The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-11-19
The KNACK OF
TAKING A TOWN
HOW NovIcEs CAN BEST TRAv-
Ell IN STRANGE cITlEs-soME
GOOD HINTS HOW TO TAKE IN
A TOWN AND DO 1T IN BEST
MANNER POSSIBLE.

The American Salesman: Winter
travel means to many people
travel to large cities and temporary
residence in large cities. The average
traveller, arriving in big, strlpge
town, is a helpless and lonely crea-
ture.
1t costs him half his spending money
to get from the train to his hotel
room. His hotel room is barren as a
barn The hotel lobby is specSled W tn
commercial travellers. He wishes lie
were home. Now, that is no triumphal
way to enter a city! Experience
points . better way of
How to Capture a City.
On dismounting from the anthracite
or bituminous road that lands you
black and homesick in the unknown
city, why hire a cab and go to the
best hotel? BY tomorrow morning
you viii have spent 81 that would be
invested in mastering the city. You
wouldn't take cab and go to the
largest caravansary in your home
town-not even If your own house were
closed for the season.
Here's the way the expense actually
totals:
Cab ......a. .............-...$ 1.25
Porter, for carrying suitcase from
cab to hotel desk ........ rs
Room and bath for the night ....2.5O
Boy for carrying suitcase to room .25
Dinner and breakfast ......... It's
AONoAA 3UsVU
And that IS is an inside figure This
bungling procedure generally costs
more than that. A man acts that way,
because he is off his home grounds,
and is a little timid. He has never
learned how to travel.
The proper method starts in with a
| few donts. Don't take. cab don't tie
yourself to your bag. Check your bag
| in the parcel Office. Then start out
blithely to get located. Let me use here
a personal experience that lines UP
into a general law and code of rules
Locating Room.
l arrived in Portland. Me-, the other
day, and wished to stay a couple OF
happy days. / do not care for the
wallpaper on hotel bed rooms.
So / walked up the hilly street to
the large red Y. M. G. A. building, and
went in to size up the secretary. ]
found him an adequate man within a
couple of minutes Of talk. If he hadn't
been, would have come away at that
point, and gone to the head librarian
of the public library.
Il want nice quiet room with a nice
quiet family" / said, for two nights
which nf frin
most satisfaction"
He turned to his little memorandum
book.
Number - Park street." he said. ]
| rounded the corner and found an i'm
mense room on the second floor with
an unusually good Welshbach reading
lamp. 1t cost me 81 night with bath
| facilities and no extras. Such accom-
modations at any decent hotel would
cost 81 night, with extras still to be
heard from. I could have had a room
in the same house for so cents a night
/ then returned for my suitcase and
brought it up by trolley car.
| If you arrive in a city late at night
and must stick close to your case, al
least walk block away from the sta
| ton before inquiring the distance to
your hotel and whether or not there
is car. The crowd of cabmen and
their loafing friends at the station
will certainly advise you wrongly.
The College Widow.
A college town is delightfully."- easy
pace to enter and settle-even though
1t be for only a night And ii is a
pleasant fact that about one third OF
all our towns and cities are college
| towns. Culture is epidemic. Each Of
these towns numbers among its in
habitants a few hundred estimaple
middle-aged widow ladies who "tLke'
student dodgers and student boardcrs
both men and women
| In the beautiful month OF June
happened into Ithaca, N. Y, where
there is an institution known as Cor
nell university 1t was commences
ment time. The two well-run hotels
were crowded to the doors with proud
but perspiring parents.
| went into store and asked the
name and address Of a few good wo.
men that kept students houses. MY
| first address gave me an admirabl.
4 room with latch key on sight, for 81
cents night. / tried to pay my hos.
tess in advance but she said tina
wasn't good form.
The room secured, money Is saved
and good menu gained. by eating ii
restaurants rather than in hotel.