Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-04-12
\ HOTEL ROMANCE.
How a Newly Married Couple Were
Made Happy by an Old Bachelor.

| There is many a sweet romance cher
lshed by the visitor to New York that
is never dreamed of by the Drosaic,
! everyday people of business. Much
OF this romance is necessarily con
nectod 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 interest is revived in
the past. The other day friend led
| me down Broadway on some preteyt
or another and we finally paused be-
! fore the ruins of the old New York
hotel. Workmen were busy tearing
away the patchwork, and a cloud of
dust arose from the disappearing lath
and plaster. The Old landmark had
nearly lost its identity My friend
sighed as we walked away.
Il stopped there on my wedding
trip" he finally blurted out my wife
wished it. Her mother had stopped
there in her time and on Eer 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 married folks we had a hOr-
rOr of being conspicuous, and at the
first didn't like to say anything about
it to the clerks: At last, however. I
the register, just to ascertain whether
the room-we knew the number, floor
and everything, as my bride had fig
ured it all up in her own mind-was
really occupied. We thought we might
get into it on some excuse or another
[ merely desired to crafty her. But I
couldn't find the humber 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.
Z" 'COnfOundedly sorry, sir said he
but that particular room is occupied
by a regular boarder, and one of the
crossest old bachelors T ever knew,
too
THAT settled it. SO 1 went upstairs
and told my wife about it. There was
10 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
party that evening. When we came in, |
however, the room clerk called me into |
the private office and handed me a key |
to the cherished room.
Il happened to mention the mat
ter to Mr. said he, not with any
idea of his giving it up, of course, but
as a 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 week, and longer if you
wanted it. SO there you are. No, he's
gone. You're to take possession just
is it is
'Well, when [ told my wife she was
70 excited and pleased that she cried a
title, and when we found ourselves
he occupants of beautifully fitted up
and decorated roon-a. room that
ooked as If somebody of taste and
ulture lived in it, the room she
wanted because in it years ago her
mother stayed a young bride as she
old man, you couldn't
lame me much for participating some s
What in the romance"