The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-28
AT THE woMAN's HOTEL.
Already the Girl Walters Have Made
Way for Men.

New York Letter.
Does the introduction of male walters at
New York's women's hotel presage the
eventual opening of the doors of that ex-
clusively feminine hotel TO male guests2
Maybe. II is an entering wedge. anyhow.
and the women guests are more than salts
fled with il. What is more. they demanded
it. They didn't like the girl walters at all
said they were "snippy" and "talky." and
slovenly and perky. and many other things
with various shades of meaning.
At the outset the women projectors OF the
women's hotel were going to run the whole
outfit. from dynamo compartment to dining
room, without any trousered creature-no.
not even one-from cellar TO garnet. Diff
culties. however. arose to puncture this
plan. No eligible stationary engineers and
electricians of the female persuasion were
ready to jump into the breach-the pun is
involuntary and unintentional. II was APP
pretended. likewise, that it would not be
altogether easy to obtain the services OF
young lady coal beavers. machinery oilers.
garbage regulators. and so on. These hum
BILE. but important, positions. consequently.
had to be filled by coarse male bipeds, who
were vigorously kept at their stations. how
ever. and out of view.
Women did all the rest Manageress.
clerkesses. night clerkesses. bootblacks who
were perfec' Jydies, mattresses, solutions,
cooks, fre-makers. laundresses. chamber
maids bell girls-all killed persons. Men
who called to see the women guests were
conducted into tiny, bare reception room
in an obscure corner of the hotel, although
the hotel is rich in handsomely furnished
reception rooms
Everything went beautiful for while.
UNTIL one day, man who called to see one
of the women guests had the unbounded
temerty to forget TO throw his cigar away
when he entered the tiny reception room.
whittier he was conducted by the bell girl.
Thereupon some of the ancient women
guests of the rubbering persuasion set up
an uproar, declaring that the fumes OF the
the hotel made them H. il only by ocular
suggestion, they having seen the man with
the cigar in his hand
Then the storm broke. The great major
ity of the women guests up and declared
that they liked the smell OF cigar smoke
that IL was homelike and cozy-that IL was
pleasant to feel, after all. that there was u
man around occasionally-so there. nowi
Then these insurgents began to kick about
the girl walters and to demand that trous-
cred walters be installed in their places,
body. Their demand was met by the man.
agement Bell boys are soon TO displace
the bell girls, and even money is being
freely offered by hotel men around town
that it will be a matter OF only a little
while now before the women's hotel will
be throwing open its doors to masculine
guests.
"How do you like your hotel?" this
writer not long ago inquired of clever bus
mess woman who took advantage OF the
cleanliness, reasonableness and luxurious
ness of the womens hotel and became one
of the charter guests.
'Oh, ii is all right" she replied, not en-
Enthusiastically, ''only IL is so violently
terry and taicummy powdery-and-some-
times / feel as IL i am living In the House
of the Good Shepherd or tee Gate Of
Hoper'