Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-06-05
oHICAG Q, Miss Margaret Muir
]. ray, Chicago's model boarding

losHICAGO .. - Miss Margaret Muir
Nj ssl n ray, Chicago's model boarding
II 8 house keeper, has retired from.
SSss - business after conducting 2
boarding house for so years.
s She Is eighty years old, and has a. as
4 much money as she needs to keep her
II for the rest of her days. II Fla Il s$s;5 i3;
fourteen men gathered at the little
farewell banquet she gave recently at
4 her boarding house, lat 122 South Green
street, q sdingy tho roughfare in the
heart s,ofs ~ manufacturing district.
i Most OF them were gray7haired and
ZONE were wealthy and all were
mo- lfto.do. They had been her board
3 s4rs for terms ranging from IS TO h q e
years. q,
sga On that occasion, these Sboarders
/ toasted their retiring land lady in COT.
i Zee OF her own brew, and called her,
f{1.the paragon Of boarding house keep
ers,y the most Swond erful boarding
house keeper in the WORLD, and "the
best boarding house keeper in all his his.
tory l 5S
There are no statistics on boarding
house keepers to test the exact truth nth
1 81 these encomiums. But the facts An
the case would seem to prove beyond
cavil that, even IL Mrs, Murray were
not the best boarding house keeper in
history, she 1T least is TO be number bel
I. "a among the chosen; few. ;s5 s5SSI lis
Boardsrs seldom ! eft Her. 81.
n one may best Judge the hold she
& had upon her boarders by the termsoof'
years each one has been with her.
4 Here IL the list Of her boarders and
the number lof years each stayed
Case stewart, omcial Of the Chica.
70 II Southwestern railway; who be;
4 came boarders with Miss Murray be
& fore the Chicago fire, As years:
]. Inspector John Wheeler OF the Chi
cago police department, who became cam
boarder when he was q patrolmaaln1,
9sS4 years. 81 s t s
Neil Mcintyre. archite 20 years Il
!. st Edward Cooney, policeman IS 'years.
n NJ John Cassidy or the Central Trust
i company of Illinois, %. years. 81
Daniel o. Conner, broker. 20 years.
Timothy Daley. policeman, IS years.
II Michael Daley, his son, seventeen
years old, Is years. I, S3a 81 5sB
Edward Beal, buyer for depart.
L ment store, 10 years. II e "A q !.
Z 81 Dr.. w. a. Quinn, IS years. NJ
n Dr. William H. Nice arthy. 16 years.
Frank Hoy, Is years. 4 sss ,$ 5,
Samuel Wilson, Is years. .}s ssz
Dr.. Charles w. Imwall. Is years.
One perhaps might wonder why
a there was no boarder who had been
with her throughout the full so years
she kept boarding house. Miss Muir.
" explained this at the banquet.
michael O'Flaherty,' she remark
ed, teelingly, was my first boarder. 4
II never knew man who liked good
coffee SO we'll or could eat SO much
{ boiled ham as O'Flaherty. He sat at
4 my table three times day for 80
years. It was through no fault Of his
n own that he quit me. He died, poor
man" IA "a =. ]; AK Il Z ~. 4.
The food served at Miss Murray's
table seems to have woven sort Of
hypnotic spell about her boarders:
\ Some Of them went away-7or tried to
!, and in every instance they came
huttering back like fascinated birds.
Some OH her boarders used to say
that. !onfe q boarder with Miss MUIR
". always her boarder. "a Il
$officer Daley's Experience.
There was Omcers Timothy Daley.
for instance He began boarding with
Miss Murray 10 years ago. He didn't
i want to leave her, but he fell In love.
The big policeman knew that II ne
married he would have to leave the