Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-05-20
HITS us VERY HARD.
WHO WORSHIP ENGLISH CABS
ng. Ksudai VIZ Too sBlawstsd Tired
% n interviewed and His Valet Tsiks
on American Fool ldolatry.

Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall registered At
the Morton yesterday. They arrived
at the hotel about noon and occupied
those sumpsuous apartments known ~
Nos. and 0. These arc the star
chambers Of the hotel and have been
occupied By the most notable visitors
Grand Rapids has had within Its gates.
James q. Blaine toasted his shins in
front Of the are place in the corner
room. so did the late John MeCul.
Tough. Edwin Booth and hosts of other
prominent piaycrs. statesmen and poll.
ticiaus. The Kendais we're secluded
in thess rooms yesterday. In response
to reporters card . valet Of diminu-
tive sise, with cockney accent APP
peared In the ONCE. at his himpos.
able you know" he volunteered, Ito
eco Mr. Kendall until halter 8 o'clock.
Il was deuced stunid tedious ride
from Saginaw here. There 10 too much
publicity in your bloody railway car
fiages. You have to endure tho gaze
of . bloomin' miscellaneous lot OF
people, you know, and Il 10 tiresome
and wcarisome." Then Q bystander
limited that the valet ought to start
out IN the show business and take .
whack ct riding on the pig train at his
own expense-1ust TO see the difference.
The valet gradually sank into brown
study and soliloquised:
ssls,essy ef valet.
1.-THE hidea Of master and missui
playing in . blawsted country like this
anyway-isn't body in dunger OF
ones precious existence In this Mitch
begin? Who knows when you might
be tackled with fiery redskin or some
of these Hamerican chaps. I don't
suppose master and nissus would hiver
cume here at all, because they both
Sigh for dear old Henglund, but these
Hamerican dollars cune easy, you
know, and plentiful, and they will be
handsome indeed when they are re-
corded a. nice shining sovere,gns in the
hank of Henglund. These Hamericans
are, indeed, . very clever. pliable peo.
pie, and they just dote on anything
that 10 Henglieh-in fact ! find il quite
the proper thing for the Hameri.
can young boys TO remsrk that
il 10 raining in London and
il makes q bugger homesick TO hear
them cav it. All, missus understands
these Hamericans. they are so ambi'
tious to become cads, and all you have
to do 10 to treat the newspaper lads
with patrouixing cir and say some
thing complimentary and fiatterine
about the country and its pretty women
and you have got them-as they say in
their rude Henglish-'deAd to rights
This is the farewell tour, and we don't
have TO give no 90 much time to the
blasted interloping reporters ~ we used
TO. Intact was really becoming tired
of reading 90 much silly senhmen,
about the misses and the three kids al
'ome in England. Surprising that the
master and missus should be 80 well
known in this here unheard of town
on the borders, you might say. of civil.
izatiou. They tell me every seat in the
theater is sold. A few residents have
dsubtless travelled and have become
posted and gained some knowledge oil
q higher and intellectual order of thest
rical products and have assumed the
lead 40 regards TO the Kendals and the
greater majority persons have in = cad
like fashion deemed it good form tt
follow"
"Now, Mr.. Porter-oh, I beg pardon
clerk-don't send any more cards t.
masters room; he must rest all of the
sfternoon."