Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1877 — Being Called at Hotels. [ARTICLE]

Being Called at Hotels.

Vim*. h you -go away to the mountains or the sen side, for your summer rest, you, doatottets, in Mi#'beginning, flatter yourself Shat you we to enjoy quiet by day and Kind iaturL>e<l and refreshing sleep at night: 1 *' If vou desire this! then, by all nje&ns, sojourn at some hotel, lif iuoh there be, whioh is at least twenty miles from any railway station, and half as far from any regular lino of coaches. If you take up your residence at any of our populaf hotels ywi will runethe risk of being called upe*aryu>moraing> > at least ten times, to take Mm edriy train. Dwelling about every hotel there is an avenging prrseuce, denominated the night porter;- whose 'business it is to see that notKHly indulges in thq pernicious practice of a iWdming' nAp. H« tramps the corridors night after nightjehis. watch beginning at twelve and end tag only when it is so late in the morning that nobody wants to sleep. Yowre&ek your hotel alter a hot, dusty, tiresoar.e Journey, and you go to bed m your elose-smelling* seven-by-nine dormitory, so tired that you could sleep on the “ sofWekle of a plank.” Joel as you are in the midst of a delightful dream, there comes a thundering rap at<youp! door, • -followed by the information, given in a stentorian voice: “Half-past one! Train leaves at onefifty!” Just-act if your, eternal destiny depended on your knowing'that it was half-past one. You are not going anywhere that you know -bf, and' one-fifty trains possess for you *>o, special interest They do not enter into your .thoughts'or calculations, and so you tuwr-over/with a snort of annoyance, and compose yourself to sleep once more. By the turae'Morpheus has you fairly in hand, ikqre .comes another rap at your door which makesalliltecrockery inyour room rattle wstliililanil, and the voice of your temnentor calls out: “ Two o'clock! • Train leaves at twotwenty;!'’ -t— — You .feel like swearing, but, being a moral mans you refrain, and hear him ahlfttagtfeimselfi from one foot to the other outside your. dooi]y preparatory to a fresh assault, which, comes directly through the keyhole: “ Two*o’oloek 1 . Train leaves at twotwenty'P withthe additional Information: “ Ofily ten minutes for breakfast.” *• Thee you.hear him go tramping down the passage,- knocking at dthet doors, and tellingiother innocent but unfortunate people that the train leaves attwo-twenty. You atofff the sheet in your ears, and ditermtae in your own mind that you Will not be disturbed again; but by the time you are fairly .lapsing into that delightful state between wakefulness and sleep, thump! the pip! comes that fist at your door, aad that.ficndish voice calls out: “ Halfipast two! Train leaves at three!” You yelhout to him in no amiable tone, that you (tab’t-rft&re when it leaves, and tbatyoulfl'tfatlukihlm to let you alone; and he goes tiff talking to himself, and aoihe wOßoani.-imi the next room giggles, having (tartly caught the purport of his rentals.' : By the time drowsiness again begins to steal over you, you are roused by the tap.wmd. the fact that it is quarter j»st threads conveyed to you, supplemented by dhe. aaaertion that the train leaves at Obree-forty. So-the thiag goes on until it is six o’clock. You mare called about once in every haU'ibon as long as you are sleepy, and whe« wou.are thoroughly aroused, and On the pfttait of-getting up and dressing, the calls your tormentor subsides. Now, we liava a suggestion to make to those who know how to keep a hotel. The public' | peace. ,and safety demand that everybody -shall have undisturbed sleep when they rfouire it. This cslinat'toe.iliad at our fashionable hotels, with that wretched night-porter on his travels promiscuously through the passages. Now*, what wve propose is, that there . shall be a wuag ofi euery hotel devoted ex- . clusively to (he.use.pf .those insane peo- , pie who will want to-be taking two»twen- • ty and three-forty, night trains for some.where, and th*t‘ . they,jfcaU never ha scattered round among'.respectable, steady sleepers. And <we-Would have it araanged so that the rapping should be done with »,trip-hammer min by . steam, else ttkat peace-destroying iporteu might peichai.ce stray from his proscribed "path and %. invade the peaceful regisr s where people sleep till §even then get «up when they please.— Thorn, in X.A-. Weddy.