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Show Lights of New York by L. I. STEVENSON M.-tuy curious ClltllMi'U-l s liulo tlu'lli selves In the hot ols of Nw York. That la especially t ruo of the older taverns of tlu town Whenever an old Inn succimit's lo tlio pressure of time many such talcs are revealed. Occasional!) Ihev coino out (hiotii;li other agencies. There was the cmso of Mrs. lila May Wiuul whoso story was rvvealed wliott hor nephew Jiroulil proceedings to have her de i' la rod Incompetent. Tor many yoars. thou;;!) once the hollo ot Now York, she lived alone In a room tn si modest mld-town hotel seeing: only an oeea slonal ehanihertnald or hell hoy and existing on food she earried In paper titles. Investigation disclosed the fact that she had on her person and hid-don hid-don In the room more than a million dollars In cash and securities She died not so Ions utter her cast- le came known and hor estate Is now Hwaiiini; settlement In Surrogate's court, a number of claimants having appeared. In a mld-town hotel, which lias con slderable social prestige, a little old j;eutlewoman took a room 17 years ago. She has occupied that same room ever since. She always refused to admit any hotel help en the plea that she wanted nothing disturbed Attempts to prevail on her to have the rooru redecorated foil on deaf ears Changes In management made no difference. dif-ference. Finally, along came a youtii: and alert manager who detc-mined to bave the entire hotel ren.mi'ed Tin gentlewoman objected s'rennoiisU The manager was tinn. The guest was equally so finally l.e informed her that unless she would consent, to have her room done, she would tune to move oul on a certain date If she jrave her consent, he promised every thing would he put hack exactly as lt had been. On that condition the guest took n i temporary tpiarters In another room. Wlun the decorators had Mulshed, the manager took the guest hack to tier room She made a carotul Inspe.' tion. then turned-on him Indignantly One of the pictures had tieen put on the wronu wall A couple of minutes min-utes work ..atistied her and she has settled down apparently secure In the ihon-jht that she won't he disturbed again for at least 17 years. In another hotel, also one with so cial prestige. Is a man guest who has occupied the same room for live yoars. W hen he eauie he had a suitcase, and tnat Is still all his baggage Kvery 'norning. looking splc and span, he goes out. evidently to business. Yet in all those live years a suit of clothes has necr hung In his closet and noth ing iias been found on the dresser or in the drawers. Nor have the clean towels, supplied each morning, ever been ued. The recent shooting of a chow by a count in an apartment house corridor, corri-dor, with subsequent court proceed ings. brings to mind the fact that daily elevator trouble occurs in a fashionable fash-ionable residential hotel where guests arc allowed to keep dogs. Generally a couple of women battle, hut sometimes some-times the sexes are diversified. The cause Is always the same. Pegs go for each other In the elevator and their owners take up the fuss. I'ack to the land note: One moving van owner at Garden City, L. L wLere many of The Seven Million sleep has moved fifteen families to Connecticut farms within the last few weeks Speaking of back to the land, there's that shack colony in the Jer- sey meadows across from the Newark airport. The meadow s are those famous stretches of salt marsh which are still tin reclaimed despite the many (dans that have been advanced to make them useful. So far as this writer knows, nothing has ever been raised In the Jersey meadows. I'.ut the shack dwellers have laid out neat little farms and the early Indications are that they will bring forth crops. 1933, n.Ml Syndicate WNU Service. |