The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-04-15

THE TRIALS OF CHICAGO CLERK WHO Ac-
CEPTED A POSITION IN DAKOTA HOS
TELRY.
Many hotel clerks have a great desire to
move around, TO clerk at one hotel for
time, and then accept an engagement at
another, aud go to different cities, and
have the papers say that sO-and-so, the
genial clerk OF the - house, has been Sc
cured by such hOtcl.' But there is
one Chicago hotel clerk that will never
move around any more il he once
gets settled in paying job. Last year
| he accepted position rs clerk in hotel in
/ Dakota, and the papers spoke OF the hotel
he was 10 go to as one that was doing an
immense business, and predicted that the
clerk would make it very popular. He went
away from Chicago with high hopes and
hat. good clothes and health, and last week
he came back. Be went up to the counter
Of hotel where friend OF his was room
clerk, and the friend called porter to fire
him outdoors for n tramp. He was the
worst-loolling specimen that ever was, and
his friend did not know him. Explana-
lions followed, and the two went into the
bar-room and took drink, and the Chicago
clerk said:
"What is the meaning Of this? Didn't
Dakota agree with you1"
"Don't mention IT," said the returned
i prodigal. "Jim, have had the worse time
you ever saw. | went out there a year ago
next month. Well, the hotel was small
frame structure. with school section on
the top floor, and we have slept three hun.
O dred people in that house plenty OF
IS nights. They come i'm wagon loads
Is The landlord made money, but h,
a was never around, and / had TO do
70 everything. The landlord was SELLING
lie town lots, and surveying, and run lumber
II yard and everything. The first day was
t. there had to leave the Office and drive
i thirty teams around TO the barn and hell
h unhitch the horses, and all the time | wa.
a there l was half hostler, half chambernaid
= half cook, and nalf everything there was
/, Why. Jim, hotel clerk is of no more ac.
z count out there than an alderman Is here
l. III would make you sick. | had TO HELM
e wait on table, help make beds, split slabs
: for fuel, bail out the cellar, deal for q
n faro-bank the landlord was interested in.
n act as superintendent Of the Sunday
e school, milk SIX cows and throw down bay
1 for the horses, 90 out and hold a chain
= Tor surveyors, wheel trunks from the dep0t
: on Il wheelbarr0w, scrub the office floor
? with stub broom, be floor manager for
dances in the school section, dig post-holes
/ for barbed wire fence, peel potatoes, keen
books, unload oats, NOW away hay, lay out
} corpses, deal out quinine 10 the sick, and
make myself generally useful"
"Well. you have had picnic, haven't
: your Why did you leave il you had your
! hands full!" said the Chicago friend.
80, l could stand il very well in the
summer and fall, but when winter came on
10 was different. Couldn't get wood enough
10 keep warm, and had TO lay abed twenty
hours day to save fuel. No guests COM
mg IN The winter, and only few stay over
VINO can't set out, and they will work for
their board. haven't had to do any work
except TO keep warm all winter, but got
tired laying IN bed, and when the first
train went through after the blockade
got Oh, and the conductor didn't dare
put me on for fear would freeze and
the road would be sued for damages.