Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-24
MADE NOT ny rcE.
Funny Story Of the Heated Term which
Floats Over From New York.

Floats Over From New York.
"The funniest experience ever had"
said Col. L. A. Leonard of Cincinnati,
was during visit l recently made to
New York in company with my sister.
We went to the Grand Union Hotel,
and | requested the clerk to give us q
couple of adjoining rooms.
81 understood the clerk to say that we
were assigned to rooms 80 and 101. We
were conducted to the rooms and was
shown to 80. Shortly afterward my
sister informed me that she could not
succeed in getting any one to answer
the bell, and requested me to ring mine
and order pitcher of ice water for her.
l rang, and requested the boy who re-
sponded to take pitcher of ice water to
room 101. Before going down stairs, a
few minutes later, | asked my sister If
she received the ice water, and was in
formed that she had not. / rang again
and told the second boy to take pitcher
OF ice water to room 101. l went below
and soon returned, and was surprised to
learn that no ice water had been de-
livered in my sisters room.
by that time | was interested, and
told my sister that | would see that she
got some ice water if l had to go after it
myself. So rang once more and told
the bellboy that a pitcher of ice water
must be taken to room 101 right away,
and he said he would surely attend to II.
After waiting some time | made in
curry OF my sister again, and she said
that no ice water had come, and begged
me not to bother myself about it, as it
seemed to be hopeless task. But re-
Piled that water was cheap and she
should have some sure. | went to the
person in charge Of our corridor and
preferred a request that pitcher of ice
water be sent to room 101. l received a
promise that it should be attended to in
stanter But it wasn't.
my next attempt was to prevail upon
the elevator boy to take pitcher of ice
water to room 10l. He declared that
he would do SO on the next trip.
He failed. In despair | went to the
office OF the hotel and asked the clerk if
it were possible to have a pitcher of ice
water sent to room 101.
Certainly was the answer; that
can be done without any trouble
Il have been trying to get it done
ever since l came here, and haven't
made the rifle yet | said, and if it is a
lOS'iotN uliti6 NOuib ilho W nave ~
| done
Later l stepped into the elevator, and
the boy there asked me if l were going
up TO the 101 floor
Eyes, responded. 'Why?'
A hundred and one will throw you
out Of the window if he catches YOU
said the boy.
What are you talking about?" l
asked
why, there is bride and groom in
lOl, and you have been firing ice water
in their room all evening, and the man
is wild. He swears he will murder YOU
Upon investigation found that my
sisters room was not 101 at all, but was
81. My room was 90, and as my sisters
room was next to it l thought it was
| 101. There | had sent about l0pitchers
of ice water to 101, and didn't know IL.
81 had left call in the office for 30
and 101 for o'clock the next morning
when | was going down stairs last, and
never thought to have it changed. So
at O'Clock the bride and groom were
awakened by laundering knock at the
door, which made them furious, and
they were firmly persuaded that the
early call was part of the ice water
fiend's scheme to annoy them.
II escaped with my life and was glad
| Of It,"