New-York tribune., 1904-08-07

into platform work for aI that Is IN it I should
aim after getting my name on the bureau list to
know the advance men, and know them we'll A
box OF cigars here and a good dinner there
well, its q part Of the business a part that the
public does not always know, but, together with
real ability IT accounts for the forging ahead OF
some men have seen who astonished me with
their apparent success.
A company was under contract with a bureau
for number OF weeks. and the hotel bills Of the
members We're 10 be paid by the local committee
where they appeared When the agent con
traetei with the local committee he told the
members that they could put the company
wherever they could get the cheapest rates. Al
the only hotel in town there was a transient rate
Of s. day and a boarder's rate OF s. a week.
j was arranged with the hotel man To take care
cf rhe entertainers while in town at 81 day.
When they appeared and went TO Ihe dining
room for lheir first meal they were placed the
Iah.e with The hGstlers and laborers. who were
iU tneir shirt sleeves. ON the adjoining table
WAS "a bowl OF oranges. one Of the women asked
Tie waitress 10 bring her the dish Il failed 20
come She asked again There was
sIcnse. Finally The clerk appeared ana inquired
what was wanted. H WAS told Them fruits Is
Tor those who pay So a day. We are paid only
s. for you folks. ana that don't include fruit
I VIII pay extra fer IT, replied the woman
Wei youu have to- he replied ungraciously-
H brought her the dish, and waited while she
handed out 10 cents in The presence Of the silent
Iut deeply interested diners who filed the
room
a certain lecturer was 10 appear in . West
ern town, mis- expenses being paid by the COM
rnittee in charge Of the lecture When he ar
rived il the town the hotel 70 which he was
conducted was fun. It was necessary 10 make
up a bed for him in the pa-lor. The small son
of the proprietor appeared while the bed
being made.
'You'se going TO sleep here" he inquired
II looks like it, was the lecturers reply
The boy surveyed the scene for q few mo
rneuts in silence. and then abruptly left the
room. singing Justify. We keep the pig in the
parlor.'
Lecturers have peculiar experiences. Inter
r7.ptions Of one kind and another keep the most
seasoned speaker on the alert Crying babies
are the dread Of all public speakers, but Sen
ator DoIIiEer has way Of keeping on good
terms with his audience at such q time by say
ing in a heartfelt manner as the mother carries
the child out. ! would give q hundred dollars
10 hear nay baby cry sam Jones has been
heard on such occasions TO say quietly: II
the mother Of that baby VIII just take it outside
and give II a little walk and little something
else il VIII stop crying. But sam Jones is the
only man who could say this
'Incroductious are another source % dread on
the part OF platform people, from the fulsome
praise 10 the kind exemplided in introducing
speaker TO an audience TO which b. had driven
at breakueck speed through the mud Of a spring
thaw and without time 10 dress or even 10 brush
m. The chairman on this occasion announced
thar the lecture would. he hoped, be- better than
the lecturer looked.
..Chastauqua audiences are the Cuietest and
most app-eciative. bUt most liable 10 be broken
M ,v external causes, as when in the middle Of
a dpe concert there comes marching on the
grounds an excursion. headed by band vocifer-
ously playing "Thereu be hot time in the old
aoSn to-right.'-