The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-07-18
WHERE the
DRU MINERS STOP
storles OF Odd Hotels.

covered
the entire ground:
How you laik yoh aigs?"
indeed, the south until within tbe
last decade, and in some spots stin
furnishes the limit in the hotel line
remember one evening in March down
In Kentucky had driven 25 miles
over mud roads, and. arriving at the /
motel, which appeared tolerably com.
Portable, inquired If could get a hot
bath, and, to my delight. was informed |
that ] could. A fine rain half snow
was railing and high wind blowing |
| went to the room, disrobed, and
throwing a bath robe around me fol. |
lowed the negro boy down the CORR. !
dor. Pretty soon we emerged on to
latticed back porch on the second
story and in atticework that was
covered with vines in midsummer
stood a bathtub, into which the boy
had dumped two buckets of hot water.
The latticework was open. and even
the fiaring lamp, sizzling as the snow
flakes struck it, revealed me to half
the neighbors. | gave up the luxury
of the bath and retreated in as good
order as possible
One of the oldest hotels ever
struck was up in the lumber district
of upper Michigan. hit the town one
election night, and found the place
crowded with loggers from all up and
down the river There was one hotel
| small board affair. The office and
dining-room occupied one side, the
| kitchen was a leanto in the rear and
one long bedroom extending along the
| entire side of the hotel completed the
outfit. A double row of cot beds with
heads to the wall made the furnish
| ings, and yet there was only about
room enough for third of the Wis
| itors in town to sleep Along about
nine o'clock | decided to retire, and
the proprietor after looking me over
curiously and evidently debating in
wardly, assigned me TO bed, and
turned in.
At midnight every cot was filled
and half the picked log rollers were
snoring, when, suddenly aud without
trace of warning, every cot was
overturned, the occupants dumped on
the floor The sleepers arose, put on
what clothes they had removed before
retiring and started out without COM
ment. | was daZed for minute and
then began to kick to the boss, who
stood in the doorway and yelled: All
OUT"
What the dickens does this mean?
/ demanded, hotly
First shift turning out he eX
planned, and as he did so line of mer
| marched In and retired while those
who had slept in the first shift slipped
away to the near by saloons. At three
o'clock the second shift was dumped
onto the floor and at six, when the
third shift was dumped, ] paid thu
boss one dollar extra to let me turn II
and sleep until eight.
In earlier days. when | was sellin'
farm machinery in western Kansas,
struck some queer hotels, but the odd
est of all was owned and operated b!
a genius named Richards in a littl'
village in Sheridan county, 10 or =
miles from Hoxie.
Richards was queer characlei
and his specially was invention. IL
had invented more worthless thing
than any man in the country. Amos
everything he made would WORK pu
they all required more time ana IL
bor than the things he tried 10 III
prove on. His barn lot and parh'
we'll as his little one-story hotel, wer
filled with things he had invented
Il He put me to bed in small room
nerbaps eight by ten, with one sma
window, and one extremely NARY
door. | noticed as he showed me INT
the room that the place seemed
have double walls.
retired. The night was suItry al
close. but after time fell asieeI
Sometime during the night Wa
awakened by a Earring, ruihoiih
| and tbe thought flashed into my MN
/ that q cyclone had struck us. ! leape
| ont of bed and ran to the WINDOW
| sickening sensation of falling eau
| over me. Everything was dark
| TANNED my arm through the Wihuo
, and my fist struck solid earth ! WI ",
| terror stricken. but with jar u
| movement ceased, and with le
| minutes we began to ascend az"
| and stopped suddenly A gust OF WI. VIII
| struck me and as I was about to GIN
| through the window kicharus ope"'
| the door and asked:
| "How did she work.
| 7 demanded an explanation
| "Cyclone," he said, cheeriIy. On
| the calf barn and two haystaeKs, a.
! mart of Dobb's barn and his ~indm d,
Il thought it was going to MI us ."
let you down, nod
i The next morning he showed ,l
the mechanism. Every sieeplns n"t
U was really double room the ms 81
| being like an elevator ana ne ~
| ripped weights and counter we's q.
| until by pushing a lever ne ne, o s,'r'n u II
4 all the sleepers in the hotel down - :,