Show Lights of New Y York rk STEVENSON by L L. LL L. L characters character hide them In curious the hotels of New York fork l' l ices especially true of the older II i ll U. U erns n of 01 the town Iowa Whenever gun eAb gund n nI I ton loll succumbs to the pressure of d such tales are re revealed aled me many on ly me they Ibey come toot oat through ther There Was the case Un Uti Ids Ida M May J Wood whose hose stor story p II revealed revealed when her ber nephew proceedings to to have hae her er der de- de e- e ared incompetent For many years lears r 3 once the belle of New York und alone In ID a room In a 8 modest M II e Id hotel seeing only an aD occa occa- anal onal chambermaid or bet bell boy and listing on rood food s she e carried In paper pa Investigation disclosed the fact igL a. a t she had on her person and and hid hid- eO en 0 t tn in the room more more ore than a million oUan ollan In cash and securities She led ed not so o long after her r case beme beme beto be- be known and her estate estate Is now to me dung settlement In Surrogates Surrogate's ort Hurt s I number of I In la i a mid town hotel which has bas con don social prestige a little old otel nan took look a 8 room 17 years years e rs go a She has occupied that sn sam a am nom m ever since She he always ref sed sedo erJa a o admit an any hotel hotel help on en 0 t the hearten Ien at slie wanted Nothing disturbed prevail on n her t hl hn e e the them room m redecorated fell on neat ears anges langes In mode male no dl dit Filially along caws a young runa ind nd alert manager who dete determined dt to ae tte entire hotel hotel ren reno R eni Ed t Tw w man OIb The lie manager was was The ju Steta st eta vai II equally po go IM II he I Informed Informed er ier tl that at unless she would cons consent t fin o oare lave are her ber room room room d doile e she e ea to o a move more out on oaf on 0 a certain date datt If she ace ye her ber consent he promised Very hol would be he put PUI back exactly as as It II had lad been On that Ihal condition look took up temporary quarters In tn another room When WIlen the decorators had h finished the manager to took k the guest back to tu her room She made a 0 thin then turned on him Indignantly One of the Ihl pictures had been put on on the wrong n wall willi A A couple of 01 minutes Olin min utes work n Ill I'll her lIer and she has settled down n apparently secure In tho thought tint lent she slie aunt be disturbed for at Rt least lensi 17 ti years yeats e eIn t In aniline hotel also ron on one with so Vial hll pr prestige Is a awn mun guest atUl'S wh Q occupied the same Mille rM room nl fur for flee five years Jl i Ill clune he he a D suitcase an and l ala Is 15 still nil his hll Every mo morning looking epic and ond span he hI goes out evidently to business Yet Vet In 10 all ali those live five years a suit stilt of clothes h harf h l never ne hung In his closet and and nothIng noth In Ing has has be been n found on the dress dresser r sr Ir r inthe In drawers Nor have the clean towels Supplied each morning ever been used e The recent shooting of 01 a chow by bya a count In 10 an apartment bouse house corridor corri dor with subsequent court proceedIngs proceed logs Ings brings to mind the tact fact that dally daily elevator trouble occurs In 10 a fashIonable fashionable fash fash- residential hotel where guests ar arc allowed to keep dogs Generally Generall a couple of women battle bat sometimes some Borne sometimes times the sexes are diversified The cause Is always the same some Dogs KO ItO for each other In the elevator and ond their owners take toke up the fuss tuss Back nack to the land note One moving van owner at Garden City L U L L- L where many mony of The Seven Million sleep sleep has has moved mo fifteen families to Connecticut farms within the last few weeks Speaking of back to the land lond theres there's that shack shuck colony In the Jer- Jer er sey meadows across from the Newark I airport The me meadows vs Jo s 's are those famous stretches of salt marsh which are still un reclaimed despite the many plans that have bave been advanced to make them useful So far as this writer I knows nothing has ever eer been raised In the Jersey meadows But the shack dwellers have bave laid out neat little farms and the early Indications are are that they will bring forth crops O C. liat Dell Boll Syndicate Wm Service |