The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-23
PRETTY GOOD WATERS.
PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO GO TO
FLORIDA DISAPPOINTED.
About Fifty Persons Engaged as Heir


ABOUT Fifty Persons Engaged as Help
for Southern Hotel Pay 50 Each
20 MIR. Beardt, Registered from Rev
York.
From tie Philadelphia Inquirer.
For nearly three hours yesterday a crowd
OF almost fifty colored and whits men and
women waited around the Lochiel hotel, on
Eighth street above SAMSON, for the return
OF the man Who under promise Of taking
them to Florida and giving them employ
ment at handsome salaries, had obtained
from each 81 to pay their sleeping car fare.
As the minutes heightened into hours
hopes. which had been at the very top notch,
sank perceptibly lower and lower, until at
last they dwiudlsd away, leaving the sadly
expressed conviction that they had been
duped.
The man registered at the hotel on Satur-
day as +. Beardt Of New York aud told the
proprietor, p. Marelli, that as he expected
to receive large number Of business callers
on Monday morning he would like to have
large room in which 20 receive them. Mr.
Morelli inquired particularly as to the
nature OF his business. and Mr.. Beardt iu-
formed him in suave manner that the
people were his agents in big business con-
Germ and that he had come over from New
York to receive their reports.
A SMOOTH TALKER.
The man was a smooth talker aud con-
WINGED Mr.. Marelli Of the legitimacy of his
purpose, and was told that he could have
the use Of the parlor on t Q second floor.
On Monday morning an advertisement
appeared III morning paper for men and
women for Dlnvnaauf in a las -,
Florida, and by O'clock the people began
TO arrive. They came in twos and threes and
singly, and were engaged in long and earn
est conversation with Mr.. Beardt, and each
was observed TO hand some money to him
This continued all day long. and In the
evening Mr.. Beardt went out, saying be
would return on the morrow. He did re-
turn, and received more callers. and again
LETT, saying he would be back on Thursday
at o'clock. He left word for all callers to
meet him at that hour.
With the arrival of 2 o'clock yesterday,
there began what in less than an hour
proved TO be collection of a small army of
men and women. The first to arrivs was
tall, digni6ed colored mau, who announced
himself as the head waiter. He said Mr..
Beardt had engaged him and he was going
to have charge Of fifteen walters in a big
hotel in Southern Florida, and he was going
to show the people down there how TO
watt 1t is a question whether the resi-
dents Of Florida will be treated to a sight
OF his style OF waiting, but 1t is fact that
he proved his ability to wait to the entire
satisfaction of Mr.. Marelli. For three
hours he showed one OF the choicest speci-
mems Of patient waiting that has been wit
messed for long time.
A LESSON IN WAITING.
The head master was followed by a half
dOgQu nf MS al ~
arrived he got them up in a corner and gave
them few practical points on the art OF
waiting They fell in with his ideas beau
tifully and succeeded in giving an exhibit
ton OF waiting only slightly inferior to
that of their instructor.
then came a colored chef whose educated
nostrils were elevated TO an alarming
hight, and who did not deign To JOIN the
army of walters. The next to arrive were
half d, zen chamber maids and scrub
women, and these formed little cliques, ac-
cordlng to their different occupations, and
each dilated upon the pleasant times they
would have in the land OF orange groves
and palms.
Bell boys and porters, buffers and wash
erwomen came singly and in couples until
the pace was filed to overfiowing. and
their expectations were only exceeded by
the uniqueness and variety of their bag-
gage. There we're old and battered valises
of he most wonderious shapes, paper
bundles and clothing tied in blankets. One
young colored man from Lombard street
sported white high hat and long linen
custer, and the headlight" In his shirt
bosom made the hotel clerk turn green with
| envy.
HIGH HOPES RAISED.
One woman announced that she bad
broken up housekeeping and sent her hus-
band to boarding in order that she might
| journey to the land of promise, and another
said she was going to send her little sisters
several barrels Of oranges at Christmas
But as the hours passed and still their
leader appeared not, their feelings under
went a change. From the highest they sank
step by step, until there remained the calm
ness of despair. which eliminated In wrath
and demand for justice. The happy.
hopeful crowd now only wanted money
back, and did not care how it got it. They
appealed to Mr.. Marelli, and to satisfy them
he sent word to police headquarters, and IN
a short time Detective Hulfish arrived and
took the names of all the people and full
description of Mr.. Bearit Up to midnight
that gentleman had not retur ned.
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