The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-03-10
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PEACOCK ALLEY AFTER p. NJ.
Amusing Incidents Noted Among
WaIdOrf-AstOrin 'sGuests.''

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The Waldorf-Astoria habit, says the
New York World, affects three classes
of people-the Western bounder, who
wants show and action for his money;
the silly woman, who imagines it is
swell" and the wall street crowd"
Like certain store, the Waldorf
Astoria is a city in itself, and most of
the city is built on a bluff.
1t is an opulent ant hill and teens
with life.
The corridors are crowded with men
and women all the day, the cafes are
comfortably filled, and on occasion so
are many of their occupants.
Ping-pong is played out, and the
gallery devoted to the game that was
all the rage is deserted. This gallery
overlooks the ladies' cafe, the big room
where there are billiard tables at one
end and high-ball tables occupying
| the rest of its space.
| Men and women whose sole object in
| life appears to be waiting for someone
sit around everywhere.
These modern MicawDers sit in the
halls and in the Turkish and other
rooms. where the occupying of space
does not place them in the position of
| being expected to spend money. For
If you sit in the cafes the walters may
approach and solicitously inquire if
/ you have ordered.
Should suchta question be asked of
the expectants in the corridors they
can answer, Yes, my carriage"
Carriages are not served In the cafes.
The main corridor is known as
Peacock alley" by the hardened Wal
| rf-Astoriaites. Sometimes they al
lude to it as "Rubberneck lane" But
Peacock alley is the usual term by
which they designate it.
Here well-dresesd women sit all day
waiting for someone who never seems
| to appear.
These women would be star per-
formers at an endurance contest, pro-
| Vided they were matched In the same
| surroundings
They wait in the Turkish room for
the person who never comes, too.
They appear to be the same women
who turn out in force at every church
| wedding in high society and who, not
| being permitted in the church without
an invitation, crowd and crush upon
the outside and cling to the church
| ratings with such tense grasp that it
| is sometimes necessary to pry their
hands loose.
| 1t is suspected that their habitat is
Harlem and Brooklyn boarding houses,
where, while the caviar-mark you, ca
/
less fortunate sisters green with envy
| as they recount what has occurred at
| the Waldorf during the day.
| They are the genus lady loafer-but
| this is a harsh woodland have no use
for anything that is not refined.
TO them the Waldorf Astoria is
nothing worse than a refinery
| In fact they will tell you that it is
"too sweet for anything"
They conduct all their correspondence
on the hotel stationery.
1t is one of the compensations of
New York life that one can live at the
| Waldorf-Astoria, to all intents and
| purposes, only leaving 1t to sleep and
| eat.
| New York Some of these have been
accused of giving their own names to
the pages and gloating with JOY as the
| uniformed attendants parade through
| the place shouting their names.
This curious performance of calling
names through the cafes and corridors
is called paging"
/ People have been known to come
| from Pittsburg to the Waldorf for a
brief stay, only to remain all their
days for the pleasure it afforded them
to hear their names PACED through
| out the place.
The head page will not call a name
save that of a visiting nobleman. He
! alludes to himself as 1.-THE title page"
'Carpers also claim that when there
are no bona fide names ito page the
head page gives out a list of notables.
and soon down the corridors come the
/ boys shouting:
"Rudyard Kipling!"
Emperor William
Andrew Carnegie
Philip Dublin!"
THE Flatiron Building!
Miss Maude Adamsi"
-. Pierpont Morgan,"
The battleship Texas"
| Thomas Q. Seabrookel"
"Hetty Green!"
Central Park Obelisk!"
Mark Hanna!"
Robert Fitzsimmons'"
This gives the place reputation
as a resort OF notables and makes the
| people from Pittsburg proud OF the
company they think they are in.
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