The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20

Aaron McBain has sued the Lake
Superior Hotel Co. for damages in the
sum of $4,000 for alleged ejectment
from the hotel Superior by clerk Me-
lanson.
NcBain is a Draw sailor lad who
4 follows the great lakes. At present
he is a wheelsman on one of the big
/ freighters. When staying on solid
/ ground at the head Of the lakes, the
{ plaintiff has been regular guest at
Hotel Superior. He had been there
for some time and alleges that his
/ time had not expired at the time he
was ordered to leave.
In his complaint, as drawn by law.
yer Charles Line and filed in the tenn
pie Of justice, McBain recites the fact
that his rent was paid up in full until
/ 10 p. m, Tuesday, Sept. 2, but that,
between 9 and 10 a. M, the clerk Of
"Sunny AL" Wagner's hotel told him
he was can undesirable guest" and
compelled him to leave.
The plaintiff further recites in his
allegations that the night clerk, Joe
Melanson, and his boon companions,
male and female, were in the habit Of
drinking intoxicating liquors, carous-
ing and making disturbances in their
several rooms in said hotel; that COM
plants against the disorder were made
and that said clerk picked on the
plaintiff McBain as the "goat" and,
therefore, the one to blame. To
strengthen his claim that the plaintiff
was to blame and to make other peo-
pie believe the same, McBain insists
that Melanson elected him.
By reason Of said false accusation
against plaintiff McBain by Melanson,
the former alleges that he has suf-
fered and will suffer in his name,
fame and reputation and that he has,
also, suffered mental anguish, shame
and modification and that he has been
damaged thereby and is damaged in
the sum of $4,000.
September II, Charles Line, attor.
ney for McBain, received a notice
from Messrs. Hanitch, Hanitch & Nc
Pherson that, on Sept. %, motion
would be made in court to strike out
all of paragraph in the plaintiff 3
complaint on the grounds that said par
agraph is irrelevant, redundant and
scandalous.
Said paragraph in said complaint
reads as follows, viz:
HThe said clerk Of said hotel and
his boon companions, male and female,
were in the habit Of drinking intoxi-
eating liquors, carousing and making
disturbances in the different rooms in
sald hotel, with the implied if not the
express consent Of the management of
said hotel; that some person COM
planning thereof, the said clerk picked
upon said plaintiff as the goat and
as the proper person, upon whom the
blame for such carousing, drinking and
unseemly conduct of the other guests
aforesaid, should be laid.'
The Hotel Superior seems to be the
headquarters and favorite assembling
place Of a Congress of Rough Rid
ers," SO to speak. Many months ago,
the Rip-saw told Of stunts pulled off
there calculated to add to the gaiety
Of nations. There were well authen-
ticated tales of booze being dispensed
by ben boys, gambling games under
the direct supervision Of the highest
head Of the hotel and even frolics
held by big, strong men with fair but
frail females. At that time, many
were inclined to the opinion that at
least some Of the members Of the hotel
staff were trying to follow the exam.
Piles, of ''Chet" Bell, Max Rosenberg
Ulysses James Burnside AL Powers
Jim, Colt, T., Frank Fischer, Chris
OBrien, King ,Colahan and othe,
prominent citizens of Bingoland.
When manager Arthur Melanson
came, back from Scion: Springs where
he. had been comwsning with nature
over the Sabbath, McBain was fired
out of the hotel, playing the part Of
the "goat," 50 he insists.
The biggest, gayest, noisest, longest
and most abandoned blowout Of the
entire year began on or about August
10 and lasted four sleepy days and
wakeful nights. Seven Of Superior ,.
most prominent citizens played the
leading parts, ably assisted by OLD
John Barleycorn, 'tBabe" and s'Bere
nise."
1t IS alleged that John Howe was
out in that wild car Of his, accom-
panied by Sunday school teacher and
bottle Of red booze in his hip pocket
While vying in friendly contest as
to which one could recite the most
psalms and proverbs, the two engaged
in friendly. scuffle. In some way
the bottle Of booze was broken. The
& pungent liquor soaked Howe's panta
looms and the broken bottle sadly
gashed his pulchritudinous rear eleva
ZION.
Gashed, bleeding and booze-soaked
Howe fastened to. Hotel Superior and
called DR.. OLeary to sew up the
gashes in his hip. It was some job
for Howe skunk like . distillery and
the rue9eat odor made Doc. OLeary