious Aspect of the Grave hop"i"s
Bus:ness-SmAll Tricks OF ARMY
Omcers-Etc., Etc.
RESTRICTING THE BATHS.
WAsH1NeroN, D. c., Feb. 81, 1888


brace of death By a vigilant Waterman,
whose sense of smell detected gaseous
odor crawling from under the Texans
door there has not been so much fun at
q weII-known uptown hotel as there was
shortly after IL o'clock Saturday night.
1t was midnight. and as the antique
novelist has so frequently said 'sllence
brooded DER the city" The clatter OF
glasses in tbs bar had ceased, or was
about to cease, and the weary porter
was trying to steal forty winks while
resting his tired limbs on the downy
side Of a Saratoga trunk. The nieht
clerk leaned over the counter and con-
versed eloquentiy with reporter on
the remarkably elegant and high-toned
crowd of ladies and gentlemen which
on that particular night were occupy
ing palatial apartments in that hos
teiry.
Up stairs in large and comfortably
furnished room sat two gentlemen, pill
grims and strangers. They were dis
cussing matters of Importance to them
selves and 10 the State which they were
for the time representing. Everything
to them, had roseate hue; no carking
care disturbed their thoughts, no visions
of aught but success intruded them
selves on such festive occasion.
Tap, tap, tap.
The sound came from door which
connected the room they were N with
an adjoining apartment, but neither of
the gentlemen made any move to get
up, for neither imagined that any one
in the next room desired admission.
Bang, bang, bang!
That was the second alarm, and it was
followed Immediately by an appealing
For Gods sake let me I'M"
tits woman" said one.
In al instant the other man reached
the door, unlocked it. and threw it
open. A vision of female loneliness,
clad in a remarkably abbreviated un-
dergarment, dashed through the door
way, and sought shelter in a large
closet on the opposite side of the room.
Before the two blushing males had time
to inquire of each other as to the mean
ing of this extraordinary move on the
part of lady, who had not even gone
through the formality of an introduce
ton, shot was fred and they both
rushed out into the corridor to i1vesti-
gate the cause for such behavior at that
hour of the night. Immediately in
front of the door of the room from
whence had come the agile but not over
dressed female stood man, an excited
man, man with a "darkly-lowering
brow' and a siIver-mounted revolver.
The brow was situated just above his
ewes, but the deadly weapon was firmly
gripped in his hapG. Hate had nerved
his arm, and murderous disposition
impelled him to blow hole in the
panel of a new doc The neatness OF the
STYLE with which he was seized anu dis
armed would have been creditAble to
Brooks or a Pinkerton, and the mus
cular force exerted by his captors in
rushing him into their room would, if
properly directed, promote them to i'm
portant positions as baggage smashers
or pugilists.
The unhappy wretch was bundled into
a chair, and an explanation was de-
manded from him, but his lips were
sealed Oh that point; the only scrap of
information he vouchsafed was that all
the persons concerned in the affair were
members of the She" COMPANY. which
had been playing at the National
Theatre Questions of all sizes, shapes,
and descriptions were asked him, but
{probably on the ground that they were
leadingl he steadfastiy refused to reply.
He was then informed that he would
be turned over to the auth rites, and
one gentleman went down stairs to pro-
cure extradition papers, and make the
necessary arrangements while his part
ner watched the prisoner with an eagle
eye. AS the door slammed behind the
man who was going below, the closet
door opened and out walked man
whose sole covering was a shirt cut de-
colette at the tail, and whose principal
feature was bleeding nose. This was
astonishing to the watcher, and we'll
it mig ut be, for only little while before
woman had taken refuge in the closet,
and now man, just as scantily clad,
issued forth. The transformation was
an extraordinary one, and the wonder
ing gentleman iuvoluntarily came to
the conclusion that there was something
unearthly and supernatural about that
-,Shen crowd, and it would not have
added anything to his surprise had that
ludicrous creation of Haggard's stalked
forth and rushed the whole crowd into
eternity with that awful forefnger of
hers.
The situation was very funny oDe
In big rocking-chsir sat the prisoner,
and with his back against the door
stood his captor, while over near The
closet door was the semi-nude man with
The eucrimson4 nasal proturerance.
We'll. remarked tn. gentleman who
was proppine up the door, where is
the rest OF your troupe? Why don't
you bring on the entire Amhagger