The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-08-04
The Daily Bulletin.
QUEER GUESTS AT HOTELS.
People Who Give the Clerks Trouble
PeCuliarites of Theatrical People.


not oftcner. ! don't suppose we fare
any worse than other big hotels All over
the country; but then we get our full
share. Why, there are men on the
road who come here once in a while
that would kick if they were ushcred
into the best bedroom in heaven, aud
find fault with the cooking Of Blot him
self. Only the other day man wrote
his name on the register and was shown
to neat room on the second floor
above. In five minutes he came rush
ing down the stairs Che vas in too great
a hurry 10 wait for the elcyatoD, aud,
painting for breath at the desk, yelled
out:
~ cawn't keep that room, You
know; why the carpets cot snakes in
it.
The man had a red face and a red
der nose, and saw at once that his
pee Iliar condition had caused BIN to
mistake the figures on the carpet for
sDa<es. So, without asking any ques-
tor or trying to explain away his de-
lusi N. sent him to a room where the
carpet is in BIZ square, Ike chess
board. Sometimes men are assigned 10
rooms and come back 10 be changed on
the plea that they don't like the out
look. The outlook, indeed What is
the outlook from q city hotel except the
blank walls Of the opposite street, The
women that travel much, such as lcct-
urers and actresses. are also very PEE
cuiar in their ways once in a while.
They Away. want special terms, and
insist upon the best Of everything, In
fact, they want more care and atten-
ton than our best paying guests.
THE FEELING OF WATERS.
"Do YOU find any difficulty in getting
good servants was asked at the desk
Of the Girard House.
There are ALWAYS plenty to be had :;
but then they are never worth much
for our business until they have been
drilled for awhile. Then, Just about
when they have learned enough to be
OF some use, they get ambitious togo to
the seashore, where wages are higher
and work no, So particularly done, and
we lose them OF course, we hold on
TO the best Of our servants, some Of
whom have been with us many wears ;
but then the changes are frequent.
There is one thing tAatruins hotel wait
ers. and that is the almost universal
habit of feeling them. Almost every
day we have complaints from transient
guests Of insufficient service, and we
know at once that the system of fceing
is to blame. Yesterday, for instance, Il
guest from New JERSEY said TO me: Al
dinner to-day my neighbor at nav right
hand got beautiful plate of asparag us,
while mine was mainly butts. That
might have been the fault of the people
in the pantry, but the probability is
that if the waiter had received or had
expected fee he would have called at.
tention to the dish and served the Jer-
sew man more literally 1t is n rule Of
the house that servants shall not receive
gratdities, but we cannot fully enfercC
It."
GETTING RICH WITHOUT PAY.
GLOW about baggage clerk o.
the Colonnade Hotel was asked "DC
people travel nowadays with Who'll,
wagon-loadS Of trunks, rs they used Il
do?'
mo; as a rule the amount of bag.
gage is light, There is "A toudenc,
among English travellers, however, Il
carry vast numbers of packages ant
reticues and sachcls about with them
but this is because the English system
of checking baggage is different from
ours. Here it costs Just rs much to eX
press a carpet-bag as II trunk, and whe,
the Englishman find this out in thei
travels they ret trunks and carry fewe
small parcels. French and German
travellers get along with comparativel
light baggage. and the average Amcri
can makes small yaliSe and IN ord
nary trunk serve his turn for q voyag
around the world When taslionabl
ladies sci ont for the walcrng-paces
though, the number OF trunks is some
times enormous, have seen one sum
n,or outfit that filed thrty-nine Sarato
gus. The head porter of large hote
ike this has n place that compares ver'
Iavo,ably with most political positions
tie gets no salary, but he and the mel
he employs to assist him board am
lodgc in the hotel One old porter i
,ad to be worth 100000, much o
which he accumulated here. He Ia
The monopoly Of the boot-backing ant
The trunk moving, and the graluily 10
The latter service, although never de
handed, Is seldom forgotten even b.
The most close.listcd guests.
THEATRICAL PEOPLE IN HOTELS
"Thcatrical people are not as n rule
desirable guests. They generally com
in numbers and want reductions of tn
rate on that account. II is not uncon
mon for hotel whose usual charge
"a n day to take n dramatic company 4
$3.50 a day. This is no, the worst tor Il
Tor they expect the bes, of accommodi
tons and The closest attendance, IN
give perhaps more trouble than an
other class of guests. We don't hay
many theatrical people, because "
make no reductions. One OF our yres
for many wars and one that was ,llWaN