Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-05-01

sprung a leak. and 1 a just been
handed a dispatch that the supply car
was in the ditch. 1900 miles east. I
fired the crew and did not do anything
but swear and cut meat for -four days,
or until a crew arrived from Omaha.
Eclipse Scared Walters.
During the last of my two years
management of the Stafford Springs
hotel. Stafford Springs. Miss. I nm
ployed AZ negroes in the various de-
partments and on the lawns. A dinner
"a on and a guest complained that
not a waiter was in the dining room. 1
rushed in and found his statement true.
Went to he antries and Kitchen. Still
there was not an Ethiopian in sight.
Went to the cabins and still no mig
gers. There was an eclipse of the sun
ana every blasted niger was over in
avallable. so l returned to the dining
room. got on a chair and explained TIC
the l20 guests the situation. and said
N they We're too hungry to wait would
ask them to wait on themselves, which
they promptly did. and said it was a
most enjoyable meal.
Does any reader of this article re-
member those lear old red table cloths
and those nice flossy red napkins OF
the SJs! l worked at a house four years
that used them. They We're Numbered
every Saturday if it didn't rain The
proprietor of that hotel is now the own
er Of Il string of hrst-class houses and
is a prominent man in the hotel asso-
citation circles.
Some Old Hotels.
MANY of the old hotels have passed
out of existence. The old Pacific at
Council Bluffs has given place to a
large wholesale house. The Metropoli-
tar I'm Omah is now a 25-cent lodging
house. The Murray in Omaha is now
operated as an annex to the Paxton.
n Morgan at Des Moines is now the
Oxford under the Christian
ment
THE Chaplin House, Grinnell. Ia.
where George Christian made his first
success and a material reputation as a
caterer. is now a small hotel with a
small trade. The Pacific, the st.
James and the Lindeu hotels In Kan
sas City. have long since passed to
other places, the Coates being the only
one left.
The following houses are still open:
g now the Oxford, Des Moines;
s sns;p1 aouse, Grinnell. Ia; Stafford
key hotel at Huntington, Ore.
Tho Hubbard. Sioux City.
"In the very early sos / was connect
ed with the Hubbard at Sioux City
(now the MARTINI. During my en-
gagement there General and Mrs
Hazen We're guests for the winter
The general afterwards became the
, head of the weather bureau. Mrs
Hazen is now the wife of Admira
Dewey. There We're no RAILWAYS above
Sioux City at that time. All freight
including government freight. came TO
Sioux City and was then carried I'm the
river by boats. L made the 2.24Oemile
trip up the Missouri river with Cant
Grant Marsh on the Nellie Peck. We
We're three months going up and nine
days coming back. The boat on it's va.
turn was loaded from the boiler deck
to the Texas. with buffalo robes. We
were attacked several times by Indians
but replused them: and we also had to
tie UP several times to let vast herds
OF buffalo cross the river.
"curina" by Pipes.
During my second years engage
ment at a large watering place in the
north the water gave signs of giving
out. Borers We're put to work but we
found they would not reach the vein i'm
time. 1t was the height of the season
n our house was owe 300. Some
thing had to be done. and that quickly
At the foot OF the hill upon which the
house stood. there was a river. A CON
nection was made during midnigh+
hours with the river, the pumps set to
work. n all was we'll. In two weeks
the drillers were successful. but peonIe
were cured during that interval the
same as before.
George Christian will vouch for this
l story, as he held the other lantern"