Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-06-25
WAREHOUSE YARNS.
RoMANcES FOUND IN A BIG STORAGE
ESTABLISHMENT.

There Are Tragedies and Comedies and
Plenty Of Material tn Make a Book-The
Reasons Often Domestic Troubles Which
Cause People To Store Their Goods.
Eyes, /" said the manager of one Of the
greatest of New York's storage ware
houses, "your guess Is quite correct In
this business we soc the seamy side Of
many romances and are confronted by not
IA 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 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.
"The remnants Of broken families come |
TO us. The men don't often tell more than |
Is necessary, but the women give us every |
thing, including all the comments of their
relatives and friends. I've often said that |
II it was not for fear OF hurting the bust
ness | could write an interesting novel
about our experiences. Comedies and
tragedies of real life drift past us all day
long
1.-TWO winters ago we found that we
were storing corpse. 1t came to us in a
trunk An expressman brought the trunk
and took receipt and left us his address
We put the trunk in small room on the
ninth floor and thought no more about 1t
till at the end of two months strong odor
came from the room. When we came TO
| the trunk il was decided to break IL open,
and the body of large, full bearded man
was found within. The clothing was
good, but there was nothing by which the
man could be identified. We notified the
police who went after tho expressman,
but he knew nothing about the body. He
had taken the trunk from the sidewalk In
front Of an apartment house on West
Twenty fourth street Two men had ii
there. They told him to store the trunk
and bring them the receipt at the apart
ment house When he returned, he failed
TO find the men. The names they had
given were unknown in the apartment
house, and he never could trace them
The police also failed to solve the mystery.
Years ago, when l 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 he was even better known than
Hermann is now. He had a magnificent
looking wife, known as Zaade Heller,
friend of the ear Of Russia, 1 have heard,
with IA fine figure, grand black eyes and
blond hair. | think she set the bleached
blond fashion Well, these cases for Heller
, remained with us for years. Heller died,
and we heard no claim made, SO 1t was at
last determined to see what we had, ana
porters were 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 a great red tongue that wagged at
. them They ran and wouldn't go back,
and some of us boys 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 paraphernalia
y with us Mrs. Heller appeared on the
. scene some time afterward and took all
= the goods, but most of Heller 5 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 hac
lust traced her furniture To us. Her hus
band had persuaded her to go away for hel
IL health and had stored the furniture in hel
absence She wanted To find her husband
70 and get him back. Another woman heart
- her story and was full of scorn. She hat
~ lust cleared her house of furniture, wa
- putting it away and was going to leave
% her husband. She said she wouldn't CT,
y for any man. There were too many men
- "An interesting young couple came her
u wear ago and stored their furniture
~ They had been housekeeping; they wer
>, going To boarding. About three month
~ ago they came In, piloted by lawyers
q They had violent quarrel and were goinI
=, to separate. Each filed claim on tn
- furniture and they signed an agreenen
~ that neither was to see 1t without leav
* from the other. The day before yesterda
= !, they came In again alone and smiling
" They had made up, discharged the lawyer
:" end were going to housekeeping again
- They called each other dear and were YER
80 "A little while ago we had the case OF
vs wealthy man who told his wife he wa
~ tired of her. The woman had broken u
housekeeping and gone boarding In orde
that she might have nothing to do. TIL
man followed her, but lost patience AN
H. determined to end it They had their quar-
's- rel out In the parlor here, and the ma
n made proposition, which was accepted
They divided all the furniture and store
n 1t again on separate accounts, got the
Is safe deposit drawer out and divided II
contents Then the man made Inons
ILL., settlement with the woman and turne
his back on her. About two months late
hg he came in here with new wife. "
thought that IL he kept that up no woul
uu meet the old wife, Well that very thin
lst happened week ago. ! expected a seem
up but the old wife looked at them as II the
Oh were strangers. New York Times.
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