Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-09-28

not nave time to make the remark 'Oucn
before his soul. sub a. il was. had TO give |
What d. you notice MOSTLY about the |
guests wnen they cofne In
We'll. dge them q good de al by their
bags. Yea can't always tell by clothes. but |
htTe '-psh docking. shiny baggage. Ex-
pcrlehced travellers have sensible, but moro
Or lese Seather-i ten bags and trunksi"
.whT IS II general failing among
The general failing is to re,ar- 'ho key
" the reom. went up with man yester-
thBt said his key didn't 1T and he
eoustn;t open hi, door, When I looked at
the kevIeaw it belonged III Philadelphia,
He iaueSed kind OF foolish and pulled ont
longsd 4, Yopng's Hotel in boston. He
mad keyF eSer3 pocket that belonged to
some other hotel. Item some folks get
the number o. theif room mixed m with
hS y n" SaT or s ssd peI9aPs in anothO,
that kind last weekHed,itwould have made
great deal OF troubls II the matter had
not been hu1hed Up at fps,oface.:"
what do ecu do when . shcst enters the
hotel?'
Why Front. whoever From ntptens Ia
the handle on the guests bak. cartStt sw r
and conceal 1t somewhere adstkAp 10
luS'antiy and y when the ordrEttsHNs Nor
DO yot have many sauabblcs with tic
! other bell-b5ts2"
NO. we get along ali right and have rso
! fuss. We swap stories too when we na-s a
| slack day. and get little Iun that way. /
| knew n bell-b boy once that used to work at
the Lahr House. at Lafayette, Ind. He
| worked there quite awhile. One day they
| sent him up TO call No. -. No. - didn't
say anything, and 80 they concluded that
| something might be wrong and they told
a. J. al a 4.
the transom 10 see If No. 10 was there
Who was number 1877"
why. he was kind OF intertor some
/ how. He had been staying at the LAIR
| House week or so, believe. and carry
| ing up tools and pieces OF board and stuff
because no was building some kind OF a
| machine and was quiet about it Tor fear
| some one wotld beat him out Of tho patent.
| he sai9. Wen. anyway. they put this boy
| up TO the tralisUm ard il was dark in there.
, SO thev allowed he'd have to set inside and
| light the gas to see what was the trChble!
| 1t was little feller ana nimbie as weasel
| and so no got over there and struck Il
| match. Shortly after that he came out
again by unlocking the door from tho In
| side. He was quite pale and said that he
| wished that hereafter they would put some
other boy ihrcugh the transom whenever
they had any curiosity about people. Other
wise he would want more pay. No 70 had.
1t Gems. got his machine done the night
be ore, ana mad tried IL to see II II would
work, 1t was a kind of meat AK. running in
SrCoYs Ike the French DOfunny. and II
was htng with cord and trigger, fixed 80
that Il little thread that run tho trigger was
pulled through wax candle. man could
load uD with morphine or something kind
Of soothing like that, lay down with his
head on the upholstered head-rest,
light the candle ard go to sleep.
He had CREASED tip the running
glass Of the thing and then began tC
experiment. 1t worked first rate. Ihcy
didn't have an autopsy. Friends thought
it WASH necessary. The practice of putting
I bellboys into rooms that wey is becoming
outre, | think. We could not get any reply
out OF an old man in ~ last summer, Ard
so the clerk put me In over the transom
The old man was somewhat deaf and did
not know what my motive was In coming
over the door that way. He was Just about
to take bath rs came In. He was not
expecting me. but he rallied and took me
by the clothing with firm grasp. Hc then
inserted mo In the bath tub six or eight
times and threw ont thrfptpl the tran