The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-09-16
FALLS THROUGH
ROOF INTO BED
IN HOTEL ROOM
Skylight Gives Way Under Flee
Ing Servitor to the Horror
Of Two Elderly Maids
TUMBLES IN BETWEEN EN-
WITH FRIGHTFUL RESULTS
Cries Raised Pasquale's Hair and
the House and He'll Siesta
No More On the Roof

NEW YORK. Sept. IA broken
/. skylight on the roof Of a tall hotel up
town bears testimony to an occur
renee there which might have ended
In tragedy. Pasquale-his last
name on the hotels list of employees
indicates that he Is OF foreign origin
forgot that the skylight was there,
and real mixup that occurred on the
floor just below the roof was due to
his headlOng descent. Not all who
fall through skylights are allowed to
choose the sort Of landing place that
received PasQuale.
Pasquale and Enrico served the
hotel In the capacity Of what is term
ed '"house men," That Is to say. they
do some OF the heavy cleaning up
work. some of the lifting, and the gen.
eral odds and ends which are not the
allotted tasks Of the regular classified
help.
Occasionally little red wine finds
it's way upon the table at lunch time.
Yesterday, the MONDAY meal finished
and there being little work in sight.
owing to the exodus Of Its patrons
from town over Sunday, PasQuale and
Enrico sneaked up to shady corner
Of the roof to enjoy the balm OF the
atmosphere and a possible siesta.
Their presence upon the roof at that
hour, 1t may be explained, was strict
ly against the rules. Therefore, II was
that. when the energetic step Of the
housekeeper was heard on the iron
stairway. both PasQuale and Enrico
suddenly awoke to action. Thoughts
of docking or suspension brought
them to their feet and put them to
headlong flight.
The skylight is low affair. II was
right in the path Pasquale had chosen
AS his nearest route TO hiding place.
II yielded to his step and PasQuale,
to the accompaniment OF Aging glass
and splinters, broke through. doubled
up, and disappeared just as the house
keepers head appeared above the
staircase opening. She screamed, bu
IL was nothing to the volume Of sound
that came up through the hole that
Pasquale's body had made.
The skylight was put where It is
or was-to give light and ventilation
to . dormitory below. Herein dwell
four women, who, in the nomenclature
of the hotel. are cleaners They begin
work at unearthly hours In the morn.
ing. when the latest guest Is supposed
to have found his way upstairs, and
their hours for slumber are not those
OF most Of the people sheltered by the
hotel roof
Two Of the women are elderly spin.
sters, modest and highly respectable.
To save their bushes, they will be
called Bridget and Patricia. For them
what ID the early afternoon In the day
OF the average person is usually some
where about midnight, SO 1t was that
at the hour when the housekeeper as
cended to the roof Bridget and Pa.
.tricia, tucked away in their little
double bed. were enjoying deep but
sonorous slumber.
Their bed happened to be just un-
der the skylight.
The clash Of the glass awakened
Bridget and Patricia and asked them
to scream, but their shrieks almost
frOxe on their lips as dark object
came through overhead and precipi-
tated itself upon the bed between
them. When this object was discov-
cred to be q man the two women
found their voices again, and those
who were within earshot said that no
noise that ever came out Of Kilkenny
approached that which found its way
through the hole overhead and the
cracks around the door.
The shock of discovering that he
had not received more than a scratch
in his ten-foot fall and of finding him.
self In q bed when he expected to be
hitting q concrete floor left Pasquale
inactive for q moment, but after q |
glance to right and left. terror of the
present impelled him to action. He
rushed to the door and pounded upon
II for q whole minute before he dis
covered that he could turn the latch.