The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-06-08
A HOTEL ROMANCE.
How a Newly Married Couple Were Made
Happy by an Old Bachelor.

How Newly Married Couple Were Made
Happy by an Old Bachelor.
There is many a sweet romance cher
ished by the visitor to New York that
is never dreamed of by the prosaic, ev-
eryday people of business. Much of this
romance is necessarily connected with
the hotels. In these old hotels every
room is interviewer with the history of
hundreds of persons, and every time one
Of these persons is in the city the inter
est is revived in the past One day a
friend led me down Broadway on some
pretext or another, and we finally paused
before the old New York hotel.
81 stopped there on my wedding
trip" he finally blurted out "My wife
wished it. Her mother had stopped there
in her time and on her wedding trip
My wife was anxious to occupy the
same room that her mother had We
had been married that day, and this was
our first hotel, just as it had been in
her mothers case, and my little ones
mind was surcharged with the romance
of the thing But, like all young mar
ried folks, we had horror of being con.
spicuous and at the first didn't like to
say anything about it to the clerks. AT
last, however, | mustered courage
enough to look over the register just to
ascertain whether the room-we knew
the number, floor and everything, as my
bride had figured it all up in her own
mind-was really occupied We thought
we might get into it on some excuse or
another. Imerely desired to crafty her
But couldn't find the number at all
You can't fool hotel clerk very easily
on such things and in a little time he
had the whole thing out of me-
" 'Confoundedly sorry, sir, said he,
but that particular room is occupied by
regular boarder and one Of the cross
est old bachelors l ever knew too.
THAT settled it. So l went up stairs
and told my wife about it There was
no help for it. Our room was good
enough, but she thought it would be so
nice if we could have the same one her
mother and father had There was no
time to think much about it, for few |
friends came in to see us, and we were
dragged off to box party that evening.
When we came in, however, the room
clerk called me into the private office |
and handed me key to the cherished
room.
&c I happened to mention the matter
to Mr. - said he not with any
idea of his giving it up, of course, but as
q curious circumstance, when to my
surprise, he told me to tender the use OF
his room to you at once, He was going
away tonight anyhow, he said, for
week and you could have the room for
q week. and longer if you wanted it. So
there you are No, he's gone. You're
to take possession just as it il
well, when l told my wife, she was
so excited and pleased that she cried a
little, and when we found ourselves the
occupants of a beautifully fitted up and
decorated room-a room that looked as
if somebody of taste and culture lived
IN 1t, the room she wanted because in it
years ago her mother staid a young
bride, as she was-well, old man, you
couldn't blame me much for participate
ng somewhat in the romance. New
I ork Herald
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