The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-08
A GIOrifiGd clearinghouse

become am olo story, but it remained
for Miss Margaret Murray of chicago,
to achieve distinction as boarduE
house keeper Miss Murray retired
the other day at eighty, after success.
fully conducting a model boarding
house for fifty years; and fourteen
men, all Of whom had been with her
for periods Of from fifteen to forty.
five years, left her little brick house
in the heart of the manufacturing dis
trict without the slightest hope OF
finding another place anything like as
satisfactory as hers. She gave a little
farewell banquet on the night before
the departure of her boardcrs, says
the Philadelphia Public Ledger, and
was toasted as "the paragon of board
ing-house Keepers the most won
derful clearinghouse keeper i'm the
world and the best boarding house
keeper in all history" Of course it
is possible that their praise was eX.
aggerated but her career has its les.
sons, and the great army of boarders
and their landladies may find in it a
hint or two. Says the Philadelphia
paper:
There are no statistics on boarding.
house Keepers to test the exact truth
of these eucomiums. But the facts in
the case would seem to prove beyond
cavil that even if Miss Murray We're not
the best clearinghouse keeper IN his
tory, she at least is to be numbered
among the chosen few
One may best Judge the hold she
had upon her boarders by the term
of years each one has been with her.
Here is the list of her boarders and
the number of years each stayed:
Cass Stewart, official of the Chicago
& Northwestern Railway, who became
a boarder with Miss Murray before the
Chicago fire, forty-fve years.
Inspector John Wheeler of the Chi.
cago Police Department, who became
a boarder when he was patrolman
thirty-four years.
Neil Mcintyre, architect, twenty
nine years.
Edward Cooney, policeman, twenty
six years.
John Cassidy, Of the Central Trust
Company of Illinois, twenty-five years
Daniel O'Connor, broker twenty
years.
Timothy Daley, policeman, eighteer
years.
Michael DAILY, his son, seventeen
years old, fifteen years.
Edward Beal, buyer for depart
ment store, fifteen years.
DIR. w. A. Quinn, eighteen years,
DIR. William II. Mccarthy, siXteei
years.
Frank Hoy, fifteen years.
Samuel Wilson, fifteen years.
DIR. Charles w. Imwall fifteen years
One perhaps might wonder Wh.
there was no boGrder who mad peel
with her throughout the full MT!
wears she kept a clearinghouse. Miss
Murray explained this at the banquet
Michael OFlaherty,' she remarked
feelingly. was my first boarder.
never knew man who liked goo'
coffee SO well or could eat so mucl
boiled ham as O'Flaherty He sat a
nv table three times day for thirty
wears 1t was through no fault OF his
own that he quit me He died, poo
man"
The fooo served at Miss Murray
table seems to have woven a sort o
hvpnotic spell about her boarders
Some of them went away-or tried t'
and in every instance they came
auttering back like fascinated birds
Some of her boarders used to say tina
once a boarder with Miss Murray al
ways her boarder.
There was officer Timothy Daley
for instance. He began boarding witt
Miss Murray eighteen years, ago. he
didn't want to leave her, but he lei
in love. The big policeman knew
that if he married he would have L
leave the clearinghouse because III
bride haU declared fatty that sh
would not marry him unless he set Il
housekeeping. For long time once
Daley debated with himself matr
mony pulling on one side and Mis-
Murray's cooking Juggling on the othe
In this battle his heart finally VOL
He married and left Miss Murray
clearinghouse to live in coy III
of his own. A little son, Michael Dale!
blessed his union. But in few veal
his wife died Right after the funert
Officer Daley took his baby and wei
back TO Miss Murray. He has bee
there ever since and so has his boy
Then there was Inspector Wheele
Several years ago the inspector
, brother built himself new house, al
thought it would be fine to have Il