The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-21
Northern Views of Southern
Scenes-Notes No. s.
Hot SPRINGS, ARK, Feb. 4.

The gong sounds the hash alarm,
the guests throng the hall, and
among the rest our recent arrivals.
They are Immediately recognized by
the Superintendent and seated in
succession at table No. 10, which
position they are expected to main
tain until the day of their departure.
The bills of fare lay before them,
printed in French and written in
English. The visitors adjust their
specs and attempt to read, but lay
them down disguised and order
general assortment, and while wait
ing the pleasure of the waiter, they
discuss together the temper of the
wind and state of the weather. The
second day they become more famil-
lar and learn each others names, To-
cal residence and business pursuits.
They also discover that by remark
able coincidence they all came by
the same train, patronized the same
hotel, physician, drug store and bath
house, but are still unaware that the
solicitor is the agent of the doctor as
we'll as the hotel, and that the doctor
is the proprietor of the drug store
and a large stakeholder in the bath
house. But they learn all these facts
in few days. After dinner they re-
tire to their several rooms, which
they find cold and comfortless; they
turn in fire alarms to the office; bell
boys hasten to inquire what was
their pleasure. Each visitor re-
piled, "Fire." The boys report to
the Office, the office to the fireman.
In the course of an hour a certain
sable citizen of the sunny south,
with wire locks and mammoth mouth,
appeared, bearing pitch-pine fagots
in his arms, which he projected into
small box stoves and applied the
matches and made his bow. The
third morning the visitors visit their
th-house Each passed his card
to the clerk, who punched No. and
handed ticket to each visitor, on
which was written the name of the
attendant and number of the victim.
They now await the attendants call.
In the course of two hours they are
all passed through the scalding tubs
and ground down in a rough man,
ner, which affords them anything but
pleasure. They retire from the
steaming vapor to a warm room,
from there to cool room, and then
to outside air. If they succeed in
reaching their hotel without taking
cold, they do we'll. They are in a
cold Precipitation and find their rooms
as cold as dim. They turn in fire
alarms and themselves, and wait the
pleasure of the fire purveyor. When
he arrives they chide him for his
neglect to warm the rooms. They
are informed by that worthy that he
only furnishes fire to order, and to
such only as will pay for said luxury.
The visitors take the hint, "No pay
no fire." though promised by the So
licitor. Each visitor handed over
one dollar to the sable citizen, with
instructions to warm his room each
day at ten o'clock a. m. On return
ing from their baths the next day the
visitors find their rooms in the same
condition as the previous day. They
sound the alarm. His sable highness
appeared. They chide him for neg
lect He insists that he was only
paid for past favors and was under
no obligation. The visitors began to
realize the situation. If baths were
taken they must pay a dollar day
for faggots of fire to warm their
frigid frames, or sit in the ordinary
cold and hungry, which they gener-
ally did thereafter. This state
of discomfort continued to the end
of the first week, when an accident
happened at table No. 10, which
proved near fatal to visitor No. L..
The visitors were all seated around
the board waiting the pleasure of the
waiter, the sweet scented viands soon
appeared, the visitors began to eat
voraciously, when suddenly parcel
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