Fourth Street, Minneapolis Tremont Hotel 4th Street at the corner of 6th Avenue (Portland Avenue) 405 Sixth Avenue (Portland Avenue) From Hidden Hotels of St. Paul and Minneapolis: 1900 -1905 Tremont Hotel Story 1: July 16, 1902 A well-dressed laborer from Portage, Wisconsin (age 25) told fellow guests at the Tremont Hotel that he had come to Minneapolis looking for work. If he could not find any employment in the Twin Cities, he planned to continue on to North Dakota. He confided to the guest in the next room that he found looking for work was very tiring. He told him that he would probably feel much better after a much-needed morphine fix. He planned to sleep to at least noon the next day, but his morphine nightcap had proved fatal. A doctor came to the hotel and tried to revive the young man for two hours, but he died on the way to the hospital. Tremont House Hotel Story 2: August 29, 1903 Mr. Mason had only been staying at the Tremont House Hotel for a short while. He had only recently been released from the workhouse for committing crimes. When he became drunk and hostile and threatened his wife with a knife, a policeman came. Mason somehow persuaded the officer to leave them alone. Tremont House Hotel Story 3: July 5, 1905 Minneapolis police received a frantic telephone call that implied that a woman guest at the Tremont House had either committed suicide or was in the process of killing herself. A doctor and six nurses were summoned from the hospital to assist in reviving the woman if they should be needed. When the emergency personnel arrived, they discovered that she was not ill from poison as expected. The woman was instead sick with worry because her husband had not returned home the night before. She was so hysterical that the hotel proprietor had assumed from her convulsions that she had consumed some sort of poisonous substance. The husband worked as a Twin City telephone wire installer. He was paid the night before and spent his evening in the saloon in search of a “good time.” He left his wife and infant at the hotel. The still-intoxicated husband eventually returned to the hotel. His young wife seemed calmer, but still upset.
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