The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-03
WAREHOUSE YARNS.
hOMANCES FOUND IN a BIG STORAGE
ESTABLISHMENT.

EN-.
There Arc Tragedies and Comedies and
Plenty of Material to Make Book-Tho
Reasons Often Domestic Troubles Which
Cause People to Store Their Goods.
Yes" said tho manager of ono of the
greatest Of New York's storage ware
houses, your guess is quito correct. In
this business We see the seamy side Of
many romancos and are confronted by not
few mysteries. All sorts of reasons i'm
pei people to put their goods in storage
warehouses. Death or sickness may break
up family, and the goods come to us,
never perhaps to be redeemed. At the end
OF year, you know, the law allows us to
sell IL tho charges for storage are unpaid.
This, however, is not often done as tho
chances arc favorable for an ultimate clear
nnce of all charges. Wo have people whose
house has been robbed store their furni-
ture, rs they are afraid to dwell in tho
place any longer. People who can't pay
their rent store their furniture, and pco-
pic who are experiencing good times do
the Same thing In order to go to Europe
Tho remnants of broken families come
to us. The men don't often toll moro than
thing, including oil the comments of their
relatives and friends. I've often said that
II 1t was not for fear of hurting the bust
ness l could write an interesting novel
about our experiences. Comedies and
tragedies of real life drift past us all day
long.
Two winters ago we found that we
were storing corpse. 1t came to us in
trunk. An cxprcssman brought the trunk
and took n receipt and left us his address.
We put the trunk in small room on the
ninth floor and thought no moro about IL
till ut the end of two months strong oGor
came from the room. When we came to
tho trunk, it was decided to break it open,
and the body of a large, full bearded man
was found within. Tho clothing was
good, but there was nothing by which the
man could be identified. We notified the
police, who won't after tho expressman,
but he knew nothing about the body He
had taken the trunk from tho sidewalk in
front of al apartment house on West
Twenty fourth street. Two men had It
there. They told him to store the trunk
and bring them tho receipt at the apart
>nent house. When he returned, he failed
to find tho men. The names they had
| given were unknown In tho apartment
| house, and he never could trace them.
AhO PciiSS niSO AulibO " SOlNc lnG mystery.
Years ago, when l was young Mt this
business, we received one day lot of very
big packing cases marked Heller They
came across the water. Heller was the
| grcatimagician who preceded Hermann.
| AT that time howaS even better known than
Hermann is now. He had n magnificent
looking wife, known as Zaade Heller, q
| friend of the car of Russia, have heard.
| with n fine figure, grand black eyes and
blond hair. 1 think she set the bleachcd
blond fashion. Well, these cases for Heller
| remained with us for years. Heller died,
ana we heard no claim made, so it was at
last determined to sec what we had. and
| porters wero sent down in the basement to
| open the boxes.
ut was a grewsome place anyhow, that
immense dark basement, and this, COM
bincd with the name of Heller, made the
men very nervous. The first thing they
| saw when they opened ono of tho boxes
was great red tongue that wagged at
them. They ran and wouldn't go back,
and somo Of us boys from the office had to
| finish the job of opening up. We found
tho boxes filled with devils and fantastic
shapes and all sorts of mystic apparatus.
We had most of the wizard paraphernalia
with us. Mrs. Heller appeared on tho
scene some time afterward and took all
tho goods, but most Of Hcller's secrets had
died with him, so L don't suppose they
| were very much use.
There was somewhat amusing Incl.
dent happened here yesterday. a woman
was sitting over there crying She had
| just traced her furniture to us. Her hus-
band had persuaded her to 20 away for her
health and had stored tho furniture in her
absence. She wanted to find her husband
ana get hini back. Another woman heard
her story and was full of scorn She had
Just cleared her house of furniture. Was
putting 1t away and was going to leave
her husband. She said she wouldn't cry
for any inan. There were too MANY men.
An interesting young couple came here
year ago and stored their furniture
They had been housekeeping; they were
going to boarding. About three months
ago thcy camc i'll, piloted by lawyers.
Ihey had aviolcnt quarrel and were going
TO separate. Each filed u claim on tho
FURNITURE, ana they signed an agreement
thae neither WAS to SEQ 1t without lenye
IRON the other. The day before yesterday
they came in again alone and smiling
They had mado up, discharged the LAWYERS
and were going to housekeeping again.
They called each other dear and were worry
affectionate
little Whi!o ago VIC had tho case of a
wealthy man who told his vito he was
tired of her. The woman had broken nm
housekeeping and gono boarding In order
that she might hnyo nothing to do. The
man followed her, but lost patience and
determined to end it. They had their quar-
rel out In tho parlor here, md tho man
made n proposition which was accepted.
They divided all tho furniture and stored
IL again on separate accounts got their
safo deposit drawer out and divided its
contents. Ihen tho man made money
settlement with tho ,pop,or ond -,