Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1879 — A Hotel Patron. [ARTICLE]

A Hotel Patron.

“ Yes.” said the affable clerk at the Palace the Other day, as he selected another tooth-pick, “ they are up to all sorts of dodges—these hotel beats—and we fellows have to keep a very sharp look out for ’Cm; bet your life. ’ '* ' “Do—ehP” “Now, for instance, about four months ago a nice old gentleman came in with a rather fast-looking young man, who had just arrived from New York, he said, and who engaged a handsome suite on the fifth floor. The old man took me aside, and said he was forced to run over to Hong Kong himself oh the next steamer, nut that he wonld leave his son with ns. The latter, he confidentially explained, was just then-sowing considerable wild oats by the way-side. ‘ln fact,’ said the gentleman, with much feeling, ‘bis is so

dissipated 1 dare not, leave any money with him, and I especially desire that none be furnished Mm by your oashler —not one single oent, remember. For fear, however, he gets into any real trouble during my absence, I will deposit In your hands this package of Said notes. Use it freely if iiqperavely necessary, but do not let him suppose you have any suoh deposit, as he would be all the more reckless and dissipated.’ If anything should happen, we were to Write to tho old party, care Rothschild's Hqng Kong Agency.” “ Well—and th«nr” “Well, the young fellow raissd merSold Ned round this edifice for about ree months. He beat Smith and I out of four hundred dollars fit pedro; ordered all the wine ir the house; gave queer little supper parties lu his room; get drunk, and tried to hold the elevator man’s head overboard so that the next landing would cut It off; was chased round the corridors by some enraged man with a pistol nearly every night of his in fact was a regular snorter in every way.” “ Should think so.” “ Of course, he never paid any board —we didn’t expect that, having his Governor’s bundle of securities looked up all right in the safe. Bnt one day he did something so blamed outrageous that we couldn’t stand'it—had a chicken fight in the ladies’ parlor, or something—so we wrote him a warning note.” “ What did he say P” “ Nothing but ‘ ta-ta,’ and left the hotel that very day; vamosed—disappeared. As we didn't get any remittance from Hong Kong we opened the package last week, and what do you suppose was in it?” ——•——— “Dunno—counterfeit money?” “Not such luck. Something can be done with real good—Ahem! Why, there was nothing in that bundle but a couple of old newspapers,” and the genial hotel official went sadly in to his fifth meal. —San Francisco News Letter.