The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-07-15

''It's reported you've been walking"
ats reported true. guess"
"And there's been lot of talking"
Horace Seymour Keller.
A TALE OF TWO CITIES.
A FEW DAYS IN NEW YORK.
I took a Pennsylvania Railroad
"hansom" toa hotel adjacent to Madi-
son Square.
"How much 7" I asked, as 1
alighted.
"Eighty-fve cents, "said the driver.
I took out the schedule of fares
which l had borrowed from the inside
of the hanson.
twenty-five cents for the fare, :"
read off ten cents for a valise car
ried on top"
l gave the driver thirty-five cents.
went into Broadway florist S
shop and asked how much for bunch
of 100 violets.
eight dollars" he said.
I told him to fix it up, and then
asked to see the proprietor.
The proprietor came and verified
his salesman's price.
I explained to him that I knew
from whom he got his violets and
how much he paid for them-$2 for
the hundred. argued that would
allow him 81 as his profit and 81 for
his rent, the box in which he put
them, which cost him 10 cents, and
the ribbon with which he tied the
flowers, which cost him about FIVE
cents. Four dollars would represent
a profit to him of so per cent.
Take them," he said. "You're
in the business, I guess"
1 paid him So.
"Not a seat left, - said the man in
the box-ofice of the theatre, except
what you can get from the specula-
tors outside"
I called for the manager.
Within three minutes I had two
seats directly on the centre aisle,
eight rows from the stage-the choi-
cest seats in the auditorium.
The next day friend asked me to
lunch with him in what is known as
very ''swell'' restaurant.
I ordered a bowl of milk and crack
ers. wanted to see what would hap.
pen.
1t happened 1t took the combined
efforts of the two walters and the head
waiter to get my simple order straight,
and then all three stood in row full
of interest to see what was going to
do with such a strange order. So fai
back is the childhood Of the average
New York waiter.
When the Check came my simple
order cost 90 cents.
called the manager and asked him
to point out on the bill of fare how
the price was arrived at. He studied
and then figured out that had had
the equivalent of pint of milk and
my crackers numbered exactly eight
"Change the check to 20 cents,
he said.
begged my friend to allow me tc
pay the check. I had special reason
| I did so, and gave the waiter Ic
cents as a fee.
He looked at the dime, tipped the
coin in the air and put it into hi:
pocket without word of thanks.
asked him to let me see the coir
for a moment. He did SO. l put il
in my pocket and strobe out.
| can still see the look on thai
walters face. 1t was study in ex
preston.
went into an antique" Cd shop
and saw an old Dutch plate.
"Seventy-6ve dollars" said th'
smiling salesgirl.
"And this Delft shoe 7" l asked.
"Ten dollars"
"Real Delft, 1 suppose?" 1 asked
"Oh, yes, sir" she replied,
"From Delft in Holland?"
eyes, sir, we imported it direc
from there" !"
asked to see the proprietor. HI
verified all the salesgirl had said
Then I spoke Dutch to him.
"Is this shoe from Delft 2" ! asked
1t had, of course, never seen Deli
or Holland. It was like so much o
our so-called Delft-made in Ger
many.
| And the SIS plate was offered M
for So!
treated myself to a haircut ant
shampoo.
When the "artist" had finished hi
work l handed him 81.
"Thank you sir" he said, and ven
tured no change.
my changer" 1 asked.
( Changer" he queried in super
establishment. 'You gave me 81
sir. Fifty cents for haircut; th
same for shampoo. ;"
1 happened to know this "tonso
rial parlor." For answer I steppe
across to the opposite side and pulle
up a steamship "hanger, revealiu
a sign: Haircut, IS cents /; sham
poo. rs cents"
1 received 40 cents change.
l wanted two trunks to go acros
the city from the Grand Central De
pot to the Pennsylvania Railroa
ferry, at the foot of West Twenty
third street.
unon,f vo,1 bother sir. TIL atten