Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-23
THE STROLLER'S STORIES.
Odd Opinions and Quaint Observations Gath
cred From Curb and Corridor.

Odd Opinions and Quaint Observations Gath
cred From Curb and Corridor.
a TRAVELLING man writes to the Stroller
from East Saginaw, Mich, in criticism Of
some brief praise Of Pittsburg's hotels, pub
lished January 10. Referring to the hotels of
Philadelphia. he says: sit is one of the poor
est provided cities in the country for hotels.
There is but one 81 80 per day house In the
city, and that is always full after l or 2 o'clock
in the afternoon. Green's never had an eleva-
tor for the benefit of its patrons till last spring,
and the one put in then was very small"
IN a reference to one of the best hotels in this
city, the correspondent speaks Of a freak of
the chambermaids in way that will strike a
sympathetic cord in the heart of many an un-
fortunate traveller. He says that the hotel in
question has poor beds, and adds: ''They are
hard and poorly made. They have fallen into
the bad practice Of a good many others, of pull
ing the clothes up to the head to fold over in
fancy folds, and the result-bare feet against
the cold foot board. have measured in sew
eral cases in different hotels and very seldom
find the sheets below the foot of the mattress,
aud from that to Is inches, actual measure
ment, from the foot. The Stroller's correspond
ent is assured that the practice of which he
complains has been stopped in the hotel re-
ferred to, and that when next he visits Pitts
burg he may stop there without any dread of
thrusting his unprotected toes against the cold
foot board.
Mr.. AND MRS. A. q. C~HADBoURNE, of
Philadelphia. are at the Hotel Duquesne.
Mr.. Chadbourne is the representative of the
Sprague electric railway motor, and he super
intended the construction of the Pleasant
Valley system. He is here to look over the
operation of the road.
Gun WA, the Chinese doctor who sold his
wonderful vegetable ''cure-alI' for several
months on Penn avenue, and was driven out of
town by Inspector McAleese, has established
himself in Denver. He and his manager have
opened an Office on Larimer street, in that city,
and are filling the Denver papers with high
priced advertising matter. In the journey
from Pittsburg to Denver the Chinese doctor
lost an "h" from the end Of his name. The
Colorado capital is overdone with Chinese doc
tors, who advertise vegetable remedies for all
human ills. The American doctors there do
not. apparently, object to their presence.
THE son of Colonel James Andrews, of Ale
gheny, who has recently come home from
an extended tour over the booming West, tells
a good story of a gambling operation which he
noticed in Colorado and Kansas. In many small
towns he ran across a gentleman of elegant
manners who was evidently playing poker for
a living. He would remaini in one place only a
day or two-long enough to get up a social
game" in some barroom and win every cent that
his opponents possessed. He was invariably a
winner, beating the shrewdest poker players in
a town, and carrying away a roll of several hun
l.Ad NJ --.-I~a
count for the mans unVarying success, especial
ly as he observed that he always played with the
cards kept in the various barrooms. The mys-
terry was dispelled when it was learned that the
player was always preceded in a town about q
week by a man who sold fine cards at a verylow
figure to the keepers of saloons. The two men
were confederates. TIL cards were marked, and
the first man posted the second as to the places
where the cards were sold. After that the win
ming was easy.
p ALPH W. CARROLL, the manager of the
American Tube and Iron Works, departed
last evening for Philadelphia and New York on
the business of the firm. He Will return home
next Monday.
n T. DUNBAR, Of Norwalk. general master
mechanic of the Wheeling and Lake Erie
Railroad. and c. A. Wilson, of Toledo, chief
engineer of the road, are at the Hotel AndeT-
ssh. They are in the city to look after three
which have been built for the CON-
pany by the Pittsburg Locomotive Works.
They were ordered last October, and are about
ready TO ship. They are $4,000 pound engines.
gentlemen are accompanied by W. W.
Graham, of Norwalk, who is building bridges
for the Wheeling and LAX Erie. MIR. Graham
has a large contract in the construction Of the
AM hridro Of OfanhanvUIa |
IT is a jolly party of C~leveIanders which is
! housed at the Hotel Anderson. The men,
bers Of the party are: Thomas Graves, . bust
ness man of that city, Councilmen John Wy
soon, D.. Fostering, F. Turek, F. Hesoun,
William Tausch and Robert MeQuoid. The
gentlemen are on a pleasure tour, which will
be of about ten days duration. They visited
the theater last night, and will depart this
for Washington. After a few days
there they will go to New York.
A NUMBER of prominent men will meet in
this city to-day to transfer a large tract of
coal land in Lawrence county. The
tract covers L,l5O acres, and is owned by ex-
Mayor William G. Rose, of Cleveland; Thomas
f. Kennedy, of Chambersburg; ex-Congress-
man Samuel Griffith and his son, Samuel B.
of Mercer; Amos Dinsmore, the type
writer manufacturer, of New York; Colonel W.
w. Jennings, of Harrisburg; ex-Judge James
Stranahan and s. F. Thompson, of Mercer,
and Attorney Hiram L Richmond, of Mead
vile. These gentlemen are all expected to be
here to-day, as well as State Senator Thomas
NJ. Mehard, of Wampum, to whom the prop
srty is to be transferred. Mr.. Richmond and
8 B. Griffith arrived last night, and are at the
Anderson. Senator Mehard has built a coal
road to the tract and will work it extensively.
THE STROLLER.