Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-12

principal hotel. He was a decisive
style of a travelling man She, was of
the reserved, quiet style. Keep her
self in her room, and was a model
boarder. one day the landlord re-
eeived Il letter addressed TO the house,
enclosing another letter for the spec
tacle vendor "to be handed him per-
soulIly." And In a few days the land
lord received another letter addressed
the same, to be handed her personally.
In q few days more he left town and
NJ the end of the week she departed.
The following week q richly dressed
young woman arrived at the same no.
tel, registering from Milwaukee. This
is the true story told by the latest
arrival She was the daughter of q
millionaire brewer Of Milwaukee.
About year before much against the
wishes of her parents, she married this
travelling man Her father set him
up in business" in Blanktowu. In ten
months he went broke They went
back to live with the old folks In Mil
waul1ee, a month later he again star
ed on. the road Selling glasses" He
made SO long n trip with address UNI
known his wife set n private detective
at work, and the travelling man was
located where this story opened. The
wife wrote him, and she also sent n
letter to Bi9nlstown to the husband of
the quiet little woman from Blank
town. A man in Rlanlltown wrote
the second letter the landlord received
and handed to the model lady boarder.
Since then the landlord has heard that
the travelling man is at home In Mil
YANKEE the quiet little lady back in
Blanlstown. the world is no wiser, four
hearts now beat as two no scandal. no
divorce proceedings. "AlIs we'll that
ends Well" and the sun rises and sets
inst the same. as tho no low comedy
had been enacted at the heightened ho-
tel of Nextown.
The comment on Correspondent
Steere's caseat Iowa City, this in quot
ing Professor Wilcox ON the insanity
of the citizens of Kansas. has about
ceased But the public watched /.
from the Iowa, or rather college, point
of view, with much interest. Many
of our college students help to work
themselves thru college, by doing the
correspondent act, and in nearly all
eases, drift into newspaper work after
wards. So the public was much inter-
asted in Steere's case. They dldn't
care a rap what Professor Wilcox said.
He made a public statement which WAS
true or false the public discussed that
rs amy other newspaper report. But
If Wilcox made q bad break and then
tried to load his unfortunate utterance
onto the shoulders of Steere, onto the
lying correspondent" they then wanted
The facts. In other words the public
10 not want the college correspondents
Anuzzlcd or their letters censored. They
want the same publicity given to our
and other public institutions
that Roosevelt demands for trusts. and
combines Incidentally it can be sug
gested that cautious correspondents
should provide themselves with graphic
phones and keep the records for flu
ture reference.
Very few hotel owners of buildings,
or proprietors under lease have read
the late supreme court decisions, in
the cases arising out of the Clifton
hotel fire at Cedar Rapids. 1t now
Gems we'll established that both own
ers and lessees are financially liable
for failure to eetablish fire escapes
rs well as proven negligence of cause
of fire. Suits for DAMAGES can be laid
by the guests of the hotels and in case
of death the heirs Of any person
whose death is caused by fire, can
bring suit with the certainty of YER
siic, for reasonable amount. Such
judgments can be collected If owner or