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NEWPORT INDEPENDENT
R. F. Drummoni Bdg. Newport,
on Upper Front >treet. Arkansas.
. mi mi ... iiimr urnrrmH nrTiiBr~Trniwii
i- Read the! >aily Independent
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SAVAGES IN HOTELS.
Plaint ot a Hunt Who See* How His
Patrons Disregard Decency
and Destroy Property.
In all the big hotels of New York there
are rooms that the guests never see or
| hear of. Some of them are in the base
ment and some are on the roof, accord
I Ing to the convenience of the manage
I ment. They belong to the carpenters,
engineers, electricians and other work
| men who are kept busy every day all
| the year round, says the Times. In
i every hotel of pretensions a large force
is required to mend furniture, do odds
and ends of painting, put on door locks,
| repair broken water pipes, and do any
number of other things that are indis
j pensable if the house is to appear in
i good order all the time.
“It is my experience,” says the man
ager of a hotel in Broadway, “that men
and women who will put up with no
i end of inconvenience and disorder at
home or in a cheap boarding house kick
mightily if they do not find everything
spick and span at a hotel. A man who
j will sit night after night in a frayed
j chair in his parlor at Four Corners will
! make an awful fuss if he finds a neglect
ed piece of furniture in a hotel parlor
or bedroom. A women who has to light
the parlor stove every day when she is
at home and spend half her time in keep
ing the house warm, will say she is cold
even if the steam is on at full pressure
In her room at a hotel, and she will
keep a man busy two or three hours a
day running around to see if there is
not something the matter with the
pipes.
“It seems to be a weakness with some j
folks to ‘take it out’ of the furniture in |
hotels in order to get their money’s!
worth. A man who will not dare to j
throw a burnt match on the carpet in j
his own house, and who would as soon
think of flying as of lying on the bed
with his boots on, will do these things
| and worse in a hotel bedroom. It takes
two or three hours to put the room in
order after he has gone. Often we have
to send at least one piece of furniture to
the repair shop. If one of the. small
, furniture dealers scattered around the
city could get as much furniture to
mend as is sent to hotel repair shops
every day he would begin to talk about
prosperity.
“Perhaps I am putting It strongly, but
In all seriousness, carelessness and will
| ful neglect of guests in great hotels—
men and women from whom such a
thing would not be expected—puts us
| to great expense. Would a man spit to
] bacco on a carpet or burn curtains and
i bed covers with cigarettes if they were
| his own property? These things are
| done every day in a hotel. Some men
| will not scratch a match anywhere else
| if they can scratch it on the wall pa
per.
“Again, a lot of room we should like
1 for other purposes is occupied with un
I claimed trunks and other baggage be
longing to persons who have forgotten
I to pay their hotel bills. Most hotels
keep rooms especially for this, and they
have anywhere from 100 to 150 trunks
on hand all the time. They are obliged
by law to hold them three months be
| fore sending them to the auction room.
| Many proprietors keep them a year.”
PICTURES FROM LIFE.
Writer* of the Present Day Deni More
with Fact and Less with
Fancy.
The number of capable writers who
are telling the various truths of life
in the form of Action is much greater
than contemporary pessimists realize,
states the Detroit Free Press. There is,
indeed, no corner of human experience
which cannot produce Its able, enter
taining representative. Let us take
some traditional forms of the novel—
the sea story, say. Capt. Marryat was
indeed a master, and yet W. Clarke Rus
sell and Conrad and Jacobs! In the
work of all of these men one has to ac
knowledge that romantic fidelity to the
facts rather than the fancies of the sea
which I have spoken of as the note of
the modern romantic realism. In the
| case of Conrad we have also a writer of
j the first literary importance—a novelist
of action and serious vivid detail, who
I does not scorn to write good English,
j but who more than that. Pole as he is—
j and there is an additional marvel—
j writes English of . a quality so English
j that incredible as it may sound, his
words are no less exciting than his ad
I ventures. It may almost be said that the
i fact of his being a “foreigner” using our
English tongue has possessed him with
a regard for classical English which
fostered in him the journalistic impres
sion of such a vociferous English writer
j as, say, Mr. Kipling—Mr. Kipling, who is
patriotic in everything but his language.
Burglar Brea.
To the person who knows nothing
| about bees they .represent the supreme
type of industry. But even the bee com
munities are disturbed by those of their
own kind who break through and steal.
Robber bees are always a source of
anxiety to beekeepers, and at this time
of the year the marauders seem partic
ularly active. Having gathered no
honey, or at any rate an insuflicient sup
ply for themselves, they will descend
upon a hive, kill its industrious occu
| pants and carry off the golden treasure
j in an astonishingly short space of time.
"We know of a recent instance in which
the attack was developed and the home
bees killed in a couple of hours. Some
times hive will attack neighboring hive.
| In such cases the old straw “skip” was
better than the modern arrangement,
for a knife thrust through the top would
break the comb'and set the honey free,
at which the thieves would instantly
| return to seal up their own store. It is
| not primarily in their industry that bees
: are human.—London Chronicle.
No Chance.
Poker is not a game of chance—or at
least, the novice has no chance.—Chi
cago Daily News.
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