The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-23
ADAMLRSS BDEN RUNS DRY.
EVERYTHING STANDS STILL IN
HOTEL MARTHA WASHINGTON.

Made AbIutions with Cold Cream
-Ttmid Women IN Kimenos Stranded
I'm the Pariors-Oniy Fried breakfast.
The Adamless Eden on Twenty-ninth
street was much disturbed yesterday morn
ing. Practically everything about the
Hotel Martha Washington W o paralysed,
from the tooth brushes to the curling irons,
The electric lights were out and the loo
plant In the basement, on which Eden de-
ponds for the cold, cracked solid that goes
into milk shakes, Felicia Hemans cocktails
and English breakfast cobblers, was one
Of the warmest spots on the premises. The
elevators lolled lazily at the bottoms OF
their shafts. watching their usual freight
toiling up and down the twelve Nights o.
stairs. The faucets gave forth sounds OF
distress instead OF Croton water and the
more they were twisted and tweaked the
more they uttered signing notes, bewailing
their own drynees. Nobody can perform
additions or get cooled Oh in "a tubful OF
deep So the only Eden dweller
who enjoyed q morning tub was the opulent
stout lady OF the ninth who takes the daily
milk bath for beauty's sake.
How the Evil One sprung all this trouble
on Eden Ia not wholly clear. In frosty
weather he might have burst the water pipe
with ease and finish, but Manager Caldwell
knows that it couldn't have been the froet
this time. However It happened, in the
morning there was enough depth in the
cellar to suggest the propriety Of a bathing
suit to the engineer. Not being o marine
engine the engine ran down. The fires
were put out, too. The Toe plant was under
water. With the stoppage Of the engine
the dyuamoe subsidized, the elevators sank
to the ground floor and the pumps ceased
to send water up the plumbing. .
Il was wakensd up said one guest;
sby q loud, prolonged noise. 1t seemed
10 come from the waahstand and sounded
&c the steenp!pes dc ghen you turn the
radiator IN the wrong way. I jumped
up, slipping on my Turkish sandals, and
went to investigate. I turned on the water,
but neither hot nor cold was running. So
I reasoned It out that the other ladies' must
be hitting their water pipes with things
horn and q bronze paper knife and hit the
| p~ipe-knooked on the pipe, rather-for .
sThen / decided that this would not do
any good. AS tho man did not answer
the bell. I slipped on something loose and
| UuCH6o Ivy mar I'D WlJu u Dlk DlC Jill
and went out into the hall with my. little
drinking water pitcher. one OF those ridicu-
lously small ones, you know, to End some
water.
aThe women oil the floor were all In q
group, looking down the elevator shaft.
Of women was rafting the elevator grating
with an umbrella. Learned that the maids
| had come up and said That something was
wrong In the basement but all would be
right soon. The woman with the UNI
that Il was the fault Of that man. She
wanted to give him a pieoe Of her mtnd. but
refused to walk down eight flights to do It.
Il found that the ladies. who had water
in pitchers had already given 1t away, TO
others, a medicine glassful at a time, 30 that
there was none left for me-: One woman;
however, gave me one Of those little cold
cream papers that you use when you ore
out. Don't you know? You hold them
under your handkerchief and pass them
over your cheeks and forehead and the
and then crumple them up In a little ball
and throw them away. 80, i gave myself
q dry wash with 1t and WA glad to get that.
when we had walked ali the way down
to breakfast we were pretty hungry. But
when I ordered boiled rice, boiled eggs and
coffee the waitress came back with an empty
tray and said there was no boiled stun. l
had to subsist on fried things with just
milk to drink"
A reporter who asked for Mr.. Caldwell,
the manager, was old that be was not In the
hotel and was, in fact, gone for the day.
The lady with the umbrella met the reporter
on the way out and said to him:
Looking for Mr.. Caldwell, eh2 Let me
know II you find him. -.
The reporter wondered what could be
keeping the manager away.
A number OF women came downstairs
at the beginning Of the trouble in kimonos
and clippers. II there was anything wrong
they felt they would be safer down on the
| thew we're there, rather than walk all the
way up again, and waited until the elevators
| resumed business, They added a pictuf-
| esque touch to the lobby and writing room