The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-04

the evils of 'wanton destruction I re-
 member one storage man telling mo of
 an experience of his which had com.
 ical as well as serious aide. It ap- pears that some woman had stored a
 chest with him and then neglected to
 pay the storage dues upsn 1t. The chest
 contained a bundle of letters which she
 needed to make good e divorce suit. He
 disposed of the chest and destroyed the
 letters. She threatend him with all
 the terrors of the law, but nothing came of it. That. however, was an exception- al oocurRence. We do icrge business and will store anything from a pin to | an elephant.
 Stored His Tombstone. Not long ago was talking with . young man who wanted to store his | tombstone said Mir. Atchison of the George W. Knox Storage Company. How is it. I said. that you bought | c think like this before you needed it7' Tt was . bargain and always was keen. very keen. on bargains. There isn't | e shopper in the city who can scent one out quicker. I saw it one day while
 was in marble cutters shop. It was all complete with the exception of the name and date. The man who owns that stone will never use it," said the msian- eholy stonecutter.'
 "'i'why not7" said I.
 "''TIe was drowned a few montlB ago and he will never have any use for . tombstone" Of course. was sorry that | the chap couldn't have the. pleasure of | reclining under his own stone. but was glad in a way because 1t gave me a chance for a bargain. I bought it at c reduced figure and used to keep 1t in my | room until my folks grew nervous when- ever they saw it. So thought 1t would be good idea to store 1t until I was ready to use 1t. Won't you take isr "A warehouse manager often has | number of stuffed birds and animals to take care of. Some years ago knew nothing whatever of natural history. but nowadays I don't believe you could stump me on 1t. If there Is any kind of fish or bird or beast that haven't met in the last ten years, should like to be l introduced right away.
 T have gained all this knowledge from | hobnobbing with these stuffed speci- mems. In that branch of my education
 should say that was more intimate
 with parrots than anything else. Nine | families out of ten that get the storage
 habit seems to have had a parrot in their housekeeping days, and they desire it's remains to be handled tenderly. I have | a whole aviary of canaries intrusted to my care. besides any number of stuffed animals which have evidently been pets \ In their lifetime. We do no parcel deli | very business. but our facilities for stor- | ing furniture are ample. We have two floors in this new building and occupy | two hundred square feet of ground. A Pair of Live Alligators.
 "Yes. we store stuffed pets." said | Samuel Ellis, in charge of Littleield & | Alvord's warehouse. But some of the pets we are asked to take are very much alive.
 "A few years ago lady came and asked if we wouldn't store her furniture,
 as she was going away and expected to
 remain for some little while.
 "Ts that all?' we asked when she had given us the inventory.
 "'Weil. there are some things in the cellar which you would oblige me by talk ing care of.
 What are theyT.
 "'Alligators. There are two of them
 and they are the dearest little creatures you ever saw. I would rather have had some one of my friends take care of
 them but no one seems prepared to take
 charge of my little pets. You will have
 to feed them occasionally and do them
 a few acts of kindness now and then.
 They appreciate betting. and anyone who | takes an interest in animals can get
 along very nicely with them
 l q felt like directing the lady to the
 Zoo. but simply told her that 1t would
 be impossible for us to take charge of
 the reptiles. heard later that she
 went to almost every warehouse in the | city. refusing to allow anyone to store
 her furniture unless they took the alli-
 gators, too. So far as know. she didn't l find q warehouse man who was willing | to accept the order.
 | We are the biggest scene-shifters in
 Washington and employ as many as a I -k. .A AI. l enterprise. The building occupies an entire square, andNthe open and private
 storage rooms are under one roof" Swords, Urns, and Gallows. "The American Security and Trust Company's warehouse is one of the larg- | est and most complete in Washington" | said Clarence A. Aspinwali, the assist ant manager to The Times man. We have fireproof storage rooms, burglar proof vaults, for silver ware and .valua- bles, and moth-proof cold storage for a number of Admiral Dewey's presents tion swords here, a number of pieces of Beauvais and Aubusson tapestries. and several valuable relics of George Wash ington. The prize freak exhibit Is, suppose. an urn containing the ashes of a gentleman who was cremated not | long since There, too, we have intrust-
 
 Brown was hung. This was on exhibi- | ton at he Worlds Fair, but the owner
 must have been afraid to travel any | father South with 1t. We have a very fine Van Dyke. representing the Holy Family and St. John. and one of the
 most valuable of all the paintings under our roof is Verestchagin's Massacre of
 the Rebelling sepoys.'
 This Is a splendid piece of work and | is, in fact considered one of the best things the Russian ever did. It repre-
 sents a number of the mutineers bound across the mouth of cannon with the 1 English gunners ready to touch of the
 fuse. An aged Sepoy. hardly able to
 stand. appears in the foreground. The expression of absolute fear on his
 wrinkled face Is perfect. The back
 ground Is occupied by line of Tommies
 drawn up company front to witness the
 execution. We have a splendid collec-
 ton of deer. bison. panther. and bear
 heads. One of them belongs to Gen
 eral Miles, and is highly prized Secre- tary Cortelyou has stored with us the only turkey which was shot on the Presi-
 dents unfortunate hunting trip. It fell
 victim to the Secretary's rife. and he
 had it mounted very handsomely. An in
 teresting portion of the things we have
 stored is the silk worm eggs which the
 Agricultural Department sends us from
 time to time. These are kept in cold storage just above freezing temperature,
 and may be matched out years after they
 are deposited on the leaf by the insect.
 Caribou Heads and Patent eMdicines.
 Moses warehouse was built as far