Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-12-08
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ARBITRA-
TJON

TION.
We note a movement afOOt on the
part of the travelling men of the state
to boycott the hotels in some of the
smaller communities Of the state and
%perchance, for all we know, ven the
communities themselves. 1t is given
out from Fargo, which is the head
quarters Of the profession. that pa
tience has ceased to %virtuous. 1t
is alleged that some of the hotels in
the small towns have been derelict in
their attentions. There has been a
superfluity of prunes and flexible steak
and a paucity of clean linen. The
travelling men charge that the butter
and the rate maker for these rural
grub foundries have been working
over time. The tax Of So a day is
held to be exorbitant, Notwithstanding
the urgent needs of the proprietors in
many cases. The coffee is so weak
it will not even run on the table cloth
itAlu La ltlo LUZ IAlCASs viz AAS
beverage was younger and better fitted
for athletic exercise, is now too feeble
to run off, and has remained where it
fell from time immemorial.
We have seen no bill of particulars
or specifications in the case of the
Travelling Men VS.. the Rural Hotels,
but from the general complaint that
has been entered the case is of
such Il serious nature as to call for an
immediate ~amelioration Of conditions.
We trust the innkeeperS of these de-
generate communities will take a brace,
in the vernacular of the periou. The
travelling man is the solitary link that
the outside world. He drops in with
his grips and gives the simple country
yokel his first glimpse of the fashions
that prevail in the great, wide world
a glimpse that remains with him
lnrough all the years and fits back to
him when he is arrayed for the circus,
when he wonders if he looks as neat
and well put together. He stands
upon the street, does the travelling |
man, and the red checked country |
maiden passes him by and cries "Oh"
in ccstacy, for he looks exactly like the
noble earl who saved the poor factory
girl from Il fiery death in the last issue
of the Working Girls Weekly. He
slaps the rural hotel keeper on the back
and cries Hello. old man" and asks
him if he can have the room Chauncey
NJ. Depew always occupies and would
the landlord crack a smile and send it
up to the room on Il cut glass dish.
He jollies the waiting lady in the din
ing room and tells her she looks like
Sarah Bernhardt at sixteen, and would
she send him a lock of her hair by reg
isteAd mail and pass the axle grease.
And in the afternoon he saunters over
to the country store and invites all the
boys to burn Il rag with him and tells
'em Il few new ones right from the fac
tory. He boards the train in the even
ing and goes away and the next day it
is Sunday again in the little village.
We trust the growing GOODNESS be-
tween the travelling men and the rural
innkeepers may not grow cooler. II
the country landlords will dust off the
apple pies oIlener and run the beef
steak twice or thrice through the
clothes wringer we believe the breach
may be healed. We cannot believe
the travelling man will pass up the
country hotels for any trivial reasons
and eat a cold lunch on the station
platform between trains. Let the
matter be arbitrateu. Let it come to
pass that the travelling mai shall again
drop off the train ut the water tank
with the jaunty step and bright eye
of yore and write his name on the hotel
register that has remained unopened
since he was in town before. Let no
skeleton OF tough steak and bad but
ter rise up between the travelling man
and the hotel keeper and destroy the
entente cordiale at one fell blow. Let
matters so continue that the innkeeper
shall thrust his head in at the door Of
the pie d~ispenSatOry and tell the cook
to put on a clean red tablecloth for
supper tonight, as Mr.. Jones, the tray
cling man, has came"
BRYAN AND AGUINALDO.
The following from the proclamation
recently addressed to the Filipinos by