The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-03

keep sugar tonss or oyster forks, or aftel
dinner coffee spoons. Al the silver goe'
last. Towels lvanish like magic. w
simply can't buy towels fast enough tt
keep up the supply. Travelling men arr
PP@s hr1 apprsciative towel Solisc aims,
coming towel stringency In country towns
College boys hav q taste for hotel
souvenirs, too. When the Yale. Princeton
football game used 20 be played here. the
note, proprietors had to hire mel TO sit
on all their movable property. The boys
went through the hotels like locusts through
q farm We didn't havo even a This way
70 the elevator sign left In the house when
the invading horde swept on.
"A good many OF the country guests
collect hotel souvenirs. Uncle Joshua
comes from q town where he can live on
~, cents . week, and when a hotel man
asks him TO pay $50 a day thinks he's
being held UP and robbed. He figures
that everything he oar carry on wont
begin to make him quits, and 30 he hasn't
unges OF conscience about acquiring hotel
r u the country guests aron't any lighter
fingered than city guests. The proprietor
Of one Of the finest hotels In New York
told me that a lady came 10 visit his wife
at their country house last summer. The
maid went up to unpack tho visitors trunks
and told her mistress that the unk were
chock-full OF towels and silver napkins
and pillow shams and all that sort Of thing,
marked with the names Of the different
hotels where the visitor had been staying.
The joke Of 1t was that most OF the gems
OF the collection anne from the hotel OF
the man at whose house the woman was
visiting. I've a m idea. founded OF bitter
experiences. that thousands OF happy homes
chiefly at the cost of New York hotelkeepers
Every hotel has its crank boarders.
Sometimes their crankiness takes the
form OF what js politely called hlepto-
mania. Everybody In the hotel knows
his bills and Is unobjectlonable In every
other way, no scandal Is stirred up There
are ways OF keeping v without hare
feelings.
old New York hotels who for thirty years
picks out whatever one suits her fancy.
Everybody knows she does IL. In fact.
she doesn't try TO hide the little pro-
pensity. She has her hotel room full Of
r packed t1'e away " % ever vds va" They hey 's say Il
she keeps the thing up much longer she
won't leave herself room to get Into the
DOT and into bed. OF course she's not
quite right in her mind, but she's unex-
oept plates, so they wink ut that little
popularity; The proprietor SAYS she never
tries to take any OF the plates out OF the
hotel and that she win never 60 away until
she dies. Then he'll get his property
back. Meanwhile she's a paying patron
and there's no use hurting her feelings
over three plates a day.
Il don't encourage old ladies myself.
] like them, but not IN my capacity OF hotel
proprietor. When they come to stay, 1
20 away There's one hotel in town where
most OF them land. They don't admit
any quests at that hotel unless they ave
gray side curls. A nice old lady Is nice.
but the average old lady IL a troublesome
boarder, and We have enough troubles
without counting any.
There are drawback to running a hotel
next door to a railroad station. Half the
people who cone Tor meals are irving To
catch rains. A man has twelve minutes
to spare, and he comes in and orders an
extra thick porterhouse. In two minutes,
he begins 10 squirm, In three minutes,
n steas and has been waitine three-quarters
Of an hour. In eight minutes he goes on
swearing and h~lackguards the hotel ever
after. Ws've fixed the thing now. ! got
a time stamp. The check Is II stamped witt
the exact time the order IL given. Then,
" hen n man at the end Of three minutes
swears he's been waiting three-Quarters
of an hour, we take the stamped check
10 him n tell him he's a damned lair.
Perhaps we don't do exactly that, hut YOU
see the idea. This hotel business Is very
trying"
Mr. Ford BOXED unutterably depressed.
but remembering that he has made some
OF tho most uproariously funny aiter-dinner
speeches ever heard in New York. the re-
porter reflected that possibly he WASH
No sad As he seemed