The sun., 1919-10-06
WILD LIFE IN THE WEST.
Adventures in Hunting q Place to
Eat and Sleep.

Eat and Sleep.
To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-Sr.
should have arrived in Denver at 4:3o
Monday afternoon. which would have al
loved me an hour and a half before the
6 o'clock train for Laramie, but we did
rot arrive in Denver until z, which ne
cessitated my staying in Denver over
night, as the next train for Laramie did
not leave until S:30 the next morning.
Then Il had the most remarkable ex-
perience of the kind in my life trying to
set a room at hotel.
l started for the Savoy, where / had
stayed when in Denver before, but going
up the street 1 thought that as / was
alone / would go to less pretentious
establishment and tried the Albany.
They said they could not give me a room
enc bath but could give me bed in a
room with two other men. 1 metaphori-
cally turned up my nose at that offer,
being very ignorant Of the hotel situa-
ton. and went UP the street to the Ken
marks But there they regretted that
every room was occupied. Then I con-
Guided to go to the Savoy after all. but
at the Savoy every room was filled. They
said they thought I might get a room
at small hotel on Capitol Hill.
En- route to Capitol Hill, to add to my
discontinue the handle IN NV dress suit
case broke from ,n,,cb CARRYING. so I
removed ono ~ tbe atrans of the case
ana wound II through the brass rings of
the handle and fixed 1t so that u could
continue my itinerary. Just then I saw a
Y NJ G A. sign and 1 applied there for a
room. hut thew had none and recon-
nended me 70 n place around the corner
called the Tours. To the Tours I went
hut thew did NOT have n room vacant.
Tbev thought that tba P,vmouth down
around the corner on Rroadvrr would
have accommodations. At the Plymouth
the lady In charge was awfully sorry
hut thew didn't have a thing She kindly
offered 10 LET mo leave nv grin there
while Il hunted further. I tried the New
Bro adway. but with the same result.
It was now a little after s o'clock,
and as had had no supper q concluded d
to .,coal I'D" before going further. So ]
walked into a bright and respectable
looking Broadway restaurant and was
about to take a seat when a young lady
confronted me and said that thew closed
a. q O'Clock and could take in no more
crstomers then went along a block
ard entered, another restaurant which
appeared to be doing business" but
that nroved To be another oclocl,
establishment and the customers at the
tables were on the last Ian. A Young
woman told me that some one had left
the door unlocked nv mistake and that
thew were alreay "closed.,
went ont into the mildly cold and
cheer,ess world again. wondering IL any
thing was tho matter with me. As II
was eating late I thought had better
let eating go until I found a place to
lax NV head so 7 tried the Hotel Brown.
The Brown was filed TO the limit. but
recommended the Metropole and to the
Metropole I went, But the Metropole
vas in tho same AK. with this differ
ence. They had n heart for homeless
b,u,s nifty and beean to work the tele-
nbona for NV benefit. They called up
tho De Soto and they didn't have a
tri,s and then they called up one OF
two others whose names I could not
understand. and finally the Palms. The
Palms thought they could give me a bed
The nolite clerk took me to the door and
pointed out the Palms sign diagonally
awav block. and thither dragged my
weary feet.
ALI the Palms had left was the gen
eral parlor and a little room off from