New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-22
THE SIMPLE ENGLISH LANDLORD

NOW TWO POINTS WE'RE SCORED AGAiNST HIM
Axn ~ FAVOR OF THE AMERICAN TRAVELLER
I, ia not common for the American traveller to
sot very much ahead OF TIE English ho'e"Heeper
To- , financial way II Is still less common to ind
two American travellers together VINO nave uohe
so THIS rare combination occurred. however 'he
o,,er dsv when two returned wanderers mot ana
compared notes on their summers adventures
"perhaps Won think" said one, that the pirates
Of Penynnce ore a myth They are not al an ~
I, ,r,o thcv no longer scutle ships. but they keep
hotels In connection with the hotels thsy Keep
stables They allow stranger to nave one-norSe
carriage with n driver TO take him TO Lands End
and back for twelve shillInga ANA sxpence' III 'ne
summer they run brakes carrying SEVERN phsH'n-
gers at three shings and sixpence Tor each pas
seuger II was late In the evening Wheh "''N'u
AT Penzance, and decided TO go TO Lana ''hh
the next day I picked up somewhere caro- anVeF-
Using an omnibus or coach TO run from fenzhnce
TO semen, a little village one m'ic from i'"u
End twice a day. read the card careiessiy ana
,ben lost H. 80 that all the impression II LEFT on
my mind was a dim one that there was some SORT
NJ a pub,lc conveyance between the two places
.eThe next morning ! asked the Old woman VINO
had charge of the room. instead OF the usual
head waiter II there was any coach or anything
OF that sort that to Lands End. she sa'd she
thought there not. but she would ma Out one
left the ROOM and came back ana said 'ha' '"e'e
SON but they had not begun yet. iitte iater
Soma talk that | overheard between some other
guests about being deceived by the hotel people
as to conveyanceS aroused my susplciohs anu
started out to investigate
"A policeman told me that I had missed the
coach by about fifteen minutes. Then hunted up
the coach ONCE to make further inquiries the
proprietor was away driving the coach. HIS VIE
told me that IL was the custom at all the notes
in town to deceive guests about the coach 80 'hey
could let their carriages. 1t was too late now TOT
me to go by the coach TIL the next day
81 went back to the hotel. found the proprietor
and accused him OF decev.ng me. or OF permitting
his servants to deceive me- in order to make me
hire one Of his carriages. At first he asked what
wanted to know II knew whom was talking to;
sir and then he the bel furious!y tor me ora
woman of the coffee-room and asked her why she
had told me there was coach. She said she sup
posed / meant the brakes, which had not begun TO
pose anything OF the sort. as knew nothing about
brakes and cared less and had distinctly sala any
tor said that / had asked about a conveyance to
lands End and there really SS n91e b 5e sTa
truth Of this but asked him II he Ola mot t mir se ne
wants to reply to such questions as mine that there
coach to Lands End, but there was one 10
whether they wanted to take 1t or not lie said
yes undoubtedly. and was grateful to me Tor the
Finally he proposed as evidence OF good faith.
to give me carriage and driver for Lands End a,
sxpence-and accepted the proposal with the feei-
ing that he was simply giving me the extra stakes
OF his game which he had played for and failed to
win. on the train by which left Penzance the
next day met a young man who told me that at
the same hotel, the evening of the same day on
which | had made my complaint, he had asked the
same question that had asked. and had received
the same answer-that there was no conveyance
Then you out nine shillings ahead OF the
landlord the second traveller said; that was not
a great deal A friend of mine sailed for home a
week before | did He had bought two umbrellas
in London and wanted to pack them In his trunk,
but there was not room for them, so he asked me
10 bring them for him. In Southampton. on the
evening before | to sail. left my room In the
hotel for a little while and left the two umbrellas
on the top OF OF my trunks intending when !
came back to pack them inside 1t. But when
came back the umbrellas were not to be found.
The chambermaid said she remembered seeing them
on the top OF the trunk but she could not account
for their Disappearance. My bin at the hotel was
about r. / declared that the umbrellas were
worth that, that the landlord was responsible for
their loss and that | should ct them offset the bill,
which should not pay. SO left the hotel without
paying the bill. When / got to New-York the
Custom House officers opened my trunk. Ii had
canvas cover. and out from under the cover tum-
bed those two umbrellas. ! have not the fa.ntest
notion how they could have got there. but the next
tir.e | am IN Southampton | shall pay that hotel