The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-21

go down and select the flowers he
would send to his lady fair. 1t is told
that Western man of influence was
saved from the most embarrassing po-
sition recently in this house He was
returning on a windy night from the
theater wearing the only evening suit
and high silk hat he had with him. In
trying to catch his hat which was the
victim of sudden gust. he slipped and
fell and tore his suit, arriving at the
hotel a sartorial wreck, for an electric
car reached his hat before he did.
Under ordinary circumstances a
Broadway shop would have come to his
rescue the next morning, but alas!
this happened to be Saturday night
and he had dinner engagement for
Sunday evening. He sent for the hotel
valet, who smiled and protested. The
suit surely was past renovating, but
there was hope. Upstairs he had many
suits unclaimed by men who had been
called out of the city Unexpectedly.
And hats? Oh yes, several of them in
fine state of preservation, all cleaned,
fumigated and in perfect condition
against just such an emergency as
this. If Monsieur did not mind!
Monsieur did not mind in fact he re-
garded the valet and his unclaimed
raiment as a gift from the Gods and
the salvation of his dinner engagement.
The matter was arranged quickly and
to the satisfaction of the valet, for
as before remarked in this article, the
western men are considered admirable
spenders.
Old Hotel Fads.
Nearly every large hotel has its fad
its best advertised feature. For in
stance, last season one particular tea
room was literally swarming with
fashionables between 4 and o'clock
every afternoon. Not to be seen there
at least once or twice a week was to
be forgotten. Another hotel has ac-
CURED a reputation for a certain brand
of pulled Italian bread. and men talk
about its digestive properties as grave
ly as if their lives depended upon it,
while women VOW they are dying to
get the recipe for their own chefs.
But rest assured the recipe is guarded
zealously. Another house prides itself
on it's china which is in exquisite de-
sign and made from private and eX-
elusive designs in France. Still fourth
has the most noted maitre d hotel in
the country, a man whose opinions are
owns "a few hotels and yachts and
things" to quote the popular Nancy
Brown"
There are certain occasions, too.
when all the world and his wife feel
called upon to grace the hotel with
their presence. The horse show brings
them from every corner of the union
and then rooms are at a premium, the
dining rooms packed, the force of SER
wants increased, and the passing show
something worth travelling miles to see.
AT the same house are given many
notable public events" it's bathrooms
being particularly we'll adapted to
semi-public functions, such as charity
bazaars, musicales, etc.
There is one room, formerly public
restaurant now known as the directors
room. 1t is fitted up with massive fur
niture, and here in secret conclave,
many railway and trust magnates
have gathered to put through deals
that later have astonished the world.
With millionaires by the dozen on the
register, with perhaps a horse show
or a dramatic event of international
interest drawing hundreds of sight
temporary abode and hold secret con-
ferences without attracting the slight
est public attention. And there is alb
solutely no one individual who can SO
emulate the Sphinx in this day and
age as the hotel clerk who declines to
give forth information.
Nowhere in the world can one see
more striking exposition of the modern
commercial system, the specialization
in work, the executive mind of the
hour at work. Behind the scenes in
this great hosiery are scores of men
and women who do but one thing I'M
remittingly every day in the year.
There is one man who cuts ice into
blocks as it comes from the ice plant
and losses it into a pulverizer. There
are half a dozen who polish mirrors
from morning until night. There are
women who peel potatoes ten hours
day. There is one man who does moth
ing but make and fit keys. A man is
hired to do one thing and do it well. 1t
is none of his affairs what the man on
his right or his left is doing. His en-
ployer prefer that he does not notice
his neighbor or aspire to his neigh
boris position. There is little or no
civil service promotion possible in a
mammoth hotel, and employees are
liable to become mere machines, or
wearying of the monotony, they break
loose into other lines of work.