The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-05

and say, 'Get out; get out quick. You are
too wise for my business. You know more
than / do"
If he contemplated leaving on an early
morning train he never left call, but ne
would appear on the instant, and every de-
tail had to be in order at the hour, or there
would be trouble. He would have the same
service that the travelling public got, and
would then study it in relation to his own
convenience. Anything he found lacking II
was secured. His negro help feared and
yet always liked him. Bell boys were MS
great trouble
BELL boys said he, "are about the most
important part of hotel. Ihey see .lS So s
of the guests. supply warts apologize for
eN erythng that cannot be supplied. yet Ihey
are but boys on small wages Ihey neeo
great training.
Absolute Cleanliness was his first law.
This was connected with tidiness. He would
go through the office hastily, disappear IN .
doorway, shoot upstairs and through the
house, maybe into the laundry to eaten
some poor fellow chatting moment VIII
the girls over into the kitchen to see some
colored boy wipe his mouth run o. soi ne
thing (Soth fred. and then back INTO TIE
same doorxa he had started frCm.
Down in the shadowy corner ne woui9
reach pull out little piece or paper. any
then there would be trouble. He had thrown
il there purposely few minutes before
and the chief of the cleaners for that paI'
of the building had not discovered 1Sl, or II
Sometimes that offense would cost several
persons their positions. 1t was expected
that he might appear any moment une@-
pectedly. 49, o,t,;s-+
mas every employe received a gold piece
The total for 167 employees amounted u
81. 600. - .,,o.ross
would lead to numerous changes IN tht
force Not at all. 1t made the Ola one
valuable and yet they never knew "heH
Rillv Holt and Dave Hughes. the hea!
clerks. have been with him fifteen ano
ten years, respectively, and George F ina
well, his steward, has been there Dis ioNe
They are still at the hotel. -
Mr. Reibod was loving man; out .hs ~
was about him some peculiarly Wn lc
seemed to keep him from matrimony. Wnen
tested upon the subject he would laugh
but the laugh was rather sardonlc. Inere
seemed to be some mystery about the sii IIn5
which no one could ever explain, ana ye'
SO. 0O0 travelling men and guests at the hotel
have asked the same question ana pom
dered over the same thing
His mother was the center or MS love
and no soul ever chung to the mother as
did this lonely and stern bachelor. Whe s,I
she died, eight years ago. Mr. Re1poIu !
heart seemed TO be crushed, and from the
dav of her funeral to the day he left he
never passed a day that he did not Qrlve
the five miles and stand by his mother
."There can be nothing bad in that kind
of a man." said the travelling public. Inc
cemetery attendants knew him and MS
habits. and after every snow there was was
the next morning a cleared path to Mrs
Reibolds grave.
He was intensely superstitious He would
never begin anything on Friday or on tne
18th of the month; would not tolerate O
cross-eyed employee; would not talk to a
cross-eyed man, or allow one to look al
him if he could prevent it; would not nave
a left-handed man in the house, ano
would not have them stop in the house II
he could help it.
In 1892 the Bates House cleared $i50OO
in 1898 $65 coo, and it has never gone below
$50 600 since.
In 1895 Potter Palmer offered Mr.: Rel
bold $4,000 annually to manage the Palmer
House in Chicago three days of the week
He refused Then he offered to give him
a long lease and put 81 0Q9, GOO on the build
ing but this was refused, for at the last
moment, when the papers were about to be
drawn up the little girl whom he has just
married mailed him an acceptance OF MS
offer of marriage, and from that moment
Louis Reibold determined to leave active
life