The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-09
LEFT BEHIND AT TIE HOTEL.
Some of the Matters Overlooked by
hurried and Eorgetful Travellers.
Ernnl the Nam Yn,.L. S1l1,

800 49, HA'Ne a VA esObAll OAOTS.
From the Nei0 York Sun
Every hotel in New York has a storeroom
for valuable and articles left behind bv
guests. La such hotels as the Astcr, the
Fifth Avenue, the Sinclair, the H ,ffman,
nd hotels further up town, a set of books
is kept in which are jotted down descrip-
tons of the goods forg Jtten by absent
mi lded and hurried ones. Where the hotel
do9s vast amount of transient business it
is sometimes diff cult to arrange the goods
for fu iure Identification. In such cases the
integrity Of servants must be the guarantee,
aid this is strictly relied upon. Inme-
diately afte the rooms are vacated the
clambermald takes te uporary possession.
She gathers up the goods left behind by the
Ia occupa t and hands item over to the
clerk. be looks on the register and tags
the packages and articles with the name of
the guest and the mum Der of the ron he
occu Jie1 on the day of departure All
these notes are then transcrib d into the
books kept for such Isl q $. If the guest
is we'll known at the hotel and the articles
found a ter his depa ture are extremely
valuable, ne is i'm nedia5eiy notiiie ana re-
quested to IDENTITY the property. 9th A.
wise the goods are k pit until his next visit
w . w SDG u ubSultb pL ours GOWN
stairs,n is perhaps the fl st salutation to
some guest as he clutches the pen AMI starts
to register
"We've got a toothbrush and a pair of
shoes of yours here. Send 'em upg" is the
greeting that some other out-of-to Nn 4tron
of the house receives.
sE'You left a pair of trousers behind last
time, " is hurled at another.
Ii there is wo nan IN the case the house,
keeper is notified from the desk when the
husband registers, and pref soon the
hOusekeeper knocks on tn door of the
couples apartme t, and le wife is informed
tnat on her las5 visit she forgot her hustle.
or bunch of hair, or a chemise, or a petit
coat. The ganu5 of woma IS lingerie is
run, for women are quite as forgetful a;
men, The hous keeper usually visits the
room with the missing articles and hands
tnem over on the spot
There is scarcely a hotel in New Y rk
that could It start an umbrella sdop.
Everybody seems to forget an umbrella
Go to any hotel In town and tell the propri-
eJor that you til JughtleSSy LETT e behi I'd
while at the h tel he will summon the
porter and direct him t. take olt the lost
umbrel. as. Pretty soon the porter is head
ing for you, stag gering der a great load
of umbrellas. There are cotton ones, ging-
hams, and articles of the finest silk, with
gold and silver ha dies No par
ticuIar or formal oath is necessary
to identify an umbrella. If you see
one that is at all like the one
you left behind seize 1t and hold fast to it.
The proprietor does not and can OF demur
II he kept strict account of all the umbrellas
left in his es ,abli9hm mt his )oAkeepers
wouldn't have anything else to do. A old
customer told Landlord AS man of the
Sinclair house the other night in the rush
time that he had forgotten his umbrella a
few nights before aud had left it in the
dining room. Mr.. Ashman thereupon
ordered the porter to uring out the lost
umbrellas. There was handcart load of
them.
1t is a particularly interes ing fact that
many dia nond rings are left behind by
guests. They are usually found on the
washstands The lad es are t ie chief de-
linquents in his respect. Before washing
their hands they pull off their rings and
lay them on the washstand. In the hurry
to get to the dining room, preparatory to
leaving on the next train, the rings are fire.
Quently TO gotten. Sometimes they are
very valuable. Tnere have bean frequent
instances where whole boxes of jewels have
been forgotten. These invariably find
their way to the clerks desk, and
the owners are soon found. Watc 1875
innumerable are found under pillows
having been put there by guests on retiring
and overlooked / ! the rush OF UQe N + II e.
Many pocketbool1s, some of them substau-
TALLY line with greenbacks, are forgotten,
often no doubt to tn, EN- arrasSmelt Of the
owner. 1t is not co lsdered by well-regu-
lated minds to De first-chop comfort to find
yourself tearing away from tow on New
YORK Central or a Peln 'ylvania flyer with
out copper. But telegraph, if the opera
tor will trust you, and the W ,llet will be
hurried after you either by express or regis
tered mail.
Then there are gold pencils, gloves,
shoes, hats, coats, overcoats, eyeglasse',
spirit lamps, shirt studs, powder boxes and
hand glasses. One enterprise ( citizen for
got his gripsack and everything ia it the
other night. A other left without a valu-
able set OF surgic Al instr Iments. There are
m re tooth brushes forgotten in New York
hotels ia a week than any shop in New
Y rk can replace on the instant Slip pers,
cuffs and collars enough to start a haber-
dasher's shop, ladies stockings IF silk and
all other textures, night dresses of lace
and plain, canes, workbaskets trusses.
b ,otiacks, rubber coats, brace cts. opera
glasses, ladies' hats, entire suits of clothes,
ladies' cloaks, fur sacques, fans, syringes,
Bibles. sermons, dress waists, garters, cor
SETS. earrings, these and hundreds Of other
articles m Ike up the years. collections in
the big ho els Of New Y rk. When ths
0wner is not fou tae goods are usually
gent a wear. No hotel clerk in town seems
70 trovv what beconos of them after that.