Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-05-19
SUNDAY PARTY DESTRUCTIVE.
Landlord Files Heavy Damage Bill
Against House Renters.

Philadelphia, May 13.-IA bill for
$1,754 in damages--among the items
being smashed furniture, broken
china, vanished glassware and dam
aged bric-a-brac-has been prepared
by Col. Chas. NJ. Keegan, owner of
the house at No. 1914 Spring Garden
street, which was used as a home
by Billy Sunday and his party during
their recent revival in this city.
'I'm going to present this bill to
the Sunday Campaign Committee and
if they don't pay it I'm going to
bring suit" said the colonel to-day.
The committee was the organization
that had charge of Billy's temporal
affairs here. It's members know
about the bill and say they are not
going to pay it because it is too high.
The temporary Sunday residence
was over-run almost every day and
night with delegations Of visitors
from local churches and from other
cities, which may explain some Of
the alleged damages.
WhiSkey Glasses Unwrapped
Col Keegan's bill is a very inter
esting document, filling five type
written pages. One of the first
things he COMPLAINS about is that
more than 100 glasses disappeared
while Sundays party occupied his
house. He asserts that 20 whiskey
glasses which he had never taken
from their original wrappings were
found, after a search, unwrapped, in
telephone closet on the first floor.
Walls were gouged, he asserts
Six doors were off their hinges, and
the colonel charges the modest sum
of $40 for rehanging them. Ano-
ther item in his bill is for carting
off three loads OF rubbish, which he
says the revivalists left behind
A five-foot jardiniere in the draw
ing room was broken and patched
together, he says, in the occupancy
OF the temporary tenants. Some
one broke a leg off a heavy leather
chair in the room Billy himself oc-
cupied.
Heavy on the Piano Stool.
The piano stool was smashed and
the marble top of table in a room
on the first floor was cracked.
Then good many things are
missing, it is asserted. Among these
is marble dog, which graced the
Kcegan reception room, the big toe
of statue of girl, also In the re-
ception room, silver-plated syrup
jug and much bed clothing.
Col. Kcegan refused to confirm a
report that several bottles of gin and
whiskey he had left in a padlocked
trunk in the cellar were empty and
the lock broken when he took pos
session Of the house again.
Burns. presumably made by cigars
or cigarettes, were found on the
ivory keys and mahogany sides of a
piano.
A Catalogue of the Missing Things.
Here is list Of the claims in
part:
Missing: Two sets Haviland
china, six oil paintings, nine bath
towels, three table covers, ten nap
kins, thirteen pillow cases, seven
sheets, eighteen beer glasses, forty
engraved water @glaSses, twenty-six
whiskey glasses, ten hook glasses,
five cordial glasses, six creme de
menthe glasses, four champagne
glasses, nine fancy stems, one
wicker armchair, five embroidered
scarfs, three silk curtains, one Turk
ish rug, five books, one silverplated
syrup jug, one marble dog, one shade
on front door.
The broken things include:
One jardiniere, five armchairs, one
mahogany chair, one large leather
chair, one French plush chair, one
corner lounge, one piano stool, one
marble top table.
In the party that stayed at the
Sunday home were: 'fBlly" and Mrs
Sunday, Homer A. Rodheaver, the
choir leader; Miss Grace SAKE, Bent
Icy c Ackioy. Sundays secretary;
Miss Frances Miller, Jack Cardiff,
Sundays trainer; George Sunday.
Jr., and Mrs. Mary Schuler. the
housekeeper 81 lay brought on
from the Wer'
Much s. .nDoing AfteIward.