| Show LIVED HIS LIFE ALONE spent years at a hotel without speaking to anyone A year or two ago a well to do gentleman died in a new york hoerl llevad lived in the hostelry for years and yet not a soul L new him personally or anything about him beyond the fact that he paid his bills promptly and regular ly he chose to make no says the new york advertiser abid was satisfied to appear to the hotel manager as xo GI K or by whatever number his room designated the hotel man na changed several times but lie ched on a calm unruffled existence As a guest such a man is a jewel und as may reasonably be supposed he was not likely to be harrasser harr assed by unnecessary attentions when he died and it was found that he was a gentleman of independent fortune the newspapers of course making the discovery borne people marveled for a day or two and then forgot him I 1 recall the incident now only to illustrate that in a great city like this what appears to be the most public life may in reality be the most exclusive |
