Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1880 — The Cat Traffic. [ARTICLE]

The Cat Traffic.

One of the Towne brothers, of railroad reputation, has left railroading to keep the Railroad Hotel at Harvard, 111. Expecting a crowd last month he wrote his friend Pierce, at Watertown, asking the loan of some cots for this occasion. For cote Pierce read cats, and the following correspondence ensued: Harvard, Hl., Jan. 28, 1880. Have yon any cots to loan me for Feb. 10, 11 and 12, and how many can yon spare ? Towne. Watertown, 111., Jan. 29, 1880. Towne : I send you to-day all the cats I have on hand. Have several boys out picking up some more. I also send you a “ yaller dorg perhaps he will take the place of four or five cats. What in the name of hotels do you want of so many cats ? If this thing should become generally known it will ruin your business. Cut off mince pie for a while, and let hash rest, or you are a ruined hotel man. N. W. Pierce. Before he got through with it Towne had 120 cate unloaded on him, and now he has four coverlids on all his beds.— Railroad Gazette.