The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-27


D'Oyly Carte, who takes his meals there
also. A great many eminent people stop
there while in London buying their fall
groceries The. Right Honorable the
Earl of Latham is u director of the
hotel, as is also Sir Arthur Sullivan. 1t
is no uncommon thing to see Sir Arthur
at the depot when the club train from
Paris gets in, calling out the Savoy hotel
in a rich, rotund voice. The earl stays
about the house more and helps D'Oyly
wait on the table
The Marquis of Granbury is on the
restaurant committee, and gets many
bright new shilling for his brisk and
prompt attention to guests. Everything
is French at the Savoy except the prices.
They are tropical and grow to great
height. The price at the cafe complet
servi dams lie restaurant ct sale man
ger is one-and-six. If you have not ct
any sale manger it does not make any
| difference.
The general manager and travelling
auditor of the hotel is Monsieur G. Ritz,
| who used to run the Grand hotel at
Monte Carlo; also the Bald Eagle house
at Cannes and the Ding Dong house at
Baden Baden. The acting manager and
haut tong singer is Monsieur Echenard,
of the Tooleries, in Paris Monsieur is
not q part of his name, but is used to
give him an air of deieuner, presume
You can souper dams lie restaurant la
carte, and you can breakfast a prix fixe
in the sale q manger for four shillin',
and l claim that this is cheap enough.
Smoking is allowed in the sale a man
ger between and o'clock and after
$50 p. M, but you must not leave your
dog in the manger. 1t is not posseeble,
as we say at la Morgue.
There is q fine hair dresser's saloon at
the Savoy under the charge of the Messrs.
Hill & Co., of Old Bond street. got
my hair dressed there every morning
before | went down to play long terrace
with the Guelphs. Hill does the shay
ing and Messrs. scrambles the hair.
The Savoy, it is claimed, is incombus-
tible; SO are the cigars you get in the
manager also. A pleasing and very thrifty
lavatory, with hot and cold water, is run
in connection with the hotel at mod
crate price per Law.
In the manger one day l pointed out
on the bill of fare breakfast that came
to four shillin'. and told the garcon tc
give it to me. | spoke i'll English, such
as we use on Staten Island. for knew
was in London, Il place which gets it,
style and pronunciation largely from
+ Staten Island anyway, SO | spoke il
slowly and distinctly, with that rici
tonsilitis flavor which is supposed to 81
, with the London pronunciation, but h,
| did not understand me, for he wa
i, French. Had he been otherwise hi
t would have been discharged. He was
, not en- rapport with mo at all He sale
3 something about ''companee. and l tol(
him | did not expect company at all
though Of course folks might drop in a
any time. My latch string, as well u
| my hired girl. WAS generally out, SO the,
3 would be welcome.
He shook his head and went away
/ Then he came back and lowered AROUND
me, like hornet OH hot day around (;
, sull blooded and juicy little primar,
.chool. l thought he doubted IN.
, financial powers, so | showed hin
! how was rated by r. &. Dun 6
: Co., and also planted down consid
.rable means on the table in pale BAN
Of England If pun " notes, which al
ways looked to me like specimens O
4 Spencerian penrnanship of the full arm
, movement variety. and which neve
seemed to me like money at all.
0 He went into n brief catalepsy ant
r then started after Sir Arthur Sullivan
! who asked me in English, with grea
: difficulty, however, what the troubl
0 was. | told him that l had ordere
a from the bill of fare for breakfast an
offered to pay for it, but could nc
+ seem to get on. l had never gone hur
d CRY in Paris or Ireland: but here, wher
the English language was supposed
. be about the only thing that led a pei
e fectly pure life, could not be under
e stood sufficiently to keep the wolf froI
Q the door.
: Sir Arthur asked me to point out wha
o had ordered. remembered the price
/ and so put my finger on the style {
; breakfast that four shillin' would bu.
3 It was as follows: "Idem servi dams Il
} appartements." did not know what
d was, of course, but l knew that hs
, roughed it and eaten salt pork and ant
. lope straight for two weeks, till | g
v SO that if you shook a red rag at me
would hleat and run four miles and