Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-26
PARTNERS IN TROUBLE. And the AAErx NIdn Had only Hia
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ertion. ., F4 nHesahgsysloolzing man .hesisated a at tue a9of lendingsinto the F street real Sest ate office, says the Washington Star.
 q l'Is this Grounarent & Co.'S of fce?" he inquired xnappily at the calM-looking man who was leaning back in the revolving chair before the big desk in the middle of the room. !
 "Yes," replied the calm-looking man.
 "Well, say, look here," sand the an gry-looking man, in tone of some violence, my names Digup, and my wife rented one of the houses in that TOW of yours up on J street last week. She rented it with the express stipu- lation that you'd put it in frst-class repair. It's the one numbered 1900 J street, as l s'poGe you'll remember. We'll, we moved into the house ycSter- day, as we agreed to do, and we found that nary a lick had been done to- ward getting the house in proper rel pair. \ ow, want to know what kind of 9 way that is to treat people, and l want to tell you that" t
 Well" interrupted the calm-lookine nan, with taT-away smile If your wife E acs any such agreement as you state with Shis firm, why"
 Lock a-here," exclaimed the angry looking man. bsSianiRg ts shout, '1, want yCu to distinct understand that I'm not in tho habit of letting people doubt my Wsrd, and when l tell you taat uy wife had an explicit under stasdiRg with you that you were to Ex that house up properly, don't pro- pose to permit you to doubt what I say, and there's no occasion for you to try to crawfsh out of that stipu. lation, and"
 What's the trouble with the houSe?" cut in the calrr-looking man >seated in the revolving chair. "Be- cause if it's in the same condition as the one I-''
 Whats the matter with the house?" growied the ang-y-lookine man in the revolving chair. There's every blamed thing the matter with it. The papers peeliEg of tho parlc1 walls, ia the first place, Gs you very well know, and thae inside woodworl; doesa'. lock as if it's been painted since the dsIu.e- There's big hunk 1
 That's quesr," said the oalu,-lc cok- ing man, rsdsesivslJ; "thsrs's a piece broken eff tho balsStrads in my
 "Qussr = xkeuld think it waa Qussr." snsrtsd the wrathfu1-lo looking man. And it's . confounded sight qussrsr that you people faithfully promised to attend to all Of these re- pairs, and that absolutely nothing has been dors to put the house in habi- table condition. We moved into the miserable shack under tho natural presumption that the repairs had been attended to, and-say, what did you mean by telling my wife that you were going to put i.4 exposed plumb ing, with a porcelain bath tub, when the bathroom hasn't been SO much as touched? Hsy?'
 If thero was any promise made to your wita that the-e'd be exposed plumbing, why, that's @ whole heap more than
 Any promise made to my wife, you say. Leok here, my friend, what the dicksns do you mean by sitting there and trying to sneak out of what you said in that way? You know blamed we'll that all of these promises were made, and that you told my wife that the house would be put in tip top shape from cellar to Sarrst. The whole outfit needs rspaintipg and To- papsring, and half the windows in the house won't go either up or down, and the doors either decline to open 1 or refuse to be closed, and the cellar needs to be cleaned out, and there are three broken panes in the kitchen win. dows, and the kitchen range won't burn, and the furnace is In such a battered condition that nothing short of new ons'll co, and the back stairs are riekety and nssd bracing, and
 ""Wau," once again interrupted the calm-looking man sitting in the re. volving chair, Eff you managed to get this firm to promise to make all o1 those repairs you msntion-now, be good enough not to interrupt me for minute, won't you-if your wife wni clever enough to induce this real eS tate firm to promise to make all o1 these repairs, then it's darned sight - more than my wife's been able to dc for two years, and that's no piece o1 t sheet music, either. : I'm the tenant of 1911 J street, right next door te you, you know, and my wife and have been hammering away at this firm of agents for. more'n two years to get 'em to make repairs, but with - out any success, and l came down thi: morning to make another effort. guess MT. Groundrent'n be in shortly |, and if you nail him and succeed 1T getting him to fix your house up, why I'il just follow up your trail and heI have to fix my house. too, or Tli-" , But tho angry tenant of 1909, Ja, f street, when hs found out how dis mally he had been wasting his breath 7 walked out of the office, grinding !; lot of the top dressing off his teetl 2. 1as he went.