Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-05

for q couple of hours fined up several
pages of her diary, and then came trip
ping into the hotel office to describe her
feelings to the clerk. She was wound up
for a chat of thirty minutes, and couldn't
be choked off, and she always ended Win:
And now if you don't get me ,up at
daylight tomorrow morning and spend at
least two hours down at Prospect Point
shall think YOU are a man without any
sentiment in your makeup
1.-THE gushing people would talk them
selves out after while and give you
rest, but only about half the people who
visit the Falls are gushers. There Is the
disappointed class, for instance, and they
hold the hotel clerk morally responsible
for their disappointment Lord only
knows what sort of a mental picture they
had drawn of the great cataract, but the
real thing doesn't come up to It, There
isn't water enough-there isn't roar
epough-there isn't fail enough They'll
go knocking around for the day and then
come in to say to the hotel clerk:
look here. now, but while expected
to find some sort of a swindle about the
Falls, Didn't anticipate that I'd be made
a fool of! You folks who are cracking this
thing up as one of the wonders of the
world ought to be dealt with according to
lawr
IF YOU argue with such a man you
make him mad, and if you don't argue
with him he holds you guilty. and there
you are. / remember one ease in particu-
lar, because. the hotel proprietor was
drawn into the discussion. A rich old
fellow UP in Maine had teiegraphed for
rooms for himself and family OF six and
was to stay week They arrived after
dark There were four grown UP children,
and the family had five rooms. 1t was not
only nloonless night, but a dark one,
and such a thing as trying to see the falls
would not have occurred to any one of
sense. Nevertheless, as soon as dinner
was9over the head of the family hied him
self forth to make observations and re-
ports. He returned in half an hour. and
he came Up to the desk, and pounded ON
it with his fist and vowed by his beard that
he was a swindled man AS he couldn' t
see the falls he was READY TO swear that
none existed. He had engaged rooms with
the understanding that there was nothing
to see, but as there was not he would
leave in the morning. Leave he did, and
his whole brood with him, and he would
not permit one of the family to even listen
to the roar. Cranks may visit Pixies
Peak or the Mammoth Cave, but those
places are only side issues. Niagara
fails has a dozen of them every day in
the year. Another class may be called
the doubling Thomas class. After a stay
OF day or a week they are not quite pre-
pared to admit that the Falls are a won
der This class desire to advance their
doubts and suspicious to the hotel clerk
about four times a day. They give him
their condolences and ache for his in re-
turn After knocking about for three or
four hours one of the Thomases would
come into the office on tptoe and wink
me aside to whisper:
Say, now, this may be all right-all
right I'm not saying it isn't, but you lust
hold on till l get through my investiga-
tons III get at the truth if it takes me
year, and you shall know them as soon
as do. Keep quiet and leave it all to me.