Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-09
THE HOTEL CLEKKs' TICKETs.
Spectators who Make Nice Income in
Very Quiet Way.
From tie Neio YORK Herald.

Inc dreamy eyes IN bue clean bndNeu
and unimpassioned face Of an uptown
hotel clerk we're casting wandering looks
over the register, the inkstand, and the
matchbox when a reporter came up in
the meek and apologize way that all
mortals, except hall boys, are expected to
assume In front Of a hotel counter. The
clerks teeth were spelling a t0othpick
after the meditatiye manner OF a COW
with her cud. He seemed TO be drifting
with the tide Of his reflections in the very
deepest channel of thought. Presently
bis look wandered out 10 the reporter who
seemed TO act as a sort Of reef that he
went aground upon. After a mental
struggle to bring himself back to the
things OF this world, he said:
"Ah, how are you?V The tone so thor
Oughly indicated that he did not care the
snap OF his finger how the reporter was,
and perhaps would rather not be bur
/ dened with knowing that the reporter re-
Trained from telling him, and simply re-
marked that he seemed sad.
"Wby shouldn't /? Should ] look hap
! py when the good times that hotel clerks
! reYelled in so many years are about gone,
/ when this idi0tIc check system Is being
! put on everything? Why, do you know
| / really believe they viii put checks on
n
anywhere near "a much money as the
| proprietor now. That's n fact. Here Ii
1 Is, 100, just as the races are ended and no
/ more Doodle for tips. The salaries have
not gone up any either. An, / tell you, a
/ fellow has g0t Just as much right to look
sad as though ne went down and bought
| a dog license for it. Thanks TO an amuse-
ment craving public there are lots of the
aires left"
THEATRES" with rising infection.
The clerk looked across the marble
counter, and down, way down, as though
there were at least three miles between
him and the questiOner. The pity In it
| reached that distance even and made the
reporter feel so bad that he wanted to
apologize for presuming not TO under
stand.
ayes, theatres; the only resource we
have left 10 dress on. To their credit let
be said that they pay well, too"
"But do you think OF going on the
stageW
"My boy, hope you are not a fool, but
YOU are beginning to force the conviction
on me that you are. No, l am not going
on the stage. Not to any alarming ex-
tent. At least only as far as the dressing
rooms, when can get there. But | am
going TO make my little commission OF ye
unsuspectng play-Roer."
Abt \ ilAAlc lliblt IN liAGll4 lltAhEs'
''YOu have heard OF such things as tick
ct spectators. Wen, know then that the
fly hotel clerk is the king OF them all,
only he doesn't yearn to be called 81, nor
have 10 trumpeted about the market place
and shouted from the housetOps."
chow DO you work itg'
"Simply enough. There are several WAYS
The most common snap is the transient
who is coming to the city for a day or two,
/ IA In hs.
and so he sends me word to get him good
seats for such a night. II the play is haV.
ing a good run, why, it's all right, and
there b. money in IL for me. II it's not
then / have 10 do it TO oblige him, and
! NAV make something out Of 10 in the end
So send over the regular price to the box
office and get some very good seats. When
! The visitor comes | charge him soc. on 81
or 81 80 advance on each seat-mOre than
the spectators are selling them Tor,
even"
Doesn't he make a row when he finds
il outf'
"But he doesn't find II out. tell him
the house was all sold out, and had hard
work 10 get good seats from the specu.
lators even. When he goes to the theatre
he walks right in without pay ing any at.
tention to the spectators, and doesn't
lind out what they are charging. Some.
times he gives me an extra commission
for my trouble. Aud the couple on their
wedding tour. They are the people We
like 70 get hold OF, Such lambs In their
guileless happiness"
"Ihen,N he continued, az he reached
for another tOothpick and began TO reduce
its end to pulp, "there is the regular city
resident, who comes IN late aud wants To
know " have got any tickets or can get
any. tell him yes, and slide boy over
20 tho theatre for them. OF course ne has
20 pay SPECTATORS prices, and he expects
TO. The best OF all are The complimentary
tickets that have given me, aud sell for
their lace value and sometimes good
deal more. That's all clear gain. II
makes my heart bloom ike the flowers in
spring when they come In thick"
But do you get many OF thOsoW
"B,ees you'll / should say so. The no.
tells get more dendhead tickets than any
one suppuses. Why. most every night /
get a couple Of seats from some thentre.
and often from two or three"
els there any trouble in selling them p,
"N0, not 40 the last moment. always
keep dark the fact that ! have them until
about 1880. Then they go fast enough,
and sometimes for good ADVANCE
$50 you DO make quite little income
out OF thisp
eyes, IL is much better than nothing.
IDs all that's left us, now that meals, ci.
gars and billiards are an checked SO
wa work II for all It's worth. / can make
81 day easy enough By watching my
chances. Or course, ips running u risk,