Show VERDANT BUT OBEDIENT Took the Signs on the Water Pails Literally and Kept Warm Detroit Free Press We see lots of strange things said the talkative hotel clerk but one of the strangest that ever happened along this way came in one day last March an old man with a carpetbag and an old umbrella who wanted to know If this was a tavern 1 assured him it was and he said he guessed he would hang up with us a bit If we didnt mind He looked so green and innocent that I congratulated myself that the house used electricity for lighting purposes and that there was no gas for him to blow out I handed him over to a bellboy with instructions to see him safely to his room and to carefully explain all the mysteries of a modern hotel It wasnt two hours before a chambermaid sent down word that the old man wasp was-p HER SPECIALTY IS lOuuJT SCENES gathering up all the fire buckets on the floor and burning them up In the grate in his room I charged up to his room to find out what he meant by such conduct I found him in his room calmly smashing smash-ing up the buckets by bringing his No 14 cowhide boots upon them The buckets buck-ets were some that we had placed in the halls a number of years ago to be used i in case of fire But as we had lately placed five hydrants on every floor with reels of hose at every point we had allowed al-lowed the buckets to go Into disuse See here I yelled as I took In the situation What in the name of heaven do you mean by burning up those buckets bucketsby answered the innocent ole codger as he picked up one of the 2eZt 1 w Ji fu iT i 72z2 I 1 L I A SMALL BLOATED BONDHOLDER BONDHOLD-ER AND HIS TRAIN buckets doesnt It say right here on them To be used for fire only I wilted and told him to go ahead They were not worth much anyway and I was afraid if I didnt allow him to go ahead that he might break out at some other spot that would cost us more I S |