The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-08

season, but never so hard as l was by the
Baltimore d Ohio. 1t was on the Balti-
more & Ohio that passed a very restless
night once in lower H. Upper IL was oc-
course the rough road was to blame mostly
for it, but the things he had eaten would
disturb anybody's digestion.
l am glad to notice in the matter of
highways that country roads are attract
ing good deal of interest. Two great
magazines have recently printed excellent
articles on the subject, and the whole
country is waking up to the fact that mill
ions of dollars annually go toward road
building that might as well 60 to the bot
tom of Victoria Nyanza.
Our wagon roads throughout the coun-
try are generally disgrace to civilization.
and before we undertake to supply Jaeger
underwear and sealskin-covered Bibles
with flexible backs to the African. it
might be well to put a few dollars into
the relief of CALLED and broken-down
horses that have lost their health on our
miserable highways.
The country system,::a | recall it, was
in my boyhOod about as poor and insult
ficient as 1t could well be. Each town
ship was divided up into road districts.
and each road district was presided over
by an overseer of highways, whose duty
it was to collect so many days work or so
many dollars from each taxpayer in the
district. OF course no taxpayer would
pay dollar when he could come and
make mud pies on the road all day and
visit and gossip with the neighbors and
save his dollar too. The result seemed
to be that the work done was misdirected
and generally an injury to the road.
With all due respect to the farmer, / will
state right here that he does not know how
to make roads. An all wise Providence
never intended that he should know. The
professional roadbuilder. with the money
used by ignorant sapheads and self-made
road architects, would in a few years make
roads in the United States over which two
or three times the present sized load could
be easily drawn. and the dumb beasts of
the republic would rise up and call US
blessed for doing it.
But things are looking brighter all the
time. Even North Carolina is beginning
to wake up. Asheville has sold her street
ICES that good highways will make it a
paradise, while poor ones Will scare away
everything but the buzZards.
The other day We ran across young
man who was formerly caterer for a big
Broadway restaurant. Now he is running
thriving hotel out West. He is cordial
and bright young German, and in the
course OF an evening told US a good deal
about the New York waiter and caterer.
''Ghere is a res ular system" ne said,
governing walters in New York, and the
man who is not in it gets left away be-
hind. Walters do not of course depend
upon their salaries, and not entirely on
their tips. At big dinners no one knows
lust exactly what quantity of anything is
actually used, especially the wine.
I'm the kitchen two bottles out of each
cas- are turned bottom up in the case at
once. which means that they are empty.
They are clear gain Then you know
walters are instructed to keep the glasses
full, so even the host does not know how
many glasses are actually consumed at the
table for glasses half and t~o-thirds full
are filled up IS we'll as those that are
empty. Many guests do not drink or
smoke. Their wine and cigars OF course
become the property of the waiter
At the big balls, like the Arion, the
walters. if on good terms with the head
waiter, tip him little and get desirable
boxes TO wait on, boxes occupied by
wealthy and liberal people. With two
such boxes, and if he is able 10 put up
for two he will, of course, for thus he can
serve wine in way 70 make each box pay
for the same bottle. With such chance,
| say, the waiter easily makes SIS TO $50 in
one evening. and then before the dance is
over takes OF his badge and dances with
one of the society girls. chastely swinging
her two times on the corner with great
Difference and opiOgsb.
THE waiter also eats the udbits, the
best pieces OF the steak, the liver and