Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-04-10
WAREHOUSE YARNS.
ROMANCES FOUND IN A BIG STORAGE
ESTABLISHMENT.

Reasons often Domestic Troubles Which
Cause People TO Store Their Goods.
"Yes, " said the manager of one of the
greatest of New York's storage ware
houses, "your guess is quite correct. In
this business we see the seamy side of
many romances and are confronted by not
a few mysteries. All sorts of reasons i'm
pei people to put their goods in storage
warehouses. Death or sickness may break
up n 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 If the charges for storage are unpaid
This, however is not often DONE as the
chances are favorable for an ultimate clear
ance of all charges. We have people whose
house has been robbed store their furni-
ture as they are afraid to dwell in the
place any longer. People who can't pay
their rent store their furniture, and peo-
pie who are experiencing good times do
| the same thing in order to go to Europe.
1.-The remnants of broken families come
10 us Tho men don't often tell more than
! Is necessary, hut the women give us every
thing including all the comments Of their
relatives and friends. I'VC often said That
if it was not fer fear of hurting the hnsi-
ness l could write an interesting novel
about our experiences. Comedies and
tragedies Of real lite Crift past Us all day
long
"Two winters ago we found that we
were storing n corpse. 1t cnnc to Us in "a
trunk. An cXIrcssman brought the trunk
and took receipt and left us his address
We put the trunk in a small room on the
ninth floor and thought no moro about it
till at the end of two months "a strong udur
came from the room. When we came to
the 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 went after the exprcssman.
but he knew nothing about the body. He
had taken the trunk from tho sidewalk in
front of an apartment house on West
Twenty fourth street Two men had it
there. They told him to store the trunk
and bring them the receipt at the apart
mcnt house When he returned, he failed
to find the men The names they had
given were unknown i'm the apartment
Louise, and he never could trace them.
The police also failed to solve the mystery.
Years ago, when | was young at this
business, we received one day lot Of very
big packing cases marked Heller They
came across the water. Heller was the
great magician who preceded Hermann.
AT that time howas even better knownthan
Hermann is DOW. He had "A magnificent
looking wife. known as Xaade Heller, a
friend of the ear of Russia, l have heard,
with fine figure, grand black eyes and
blond hair. | think she set the bloachcd
blond fashion Well these cases for Heller
remained with us for years. Heller died.
and we heard no claim made, so it was at
last determined to see what we had, and
portcrs We're sent down in the basement to
open the boxes.
1t was grewsome place anyhow, that
immense dark basement, and this, com
bined with the name of Heller, made the
men very nervous. The first thing they
saw when they opened one of the boxes
was great red tongue that wagged at
them, They ran and wouldn't go back,
and some of us hoys from the Office had to
finish the job of opening up. We found
the boxes filled with devils and fantastic
shapes and all sorts of mystic apparatus
We had most of the wizard 5 paraphernala
with us. Mrs. Heller appeared on the
scene some time afterward and took all
the goods, but most of Heller secrets had
died with him, so | don't suppose they
were very much use.
There was a 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 goaway for her
health and had stored the furniture in her
absence. She wanted to find her husband
and get him back. Another woman heard
her story and was full of scorn. She had
just cleared her house of furniture. was
putting it away and was going to leave
her husband. She said she wouldn't cry
for any man. There were too many men,
AN interesting young couple came hers
year ago and stored their furniture
They had been housekeeping; thoy wero
going to boarding. About three month
ago they came in, piloted by lawyers
They had violent quarrel and were going
to separate. Each filed claim on the
furniture, and they signed an agreement
that neither was To SEQ it without leave
from the other. The day before yesterday
they came in again alone and smiling
They had made up, discharged the lawyers
and WERE going to housekeeping again
They called each other dear and wero very
affectionate.
"A little while ago we had the case of a
wealthy man who told his wife he was
tired of hcr. The woman had broken uu
housekeeping and gone boarding in order
that she might have nothing to do. The
man followed her but lost patience and
determined To end it. They had their quar-
rel out in the parlor here, and the man
mado IA proposition, which was accepted
They divided all the furniture and stored
1t again ON separate accounts, got their
safe deposit drawer out and divided its
contents. Then the man made money
settlement with the woman and turned
his DVk on her. About two months later
he came in here with new wife. We
thought that if he kept that up lac would
meet the old wife. Well, that very thing
happened week ago. l expected "A scene,
but the old wife looked at them as If they
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