The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-05

brand of pie that we were turning uot, MT. Jillbigton's calling for an extra piece soon made all the difference in the world. For you see, with what you might call the ususual normal demands made upon us in the pie section of the kitchen was already running about to it's capacity; and if everybody should take to calling for extra pieces. of pie, why, we'd be up a tree right away. And that's just what happened.
 When the other regulars saw Mir. Jillbigton calling for an extra piece of pie, and getting it, they all called for extra pie. and in two weeks time our pie department, that had been in a small way source of pride to us, was putting us to all manner of trouble, to say nothing about a cinsiderably added expense; and then something had to be done about it, and I got MT. Jill into my office to talk it over. 1 Mice man, Jillbigton, nice a man as you would want to meet, and very leyel-headed man, too, generally speak ing; woozy only on the subject of pie. And I thought that with his general fairmindedness all I'd have to do would | be mention the fix into which his de- mands had brought us to get him to l gut off his extra order, when we could get everybody else to do the same, and so we'd drop back to our regular com- fortable gait.
 1 But, by gracious, he didn't see it in that light: didn't see why he shouldn't have extra pite. Wanted to know what kept hotel for if 1t wasn't to please my guests; and why I shouldn't be willing to put myself to some trouble. and all that sort of thin. And finally , had to tell him that it wasn't only the trouble and the general upsetedness that worried me, but that supplying the enlarged demands that his calls had created was putting me also to an add ed expense that considerably more than consumed the profit on his board; that instead of making anything on him. I was now the same as paying him to make me all this trouble! And I thought that that was going to be a clincher; but <.
 'Heavensr he says, why didn't you mention this to me before? Charge all the extra pieces to me. Say nothing, Give 'em the pie, and you take the credit. having and I'll pay, gladly. Charge all the extra pie to mel!
 And what could say in case like that? Nothing. He was man of very comfortable means and he meant just what he said. ".. -
 And so we put in another pastry range and got an assisttnat for the pastry cook, and made more pies and supplied all demands and charged to MT. Jillbigton all extra piece served, amounting in some weeks to as much as three hundred pieces. It took Ht- tie bookkeeping in the kitchen and the exercise of a little common sense in the dining room to know just exactly how many of the extra pieces ordered ought to be charged to MT. Jill and to keep track of them, but that was com paratively easy,3 and at the end Of Ievery week we would tack on to MT. Jillbigton's bill that item, for pie as per contract, so much and he paid it and Ipaid 1t cheerfully. +
 And in this way things ran along smoothly enough for about two months, when suddenly one day the assistant pastry cook left. ..
 ''Then for d day we were in deep trouble in the kitchen again over the pies. and the very next day our great pastry cook got black bordered letter, which however, was not quite so mournful inside as it was out, for it told her of a bequest of some sixty odd thousand dollars. just left to her, and upon reading that letter she quit on the spot
 But that, instead of increasing our troubles, in reality after we had once got settled down again, ended them, for our next pastry cook was not in. the same class with the star. The new cook made good pies, but not pies calculated to create any great furor, and soon our lpie demand settled down to normal again and our troubles were over. You don't often find such pastry cook as our great one, and I have never in all my experience met just such another man as MT Jillbigton. New York Sun