Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-22
A Hotel Clerk Frozen Out of the
Dining Room for Two Years by
Some Things He Had to See.
ORDERS GIVEN FOR ALL IN SIGHT.
An English Eumismatician After TalH-
able Collection Of Mound Relics in
Columbus, Ohio.
A VISIT IN VAIN TO BISHOP PHELAN.
Just Trace Of Rebel Yet in One-Armed oOnfsder-
ate Veteran.

Several drummers were leaning against q
hotel counter yesterday chatting with the
clerk, when the subject turned to eating and
drinking. One remarked that he had his
opinion of the man who would order lot of
dishes, frequently from curiosity, and then,
often without tasting many of them, leave
the table, his appetite satisfied with only q
few things. The food is wasted and goes to
the swill barrel.
"Well, that is a fact" spoke up the
clerk. ''There is so much about the tables
that is wasted by the guests. I have not
been in the dining room for two years. The
fact is, 1 seldom go there. for when do /
always see something that ruffles my temper,
and keep away.
AN ECONOMICAL DAUGHTER.
II remember once when 1 worked in
Philadelphia hotel the proprietor had q
daughter of a very economical turn. When
she saw waiter going to the table with
two lamb chops she always stopped him and
took one away, with the remark that one
was enough, and the other wouldn't be
eaten. 1t is customary, however. in serving
lamb chops to give two, but il is also true
that only one is usually devoured. OF course
If guest wanted another lamb chop he got
it, but we used to have lots of fun with that
girl, and her peculiarities were very anus
ing"
Suddenly one of the drummers gave the
current of conversation a twist, and it
flowed to the bject of eggs. 1t was the
drummer's inning, and he delivered himself
thus: Never eat an egg omelet. They
look pretty and may taste all right, but
wouldn't vouch for the age of the eggs. Old
cooks tell me that when an egg is little
off color they always keep them to make
omelets. Sometimes you can fry the odor
out OF an egg, but the safest way to eat them
is poached. Why, you ask. Because you
can't poach decayed egg"
SOME FUNNY PEOPLE.
At this point the clerk once more entered
the arena: I'VE have some funny people
eat here, Z" he began. 81 know one man who
never eats anything but fried trIpe. He
never takes any dinner, but he revels at
breakfast and supper with his favorite dish
The other night he rushed into
the hotel about 10 o'clock. sBv
here from the Baltimore and Ohio depot.
for fear the dining room would be closed
and couldn't get any tripe.' The doors
wereInot closed and he got his favorite dish.
II know another man who is fond OF Ger
man pancakes, and he won't eat anything
else when he can get them. Not long since
he got mad because we charged him extra
for them. Pancakes were not on the bill of
fare, but he ordered them an6 they had to
be made specially. He couldn't see that it
made any difference, but the line must be
drawn somewhere. Like tine man who
wanted fried oysters. They were served |
raw, but he wanted them the otheE ,Eay; he |
got them, and had to pay extra. He couldn't |
understand, either, that there was a differ |
ence between fried and a raw oyster"
NOTHING BY HALVES.
After this speech by the clerk the subject
OF drinking was taken up: "Pittsburgers
never do things by halves" remarked
drummer. Il always know them by the
size OF the drinks they take. They paw
good prices for their whisky, and seldom
fail to drink full glass. remember once
I saw fellow lay down a quarter and then
fill up thu tlass TO the brim. The bartender
took the money. No change? p asked the
drinker. No, We charge 25 cents for a
tumbler, 10 cents for a drink. You know
what you got There was silence for the
space of a half hour, and then the man at
the counter quietly edged to the door and
got away"