Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1876 — Hotel Life in San Francisco. [ARTICLE]

Hotel Life in San Francisco.

A story is told of a San FranciscoThouse, but as it is notlocalized, we cannot possibly saddle it on any one of them. A man boarding there thought prudent to settle terms beforehand, to be sure that his money would hold out. Two dollars a day. He staid two months and sent for his bill. Carr&mba! The two dollars a day for board was only a small part of the items charged. Sixty dollars for fire loomed up conspicuously. Boarder demurred. “ Can’t help it,” saysthe landlord, “we can’t afford to famish fuel and a men to attend to it for less than a dollar a day.” “All right,” says the boarder, “I’m willing to pay you a dollar a day for fire, but don’t want to pay for any more than I’ve had. Now, out of all the time I’ve been here, it’s impossible that I could have had a fire more than half a dozen days in the whole sixty.” “ Well,” says landlord, “ that’s mot our fault; the fuel was there, and a man to attend to it; you might have used it if you had been a mind to.” But the boarder remonstrated still further, “Now if youoome up and look at nay room, I 'think I can convince you that there never has been any fuel there, and what is more,” continued he, rising to the sublimity erf tire situation, “‘there's no place to put it, if it were there. There is no fire-place in the room, and no stove. There’s not even a chimney in the room for smoke to go out at, nor a stove-pipe, nor a hole to put a stove-pipe around.” The landlord “went down in his boots.” —St. Helena Star.