Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-09-27

ers, and then look back over the room as
they 20 out, and then they come back again
just as the elevator is about ready to go
down with them and they do not leave
anything at all but Whisp Of hair and
shoe button with no eye TO It. Well under
the pillow / found this old gentleman's
watch and a big roll Of money, with rub-
Der band around it. I took them down to
him, and after he had counted all the money
and found il safe, he gave me a busted cleo
ton cigar, with a wet end to it"
What did you say to him2"
I told him did not smoke on account Of
my heart"
IBID you ever hear of him again? ?"
Yes; he tried to run the elevator up to
his floor somewhere that winter while the
elevator boy was out for moment, and
they say the marks of his front teeth car
be seen on the elevator shaft yet. He did
not have time to make the remark OUGHT
before his soul, such as it Wass had to give
an account Of itself"
What do you notice mostly about the
guests when they come in?"
Well Judge them good deal Dy Gnen
bags. You can't always tell by clothes, bui
baggage means a good deal Fresh people
have fresh-loOking, shiny baggage. Elk
perienced travellers have sensible but more
or less weather beaten bags and trunks.
What is the general falling among
aThe general falling is to return the key
to the room. I went up with a N an yester.
day that said his key didn't fit and he
couldn't open his door. When looked a.
the key / saw it belonged in Philadelphia
He laughed kind or foolish and pulled Ou
the right one as he supposed, but it be-
IOnged to YOung's Hotel in Boston. Hs
had a key in every pocket that belonged K
some other hotel Then some folks gel
the number of their room mixed up witt
the number they had perhaps in another
city day or two before. We had case o.
that kind last week and it would have made
a great deal of trouble if the matter hat
not been hUshed up at the Office.
What do you do when guest enters the
hoteI?"
Why Front whoever Front happens K
/ be at the time. is expected to go and pull
] the handle of the guests bag. carry IL ava!
and conceal it somewhere and then re-
luctantly find it when the owner puts up fo
! it."
do you have many squabbles with the
| other bel-bOys?"
NO, we get along all right and have ne
fuss We swap stories too when we have
slack day. and get a little run that way.
knew a bel-bOy once that used to work
the Lair House. at Lafayette. Ind. Ht
worked there quite awhile. One day the!
sent him up to call No. Is. No. 13 didn't
| say anything, and so they concluded tina
something might be wrong and they tOl(
| this boy they would have to put him owe
! the transOm to see if No. ID was there,
| Who was number 1872"
why. he was a kind of inventor some
! how. He had been staying at the LAM
! House week or so, 1 believe, and carry.
/ ing up tools and pieces Of board and stuff
/ because he was building some kind of {
| machine and was QuieG about it for feal
| some one would beat him out Of the patent
| he said. Well, anyway. they put this boy
! up to the transOm and it was dark in there
| so they allowed he'd have to get inside an(
| light the gas to see what was the trouble
| 1t was a little feller ana nimble as a weasel
| and so he got over there and struck {
| match Shortly after that he came GU
| again by unlocking the door from the in.
| side. He was quite pale and said that ht
! wished that hereafter they would put some
| other boy through the transOm whenever
| they had any curiosity about people. Other.
! wise he would want more pay. No, - had
/ it seems, got his machine done the nigh
| before, and had tried it to see if it would
| work. 1t was a kind of meat AK, running il
| a groove like the French DOfunny, and i
/ was hung with a cord and trigger, fixed 81
/ that little thread that run the trigger was
/ pulled through a wax candle. A man could
| load uD with morphine or something kline
| OF soothing like that. lay down with his
/ head on the upholstered head-rest
| light the candle and go to sleep
/ He had CREASED up the runnine
| glass of the thing and then began Il
! experiment It worked first rate. They
/ didn't have an autopsy. Friends though
] it wasn't n necessary. The practice of putting
! bellbOys into rooms that way is becoming
! out of an old man in AZ last summer, arc
/ so the clerk put me in over the transOm
| The old man was somewhat deaf and die
/ not know what my motive was in cOmin9
] over the door that way. He was Just abOu
/ to take a bath as I came in. He was no
| expecting me, but he rallied and took me
! by the clothing with a firm grasp. He thel
| inserted me in the bath tUb six or eigh
/ times and threw me out through the tran