The evening world., 1889-03-04

"Do people leave things in their rooms2 ~
interrogatively repeated Agent Frederick L.
Keith, OF the Astor House, TO the query Of an
EVENING World reporter. well, ] should
sayl Guests. you mean. Forget things
when they are going away? Oh, yes, lots OF
'em do"
Forget their watches and leave Their
jewels on their dresser. don't they ?" per-
sisted the curious one, in that free, social,
intimately acquainted tone which the man
Of the world always assumes when he adj
dresses the everybody's friend and walking
bureau of information who stands behind q
big diamond pin and a hotel clerks desk.
"Well-um-no, not watches and jewels
30 much. More frequently they forget to pay
their bills. and in their haste leave their trunks
behind. Canes and umbrellas, gloves, combs
and hair brushes, tooth brushes and the like,
most often, and nightshirts! oh, night
shirts by tho dozen. -
They take EN- of in the morning and
drop 'em on the bed. The chambermaid
puts 'em under the pillow. nicely folded.
The owner don't stay over another night,
and when he packs his valise. he forgets the
things =" pondered the scribe half aloud.
"Trunks? They are seized nine times out
of ten to settle the bill. We store them away
got a big store-room full now. Never
2 'em. We daren't. They are measley
cent outfit usually pays his bill. These
trunks that are left are poor, starved. pinched
-impecuniosities. Amt worth opening. We
f SRt ,ssS Dom Soa,4 after SSi5S q sye eSf or So - and Seli'em'
MIR. Keith's nose wrinkled in disgust at
the notion.
Who buys 'em OF auction ?" asked tie re-
who? Oh, the regulation auction
tiends. Toodles and other folks, you know.
Handy to nave in the house, like the coffin
plate for Thompson with o 'p.'"
And the umbrellas ?"
Left usually by absent-minded men who
send for them by telegraph from the first
station, or by people who don't want 'em any
longer. There's a hundred in the storeroom.
and If you find a silker among them you're
lucky. Bad, utterly bad: Not worth storage
room. But every one is ticketed for next Fall.
when the owner stops here again, he will re-
member that he LETT o brand new silker here.
just bought the day before"
The genial managers face was the picture
of mental distress at the thought of what
frauds his fellow-men were.
And the nightshirts 2" suggested ithe re-
porter, blithely.
The features Of the veteran hotel man re-
Taxed and broke into a genial smile.
Well, sir, they range, oil the way from
the unbleached. factory, homemade case of
y. daySeed, 10 the nfteen-dolIar, berut1ed,
b~efrilled and red Hamburged lah-de-dah Of
the real soft, tender dude. We ticket them,
too. and lay them away.
Guests who stop at regular intervals call
for their forgotten night robes on their next
trip. But we have o couple of dozen. as
sorted, on hand now. Watches repose peace
fully under the pillows till the chambermaids
visit the rooms. They are brought down to
the desk. and I generally get a telegraphic
order from their owners to forward them be-
fore i get O chance to ticket them. even.
"RevoIvers are frequently left in this way,
but in all my thirteen years. experience in
the Aston House I have never yet managed to
freeze to q nice gold watch or a decent re-
full guests treat us shabbily in this regard.
Neither leaves ANYTHING worth having, and
when, any one does, he claims it very
shortly"