The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-27

das and waiting rooms gives an air of
prosperity to the place which Is sometnlng
OF an advertisement 10 visitors in New
York, and their use OF tho stationery
stamped with the hotel name Is another
slight advantage, but, apart from these
two functions, nothing mitigates the loafer
as a nuisance.
Then he is apt 10 be crank. GuIteau
was a most persistent hotel loafer a ihe
Windsor and at the Fifth Avenue before
he went to Washington, where he haunted
the government offices and used reams 90
official paper until he was thrown out.
Then In revenge he shot the Presidents
George i. Skilton, the quondam man on
finance, who was sent to Wards Island
two weeks ago, was one Of the rocking
chair brigade"
The hotel loafer Is a tramp dressed Up.
Often he is also a confidence man. ond
uses the hotel stationery TO encourage the
"come-ons." He has his mail sent 10 tao
hotel and gives out that he lives there. Ha
meets his dupes at the hotel, and does
so much of his business as he dares right
In the hotel reading room. OF course, ha
cannot do business long at the same stands
for the hotel detectives viii have him
spotted" If he Is around too often and
he viii have to shift his quarters, but in
New York there are scores OF obstetrics
well adapted to assist the bunco steerer
in his wicked game.
Strangers with overcoats are suspicious
characters. Every visitor about a MOTEL is
remarked by the watchers especially If he's
has an overcoat on his arm. He may be-
an ''overcoat man." II he Is he has Al
pal and works his game as followss
Throwing his oyercoat near the best coat
h a.
letter, which he Is in haste to mail In
his hurry he picks up the other coat end
goes off with II. II he Is not noticed lis
pal follows soon after with the first coat.
If this pair 'kilP' coat a day they live
.n clover.
In America hotels are looked upon ss
public Institutions The public thinks Id
owns the hotel, and the proprietor SUBJ
mits az little as he can, which is a good
deal The public also thinks that each ho-
tel Is a Klondike claim for it's proprietor
and Is prone to get into him as much as
possible, as though in revenge for an inn
aginary injury.
Not long ago one of the Grand Uniou
Hotel clerks had trouble with man who
had been getting letters there for nearly
six months and who never spent a cent
I'm the place for food drink or lodging.
One morning, when he had asked if there
were any letters, the clerk replied: do
you think I'm employed here to run a gem
eTal postofiice?" Instantly the man was
wild with rage, and rushed 10 Mr.. Ford,
the proprietor, saying that an indignity
had been put upon him.
"Well possibly the clerk was a little
blunt in his manner of putting the guess
tion," said Mr.. Ford but on looking
carefully into the facts of the case and
judging them without prejudice, l declare
believe he spoke with truth in a right
eous cause"
"But can't I have my mall slr?'
eyes from the dead letter office. I've
no doubt. but not from u.s. We shall not
deliver II to you either now or hereaft-
err"
'fBut a hotel Is a public institution, and
have a right to use it,"
II venture 10 doubt II your claim would
be upheld in court of law. Good-day.'
One proprietor down Ia Boston tried to
get rid of loafers by providing only thirty
chairs in the reading room of hotel thac
held usually 40 guests. The result was
that never more than two Of the guests had
a chance to sit down at the same .ime.
The loafers owned the place.