Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1892 — IN A CHICAGO HOTEL. [ARTICLE]

IN A CHICAGO HOTEL.

It \Va* Full of Magnificent Distances to Bother Conniry Guest*. He was from a country town and stopped at the Grand Pacific Hotel, and was assigned to a commodious inside room in the northwest corner of the house, near La Salle street. He was not satisfied. The noise and rattle and tumult of tl e streets reached him and made him yearn to look out on the busy scene whence they came. The strokes of the. big Board of Trade clock resounded through the corridors, and this young man desired to gaze on the tower where the clanging bell hangs. So he went to the office, sought Sam Parker and spoke thfi%: * “Say, mister, I don’t like that room you gave me. I can't see anything but the walls of a big building and some sort of a place with a glass floor.” He meant the court in the center of the hotel. “Why, cert’nly,” said the obliging, accommodating Parker. “What kind of a room would you like? ” “Oh, I’m not particular. Anything where I can see something outdoors.” “Want a bath with it?” “Well, I dunno. I had a good wash just before leaving St. Louis, and ” “I-mean do you wish a room with a bath-room attached?” “Oh, I don’t care if it’s next to a bathroom. I won’t kick about that, so’s there don’t too many people have to go through my room to the bath-room.” “How would a nice room around here on the Clark street front suit you?” “ First-rate.” “Front, change the g’entleman from 203 to 276.” “How far apart are, these rooms?" qniried the St. Louis man anxiously. ‘ About two dollars and a half,” replied Sam. “I mean how far in distance. How far will I have to carry my valise?" “Just about two blocks,” said Sam, making a mental survey and topographical plat of the second floor of the Grand Pacific. “Great gosh all hemlock! I want to stay in the hotel,” protested the man from the bridge. “Oh, you can walk two blocks without getting out of this house,” said Mr. Parker. “If you get lost tell your troubles to a policeman.”—Chicago Post.