The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-12

What an intelligent and good look
ing waiter we have at our table" said
a girl at the seashore resort to heI
companion Il wonder whether he
is a college man with a vacation Job -
Three years later the girl went &c
New York and stopped at one of its
well-known apartment hotels. A few
days after her arrival, when she
stopped at the desk to settle a bill,
she was surprised to see a man who
looked very familiar to her ordering
the clerks about.
why" she exclaimed half aloud In
her establishment. why, it's our old
waiter at the -"
The young man heard her and turn
ed around.
"Why," he exclaimed on his part as
he saw the girl, you here. Miss
Smith," And he walked towards her
with extended hand.
Then he saw the puzzled look on
the girls face, and laughed.
"You don't know whether or not 1t
is proper to greet your old waiter do
you?" he questioned, candidly. He
laughed again. But I was a waiter
that I might go back to college the
next year. Does that help you any?"
She blushed furiously, then replied
triumphantly IT always told mamma
you were a college man. then allowed
her woman's curiosity to get the bet
ter of her. But what are you doing
here?"
The story that her old waiter told
her was one of opportunity; and many
a college youth who has worked at
summer resort could tell a similar
story of his rise in the world, u he
only would.
After she had left the resort he was
assigned to wait upon table at
which a cranky old man. his wife and
elderly daughter sat.
You'll have plenty of trouble" his
predecessors. all of whom had been
deposed by the caprices of the cranky
old man. had warned him. but, curl
ously he managed to please the fam
lily from the start.
They remained the rest Of the sum-
mer, and never so much as offered a
tip in all that time. But the day that
the resort was to close, the old man
remained at the table after his wife
and daughter had left and motiOned to
the waiter
Your service has pleased me-" he
began, you haven't worked for tips
like the rest. I've made inquiries about
you and ] know why you're a waiter.
Now, when you are through college
I understand it will be next falcon
suit this card, come to me, if you have
nothing better in prospect. and I'll
start you in business"
With that the man got up from the
table and walked away, and the waiter
looked at the card. It contained the
mans name and conveyed the addi-
tional information that he was the
proprietor of the -- Hotel in New
York city
"And So concluded the young man,
two years ago, upon my graduation,
] came here and the man started me in
as desk clerk, and took all the pains
possible to instruct me, as a reward
for not working for tips, but for the
work itself as he explained it. Six
months ago he died, and after the
funeral the wife sent for me and told
me that l was to manage the hotel
for the estate-that it was her hus-
bands wish. And there you have the
story of why / am here in a man
agerial capacity and will not be able
to-ah serve you at dinner tonight
personally"
This young mans rise is typical of
many that take place among the hun
dreds of American youths who find
employment at the summer resorts in
order to get through the vacation and
lay aside a few dollars for further
education in the fall. They are not
walters in the dining rooms, markers
in the bowling alleys, clerks in the
hotel offices, bankers for divers
amusement enterprises and ticket sell
ers for the same because of the fun
that's in it, They work because they
have to; they taste the worlds labor
before they have fully prepared for
IT; and in order that they may be the
better prepared they work earnestly.
So it often happens that a full-fedged
business man sees future possibilities
in a vacation working college youth,
and the latter has his life's work cut
out for him then and there. Such a
one is the vice president of a certain
leading banking institution in Phil
adelDhia.
This influential financier ten years
ago, upon his graduation from the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, followed his
usual vacation custom of taking a
clerkship in an Atlantic City hotel His
idea was to keep his eyes open while
there for a position in the fall. The
opportunity came in an unexpected
way.
1t happened one Monday morning
that a large number of guests decided
rather unexpectedly to return to the
city and, without any previous notl
fication TO the office to have their bills
ready, they swooped down upon it. ex-
pecting to have everything settled up