The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-22
TIE GUESTLESS HOTEL.
Druu.mer's Mystifcation Over Land
lords Device.
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New Orleans Times emocrat9
II was at the Ponce de Leon directly
after IL opened. when it had only sixteen
rIests and 800 servants" said a Chicago
hummer. but that W5Smt anything to
an experience I had once a a summer re-
sort up In the northwest. l had wan
dar-d into the region looking for a fell
low who had beaten our firm out of a big
account and somebody told me about this
hotel A branch road connected it with
the main line, thirty miles away. but
carly I'm the season the landlord and the
railroad president had had a row, and
thew stopped the train service. That killed
business as dead as Caesar. for the place
was buried i'm the heart OF the wilder
ness. bu:. strange 10 say, the landlord
had kept il open, and as I was near by
and needed rest, | hired a wagon and
went over Ii was a big. handsome
structure of the regulation summer resort
PATTERN AN gables and pOTtiCoeS and
stained shingles and as 1 walked up the
fine. shady driveway | could see that
everything was in appie-pie order. When
/ entered the Office a boy in buttons
setzet nv grip and the clerk got up from
behind the counter, rubbing his eyes and
looking a bit dazed. The register was
perfectly blank. and while there was
fvU office force or duty. there was not
light eh2 J asked. after writing my name.
The clerk grinhed. You re the first soul
i've seen I'm six weeks, he replied.
OF thought al first he was joking con-
trgej The drummer. but 1t was the Cos
r- truth. I was the only guest IN the
house yet as far as l could see II was
being run exactly as If all of its IN
apartments were full of people 1t gave
ne a strange sensation, and, upon my
word I could actually feel the emptiness
as I walked down the big wide corridor
% my room / supposed, of course, that
] would find al. this really a BLUM and
everything pared down to the lowest pos
S'hlr notch. but il wasn't the case. There
was FUN corps OF help from Kitchen 10
check room and the chamhermaids used
90 turn 10 of mornings and make up rev
dozen UuOccuuied beds just 10 get eXer-
else The table was Up-top, although
most of the stuff was evidently canned
but tu walk into that huge dining room
with "a row of walters standing motion
Jess az each side and eat IN SOLITARY
state was q trial TO the nerves. Inc pro-
uriet0r kept almost entirely TO his prl-
waite Office He was very quiet, paid
headed man. and naturally j entertained
doubts as To- his sanity. At the outset
The ~rrauEauesS Of the situation interest
rI mo- but after four days OF lOnely
grandeur 10 began TO give me the horrors
and 4 packed up and left. L used 10 often
think about il afterWard and wonder
what the deuce could have possessed the
h.l-hgaGgd bOnifaCe TO throw away good
money iu that kind of fashion. but II was
more than TWO years before ! FOUND out
on. Ear I was sauntering along Clark
street fn Chicago. when | met my friend
and landlord coming out of a store. lie
remembered me. shook hands cordially
and finally accepted an invitation to
lunch ] expect you thought ! was crazy
our there i'm the spruce woods he said.
over the black coffee. but there was
method iu my madness. That internal
railroad had a contract with me 10 haui
certain quantity of fresh vegetable
every day. They had forgotten all about
iJ bun when they threw me down on the
train service I saw that my cue was 10
keep Open at full blast and then SOCK II
60 them for damages at the end OF the
season NV lawyer claimed that the
lack NJ fresh vegetables was what Kept
away guests. OF course, the jury under
stood r. was just "a peg TO hang damage
SUR one but any stick is good enough TO
beat a dog and they gave me whopplne
good verdict ] soaked them for enough
20 ruI ugt 5000 ahead Of the game