The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-10-13
STORAGE NAN TELLS TALES.
QUEER THINGS HIDDEN AWAY
~ HIS WAREHOUSE.
TIE Collection Of Them ms Drifts 10
These Metropolitan Magazines often
SURPRISES In Interest n variety the
Treasures Of some Museums.

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really wanted to do the square thing by
themselves and the public they would
throw their establishments open for gen
eral inspection once a week and charge
an admission fee Of IS cent? for children
and 20 cents for adults. People who had
never stored anything or who had never
bought anything that had been stored
In a warehouse might complain a little
against tho charges at first. on the ground
that they were too high and that tho COM
pany made enough money out OF the
| public, anyway, without taxing II for a
peep at the show. but after they had taken
a look at the collection Of miscellaneous
articles on exhibition they would admit
that the entertainment was well worth
the entrance f"o.
Storage warehouse l. n good sub
s~tantiAl. commercial name for these
great tombs Of household things hut
Museum Of Unitarian and Decorative
Art would be more appropriate. aid
the superintendent Of an uptown estab-
lishment. "One thing u sure. no museum
In the land can boast Of n greater variety
% exhibits than can some OF the large
storehouses. There may have been, at
odd times. a few styles Of furniture IN
vented. or a few pictures painted or a
few animals turned loose that my patrons
and their forbsar- neglected N secure
samples of. but they certainly must have
been limited In number " you ever want
20 see anything quaint and curious In any
line Of workmanship don't wnsto valuable
time incoming around In Libraries ana
museums but 20 direct to the storage ware
rooms and you will And IL. Tho managers.
themselves, never realizs what an inter-
e-ting collection Of curios they nave on
hand TN they begin to get the unclaimed
goods ready for public auction. or course
they get n complete Inventory oil each
consignment when II l. first received. but
the freak contingent seldom attracts at
t.n,ion TIL tim. to dispose Of 1t.
zone thing that strikes tho ob-ervant
warehouse overseer a. worthy OF note IN
the number Of stuffed animals ana pird-
tina, are put In cold storage. Why We nav"
enough beasts Of TIA" field and fowls OF the
air hacked away here nov in a coinai">e
state TO stock the Central Park Zoo, ana
IN. worst ~ II L. We are likely 20 Keep on
adding To our collection at a rate that would
RAY. the directors Of that worthy institu-
,,on throw a fit. We arr particularly
rich In cats. Families that have the storage
hahi, don't srem to H. able TO keep house
without n stuffed cat for a maso1t. often
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uven things W a bit, and Il would make
a student in natural history fee good all
over TO catch a glimpse OF the hears and
things that have t-en preserved ~ me
m-ntos- 81 somobOdys bravery.
-But there Is one thing that We get Ia
evan GREATER quantities than cats, and
th.i 10 clocks. suppose a warehouse
shelter. more CLOCKS than any other on"
commodity unless II ~ bottles, Inc nun
ui,..t mart Of the bottle industry l. that
~, ~ them arr filed with medicine
have always had a good deal OF curiosity
on ,he .corr ~ these ss-latives and physics
and once | 80 far lost sight OF my own IN
t.r-sts a. to ask a woman Why sn. went
20 m. e,u.n-e Of storing all the different
brands N TONES. She didn't like the in
terference a hit, $500
boarding. she said. ! can't ahord TO
throw all tina, stun away y HSt a PIE
OF money and | may need II again some
.pu, why no, take Il With YOU | sug-
,..,.J 'Suppo-ing YOU should take sick
and need 1t while II is locked up IN THESE
vauhs2' m
.She met my objection promptly. oh,
hut / won't she said. cunclusively And
Tin .uit. OF the foresight Of the chronic
doser- a good many Of their cpncoc'ion-
finally gel around 10 the a~uction"er. m
ubich event they are fired uncerpmoniouSly
an, into tho backward. for much a. We
dislike 10 nave anything thrown back a
dead loss on our hands, W" cannot aHord
20 imperl tho lives of auctlon-ronm pa
|, ron-. and Incidentally our own souls hy
onering A larsain sale In medicines whose
protartie- aud Uses are known only TO
hca ven above d,
:St-akins ~ medicine reminds me az
? the coffin that was IntnIsts-i 10 our care
some ten years ago II bclonged Ia a man
named J,rome White. MIR White was an
ec,entric old fellow. and when he neactsed
the az. 81 sixty he made all PREPARATIONS
for death. even 20 the buying OF a CONN.
However. he hung on for several years
after having pa--d ia" thrce-scorc
! MARY and ha was still In fairly good health
! when his daughter, with whom he made his
home. took II into her head To quit keeping
hou-s and 81 70 ~ my
, sixty-odd years had failed 10 do. He oh
iect.-l most ~strenuously 10 boarding-hou-
life. but sincc he had no other relatives
who were willing To- he bothered with him,
thern was nothing for II but To pack up
and follow his daughter. IL was the pack
ing that brought terror To his own soul
and ,n the -oul- 81 his neighbour, for the
frs, and last thing that engros-'d his at
tanuun was the costly con1n. After orihmg
the expressmen I've finally got II hauled
around to the house where hs had engaged
accommodations, but when tho landlady
saw what IL was the men were trying q
carry UPSTAIRS she nearly had a spasm
and ordered itein 70 Ithe lNf WINK Nlaiku
hack where Il came from. This cour~.'
was obviously impractlcahle, and tho old
rcntleman was finally psr-uadst TO put
his coffin in storage along with his dsugh-
tors furniture
Although that was the only CONN We
ever handled We have had plenty " other
deposits that tended To make a fellow fecl
creepy. Take skeletons, for instances
We've had scores Of them | gue-s there
must lie a do1en or ~ lying around now
Usually they are the property of doctors
and medical students who. Tor variou
reasons. arr Obliged 10 shut up shop Tor q
little while and leave their stun with Va IN
the meantime. The owners Of -voraI
81 these human frames mus, have gu'
los, In the scuffie after closing their bar.
gain with us. for they never came hack O.
claim their goods and "a had 10 put the
bones up al auction. Fortunately. We lus'
nothing on the transaction A good Skel"
ton il never a drug |. the market. In
, deed, Judging by NV own experience m
the abandoned goods line ] should say tina
a man has money 10 experiment with he
can't do better than plant n few thousand
dollars 81 u in skeletons. He h. SURF Q,
come gu, oven, ~ the very worst. and II
times arr good he u apt 10 cloaf ~ high a'
q per c~nt on the Investment
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