Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28


Perhaps the natural laws of supply and de-
mand account for it.
You can now get as good meal on a YES
tibule train as you can get at q Chicago
table d'hote. The service below and above
stairs is simply abominable. 1t may be that
few good hotel servants are to be had in the
West-or that sufficient pay cannot be
offered to make it an inducement for campe-
tent servants to remain there. At any rate
they are conspicuous by their absence. I
have sometimes imagined that nothing
could be worse than q typical Southern
hotel-say of Richmond, or Charleston, or
New Orleans; but even in the South they
don't expect field hands to wait on table.
They Need . Mcclure There.
In some respects Chicago reminds me Of
New Orleans about dozen years ago. The
theaters are open Sundays and the bars are
running full blast The Sunday pretense of
a plate of crackers with your drink at the
Hoffman art gallery is too fine, and the
private door and watchman, or special Sum-
day liquor room, are distinctions unknown
at the Chicago hotel I went to the theater
Sunday night with thousands of others.
The theater was packed and at least one
quarter Of the males in the vast audience
rushed out between every act to "see .
man at the auJacent s6lOouss 4ucsc Wefo
doing a roaring trade.
1t was a picturesque sight, and I doubt
whether it could be duplicated in the New
Orleans of to-day. Coming out of the play
house the senses are assailed by the pungent
odor of tobacco saliva that formed in
noisome pools beneath about every eighth
seat. Fully one-third of the audience were
ladies and the fact that they sat through all
this and padded through the filth uncom-
plainingly at the close indicated that they
were accustomed to it.
'T do not light my cigar after breakfast
as long as remain here, said drummer
in the Palmer House rotunda "Al have
to do is to hold it between my teeth. There
is so much tobacco smoke in the air that
can't tell whether it is alight or moi"
They Do See Stars There.
The Chicago people who saw the aurora
borealis recently were tickled nearly to
death. GAS a general thing" observed a
friend, ''the only Chicago man who sees
stars is the man who is knocked on the
head by footpads." This is not strictly
true, for saw couple sggregating some
400 pounds slip down on the icy sidewalk
Sunday night coming from the theater All
of their Chicago feet came up at once and
all of their avoirdupois came down at once.
A 16-story building shivered. But they
scrambled to their feet quickly and the laugh
of the buxom lady reyerberated on the
frostv air for a half dozen blocks The
aurora borealis wasn't in it.
I asked q couple of Chicago friends one
night to show me something typical of the
great Western city. They took me into
Mike McDonald's gorgeous barroom and
consulted the barkeepers. The result was
basement on a crowded thoroughfare. Up
ward of 80 men and women were drinking
and smoking at small o.ken tables-tbe men
and the women the marks of n. Iowest
ronnds of the ladder. Both topetber COM
nrised the hardest looking crowd of bn-
manitv ever saw II Tas simn1v and
nI,inlv low life without q redeem;ng fea-
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