The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-09

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 The New York agent of three big summer hotels--one on the Sound, an- other on the coast proper and the third in the Catskills-exuded sigh of re- lief as he called it a day and closed his desk the other afternoon. For four hours each weekday he waits upon folks who are thinking about patron izins the hotels he represents, and be- sides disposes of a Voluminous booklet demanding correspondence.
 They've been having tine usual amount of fun with me to-day,H said the agent. q believe there are nearly as many jolliers in New York as there are cobblestones. Yesterday afternoon I met up with the class A champion josher of Manhattan.
 By the mornings mail I received a letter from him which set me to rock ing with excitement. He said in his letter that he wanted me to quote terms for himself, family and servants, for three months stay at the mountain house I am representing
 Said that his family consisted of his
 
 would want, in addition, accommoda- tions for two nursemaids, his wife's French maid and his own valet. He said that he understood that the hotel was well provided with handsome sec ond-foor suites, and he wanted to know if the most desirable of these suites would be available for him and his out fit from June to September 1.
 'He added that if I wasn't prepared to quote him a fair figure, something like fifteen hundred dollars a week, say, for his party, there'd be no chance for a dicker.
 Well, wouldn't that make any man in this business sit up and rub his eyes? I made a grab for the New York mil lionaires list and looked for this mans name, but 1t wasn't there. Then I ] poked around in Dun and Bradstreet | for the name he signed to his letter, but neither of em had him rated. ' Maybe, said I to myself then. he's | a Klondiker who's just got back with boatload of dust, or something like that
 T didn't feel like taking a chance on letting fifteen hundred dollar a week |
  office hours yesterday afternoon I rode | uptown to have a clinching talk with this off hand individual. He had given in his letter an address in Harlem, not i far from Lenox avenue.
 "I found this to be flat building and not one that looked as if it sheltered a man in shape to dig up eighteen thou sand dollars for three months season l at Catskill hotel with a large family and a retinue of nursemaids, valets and such like As soon as I saw the buld- ings I knew it was sell, but 1 was cu- rious to look the chap over, and so I the vestibule button over which his name was pasted.
 Ut was a stiff walk of five flights to the top rear flat. found him sitting in his shirt sleeves, addressing himself to a cob pipe and a can of beer.
 "He was a pleasant-mannered young letter carrier--that's what he was, a letter carrier. His flat was tidy and tiny, and so was his pretty wife, who joined him in giving me thechortle.
 "He invited me to refresh myself out of the can of malt, and, seeing that he was so agreeable about it, I did. I had along with me an armful of literature about that mountain hotel, but I didn't undo the package. "'Did you have a nice ride up? the etter carrier asked me- and I told him hat I had enjoyed the coal-gas from he elevated engine exceedingly.
 Felt real chesty with myself when I happened to see your ad and wrote you hat letter. he explained. cheerfully. Sent two dollars down to Gravesend to ,ut on Reina to win the Brooklyn ham C Heap that day, and when I heard that | he copped the coin for me at fifty to ( me I had to write a sure enough mon ,yed letter or bust. Glad it gave you hat win-out feeling for a little while, nyhow. Come again | If that postman doesn't stand at the op of the list for the Stringeres' Med l. then he's nowhere in the race. Another fellow that dropped along ere to see me with regard to three J -a-bath for himself and wife or the season at the Sound hotel I'm | epresenting was pretty good on the osh, too He fed me with a lot of hot ir about the kind of wallpaper he t ked on his summer totel rooms, and all n hat kind of thing, and at the end of a b 1t cen minute confab l figured that l h ad him just about as good as booked. "' By the way said he, when it s ,oked all fixed, what kind of music do D ou have in the dining-room of that ho- el? My wife and I are kind O ffnical a S to the brand of music provided for s while we eat W "I told him that the hotel was rigged B ut with about as good a scratch string II as could be hired for money. Much ragtime?" he asked me. Ii slathers of it, said I. All you IT ant Of a "'Well, I'm sorry, but it's all of " W lid he, starting toward the exit with a ir rin. My wife and l don't stand for br nything but Vogner while we're din g,' and he was out of the door before oc had a chance to yell after him that di ed engage Walter Damrosch and a erman orchestra if he'd only consent m spend week or so with us. al But, while l manage to pick up si t of fun with the out-and-out jolliers, e want-it all folks who swarm along al gre looking for terms don't entertain m