Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-02-05
GUARDIAN ANGELS.


covered in tho cafes class of attend.
ants which no described Us q bizarre
novelty in Partisan business methods.
lilo said that these attendants wore
known professionally as Guardian
Angels" They havo become, he wrote,
quito numerous in tho more thickly
populated quarter Of the French cap
ital. Tho attendants get their tito
because they arc called upon to keep
watch and ward over and insure safo
conduct homo to working people VINO
frequent the smaller cafes, and without
tho protection Of tho angel might fall
prey to tho petty criminals who lurk in
the streets at night to rob inebriated
working men and other moro or less
helpless wayfarors.
New York, says tho Sun Of that city,
has for u long time had its counterpart
Of tho Partisan guardian angels. lilo is
a curious, entertaining ana boncficent
servant Of tho public that was brought
into existence by the amazing growth
of hotel life in this town during tho
last few years, and by tho increase IN
tho number of the fashionable reStau-
rants. Here, however. it is only these
fashionable hotels and cafes which can
support the luxury Of angels. They are
too expensive feature apparently to
justify tho proprietors Of the saloons
In tho tenement districts in en-
ploying thcm. The guardian angel
of Gotham is an affable and
wcll-informed special police officer
detailed by the police commissioners,
and reporting regularly to Acting Su-
perintendent of Police Byrnes. IIe
works tremendously with tho other
serviccable attendant Of tho swell cafe
who is called tho bounccr. Tho bonnccr
is q professional boxer whose duty it is
to maintain order and to get destroyer
GUS visitors out 0s tho establishment
without any fuss or feathers and with
out attracting too general attent ton.
The annel, on tho other hand, makes 1t
his business to SEQ that no harm bcfalls
the GafC or hotel patron who has become
q httlo too cornwall Tor his own good,
and needs the assistance OF just such u
guide, philosopher, and friend as the
angel is to keep him from parting with
his valuabics.
t'Thc idea OF having guardian an
gel" said the angel Of tho Hoffman
House, may strike men about town as
something Of Il practical jake, and they
may believe that the angel is 4 myth.
But they arc mistaken, for amt ! hero
to prove that guardian angels are regu-
lar institutions? Many men in this
town arc thankful for the holp Of the
professional angel. We see that they
AFRO sent safely home if they get too
much aboard, Or we get them nccCmlno-
IatiunS at the hotel if they aren't able
4. ~ W. 1
bath and straighton them out before
putting them TO bed, and in numerous
other ways perform Il service that q
square man isn't very apt to forget,
which ! happen to know not one in Il
hundred fails. to remember i'll u subStan-
tial fashion ON Othcr days besides Christ
mas"
The existence of the professional
guardian angel il ~ boon to many mon of
means who have habit of getting &C.
GaSionally too convivial to take care of
themselves. They depend upon the
friendly surveillance OF tho angel, and
give themselves up freely for the time
being to tho delights OF the flowing bowl.
Not onoo In II Thousand times" said
professional angel, ''does a fricnl who
docs this service For u follow citiz0n fail
to get tho cab hire as soon Us no reaches
his charges homo. Il man mean enough
to back out of paying farc back undcr
such circumstances is too mean to spend
enough to get so full. Sometimes
VIC don't collect ut tbs mans house ut
ali: We just escort him in and say in
All explanatory way, tMr. Pillycarp. ate
O"Hcthin:r at dinner that disagreed will
him and couldn't get homo before
aiA'&rn, but'ho's all right now; or he viii
be al right IN tho morning. Tho ncxt
5imo wo moot tho good follow word i,
enough to bring tho incident hack t,
'&is. memory, and no pays the cab hire
promptly. Often man will bt
ESnboranly generous. lIo'll want t
Sraclt u bottle Of VINE with us, and hi
Bands Il five or ten dollar note over
with tho rcmarita Go bet that on tb,