The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-29
TWO GIRLS FROM
THE SEAT OF WAR
One Was a Russian, the Other
a Japanese
STOPPED AT ST. NICHOLAS
The Night Clerk Gave Them Adjoining
Rooms-Ten Minutes Later the
Porter Said There Was a Hair
Pulling in the Hall.

Violet Halls, st. Petersburg, Russia.
Room g."
Ruth Baine Yokohama, Japan. Room
IL"
Those two entries on the st. Nicholas
register last night came very near Civ
ing H. S. Hyman. the night clerk at the
hotel, a case of jim jams.
About o'clock Hyman was sitting on
his stool. reading the war news from the
far east. His mind was a conglomeration
of 1yladivostock,' Port Arthur" mo.
BOB Metre hill' and the names of Japan
csc and Russian generals While he was
reading. two girls. one after another,
entered the lobby ana stepped mincing-
ly up to the desk.
Both of them were brunettes of most
accumulated type.
Lyman was SO engrossed In the war
news that he didn't notice them COM
ing in.
Presently he was awakened by wo-
mans protesting "a-hem."
Looking up, he saw before him the
two girls-one Junoesque in figure, with
flashing black eyes. brilliant black hair
and a sort of stolid conference.-the
otter dark of hair, with an olive-liIIe Gem
plexion, pquant features and peculiar
slant of the eyebrow.
Lyman turned the register around, and
handed the Junoesque girl a pen The
young woman took it in an Indifferent
sort of way and wrote on the register
these words:
Violet Halls, ST. Petersburg, Russia.p
Then she passed the pen back to Hey
nan, who handed it promptly to the
assie of the slanting eyebrow.
That little lady frowned trife. bit her
cherry-red lips and wrote in wee letters
these four words:
Ruth Ba--ue, Yokohama, Japan"
Hyman then took up the pen Beside
the first name he wrote the numeral 49,"
II" Then he called Frank" and sent
the girls up the elevator.
Twenty minutes later one of the porters
rushed ash-faced up to the clerks desk.
Mister Hymanl Mister Hymanl
There's two women up in the hall in
front of number and each of EN- is
trrin to scratch the others eyes out"
Lyman dropped the war news, danced
around to the elevator and shot up to the
second landing.
When he got there everything was as
quiet as a mouse There wasn't a wo-
man in sight. He waited bit and listen
cd and then went downstairs.
In five minutes the porter turned up in
front of the desk.
They're at it agln." said the black
faced Frank"
Up the elevator went Hyman In a fifty.
Again the hall was as still as a church.
Lyman waited longer this time for a re-
newal of hostilties. 1t dlda take place.
however, and the clerk went back to the
desk.
Once there he pulled the register over
and scrutinized the names of the girls
in numbers o and H. AS he did so his
right hand went up to his open mouth
and look of terror shone from his
eyes
My Gawdl' he cried, and dashed up
the elevator again. This time he didn't
merely listen lie raped hard on the
door of No. g.
Who-ees-it Z? answered a woman's
voice, precisely.
"1-me-Hyman-th clerlk-let me ina
moment. | want to speak to you just
moment-please."
The door opened and Lyman looked in.
Before him lowered the Juno one. On
the lounge lay the little girl with the
santing eye
The lips of both girls were smiling, CO.
duetshly.
"Who-who are your sputtered Hy-
man. -did-you--come
From St. Petersburg" said No. 1
From Yokohama" said No. 3
IF you will come down to the Jefferson
theatre tonight" said No. l, you will
have the pleasure of seeing u.s."
In what box?" asked Hyman. interest
eddy.
In what box?" said No. l. In what
box" and she looked slyly at No. 2. III
you want to see,' she went on. fix your
eyes on the stage"
Hyman says when he gets played for
sucker why that's horse on him.
He insists, just the same that there are
two girls in Frank Daniels "The Office
Boy company, who ought to get 500 and
$50 days in Judge Feagin's court.
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