The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-08

we not hope that some day every mar
who runs a hotel or other business wi,
make such = engagements with his helr
that we need not while travelling here b.
all the time feeling for quarter to give
an underpaid employee?
Of course in this matter poor Mr..
Pullman is not considered. He would
pay his porters if able to do so, but with
only little over 100000 a year net
coming in he is worried to death to pay
off his household help, to say nothing of
porters on the cars.
Mr.. Pullman for years has been strug-
Cling along. buying new pillowcases and
nickel cuspidors for his cars, and though
he has often hoped to be able to pay his
poor employees enough so that the pub
lie in buying bed would not have to
buy big buck chambermaid also he has
never yet been able to do it. George,
give Us service that is paid for, please.
and then you can stand up and sing in
church without shame.
A week ago I stood at the corner of
the Grand Pacific hotel, Chicago, scruti
nizing the Board of Trade building, which
is, according to the architects, peeling off
in places and falling on pardoned an
archist once in awhile. Then voice
was seen approaching from a distance.
1t said: ''Oh, sir, could you, for the love
of heaven, give me quarter? l am
starving. 1t has been over six weeks
since food has passed my lips"
Hooked up suddenly to see how man
looked after that kind of treatment. 1
never went that long without food my
self, but kept Lent by boarding at the
Phoenix hotel in Hopkinsville, KY.
l was a little startled, for l at once
recognized the man.
1t was a cab driver who used to drive
from the Fort Wayne depot. With a
glad smile seized his hand.
did you not at one time drive cab
between the depot and hotels?" asked.
Eyes, from the Fort Wayne depot" he
cried eagerly, licking his chops.
well, thought l knew your ex-
claimed, reaching for my pocketbook
and writing line for him on blank
leaf Here is receipt in full for that
half dollar you chiseled out of me dur
ing the Worlds fair. 1t is not much,
but it will help"
With these words / went on down
town, happy in the thought that l had
done good act and glad also that u have
good memory for faces.
We got talking about mean men the
s~,<
greenroom before the curtain rang up
on our ''opry."
Hackett of Auburn, Me-, was telling
of man there, who had the same name
zs Li1 father, Whs was in the same htasi-
ness in aastAsr tswn. He Had 10 use q
weekly market report and used to open
tho envelope by steaning it. Ths4, sepy-
ing the report, he wsuld pat it back in
the envelope, stick it together, strike cut
the old address excepting the name and
forward it to his father, saving the sum
of cents each week, which was divided
between the two at the end of each
month.
Then Mr.. Smith told Of q neighbor of
his whose son died, and the grief stricken
father went to town to dicker for a mis-
fit coffin. He got one at half price that
had been returned some years ago to the
undertaken. 1t was rather short, but
the old man took it, hoping that he could
get his son into it before the body be-
came too rigid.
He was delayed, however, by muddy
roads. and when he got home he found
that it would be impossible to put his