Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-11
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twenty-four Party wants to catch train
The boy FASTENED to the hotel minister, saying
1t amt a death-it's a weddin.
Whereupon the divine seized the proper books
for such call" just the hotel doctor would
seize his medicne-case, the hotel plumber his tool
chest or the hotel electrician his wrench and rubber
gloves. Twenty minutes later the two in No 1924
had been made one, with the hotel proprietor
witness. Then the couple followed their trunks
pel-mell to the railroad station to begin their
They were from Philadelphia" said the hotel
proprietor the next day. 1t middle-aged
runaway match, with furious stepchildren in the
rear. No, don't often ring up the hotel chaplain
with wedding-bells His services are more fire.
quent1y required sadder occasions. That's
natural. The population of this hotel is larger than
that of many towns--ffteen hundred guests and
many more in help Sudden sickness, weak heart
and the parson is here soOthe the lone traveller
or the poor servant in his final hour. OF course,
the dominic is not officially the hotel staff He
simply lives here at a reduced rate, give
to the hotel doctor Many hotels make such an
arrangement for the sake OF having reverend on
the premises
The proprietor of one of the largest metropolitan
hotels vouchsafed these facts IN the intervals of
multitudinous demands of guests: | heard him
promise patron from Pittsburgh to act bonds
in a legal transaction; then he granted the
request of the president OF the Daughters of
thing-or-other to perform the duties of master-of-
ceremonies at social function which the society
was to hold in the hotel; for the distinguished
foreigner in the royal suite he agreed to become
banker; for the man from Topeka in the single
fiscal agent; he welcomed a patron from England;
he God-speeded the man departing for Mexico; for
all he was guide philosopher and postmaster. As
ne nastened away to attend christening in No.
1902 he said: Call me Pooh Bah
There are two hundred such Pooh Bahs of the
first class in our larger cities and twenty thousand in
the United States. They are in charge of two
hundred million dollars worth of property; and
under them employees twenty times greater in
number than regular army, more than a
million They not only provide phones in every
room, kitchen every floor, Strawberries in
December, but they also conduct extraordinary
and far-reaching enterprises Several have their
looms in Belfast, Ireland, repenshing linen to the
extent C forty fifty thousand dollars year.
Some have their own tobacco-plants in Cuba, for
the supply OF special cigars Others have their
vineyards in France and Germany Moreover,
certain great hotels spend much fifty thousand
dollars year in keeping the equipment up to the
standard
The manager of the biggest has office in which
velvet carpet, richest hangings and masterpieces of
art form the setting for carved rosewood desk
edged with push-buttons. He receives the highest
salary of any the payroll, next to the chef. He
told me that the hotel salaries and wages amounted
10 much each month the President of the
United States receives in a year He mentioned
thousand bedrooms eight hundred baths and
building large that a Charity Ball attended by
three thousand persons could be held in the hotel