The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-24
DAYS CHASE LANDS
BED IN HOTEL OFFICE
Major Carmichael Finally Gets
Place to Sleep After Scour-
ing the City.
NO ROOMS IN HOsTELRIEs
Victims Become Guests Of Mr..
Pullman and Doze to and
in Philadelphia.

Trance--he's a Major-called up the
editorial department of THE SUN in the
early hours Of last night and said he
wanted "a room and bath"
81 don't give 90 much Of darn about
che bath. but have to have room,
and maybe you can help me out.
I've tried everywhere bleated the SOL
der, who later proved to be Major
Hugh Carmichael, a son of the late
Thorndyke Carmichael, author and lee
turer. Of the Evanston section Of Chi
cago.
He had served for 1872 days steadily
Mt the front In France. said Major Car
michael over the telephone. and for more
than a month, or since he arrived here
aboard the naval transport De Kalb.
he had been working steadily on army
duties at Camp Upton. Early yester-
day he had got a twenty-four hour
leave, the FIRST vacation that had come
70 him since he hit the port Of New
York.
RsiIs I'm IL Hour Hunt for Room.
Pretty near twelve hours OF the
twenty-four hour leave have gone"
sighed Major Carmichael over the tele-
phone to THE SUN OFFICE around tho
dinner hour last night, land all the
hours 80 far have been spent either
IN riding on the Long Island Railroad
from Yaphank or trying all over Man.
haitian ever since to get q room ana
bath. To hell with the bath. but want
to set q decent hotel bed where I can
get enough sleep to enable me to rest
up before It's time to start back TO
Upton. Haven't you got some sort OF
Information bureau on your paper that
win help me To-
A duu-from the news sense-holl-
day was coming to an end. with all
the courts closed. and Hizxonor at Palm
Beach. and the navy scandal growing
more close mouthed. and the war over,
and Charley Murphy refusing to say
anything about anything. and C'mish
Enright also In the silencesL There was
nothing doing at all at all until the
moment Major Carmichael called up.
Here was a chance to Join up with
the Major and pick UP some news about
the crowded condition Of the hotel SEQ
ton of Manhattan.
A reporter asked the Major where TO
was telephoning from. He answered that
he was using a wall telephone in the
cafe of a hotel in the general SOUTH
eastern neighborhood OF Broadway's most
And I'm holding two bar checks high
above my head while phone" he said.
because In this place. I've found, they
not only have no rooms, but II a bar
patron starts Off to stab a dill pickle
at the lunch counter between drinks OF
to use the telephone eighteen relatives Of
the boss grab him and intimate that
he's trying to get out without paying
for the drinks. This. Is one swell, hos
pitable town. Listen-do I sleep to-
night"
Made Rounds Of the HsteIs.
Half an hour later the reporter had
met the Major. First OF all Major Car
michael was asked what hotels he had
tried. His answer was that he had tried
to get into each hotel and all the hotels
IN the world Cross-examinaticn, how
ever. brought to light the fact that there
we're several places listed in the tele-
phone book which he had overlooked.
"All right" said Major Carmichael in
pesstmistic tones Lets get into a
taxicab and carry on. I'll show you
that you can't show me a hotel IN town
that can get into"
"Ah. but Major YOU haven't thought OF
the Hotel majestic, to mention one OF
several. Now all you have to do, Major,
IS to drive up Central Park West to the
Majestic ard ask for Dom Mcintyre. the
press agent. Don't ask for the room
clerk. ask for Dom. And when you have
Oom's shsll-like ear just whisper to him
that there's a guy with you who's a re-
porter. Tell Dom, the great press agent,
that the reporter in the taxicab outside
Is going TO write about your efforts and
Dom will fix everything"
But what can this Dom do II the
place is filled--as It's bound to bey'
why. Dom, Major, will not do a thing
but haul carpenters and masons out OF
their beds TO build an addition on the
hotel II necessary. He'll have news.
paper photographers on hand making
flashlights showing the arrival Of the
carpenters masons. painters and deco.
rators. pictures OF you. Major, takins
on your uniform while the mortar Is
setting and pictures OF you climbing into
your pajamas while the paint is drying.
VIII Bring I'm the Squirrels.
"He will have Central Park squirrel.
biting the nuts into place ali along the
steel structure and Maggie Teyte OIL
Mary Garden singing a lullaby as you
drop on to slumber Just before the cit,
editions of the paper are also being put
TO bed"
BCneme
He didn't care. he said, whether they
photographed him in pajamas SO Ions
as he got a bed or whether they took tht
photograph an instant before he got into
the pajamas "On to Central Park Yves,
and Seventy-second street." cried tn,
EAte-. -
But Dom Mcintyre. Il was learned
upon reaching the Hotel Majestic, was ir
Atlantic City. where he was resting hi.
brain after a trying and imaEinativ.
season. Even Cope Townsend, boss o,
the Majestic, was not on hand to d.
what Dom would have done had Don
been on the Job. And the best the Majo,
got from the room clerk at the Majesti,
was that IL he came around some rainy
Thursday they might be able to do some
thing for him on the following Tuesday
To the Belmont, tho Plaza. the ST
Regis, the Major said he didn't car,
what the cost-the Holland House, tn,
Biltmore, the Manhattan, the McAlpin
the Claridge. the Murray Hill, tn
Gerard. the Hermitage. wallicl's I,
every place seemingly except Mills hotel
Nos. I, and and the Salvation Army
To Commodore ana Pennsylvania
How about the new Commodore an,
the Pennsylvania MaJor?" the reporte
asked with a sudden bright inspiration
And Major Carmichael just laughed tn
question In It's face
The Woodstock was tried All Allied
The Royalton. Nothing doing still. bu
the trail was getting warm. At !
o'clock last night Major Carmichael an
his taxicab. which now had clicked N
sum closely approaching the total 0
In