Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-13
FRIEND OF PRINTERS
"TIP" hoy NEVER WENT BACK ON
ONE OF THE CRAFT.
Never Refused Drink, Meal or a
Place to Sleep at His
Hotel

There is in Washington a man who has
given a fortune to printers and says he
expects to help the typos along just so
long as he has a dollar. This citizen is
Mr.. Robert Hoy, known to printers through
out the United States as Tip" Hoy, the
man who never refused a printer a meal.
q drink, a clean shirt or a place to sleep.
His saloon and hotel has been the haven
OF rest for tourist printers for more than
a quarter of a century, and every tourist
who ever came to Washington has partaken
of his hospitality and gone his tross-tie-
counting way rejoicing.
Tip Hoy doesn't go much on style, and
a strapped printer wearing fine clothes
and trying to pose as a sport is always
an object of contempt to him. Recently
q printer of this stripe who had hung up
Mr.. Hoy for several weeks board and
numerous libations of liquid refreshments,
suddenly disappeared, and when apprised
of the fact the landlord simply said,
well, l should have known he was a
son of gun. for didn't he wear cufYs?'
But this was one in thousand who has
given him the slip in this manner yet the
same fellows could come back at any time,
and the freedom of the place would be ex-
tended them Tip forgives the erring
brothers, but he doesn't forget and when
they do come back they get roasted to the
queens taste and then invited to walk up
ana take q X. II the tOuFlSt Is shy on
a clean shirt the proprietor digs down and,
producing the coin, hands it to him with
the injunction to get shirt and be de-
cent If a printer was out of work he
knew that he could always find home at
Hoys and that II sickness overlook him
careful attention would be given.
The Central Point.
Before the machines were introduced in
newspaper offices In the larger cities Wash
ington was the central point for tourists to
meet and twenty were here then to where
there is one now. and the result has been
beneficial to Mr.. Hoy. who has had less
calls and demands on his generosity and
hospitality. though he keeps the latch string
out for those who wander in hungry and
thirsty.
Tip" Hoy misses the hobo printer and is
= disposed at times to wish that Ottmar Mer-
genthaler had continued his business of clock
tinkering in the quiet town of Baltimore
and not busted his brain inventing type
setting machine to do away with an army
Of the happiest dont-give-a-darn men on
earth.
Il like to rumnate over those good old
days" said Mr.. Hoy. as he talked to a
crowd OF delegates. And. suffering LaZa-
rus. think of Jim - here in Washington
rode In sleeper. too-and not passing over
his steel rule as an evidence of being emit
tied to consideration in my place. He's
dressed to KILL too. and such toys would
have made his eyes sore fifteen years ago
when he was riding blind baggage and
ramping from city to city. The compos-
Ing rule used to go in my place, but the
boys that strike town now carry one of the
brass matrix of the machines Pears to
like all the old fellows who were once
my guests have taken up their claims In
country towns. gone to preaching. or some