Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-17
Around Hotel Corridors

| and dreamed of a land where hats
grew on cherry trees.
But he was on the job early next
morning-that is yesterday morning
When his companions and their head
aches came down for their little lemon
sour there was our friend from Roch-
ester standing bravely by the bar
sporting a new straw hat. 1t was
peach and on the strength of him hav-
ing enough coin of the realm left to
buy it he was urged to buy the sours
for the bunch. He complied and then
walked out of the lobby.
Great gods of shoes! Reposing be-
hlnd the desk was a hat-HIS HAT
and a card sticking in it saying,
! picked up on Spring street-pay re-
ward al this desk" He grabbed a
paper. There it was-in nice big type
at the head of the Lost and Found
column. 'Lost-on Spring street-one
black derby-fnder return to the An
gelus hotel to the man from Roches-
ter and receive reward of $10.'
He stool in a daze-I mean he
leaned in a daze against the desk.
There the bunch found him and gently
but firmly propelled him harvard. He
is spending yet. But he didn't pay
| the reward"
And. having delivered the foregoing
without winking the main gink in the
| storytelling business at the Angelus
turned to her books and started to
make out another bill.
The San Francisco bunch of drum
mers who blow in every so often to re-
pienish their stock of cash have
new one-guaranteed just out. 1t used
to be the fashion, when anyone want
ed be real comica1, to-that is, pro-
vtded one came from San Francisco
and wanted to be real comical-to sign,
instead of plain rs. F. or F'riso, or San
Francisco" after ones name to put
1915" But that's no class any more.
Nothing to it. The real dope is to put
in that space generally used for writ
ing the residence-put 1.-THE Paris of
America" and you will be right.
Among the new arrivals at the Alex
andria are Mr.. and Mrs. S. A. Rossi
of Stockton, who are in Los Angeles
on their wedding tour. Mr. Rossi is
a prominent figure in the commercial
life of Stockton, being proprietor of a
big store there Other prominent ar
rivals yesterday at the Alexandria were
DIR. and Mrs. W. F. Fundenburg
of Riverside. The doctor and his wife
motored down yesterday afternoon and
came near not getting here at all, as
the wind storm which is raging in the
Riverside was so strong that they
could scarcely make ten miles an hour
even with their powerful touring car.
Thty will not return until the wind has
abated at least a little. Others at
the Alexandria are E. P. Scheller, Cor
onado, accompanied by his mother,
Mrs. M. o. Scheller; j. C. Yancy of
Portland, who is actively engaged in
the oil business at Bakersfield; Mat
suzo Nagai, Japanese consul at San
Francisco, and Mr.. and Mrs. William
NJ. Cressy, prominent theatrical folks
who are at the Orpheum this week.
At the Van Nuys, among others who
registered are M. L. Effinger of San
Francisco, an oil dealer; N. D. Phelps
of the Phelps Construction company of
San Francisco, manufacturer of ma
chinery; Milo NJ. Potter of the Potter
hotel in Santa Barbara; Mr.. and Mrs.
w. H. McKittrick, for whom the oil
fields near Bakersfield were named,
and owen Moran, Charles ]. Harvey
and Jeff Perry, registering from Lon
don, England.
Among those who registered at the
Angelus yesterday were H. l.. Van
Winkle of San Francisco; D. Cromwell
Oliver of Visalia; e. D. Scheble and
wife of Toledo; Mrs. D. c. Collier, wife
of the director general of San Diego's
1915 fair and Mr.. and Mrs. L. H.
Burns of New York city.
New arrivals at the Lankershim in
clude A. K. Story of Phoenix; James
O'Connell, a postoffice inspector of San
Francisco. T. D. Smith, rug manu-
facturer of Philadelphia; Henry Gen
nett. a manufacturer of Richmond,
Ind; M. NJ. Benton, a minister of
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