The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-17

up his grip and go to another. But he
doesn't do so now. He takes another room
and files remonstrance against any one
else having his room"
Now that man would have been insult
cd If had not remembered the room that
ne mad before, although he may not have
been here for six months AS it is, he
thinks that he is badly treated because
the present occupant was not turned out
to make place for him. Well after all, he
Is not so bad some of the theatrical
people that drift around over the country.
Ihey often want the best in the house
and don't want to pay more than about
half for it either You are never certain
that you have them settled until they
nave left the house and paid their bills
mere, there's an opera company. That s
what is bringing so many clerks to the
verge of the grave with nervous prostra-
uon. Imagine the bassos, tenors and bari
tones all crowded up around the desk anE
talking two or three different languages
that you can't understand and all afraid
that some one of the number will get the
best of il. Then, when you have them
started for the elevator, attempt to as
sign rooms to the prima donna and rival
sopranos and contraltos and give every
one Of them the best in the house. DO
you think that's a snap? Try it. In the
last attempt that | made, one of the So
pranos discovered that her rival had the
best of her by one bath tub and chif-
fonler. What an unmusical howl she rails
ed, but the hotel was crowded and she
had to stand that or nothing.
They Want other Rooms.
Then, there are the superstitious about
numbers. There is no No. 10 in the house
now. The l3 room was renumbered for
nobody would take 1t except occasional
members of Thirteen Clubs. and their pa
tronage didn't pay for the long stretches
of time during which the room was idle
Wen, few years ago the regular hotel
hends began springing a new one They
wouldn't have any room the number Of
which was Invisible by 10. At first we were
able to give these cranks other rooms. bur
| after a while they increased so largely in
numbers that now we haven't any 26, 80, 81,
90 or 100 rooms. There are, too, lots of
| men who have prejudices against particu-
! lar numbers which they regard as I'M
/ lucky. Some of them nave as many as
hait dozen of these hoodoo numbers on
! their lists and they can't be talked or ca
| Joled into taking rooms bearing these
Jonah numbers even for little while I'M
! I'll rooms with non-Jonah numbers become
! vacant There is one man who comes
| to the house that has violent detesta-
| ton for the number 10. The last time he
| was mere the only room that fitted his re-
| quirements was No 10, but when | told
him the number he liked to have had a
! nit When he went away the cashier cook
/ ed up q job on him and made his bill an
even $40. He gave stage clutch at his
! forehead and turned white and | had 10
/ stoop down behind che desk and smile
! at the absurdlty of the thing. He missed
! his train by going into the dining room
and eating another dinner. That made
| his bill $40 and he went away satisfied
Your key? What's the number of your
/ room"
81 don't remember" replied the guest.
| But il seems that "a capable Motel clerk
| would remember it when he had roomed
| me"
The clerk ran over the rack and found
| the number. "Oh, yes, No. 1873; here's
your key. There, that man has been in
/ the house five days and yet he expects
me 10 always tel him where he lives
J whenever he comes up for his key But
/ to go back TO that subject of rooms, there
/ is large number of people who have
/ queer ideas about rooms Some will not
| sleep above the second floor for fear of
/ fire. and others will sleep only on the top
/ floor because they don't want persons
! tramping around over their heads. one
man wants sunlight. another wants air
/ a thirds room is too warm, and fourth's
/ is always too cold. ! was in a house once
| where there was a suicide. Il happened
! in No. 90 one of the best rooms. The
/ room was refurnished, but people read the
| newspaper dispatches about the affair
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| in the account they had us pat about the
| room until we changed the number. There
are stu about ten or twelve old time
I guests who remember the suicide, and you
! couldn't pull them into that room with
a derrick. They know the location, and
| you couldn't fool them by mere change
Of number. After the bell-boy had shown
| the old-tlmer up to the room, he always
! came back with sour look on his face
and inquired, Didn't little affair of gas
add gun happen in that room you've given
! me, about sixteen years ago.? We have
| some guests, especially elderly women
who make It rule, before putting their
names down on the register to inquire il
anybody has died in the house from
contagious or infectious disease since they
| last put up with US. Guileless on their
part. isn't II? ! wonder If they really ex-
pect that we'd say yes, whether or no?
They Are Never Satisfied.
"Haye you any mail for me?" inquired
a guest What? None at all? That's
very strange have been told that my
letters were all forwarded here. You are
sure that YOU looked carefully? Perhaps
you win also say that you have no tee
grams. What, nonel All that have to