The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-09
GUESTS AT THE HOTEL,
How Some OF Them Are Regarded by
the Hotel Waiter.

thc hOtei Wat6f.
-One guest that 1 rather like to see,
said the hotel waiter. SIS the man that
saves up his money and goes travelling
only once year.
He comes in to breakfast the minute
the bell rings and eats everything on the
bill OF fare. Begins with fruit, and then
eats cereal and then beefsteak and ham
and eggs and pork chops and potatoes
and toast and rolls and whatever there is to
eat. and drinks probably two cups Of coffee
and tops of with plate Of hot cakes, maybe
two, eats enough to make man sick and
goes away without giving me any tip,
but don't dislike him. He comes in be-
fore the rush and gives me something to do,
and I'd rather be doing something than
standing around, and like to see him
eat. He's out for his moneys worth, and
IL he isn't getting 1t he's doing the best
he can, and he enjoys it.
Hes the man who, when dinner time
comes, orders seventeen hundred and
forty-four different things, so that have
to push and jam the plates and dishes to
get them in around him. and / can't be over
particular: but that doesn't disturb him.
He likes to see the things around, and he
eats EN- all and is happy. and he isn't
not a very greedy one. He's just got the
chance, and he improves it.
1Of course he's eating too much, al
together too much, hut still / don't object
to the man who goes travelling once a year
and then eats the whole bill of fare. In
fact, I rather like to see him eat.
-The man I don't like is the man who
says you may give me- so-and-so-'you
may give as il he was the lord Of all crea-
ton and I his servant; though there's
great difference in the men who say this.
and some Of them don't really dislike after
aThe man who disturbs me is the lofty
man who scans the bill Of fare slowly and
keeps me waiting and finally says you
may give me this and you may give me
and turns away and looks somewhere else
or turns to talk to somebody else, all as II
l was just nobody. But now the youngster
the young Teller that's enjoying every minute
and who's just elated with being alive,
and sort OF half fancies that he's young
why, when be say. you may give me g,
1t, and I'm glad to get him what he wants;
and he'll be all right in q year or two any
If you can't sometimes exactly tell
the new traveller, or the man who doesnt
travel much, any other way, you can tell
him sure whenever we have on the bill Of
fare broiled spring chicken for il he's new
he's sure to order that every time. He
hasn't learned yet.
1Our broied spring chickens have thin
gutta-percha bodies stretched on frames
OF steel, and there's about as much taste
and food and nourshment in EN- as there
would be in pasteboard chicken. When
the experienced traveller sees them on the
bill, why, he just gives them the skipparee,
and sticks to the tender and nicely broiled
beefsteak.
But the man who STAYS at home and
eats hash for breakfast fifty weeks in the
year, when he sees broiled spring chicken
on the bill of fare, why, you don't have to
had any doubt about a man before, why,
il he orders broiled spring you know him
then, all right. And like to see EN-
wrestling with the broiled spring-steel
sprng-chicken, and the man who sticks
to the good old beefsteak enjoys it: too
But the man like best Of all is the man
who treats me like human being and
who has some thought for me, and treats
me as he'd like to be treated himself. Not
the man who says you may give me,
nor the man who says get me this or that,
nor the man who says 'gi' me so-and-so,
thinking all the time only OF himself, but
the man who gives little thought to me.
Il don't require to have man say
please give me this or please give me
the other but ] do like to hear man say
to order what he wants, I'D like some
so -and-so,' treating me as il was human
being. can manage to find good piece
OF steak for him. and it's rare time when
/ can't find him glass Of milk, il he wants
one: and il it's breakfast he's eating l
don't bring him cakes three weeks old,
but / get him plate hot of the griddle
that the butterll melt on when he puts
aThat's the sort Of man like to wait
on, the man that treats me on the level,
and then if he's all right in stalking me,
why. II there's ANYTHING in the hotel he
wants I get it for him If can, and gen.
erally can"