North American Hotel

VOTE

Posted By: Deborah Brownfield - Stanley (email)
Date: 1/21/2005 at 03:15:21

Fairfield Ledger
Nov. 26, 1868
Page 3 col. 3

JACOB VOTE is fitting up the old “North American” Hotel for a furniture manufactory. SMITH can soon write to JONES:
“The house was going to decay, JOHN JONES,
The rooms were vacant and still,
The chambers were travelers peacefully slept,
Are now noisy with clang of the mill.
The kitchen now holds the engine, JOHN JONES,
The dining room, the lathe and machine;
And in the cracks where the bed-bugs fearfully hid,
Are shavings and dirt now seen.
The bar is filled up with chairs, JOHN JONES,
Not rickety and old as of yore;
And instead of the toper laid out in deep sleep,
Are bureaus of “sich-like” on the floor…..