Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-07-26

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ured that his samples We're ready to
show, IL then ned got his marks Sc
lected and began on them with he
plausible buzZ-saw. nave to have the
authority of the house. OF course be-
fore l can give the opening nudge to a
guest. and l had the houses authority
in this case. He was showing a very
reluctant rich man from keokuk or
some other place Il piece of quartz
mined in the Tonopah country as Il
sample of his Mexican gilt stuff when
l told him that the manager of the
house desired his company for a few
minutes. The manager told him ALI
in a few sharp words. and it was up
to me to do the rest. The fax gold
mining purvcyor of cute worthless Ger
titicates was out OF the house within
h half hour. He fumed at me on
h way out that he was going to sue
the house for 800, 600, 900, or some such
piking matter. and carry the case to
h supreme court of the United States.
But we haven't been served with the
papers yet.
Business of Hotel Sieuth.
It's the hotel sleuth's business to
keep out all beggars of Whatsoever
class or kind, from those who sneak
IN and try to mace guests in the lobby
for the price OF the pannikin of dream
juice to the staggering. burly kind
Sho ~ 6oVstS w IaI
their names down for anything from
800 to $1,000 for 'phony' orphan asy-
lums, fake h 1t publications and
that sort of thing. The number of
bogus charitable gags that cheerful
workers. most of them from other
cities, try to put over at the Washing
ton hotels is astonishing. Most OF the
men and women who kite along this
way with those neat gimme a hun
dred fake charity things arc the top
piest kind of dressers. and all there
With the conversational oil. and if
there wasn't somebody around u car
avansar to spot them they'd clean up
like the harp that once through the
city hall. They all put up the unhand-
me. w-dare-you thing when they're
segregated and pointed in the direc-
ton of the exit door, and all of 'em
are going to sue the house for the
price OF the Improvements and the
ceipts within fifteen minutes. but.
somehow or another. they never seem
to come back once they've been shown
the right way out.
The projectors and hackers of and
runners for the various m~aybe-youll-
get-out-With-your-life poker games
that are carried on in some of the
shady clubs and third rate hotels Of
Washington have to be watched for,
too. They've got a way of sliding
around the lobby and warming up to
likely looking guests on fictitious pre-
texts. When a hotel guest who knows
enough to keep his head within IL car
window wants to find a poker game or
a faro bank he knows how to go about
getting the m as to the To-
cation OF one But when a hotel guest
OF the mark species yields to the invit-
ing persuaSions of one of these
and goes nj and gets himself shredded
fnr 1p Or n,t1 onNiny,C ,,,,,a,r, Ia -1,,
orally returns to the hotel and emits Il
sad narrative to the clerk at the desk
about how he's been allowed by the
hotel folks to be dragged into a brace
game. The average hotel guest of the
mark sort will hold the hotel he is
stopping at responsible for everything
connected to or with him. from the ach-
ing of his unplucked back teeth to the
grease spots on the right hand lapel of
his dinner coat.
Delicate Work REQUIRED.
THE shy, young skirted persons who
sit denurely about the ladies' reception
and writing rooms. With no apparent
object in life, have to be carefully OBJ
served. too. This is about the most
d~ilicult work a hotel sleuth has to
tackle. for if he gets in wrong just once
he could easily fetch Il large damage
suit down upon ne house employing
him. Blu the work has to be done, and
| don't remember that there've been
any damage suits of that kline in Wash
ington.
professional hotel sneaks have to
be looked out for every hour of the
day and night-that. of course, is real
~ the main business of the hotel de-
tective. But l don't hav much of the
main business here. You see. the pro-
fcssional hotel Sneaiss know lust as
much about how the various big hotels
around the country are policed as the
hotel sieuths are supposed to know
about the hotel sneaks. The Glass A
hotel sneak. the one who has been in
the business for years, will never show
his nus within the door of a hotel that
employs a house detective who has
been shopping around watching things
for a long stretch of moons. They
know where there are hotels tina en-
ploy new house sleuths, fellows UNI
familiar with the mug of the profess
sional hotel workers. and they coniine
their operations to these nowadays. Ii
Isn't any brag to say that l know the
face of every first-rate and second
rate hotel sneak. man and woman,
that's ever been mugged in the United
States. for that's my business. and Ii
didn't know their countenances I'd
be of no use here or in any other hotel
About five months ago l was amazed
10 see coming in here with a large
delegation of business men from a
western city To attend an important
business mems convention q middle
aged man whom I'd known for years
as one of the sinartest major league
hotel sneaks In the whole n ]
hadn't heard of him for five or six
years before 1 saw him that day five
months ago, walking in here with the
western bunch as big as life and
groomed to tho mines from sinner hat
to military heels. l took him over into
a corner right away.
You hadn't ought to make ms
laugh this way when you can see thai
my lips are chapped.' l told him. 'Did
you expect to find me in my dotage
or was it our idea that there'd be
a new hound here?'
Flag that he said to me in ar
earnest tone. I've been square up fol
five years. Thought you might have
heard 1t. Belong to the business mems
association that 1 came along here
with. Got a family. making money and
have forgot all about the old push
Make any inquiries on the quiet abou,
me thai you like Of the men 1 came
along with. None of them is hep t.
what I used to be. But you're not GO
ing to squeak on me. are YOU?
His Reformation Confirmed.
O course l was going to do no such
q thing If, upon inquiry. l found out
that he was really doing the righ'
thing found that he was. al right
He was one of the most esteemed rlel