St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-07
HE'S BUILT THAT WAY.
Ante Lucem Takes a Twist at
ProprietOrs Of MediOcer Hotels.

PrOpfietOrS OF MedlOcer Hotels.
heard pretty good story few days
since, which illustrates the makeup OF
some people, and in one or two respects
is generally applicable to all travelling
men. AS the story goes, five or six
travelling men were intending to stop off
at small inland town in Ohio. Besides
being pretty we'll acquainted with each
other, they also knew the landlord, Mr..
Smith, and that he kept pretty good
ing upon the boys, serving good square
meal and furnishing clean bed for
those who remained over night. Know
ing all this, and that Smith was
one of the best tempered fellows in the
world, one of the boys proposed that
they have little fun by kicking at
everything in the house. No sooner
were they seated in the 'bus than they
espied well known Eastern drummer,
a Mr. Isaac Lowenstien. Fearing that
their plans would be spoiled by him If
he were not let into the game, they &C
quainted him with the scheme. Mr..
LowenStein, with a peculiar wave OF his
hand, said, ''Gentlemans, just told you
how it vas, you can depend ON me cherry
time. l always kick"
Now, am built that way to greater
or less extent, and find it is a prevalent
disorder which affects every travelling
man who is obliged to stop at such bO-
tells as are kept at Andover, Bristol and
few other towns all over the country.
There are others of our numbers who
have the very best of reasons to kick at
the railroads; refer to those who are
compelled to pay two prices for excess
baggage. Let it not be understood by
the above that travelling men are kick
ers generally or indiScriminate in their
fault finding. 1t is fact that owing to
their surroundings, and the way IN
which they are obliged to live, they are
daily imposed upon by certain class
who look upon them as their legitimate
prey-I mean goodly number who are
keeping S2-a-day houses, and do not
know how to keep hotel. In
other words, there are a great
many jays in the country who manage
to get into the only building in town
suitable for hotel purpose and, with the
air of Turk, and great deal more
cussedness, size up every travelling man
by give-nothing air and gather in his
coin at 50 per day rate. The fellow
who furnishes the poorest meals, the
dirtiest and most uncomfortable beds.
provides an office, so called, reeking
with the vilest Odors, where every lazy
lOut in the town gathers, monopolizing
all the seats, and is the one who takes
your cash with the least conjunction.
dover, friend said: eff this house is
worth SO cents meal, what is the Com
mercial, of Sioux Falls, worth?" said:
Zone dollar and fifty cents" eyes,"
said he, would rather pay IS for the
one than so cents for the other"
Billie Blake, who travels out of st.
Paul, is one of the boys who knows how
to handle such fellows. He and two
other G. TBS were snow-bound for sew
eral days at the little town of Willard.
The hotel has a high sounding name, the
Tennessee house, probably because the
landlord is from Tennessee. The fare
was poor, as were all the other accom-
modations. The boys were two in bed,
except Blake, who to keep from freez-
ing slept at his customers store. When
50 stipend was eXacted. Blake re-
counted his ills and the lack of COM
forts, and counting up the number of
meals and one lodging, proposed a set
Element at the rate of $50 per day, and
informing Mr.. Tennessee that it would
be an awful cold day and he would be
dreadfully tired before he got more, left
town. We want a few more Blakes
in our ranks-men with nerve
to back up their rights. Not only
do the class of landlords referred to take
advantage of our circumstances and
skin US, but they skin the good hotel
man also. Will not some one start
system of lunch basket service; invent
a suitable lunch basket that could be
passed back and forth from the good
hotels on either side of the poor ones.
Or, let us play a game of freeze out with
the poor ones. No hotel man who is
keeping good house need feel ag-
grieved at these remarks, for he at all
times has good word from the travel
ing man, and we all wish there were
more like him in the smaller towns.
Our friend ScOttie seems to have been
lost in the shuttle. Perhaps a new deal
will turn him up as trump card.
would like to hear again from YnOt.
Possibly he is too hard at work on his
air ship to am1se the boys by relating
incidents of travel. There was lively
skirmiSh along the line of the Hastings
& Dakota Friday last. all being anxious
to get home to the Twin Cities and fear
ing a blockade. Deacon Halfhill was
serene under the circumstances, and as
cool as an icicle. ANTE LUCEM.