The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-26
FUN FOR JOSEPH HUNTER.
A HOTEL CLERKS SPITE AGAINST
LITTLE BLOND MEN.

Two stops at Old Point Comfort
and Had His Nerve in Good Order
IL His Ears Did Need the Health
Irving Touch of Florida Air.
From the New York Sun.
The Hotel Clerks Social. Outing and
Iife-saving Association was ENJOYING
beefsteak dinner last Friday night when
Billy Maloy. who has yelled "frontp at
more different kinds of hall boys than
any other member of the association. was
| asked why he always assigned small blond
men 10 the poorest rooms in the hotel
This habit had been commented on by va
rious hotel men. and Malloy had declined
to give his reasons. The point was press
ed at the associations meeting, and Nal
10y yielded
It's one on me-" he said, "but, as I
have kept it for five years. it's about time
that I told it. make it a rule to send
/ every small blond man who
registers in my hotel into the
most comfortable room in the
/ hope that some one of
| them may prove TO be the fellow who
made monkey Of me at Old Point Com
! fort just five years ago. I haven't caught
/ ne will remember the meeting
I was night clerk down there at the
! time and had an easy job of it. I went
/ on at 6, and after midnight could stretch
! back in my chair and doze until morning.
with few Interruptions. / have always
/ said that one OF the requisites of a good
/ hotel clerk is the ability to size up stran-
| gers quickly. and l thought that I had
/ my share of 1t. Shortly after our hotel
began its regular winter season one of the
most innocent looking boys that I had
/ ever seen came in at $50 with two big
1 trunks and registered Joseph Hunter,
/ Conn
He might have been 20 years old or
1 30. l couldn't have told, but he looked as
If butter wouldn't melt in his mouth He
was small and smoothly shaver. His hair
| was very blond, and ne wore eyeglasses,
that gave him very quizzical look. He
/ was well dressed, and 1 sized him up for
a kid just let loose from home.
- Room with a BATH? 1 asked.
g beg your pardon, said Mr.. Hunter.
] " Room with bath? I said very dis
: tnctly.
VIII you be good enough to speak a
little louder said the kid in a quiet voice.
| You see, am little deaf
. Do you want a bath connected with
your room?' I shouted.
q 1 really can't hear you, said Mr..
Hunter, as he leaned over for me to shout
in his ear.
Il shouted the question again at the top
Of my voice, and his face Frightened as he
said:
Yes. certainly I do. I am not deaf.
You know, but 1 viii be obliged to you if
you will raise your voice bit in speaking
| TO me-
Il turned him over to a hall boy, and
they went upstairs together. In two min
utes the upper hall was filled with the
Shouts of that hall boy. We could hear
him holler:
=" Yes. this is a nice place in winter.
It's a nice place. I say. No, not hot
know. Nice. Pleasant. Nice place
1T was an awful racket and pretty soon
my room bells began to ring, and the in
vallds in the house sent down kicks about
] the hall boy. They advised me TO get rid
of him, to kill him, 70 send him to boiler
factory. When the boy got downstairs
he was hoarse.
- That's the deafest man ever talked
to- he said, and he ought 10 carry a pad.
Mr.. Hunter came down half an hour
! later in a well-htting evening suit and
with his hair neatly parted in the center
and a miTd look on his face. He gazed
/ around as If the place suited him, and then
he came over to my desk and asked me
if We had many guests.
We are full I shouted.
Not many, did you say?'
All we can accommodate" said in a
voice that attracted the attention of every
man and woman in the rotunda.
How many did you say?' asked Hun
ter, giving me bland, fun face.
''We-are-full,' yelled.
oh. well, why didn't you say so at
frst?' and of ne walked to the dining
room. He had been in there about four
minutes when heard our head waiter
shout:
IL 7Hz
clear.
1T began to occur to me that young Mr.
Hunter was very Objectionable person
in a hotel: but we had to make the best of
it. In a few minutes the head waiter was
shouting again:
Excellent ducks. Yes. sir. ducks. No.
sir they are not high. Just right. Excel
lent dicks And then a little later: That
is rare beef. Yes. rare RARE rare. That
is what we call rara beef. We-call-that
that rare-beef.
IAN elderly Washington man who had
been coming to US every season for years
rushed out of the dining room and up 10
my desk in terrific rage.
Damn his rare beef sir, and his
ducks. and his clear soup, sir. This is an
imposition. My table is next to him, sir.
1 would as soon try 10 eat In a boiler fac
tory. Can't he read? Can't he see? He
needn't disturb the whole room
while the Washington man stopped
for breath there came more shouts from
the head waiter. This time II was about
his ice. 1t was lemon ice, the head waiter
shouted, and from the fact that he yelled
Il several times Mr.. Hunter seemed TO be
contradicting him.
Damn his icer shouted the Washing
ton man. and 1 agreed with him. There
was more shouting in the dining room.
and every one but MIR. Hunter and the
walters fed. The head waiter closed the
DOORS and when Hunter appeared he was
suave and unrufied. He told me that he
was Yale man and that his ears had been
injured by an explosion in the labora-
tory
d" It's a little awkward he added, but I
can hear all right IL people viii speak
plainly. I enjoy dancing and 1 guess I'll
20 in and see II can't pick out a good
I Waltzcr'
Hunter had all his nerve with him. and
through the master Of ceremonies he was
presented to a Richmond girl. ] didn {
see the incident. bat those who did told
Ine THAT they were sorry for the girl. Hun,