The morning times., 1896-10-30
WERE TWO JOHN HAhNAs
Mishaps Of Two Bridal Pairs
and Their Letters.
THEY WERE STRANGERS
Their Letters of COngratulatiOn Got
Mixed and Both We're Mystified.
One Was From Kentucky and the
Other Hailed From ColoradO-HOw
1t Was Squared.

a case OF similarity in names has re-
Gently resulted in furnishing amusement
for the clerks OF Two up town hotels and
has brought undisguised disgust u pair
OF new Benedicts.
Strangely enough, the name is one that
is at present uppcrnost in the minds OF
the voting American publc-it is Hanna.
No proof, however, has yet been brought
TO show that either OF the bearers of the
name are any relation TO the manager IL
the Republican campaign. Still everyone
VINO has heard the story insists that there
is yet nothing the matter with Hannah,
or H8nna, as the case may be.
Mr.. John $. Hanna of Shelbyville. KY,
came To the city last Friday and registered
at the Ebbi.t House. He brought with him
bis newly-acquired wife, and it was their
brijal tour. Mr.. Hanna is swartby man
OF about ihirty-fiye years OF age His wife
is some years his JUNIOR.
Like any other bridal couple they Wis
tied the IN any places of interest about the
city, and concluded that there was not quite
SO nice a place in the universe in which
the first section OF u honeymoon could be
spent.
DID NOT KNOW THE WRITER'S.
Each evening when they returned to the
hotel there Were letters awaiting them.
But there was something the matter with
Hanna would open would increase their
establishment at Il startling ratio. They
We're congra.ulatory letters, there was no
doubt about that, and the writer would al
ways say that it was so nice they were
| married, and everybody knew they We're
perfectly matched and all that, but the
handwriting was not familiar. And then
the name at the bottom of the note W ould
always he so queer.
| Why here is cne signed Your old friend
| Adncks.' " Mr. Hanna would say to Mrs.
| Hanna, and then he would go on to tell
| tnat he never remembered meeting such a
| man in his life. Stll the Stter was not
| amISs, for 1t Congratulated them on their
4 wedding.
Mrs. Hanna would get exactly the same
| kinds of letters from people OF whom she
had never heard.
| The explanation did not come until the
| very day Mr. and Mrs Hanna were on
| the point OF leaving the hotel. That day
| a gentleman came up to the clerk and said:
4 Have you any mail here for Mr.. John
| Hanna or his wife,
THE CLERK TUMBLED.
The man was dark skinned, too, and
4 about thirty-fve years Of age.
| The hotel clerk wrcath-d his face IL
| one OF those fin de steele Smiles that showed
| he had solved the mystery III a Jiffy, and
| said, Wait a minute
He leaned over aud tapped the cail-bcl
with the hand that wore the diamond ring
and a boy responded almost as quick as il
| lakes 10 tell 1t and much quicker than
| taell-bOys commonly respond.
ASK Mr.. Hanna to please step to the
| clerks office" said he.
| MIR. Hanna No. l came and confronted
| Air. Hanna No = There was a resemblance
in their looks and actions. The clerk, Will
| his experienced eye, bad taken in anothe
| thing. He leaned over to a friend anC
| whit pered:
That man is groom. too"
He was right. Mr.. Hanna No. . explained
that Somebody must lie getting the mai
that WIS intended for him. Mr.. Hanna No
I ut first showed slight desire to rescn
any insinuations. Explanations came $
| fast. however. that there was no time 70
any one to get mad.
The second arrivals name was John S
Hanna. He had married at his home nca
| Fort Collins, Col. and he and his wife hn,
| come on TO Washington on their wedtiin.
| trip. He had eecn in Washington befor
| and had stopped at the Ebbitt House Fo
reasons Of his own lie desired to 70 some
where else where his friends wculd not flnt
him.
MUTUAL EXPLANATIONS
He and Mrs. Hanna No. stopped at Wi
lard's, but they did not register there
The letters that they expected did no
reach them ana then he Thought occurrc
To the husband that his friends might b
sending them to the other hotel. He Wen
| over there to inquire and then the Who'll
III yStery was solved
A. tie Conclusion Of explanations Mr.
Hanna No. l is said To have told Mr.
Hanna No. to come along to Ills suit
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