Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-02-14

[ El6 gLE1 OUT anu SAFELY III D6Qs Win the
d5otof looking after her, and then I tried
/ talking to them, but they paid no at
| tention to me at all. Of course, I thought
about the people In the dining room so /
unlocked the closet, let my prisoner out,
told him the girl was coming on all right
and he could 90 to work. He took his
tray and went and got his toast and
marched up stairs with it, and then the
others fell IN, got their various portions
and followed suit. The whole affair
lasted less than ten minutes, and In the
dining room no one suspected anything.
stood by the door and not a single
person complained of any delay or told
me that this was a deuce Of a place to
pretend to serve dinner or said any of
the other pleasant little things that we
all have to take whenever anything goes.
wrong.
"But I tell you L Wasmad clear through
While the row was going on the darkeys
had been perfectly frantic, fourishing
razOrs, cursing and threatening, and one
fellow told me to get out de way! We's
gWine TO run dis place And then the
internal brutality of the attack on the
poor girl. who never stirred or showed
any signs of life beyond breathing, till
late in the eVening-that made my blood
boil. The men came to me, some of
them. and said that If I was going to
make any change they wanted to know
it. I told them that they would know
when 1 made q change, and meant that
they should. I went up to the city as
usual that afternoon and advertised for
fifty white walters TO apply at the Office
of a friend to whom I explained the sit
uatiOn. In the morning / went up again
at my regular time, saw a lot Of men, en-
gagged every one that said he was waiter
or looked like one, and the next day had
my fifty. My cOmings and gOlngs were
Just the same as usual, so none Of my
old walters suspected anything. The
second day 1 got my new recruits to-
gether and took them down with me. 1
made them walk up from the boat to the
house quietly in tWos and threes, keep
ing their bundles out Of sight, and 1
locked them all in the bar-rOrm. / went
to the Office and saw my partner.
"'Where are all the men?
cover in the barracks, shaving and
cleaning up for dinner, as usual This
was about eleven O'Clock.
Have you got their accounts all made
up?"
=" yes, all ready for 'em.'
Invent to the dining-rOom. There I
found one solitary darkey, Big Dan"
Dan said I, you make tracks right
over to the barracks, and tell those TEL
lows that I want every man of them to
step right up to the Office and get his
pay and take the next boat for the city
If there's a single coon here after the
boat leaves, I'l have him in jail eve
have q Jail of our own on the premises
lightning never went any faster than
Big Dan did when he broke for the bar
racks with his eyes sticking out, to tell
the cOlored boys the news. Before they
were out of their quarters 1 had D.
and some other officers firing out their
trunks and boxes. The darkeys came
rushing over In all sorts of dress and IN
dress, bare-headed, shirt-sleeVed, sus-
penders hanging down, the most aston
ished crowd you ever saw. Before they
had time to think we had them marched
up to the desk and paid Of-my partner
! had every mans money ready IN little
| envelope with his name on it-and they
were hustled out of the door down to
| the wharf, into the boat, and their trunks
and other plumber chucked after them
| before they knew what had happened.
| Big Dan alone seemed to understand and
appreciate the situation. He called Odt
| to me: 'You'se done jest right, NIistah
--. It serves dem niggers jest right.
/ It's Jest what dey wants. 1 didn't hab
muffin to do wild de row.
II wasn't in any good mood for eXcus-
! ing anybody just then; so Big Dan had to
sail away with the rest. AS soon as the
| boa 8 started released my new recruits,
and when the people came down to din
ner, there, behind each chair, where
there had stood in the morning a shin
| ing darkey, was now a clean-shaVen,
Ineat-looking white waiter, quite at home
and ready to take your order for any
thing on the bill or off it. The guests
were rather paraliZed 1 think, and one
/ lady marched up to me and said that she
didn't like such things at all. She
seemed to think that she ought to have
been consulted before such an important
change was made. 1 said to her:
"'Madam, if you don't like white
walters I am sorry, as 1t is the only kind
that we have here. However, If you
will kindly order your dinner and re
port to me if you have anything to COM
i plain of, I viii try to make everything
satisfactory. That was the last heard
of her.
"1Iy season went on sWimmingly. My
new walters perhaps got drunk Longer
than the 'coOns,' but they didn't do one
tenth the stealing, and If 1 found L
necessary to discharge one or give him Z
gentle blowing up, or put him In jail FOL
a season of reflection and repentance,
did it without riot.
"Not long ago, my friend W, who
as you Know ElLlB one u JL0 D1ESG5G 10
tells and restaurants In the country, anC
always has cOlored walters, said to me:
" My dear fellow, L am under great OBJ
legations to you for putting that thInl
through as yOn did down at the beacI
last summer. The way you turned thu
tables on those fellows, and showed you
independence of them, and the lessor
they got by it and by being out Of a jOl
for the rest Of the summer, has been
benefit to every hotel man in New Eng
land; and we thank you for it.
''The toast girl2 Oh, she came AROUND
to let the scOundrel who struck her g
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