The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-04-12

Whcn II comes 10 a QOLCl where
No questions are asked and where
sinful couples can register as man
and wife for the purpose Of acting
shamefully, it is alleged that the old
Elgin hotel is doing nothing to re-
move it's old curse of being nasty
rest where filthy immortality is per-
mitted with complacency.
The Elgin once was Madam Gains
homestead. After she went to an
other world, kinfolks of the Under
world Queen conducted the place.
Last December, one Robert L. Harris
took a lease and has conducted it
to date.
Col. Harris is represented as hav-
ing been a railway mail clerk at
one time. He worked at the ship
yards during the war and until the
armistice was signed, thereby escap-
ing any danger he may have felt
of being caught in the draft. He
further is represented as possessing
a wife Of his own.
The notorious old Elgin hotel has
about forty rooms. They keep well
filled. Some of the guests are steady
and do light housekeeping. The
register shows that transients are
chiefly booked as couples, single reg
istrations being greatly in the minor
ity. This proves that the place either
is great favorite with married
people or that many of it's patrons
are married in name but not in fact.
One Madam Beach has been house
keeper for some time. She also wears
the name of Anna Olson. She claims
a husband, Leon Beach, who is cred
tied with working at the shipyards.
It is alleged that he formerly was
in the booze business up along the
border somewhere - international
Falls, Rainier or some such burg
and that he either followed Madam
down here or she followed him.
Stories are somewhat conflicting and
even are told differently at times by
Madam, herself.
Madam Beach, alias Anna Olson,
is represented as being a great lover
of pleasure. One week when Capt.
Beach was working nights, the en-
tertaining wearer of his name was
seen on three different evenings of
the same week going to movie shows
with a different man each time.
Madam Beach, alias Anna Olson,
may be innocent and guileless as a
newly born babe but at least one
Rip-saw inspector declares that she
will have to show him.
Up to the time that T. H. Hudson
got arrested in Iron River, Wis,
with his string of women, he was a
star guest of the Elgin hotel. He
paid a good deal of attention to
affairs there and even blatted with
his mouth when policemen came
there on official errands.
Irene Joyce, who aided Hudson in
the new city fashion of sleeping
three in a bed and who claimed to
be Mrs. Hudson, until her bluff
b1oke down, was an attraction at
the Elgin for a long time. She was
rot noted for any efforts in behalf
Of high moral endeavor while iiv-
ing there.
Not far from the time when Irene
accompanied herdmaster Hudson to
Iron River, she got bit booty when
entertaining a chap named Thomp-
son, with the result that they had
a quarrel. In her drunken anger,
Irene declared that she had swal-
lowed bichloride of mercury tab
let's and that she soon would shuttle
off.
The city ambulance was sum-
moned and Irene was whirled away
10 st. Mary's hospital, where a doc
;or pumped out her tummy but fail
ed to find any bichloride of mercury.
She laid up there for about week,
perhaps suffering more from too
much booze than from mercury poi
soning.
That sporty and scrappy Thomp-
son, by the way, had a wife and
child looking to him for comfort and
support, but looking in vain. He
distinguished himself on another
occasion by running away to Fargo
with another woman not his wife.
Mayme Armstrong, another of
Hudson's string of women, who got
arrested at Iron River for receiving
callers in her room after she had
gone to Blanket street in the Land
Of Nod, graced the dear old Elgin
under the management of Col. Hud-
son.
Another woman with a worthless
reputation who roomed at the Elgin,
under the Hudson wing, was Mrs.
Parmalee, a woman reputed to be
married to driver for local van
company.
After the Iron River experience,
Col. Hudson and his trio of sirens
went elsewhere. He owned a shack
on an acre outside of Duluth and. be-
Ing burned out in the forest fires,
the relief commission built him a
new shack. He may have taken his
trio and started road house out
there. The taxicab boys may know
more as to that than the Rip-saw
inspectors.
Hudson is represented as being a
hard wrestler with Old John Bar
leycorn. Madam Beach complained
one time that Hudson, when drunk,