The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-27
PEOPLE HARD TO SATISFY
Troubles of the Proprietor of
Boarding House Directory.
Difficulties Experienced in SuitinS
Those Who WOuId Pay PHrt in
Cash and Part in Services-SOme
Expect Much in Return for Little.

Expect much IA return 1OF Little
The hardest task 1 ever undertook.
said a man who occupies the second floor
front of a fashionable uptown boarding
house, was running a boarding house
and furnished room directory
The conversation had drifted to the DIFF
f1cuIty of getting rooms to suit one in the
average city boarding house
I never had so much trouble il so short
d time as I did when I conducted my di-
rectory business on F Street several years
ago. he continued. And this notwith-
standing the fact that ] made quite
neat sum from the enterprise I thought
it would be an easy job / Iabored under
The deIusion that all I had to do was 10
let the people who wanted board and
rooms know about the others who had
board and rooms I've been mixed up in
many different business projects in my
time. i used to renovate feather beds
back IN the seventies / once was Durser
on river steamer under an oId-fashian-
ed captain who had stock Of explosives
which would make the commander Of a
-nodern battleship turn green with envy.
ven. I was editor Of a Republican couu-
try newspaper in q Democratic county Of
! q Southern State.
You'd be surprised at the dnicky tastes
/
DocketbO0ks and II is astonishing some
of the makeshjfts people adopt 10 defray
the expenses Of board and lodging. Peo-
pie see the ads in the daiIies where peo-
pie with Scotch names offer to exchange
lessons in golE for board and room ia
the home Of a refined family Well, all
THAI sort OF negotiation used 10 fail TO
nay lot
I remember lots Of the eases that
used TO worry me almost 20 death One
day young lady who wore glasses and
black silk mitts came along and said she
wanted to take a room where she could
pay partly for her board and room in
cash and partly by teaching crocheting-
There was another case / remember
we'll a young fellow who wanted 20 ex-
change piano lessons for his board and
room. l got him a nIc@ place, but in
about a week he was pack again He
said he did not like the place. but l found
that he left because the people did not
like him. The latter came to me next
day with blood ia all their eyes It
seemed that the young chap could not
play anything but rag-time. and that by
e.r lie did not know one note from an
Otner Consequently the children he was
to teach learned but little. and after the
family had become tired Of listening to
My Money Never lives Out ana OLner
pieces Of that Tx The bOardtr was told
he had better look for amor her place.
Government clerks formed no small
part of my clientele There We're all
kinds and contrasts OF them Some Of
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''''iiI ''i- ~ '',i--'' > - 90 W
10 get botEH anu fvyS ioF inc SAME SUMS
charged IN the rural hamlet And when
they talked business with The shrewd
naauciers who control Washington
boarding houses they received shocks
that brought about d rapid revision of
fb.fr s.,--t-r, Of I-+-Dfua. an -yuers+- ,tc-
40. - - - -,
''1'i-'- ''-''7' ''-- ~ -
celV"d = generous salary probdbLy more
than they ever made before. became eN
tr.,,.s....r,t tn. hest was none 700 eoad
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L',i 'il'7'i anu ny w. '7i-' " Hiie''-
Ihr( were goo" CUSTOMERS ana Polu my
rates.
---rhe old r,rr,-arb aboqr seeing orr
r,-- 90. -l,.,.. 60. me- 5ss %, ,.,,T ,lf
$50
Out u ""ui" nave S1N e" NJ a peck O!
trouble IN the days when l WAS IN the
directory business had / been able to see
my customers zS the Daor,I.. sent
4fI ri It'll "a - ar -.
'iie-ii ~ ii- ''' u 1''s u
actions often played an important part
I had q maidenlv lady with three names
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