The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-21
BELL GIRLS AND NO TIPS.

Uuuu uLNuu hNU NV III DI THAL'S WHAT THEY'RE TRYING NOW AT THE WoMEN,S HOTEL. Not Many Tips Before, Says One of the Bell Boys who Have Just Been Dis- placed at the Martha Washington Troubles That ResuIted in Consc- Quence.
 A lad of perhaps IS, dressed in the latest $s.6s two-piece style of suitings. a natty ss-cent pattern in shirts and one of those neat, hobby plaid effects in 2S-cent ties, stood as near as he dared to the entrance of the Hotel Martha Washington. The white whis- kered custodian at the door was shooing him off whenever he came with in certain prescribed radius.
 It was the day after the Martha Washington threw out it's bell boys for bell girls. By and by girl of IA scurried out of the front entrance. She looked extremely neat and business like in her black dress, white apron and lace cap.
 Getting rich, sis?" asked the lad.
 Nav and I ain't taking any bad money" responded the girl, and she stuck out her tongue and sped on.
 The white whiskered one said some thing about the police and started in- side. The youth retired hurriedly around the corner. There he leaned up against church railing, borrowed cigarette and consented to grant an interview
 Viewing the scene of my former pros- perity," he said, T was requested to resign yesterday to make room for a lot of fresh outlets from the Bowery coop. While the Waldorf Astoria and the Holland house is scrapping over who'll get my service, I'm over here a-wondering how lived through it three weeks.
 "On the dead low down that's the Martha Washington record for bell boy Most of lem lasted three days and counted up their IT cents in tips and called it curtains.
 What d you guess got out of tips in three weekks? A dollar thirty-one. That's sturaight. And when 1t comes to working 'em to loosen up., I'm sup posed to be the best in the business bar none.
 Where did the 1 cent come in? Say, you'd never believe it. A lady from Utica that had three grips like trunks. gave me 3 nickel and sent me out for four afternoon papers. Bargain sale proposition.
 T got lem and stood lookin' like there was something more to be transacted. That's the way to bring em.
 Oh yes my change, says she. Never mind, you can keep 1t.
 | Madame, says I, holding out the copper like it snelt bad, I am Casey, and the race of Casey never stoops to accept bribes.' And I give it back.
 Did she grasp the point? Nav. She said real Christian-like that she ac- cepted the rebuke and would never try to bribe so good a boy again. told her I guessed likely. She didn't see that neither.
 ''That wasn't the worst, neither. The limit come from Omaha with six trunks to have a real, gay sporty time in New York on roof gardens and ice cream sodas and department stores.
 lone day when there wasn't much doing she told me looked like nice lad and would mind doing her fa- vor. And you're right, I didn't mind Then she let 1t out kind of gradual that she wanted me to find out whether that blonde hair on the lady in 1,075B was real or false front.
 "She didn't know I was wise, but 1,076B was from Omaha, too. She was saving 1t up for a jab when they got home. We'll, found it out the way she wanted me to-
 II goes out and gazes at the sky light and comes back and says it's false front all the way through. Arid then I waits for lightning to strike.
 $ You're dear boy says the lady from Omaha. Then she gees over to .he mantelpiece and gets rose and DTS :! Gr1 me and pats my cheek.
 "A rose. Gee! And she weighed 24e pounds and had whiskers. Says I, drawing myself up to my full height
 Madame, am only a young and in- nocent boy, far from home, and your attentions is distasteful to me-
 ''she had the nerve to go down. stairs and report me That's right, I got black mark on my record and notice if it happened again would go
 II was saving my last chance up to do something sensational and leave my memory behind when the man agement beat me to 1t and signed their gang of girls.
 After week of this merry life, says to myself. III have to get wise how to reach the feminine heart and roll or little Willie can't be taking much ad-