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American Adventures

CHAPTER V
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But I don't think Jack's has any flight of stairs to fall down, such as Kelly's has.
The dining rooms of the various hotels are considerably used, one judges, by the citizens of Baltimore.

The Kernan Hotel, which we visited one night after the theater, looked like Broadway.

Tables were crowded together and there was dancing between them--and between mouthfuls.

So, too, at the Belvedere, which is used considerably by Baltimore's gay and fashionable people.
My companion and I stayed at the Belvedere and found it a good hotel, albeit one which has, I think, become a shade too well accustomed to being called good.

Perhaps because of a city ordinance, perhaps because the waiters want to go to bed, they have a trick, in the Belvedere dining-room, during the cold weather, of opening the windows and freezing out such dilatory supper-guests as would fain sit up and talk.
This is a system even more effective than the ancient one of mopping up the floors, piling chairs upon the tables, and turning out enough lights to make the room dull.


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