Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-07


OF them from other cities. try TO put over
at the Washington hotels Is astonishing.
Most OF the men ard women who kite
along this way with these neat gimme q
hundred fake charity things are the top
piest kind of dressers and all there with
the conversational OIL and II there WASH,
somebody around caravansary 20 spot
them they'd clean ND like the harp that
once through the city hall. They all put
ND the unhand-me. how-dare-you thing
when they're segregated and pointed in the
oirection OF the exit door and all Of 'em
are going 10 sue the house for the price
Oh the improvements and the ground lease
and attach the gate receipts within fifteen
minutes, but. somehow or another. they
never seem TO come back once they've been
shown the right way out.
me projectors and hackers of and run
ners Tor the various mayhe-you' H. get-oit-
with-year-iife poker games that are car
rled on In some or the shady clubs and
third-rate hotels- OF Washington have to be
watched for. too. They've got a way OF
sliding around the lobby and warming up
10 likely looking guests on fictitious pre-
texts. When hotel guest who knows
enough to keep his head within a car win
cow wants to find poker game or a faro
nank ne knows how to go about getting
the information as to the location OF one.
But when a hotel guest OF the marx
species yields to the inviting rersuaa ons
or one of these runners and goes out and
gets himself shredded for large and conf
Gus moneys he generally returns to the
motel and emits sad narrative to the
clerk at the desk about how he's been
allowed by the hotel folks TO he dragged
into brace game. The average hotel guest
OF the mark sort will hold the hotel he IS
stopping at responsible for everything con-
nected to or with him. from the aching OF
MS unplucked back teeth to the grease
spots on the right-hand lapel OF his dinner
coat
Delicate Work REQUIRED.
The shy. young. stirted persons who sit
UalllrHiV n hA
writing rooms with no apparent object in
life, have to be carefully observed. too.
This Is about the most difficult work O.
motel sleuth has to tackle. for IL he, gets
in wrong just once he could easily fetch
a large damage suit down upon the house
employing him. But the work has to be
done and don't remember that there've
been any damage suits of that kind In
Washington.
Professional hotel sneaks have to be
looked out for every hour of the day and
night-that, of course. is really the main
business of the hotel detective. But
don't have much of the main business
here. You see. the professional hotel sneaks
know Just as much about how the various
big hotels around the country are poiced
as the hotel sleuths supposed to know
about the hotel sneaks. The Glass 4 hotel
sneak, the who has been in the bust
ness for years. will never show his mug
within the door of hotel that employs a
house detective who has been shopping
around watching things for a long stretch
OF moons. They know where there are
hotels that employ new house Sleuths, fell
lows unfamiliar with the mugs OF the pro-
fessional hotel workers. and they combine
their operations to these nowadays. II
isn't any brag TO say that know the face
of every first-rate and second-rate hotel
sneak man and woman. that's ever been
mugged in the United States. for that's
my business, and If I didn't know their
countenances I'd be of no use here or In
any other hotel About five months ago
l was amazed to see coming in here with
large delegation of business men from
western city to attend an important bust
ness mems convention a niddle-aged man
whom I'd known for years one OF The
smartest major league hotel sneaks in the
whole country. I hadn't heard OF him for
five six years before | saw him that
day five months ago, walking in here with
the western bunch big as life and groom
ed to the mines from sinner hat to mill
tary heels. l took him over into a cornar
right away.
"'You hadn't ought to make mo laugh
this way when you can see that my lips
are chapped.' 1 told him. Did you expect
to find me IN my dotage. or was It your
Idea that there'd be a new hound here?
Flag that he said to me in an earnest
tone. I've been square up for five years.
Thought you might have heard II. be-
long to the business mems association that
1 came along here with. Got family,
making money and have forgot all about
the old push Make any inquiries on the
quiet about me that you like of the men I
came along with. None of them is hep to
what l used to be. But you're not going
10 squeak on me, are your
His Reformation Confirmed.
"Of course I was going to do no such T.
thing IL, upon inquiry, found out that he
was really doing the right thing. 1 found
that he was, all right He was one OF the
most esteemed men with his party. But 1t
seemed an odd thing to see him around.
Of a
has certain amount of fetching together
as I call It, to do. For example, We had
Caruso, the Italian tenor, here during the
recent visit of the grand opera company.
Now, oddly enough. that Italian chap with
the voice of gold Is nightly interested in
well, what dye supposef PriZe-hghting!
He took in all of the fights around New
York that he could make, and when we got
acquainted in the lobby here and he found
out that the lighting game is a sort OF a bug
of NINE focused to be in the ring myself.
and fought over forty nliddleweight battles
before l took to this business-he seemed
to be delighted, and we'd spend some hours
together in the lobby every afternoon talk
ing over the old biting game. A lot of the
guests of the house, seeing me In converse
ton with Caruso. came to me and asked
me to introduce them to the Italian tenor.
Some Of them were chaperoned young ladies'
who, deploring the fact that they had to
meet the tenor in unconventional way,
nevertheless insisted upon meeting him,
I'd tell him about these people who wanted
to meet him, and, as he's one OF the most
amiable and obliging foreigners I ever had
any dealings with, I was able to give Il
whole lot of wholesome people the chance
to shake the mitt of and have little talk
with the singing boy who's got 'em all more
or less buffaloed when it comes to the con
sideration Of human pipes.
I'm plenty busy all the time I'm awake
too-just a ninute-theres another one OF
those ure-thingers letting out a spiel to q
guest about that little 60 To l thing that
he's been nursing for the past four days
see him over there, talking to John Wesley
Gaines, and Gaines trying to edge into the
cigar stand? Wait'n 1 go and show that
play-it-now boy the way out" and the
observant Galligan edged over to the tout.
pulled him off the struggling representative
from Tennessee, and had him out of the
swing door IN an even shorter space of time
than il took to hist" the first one.
Anybody who watches a first-class hotel
detective working for half an hour without
concluding that such man earns his pay
has high opinion of the value OF money.
c. L. G.
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