Show I Cannot Seize TrunKs T of American elic Guests Gu ts I Special Corr p I ONION ON Dee Dec Dt ot I a few fet fel Arner Aller LONDON L I lean lenn tourists who have found 14 themselves stranded In London have ha e had their bal no by keepers koeper because they could not their bills billa and have sor sorrowfully or returned home leaving their trunks as little sheep cheep did their tails alls behind them nut Hut under un Jer a 11 recent decision of Judge the Transatlantic visitor who finds himself temporarily r short of ot th wherewithal will 11 no longer be under the painful ne no of ot leaving his hits baggage In III the hands of ot the tho boarding boardinghouse house houte mistress who refuses to accept his n that ho he will send Rend her a check cb ck as at ho he reaches renche New NII York With his ted bin In hl hI t and his baggage piled plied on top hIp of or a II cab cabIn cabin In III the lIsh fashion he may depart dC smiling For Jor Judge has hos ex cx explicitly explicItly laid It down that a boarding I house hou keeper hOi hoe no authority to de d I haiti tain the personal effects of or a hoarder boarder Mho tho falls to settle his hi bill It U wilt n I a board proprietor that this Interesting su obtained l I is the tile district In which American most Oo do o congregate For Fr l or their express accommodatIon most of ot the buttes bones hll been transformed Into Inlo conducted on the American plan plait all nil the tIme guests taking their meals The sy system In is that of or the Ihl lodging I I hou e In which patrons rent I and do their own catering I or make tome some arrangement with the tha landlady hy by tJ which meals meal are aro served to lo them In their own rooms room II As a con conI concessIon I cessIon to the th prejudices of snobbery the boarder le Is usually a paying guest guestIn In the ins raae 8 In tn question a ii t ul keeper acting in to m cord anus anoe custom cUllom and nd precedent lell the tha luggage of ot one ona on of ot bet het h l iw guests who owed her IJ U Out limit thi this particular guest had done tone what apparently no other person similarly sItuated had done dOli be bf had 1141 looked hooked up UI the law on the th subject He lie brought suit lull for tor 1110 I d darn dum m ages for tor unlawful detention of his per par mill effects effect He lie wai ini Na awarded only ont ti but the Important thing 1111 na was laI that he hit knocked out what had Iatt t been een supposed to be the Indisputable right of ot boardinghouse e proprietors proprietor to I levy on their when bill bills an are a not paid pI I Incidentally It vas wal wa brought out nut that the law which I II given i to 10 hair r u it line din dis I Unction between a H and MIl Under the thi let act nf of ISM ISBa ISMan an Mn Innkeeper may IM detain the lh goods good of ot ofa I Ime a It guest who wh tall fall to settle his hla Mile bili JIll The TIme tame sam me right In is accorded tin keeper keener That nut hit HIP act takes dikes no of ot tIll lib keeper anil n a I cording to tn o ha or ph phI h hIn In III I the Ih I h mat let lit of f roller ting ti ag hlll hIlls H a a lint the of either time HIP Inn iii a k or ur HIP th and ind has hall no tie tight tu to thi th of 01 ofa ofa a 1 defaulting The pacing tan ran be ho ma tn tim pay only nitty hy by means nf lit If a IL summons nn or suit The Th d ti t td d h ha hall catisI t wat t In III I i ii I I III I s ti I a lk of up 1111 a i pi for or a special not act of ot p rii rI nil All the Ihl boardinghouses Into hula I |