National Republican., 1884-08-02
A FAYOIiITE MAITER.
The Eobhy Young NIen Liked Him
because lie Did Them nh Occasional
clever Tnrn-EIc Is Now Out OF n
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because lie Did Them nn Occasional
clever Turn-He Is Now Out OF
Job.
NctV York Sun.
"Whcro's Billy now?" n patron of
popular uptown restaurant asked tn
proprietor yesterday on nlticing tho alb.
senco OF waiter who had been favorite
in the establishment.
81 don't know where no is now" re-
piled the proprietor, but If he had staid
here three weeks longer think he'd have
been sitting right here at this desk tax
ing tho cash and I'll have been slashing
hash around to tho customers in his
place"
Flows that2 I Thought Billy brought
in big lot of customers when ho came
horop
Yes he did and If those customers
find ont where he has gone they'll follow
him there, too. They'd bo foolish If they
didn't. because Billy WAS very kind to
'on. Yes, Billy brought nice lot of
young fellows when he came here, and
that's Just the reason why he was in q
fair way to take the shopoT my hands
before long. They were nobhy crowd,
Billy's customers were and 10 used to
surprise me because they got along on
such cheap dishes. IL one Of 'cm laid
ubMu u DO Itlb NUtCh lOT NllaN nt u Dbbu
eating | used to think he was getting
oxtravagant. But they always tipped
Billy to the queens taste, and made up
my mind they weru generous youths
whose appetites were small Ono day |
happened to bo passing n table while ono
of 'cm was eating, aud | noticed that hc
wasfnduging in IL nice tenderloin steak,
with mushrooms and other trimmings to
match.
"'Well.' says ] to myself, he's got
good appetite to-day, for once in his life,
anyhow
"By and by ho camo up to pay his
check. When he laid 1t down ON tho
desk almost lose my breath. Thirty
cents was all that was getting for that
good fcod-a dollars worth, sure. Quicker
than you could order your rolls and cof-
fee got on to Billy's popularity with tho
boys. j didn't saw anything, but took
the thirty conts. Then | kind 20 watched
Billy's tables. There wasn't anything
on the bill of fare too good for his GUS
toners to order, and there didn't seom to
bo any check in Billy's apron too small
to represent its value. And i noticed
that Billy never got less than n quarter
out Of any one cm. Billy was selling my
victuals on commission. and / was paying
tho commission. lto had an arrange
ihbhb WIN blS w tHtCh tHtlI
dishes at less than half tariff rates, and to
collect quarter from each one for his
trouble. He was making from 80 to 50 a
day, and l WAS taking it out Of the
drawer and paying it to him, so to speak,
while the nobby young ducks were living
like fighting cocks at coffee aud cake
prices.
BILLY had been with mo two months.
| figured little tho day | tumbled to the
small appetites of his friends, and that
night told Billy that if no could pay
mo 5000 he might go to work where he
pleased, but if he couldn't l would got
him place under the city or state gov
ernment, where tho pay would bo small
but the job steady. Billy had hoon frugal,
and he came down with the dust like a
ward candidate, and i haven't seen him
since. His customers, somehow, don't
like my place now heard that one of
'em said that the reason he didn't come
here any more was because the service
wasn't as good rs it used to be-"
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