Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-11

and gave an order, telling the cook that
it was for Senator Conkling. a great deal
of care and attention was paid to the
order. OF course you know that in Eo-
tel kitchens generally the cook and the
assistant cooks are very busy and some
times attend to their work in a careless
manner, treating everybody alike AS
nearly as pOssible; but when man of
high standing like Senator Conkling is
guest of hotel they take great care
in preparing things in a manner salts
factory to him.
Senator Conkling was plain sort of
an eater, and ne was not very hard to
wait upon. In the morning, sometimes
before he was dressed, he would call
bcilboy and send a written order down
to me. He was very fond of shredded
goldfish on toast with poached egg on
separate plate. He would take the
shredded Goldfish and toast, place them
upon his large plate, and cut them into
very fine pieces. Then placing the egg
on top of the hash which he had made,
he would break the egg and mix it all
together. | remember one morning,
when he seemed to be particularly
pleased with his breakfast, he said to
me: Jim, there is nothing better for
the nerves than goldfish; and an egg is
very strengthening to man who
works as I do. / learned to make this
breakfast for myself when / was lit
tie boy. My mother used to fix it for
me, and have always enjoyed it,
Senator Conl1ling had a standing
order that none of the bellboys were
to knock at his door at any time. He
would not respond to any knocks and
did not want to be annoyed. One morn
ing there was a new bellboy who took
card up, and before he went there
told him simply to shove the card
under the door and not to knock and
annoy the senator. He merely laughed
at me and said that he would present
the card in his own way. He did so
and knocked several times until the
senator opened the door and asked him
TO come in and sit down. He gave
the boy a chair and required him to
wait there fully 20 minutes until the
senator had dressed himself and was
ready to come downstairs. He ther
took the bellboy by the ear, led him
down to the hotel office and told the
chief clerk that he did not want to be
annoyed by that bellboy any more. He
also told what he would do with him
if he ever came to his room and knocked
on the door again. He was very large
and a very strong man, and if the
bellboy had offered any resistance Sen
ator Conkling would have probably
thrown him down the stairs, because
be was in a very angry mood that morn
ing and was particularly annoyed be-
cause the bellboy had kept rapping on
his door until he was eXasperated.
Senator Conkling never liked to be
disturbed by any noises about the ho-
tel. The German minister had house
adjoining the hotel, and kept a very
large rooster which annoyed the sen
ator by growing early in the morning.
Senator Conkling never said anything
about it to anybody until upon one
occasion, just after he had taken his
breakfast and was walking to the cap
itol, he met the German minister who
wished him a good morning and hoped
he was well. Senator Conkiing replied:
y am feeling very well, thank You, con-
sidering the fact that / was kept from
sleeping by that miserable game cock
YOU keep under my window. The Ger
man minister apologized, and that aft
ernoon killed his rooster.
Il have seen the senator often when
he came down to breakfast besieged by
callers who wanted to tell him some
thing before he went into the dining
room. He always pointed to the par
lor with one hand, saying: You go in
there and then, pointing with the
Icther hand to the dining-room, he