Show A HOTEL how a newly berried couple were md happy by an old bachelor thero s many a sweet uco cherished liy tho visitor to new york that la never dreamed of by alie prosaic pro eaic everyday people of sa much of thie is o 0 connected with tho hotel in old hotels every room Is interwoven with the history of hundreds of persons and every time one of those persons 1 in the city tho interest is revived in tho one day friend led me down broadway Broadw ny on some pretext or another and we finally paused before the old new york hotel 1 I stopped there on my wedding trip ho finally blurted out my wife wished 11 her mother had stopped there in lier timo and on her wedding trip my difo was anxious to occupy the samo room that her mother had we had been married that day and thie was our first hotel just aa it had been in her mothers case and my little onee mind was surcharged with the romance of the thing but like all young married folks we had a horror of being conspicuous and at the first like to say anything about it to tho clerks at last however I 1 mustered courage enough to look over the register just to ascertain whether the room wo knew the number floor and everything bride had figured it all up in her own mind was really occupied we thought we might get into it on excuse or another I 1 merely desired to gratify her but I 1 find abo number at all you cant fool a hotel clerk very easily on such ahinga and in a little time lie bad tho whole thing out of me confoundedly sorry sir said he but that particular room Is occupied by a regular boarder and one of the cloea est old bachelors I 1 over knew too that settled it so I 1 went up stairs and told my wife about it there was no help for it our room was good enough but sho thought it would be so nice if wo could have the samo one lier mother and father had was no time to think much about it for a few frienda came in to see us and wo were dragged off to a box party that evening when wo came in however alio room clerk called me into tho private office and handed a key to tho cherished room 1 I happened to mention the matter to mr eaid he not with any idea of his giving it up of course but aa a curious circumstance when to my surprise bo told me to tender the use of his room to you at once he was going away tonight anyhow he said for a week and you could have the room for a week and longer if you wanted it so there you arc no lies gone youre to tako possession just as it is well when I 1 told my wife she was go excited and pleased that she cried little and when we found ourselves the occupants of a beautifully fitted up and decorated room a room that looked if somebody of taste and culture lived in it the room she wanted because in it acara ago her mother staid a young bride as sho was well old man you blame much for participating somewhat in the romance new york herald |