Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-20
The Want Columns are Business Getters
s lDELIGHTS

One man has found place that ID
worse as residence city than even
Muscatine, IL the New York World ia
to be believed. This man is Henry
Jamison of Muscatine. He is still
from Muscatine," though it Is not
probable that he will again wander
prevent it. The World of recent date
says
Henry Jamison Of Muscatine, la. has
been having bit of experience Of
New York life. He has been hunting
a fiat in which to stow himself and his
wife, Eliza, four lusty little Jamisons
and a bulldog. Mr.. Jamison and his
wife came to the World Office yester.
day and related their experiences.
We've had just two weeks of this
refined torture, Eliza and l." said Mr..
Jamison with sigh. two weeks of
the blamedest heart breaking, leg-kill.
ing scaling of sky-scraping flats 1t has
ings to endure. An enemy OF mine
weeks ago. Said it was SO lucrative
did look that way to me at first. But
now and it's back to Muscatine for
Eliza and Henry by the very first
train.
New Workers live like woodchucks.
Not that Woodchucks would live In q
| fat--they know too much.
when Eliza and / got here two
weeks ago, we thought 1t would be q
regular lark to go out and find fiat.
| We figured upon paying about $3.50
for nice airy one that would hold us
and the dog and the four kids. On that
| basis we could lay up nice tidy sum
out Of my salary every year. We
went to an agent and he took us to
what I took at first for an ice plant
or cold storage warehouse. He walked
us up sixty-four flights of stairs
ooh, Henry" exclaimed Eliza. 1T
wasn't as many as that"
well, I'll knock off four for cash
but the sixty goes" replied Henry.
"Then the brigand took us into long
slim tunnel. About mile OF we
could soc dim little ray of light
breaking through some kind Of port
hole. He led us down along the
tunnel and on the way he was
telling us about how that fiat was
made UP of seven rooms and bath,
and every room light. I struck
match and got look at the rooms.
Box stalls Eliza and called 'em.
! From there he towed us into
gorgeous thing with lot Of ginger
bread fixings at the entrance and an
elevator in 1t. But most of the fixing
were in the entrance Seven rooms
q tohf nj o1N 81.
all night all the modern conveniences
and only'vmind you put that word in
fourteen hundred year. is what
the con man ratified off to us.
Il caught Eliza in my arms as she
swooned. The agent used my hat to
pour water down her back and revive
her. Just the moment she got around
again we got out of there where we
could draw in some real air Well,the
next day we tackled another agent. No
luck. Then the next day and the next.
| and the next, until we had used two
whole weeks. We went after the nj
rates who find tunnels and tubs and
telescopes and dog kennels for New
York to live in.
At last we found hole we thought
we could live in, way up somewhere
about Eight Hundred and Seventy-sec-
ond street. Had to agree to pay about
as much rent year as the whole
blamed building was worth, but there
seemed no other way. Signed and
sealed and galvanized thing the
agent called lease and Eliza and /
were just about to hike out and start
] for the west, when the agent ran after
us and asked US did we have any kids.
We said we inyoiced four the day we
left Muscatine. but had no late cen.
sus.
i Sorry. but it's all off in that case
says the brigand. Boss won't have
no kids in his fats
| And SO Eliza and your Uncle Henry
are hiking home to Muscatina.s