Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-03

no,n masses on uumbling his wait-awhiles,
or III see-yOu-agains, or some-other-tlmes.
The rebuffed hanger-around either goes oul
with flush on his face, or resumes his
chair with humility that shows ne ex-
pccted no better treatment. Some OF these
disappointed office-seekers who camp
around the hotels waiting, Mica"ner-hke'
for some old thing TO turn up strive TO pre-
serve an air of jauntiness in their dress and
manner. thus making themselves, to my
Way of thinking, even more grleVous ns-
ures of woe. How do they make out am and
keep the wolf from clutching them: SUD
init more simple ones to me-
"rhere's an Objectionable brigade OF
hangers around who make 1t a point TO
stand in front Of the hotels and give sa-
lutes of the hand to all of the notable
men who pass by or enter. These queer
ducks are of course, not known at all 10
the big men, but 1t Is their cheap desire
to make 1t appear to others that they are.
The notable men, who, during the progress
of a day, meet go many strangers present
ing suits of one sort or another. cannot
remember all of these races, ana So lear-
ing to give offense to some man VINO really
has a right to recognition, they return the
salutes of these peculiar hangers-around
In nine cases out of ten. How does man
exist who has nothing more remunerative
to do than to stand In front OF hotels ana
salute prominent men? l pass.
The Ink-Slinsing Kind.
"The hanger-around who holds down a
seat at one of the writing room tables Tor
hours at time, franticaliy writing, with
his head bent low-writing with the fierce
ness of the correspondent-in-chtet VINO
reporting the workings OF national con, ,
yention--is another Of the mysterious and
pathetic types. He doesn't use the hotei
stationery-he brings about a ream OF
fooiscap with him when he turns up in the
morning He never says woro 10 any
one. does no buttonholing in the lobbies,
is addressed by no one-h1s one desire IN
life appears to get as many thousand WORDS
of copy scrawled as possible what 90
,hese seedy Observation-Disclosures hangers
around at the writing tables write? Where
does their writing go? Does anybody ever
read what they write: Does ene'I mli'iiis
bring EN- in anything? Again, pass.
.'Mention should be made OF the hanser,
around who turns up at his favorite hotel
somewhere in the nelshporhoou u ~
O. clock In the morning, taxes a seat IN al
obscure corner of the lobby and SITS tnere
for hours. twirling stick, and calmly TAX
inc in the panorama of men, needless OF
the passing Of time. This one nave ns
,,red ont as the husband of tired-lookfng
wife who's running boarding mouse some
where ar other. and who either sinks away
from the boarding house early In the morn
ing in order to be relieved OF the 1op OF
90 arriving I'D coal from the cellar or Is ex-
lied for the day by his spouse IN 9Ioer 'n .sa
Eoarders There are plenty OF TINS type.
We shall not be compelled to figure on
where this one eats and sleeps.
"Then there's the queer, shanoy nahger-
s-,,,nd who. twenty times during the day
ana evening. walks up to the desk, solemnly
pulls his spectacles from the faded case,
adjusts them to his nose with a basso pro-
fundo ahem! and. pulling the e. register Ms. ef
new arrivals with a critical eye. as if ex-
pecting somebody. I've never yet seen a
hanger-around Of this type discern the
name Of any arrival he knew. For all
might
faLe a CITY directory every half hour or so
and look up and down few pages Of
names. Who provides for this one? That
special Providence I spoke OF. suppose.
Wants News From Home.
1--WE occasionally have to get after an
other type Of register scanner with a sharp
stick. This one is, In all cases, man con-
siderably beyond middle age. When this
elderly hanger-around scans the register