Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-06
HEARD AROUND
THE CORRIDORS
DECLARES WESTERNERS
ARE THE MOST POLITE
BY THE EAvEsDRoPPER

Various opinions about westerners
have / heard in the corridors Of the
hotels, but never until yesterday did
] hear that the people of the west are
more like Englishmen than those of
any other part of America.
T. Soulby, young Englishman who
is making a trip around the world with
a party of seven friends, including l..
Lewis of London, Frank A. Wills of
Bristol, the Misses Jones of London,
Mrs. and Miss Fisher of London and
L. Lanyard of Devon, said it, and as
he Is English he meant it as a high
tribute
The party is staying at the Westmin-
ster and it was in the lobby of that
hotel that Mr.. Soulby talked of west
erners
"The people of the west are so much
more courteous and cordial than the
,easterners, said he. IF you asked a
person the way to a building or a
park in New York they would almost
snap your head off, .and even on the
trains in the east the people you meet
are not very polite, while travelling in
the west is quite different, don't you
know
"Why, the western people are quite
like English people and the iountry is
beautiful. 1 think Los Angeles the
most beautiful city l have seen and
l do not see how any one can help
loving it.
"The people here are all in such
hurry There seems to be so much
business; 1t is quite different in that
way"
When asked If he had any business
in England he replied:
mo, oh, no; nothing at all" and If
he ever expected to have any business
-"0h no: don't think so; l really
don't think I ever shall, but l have
not thought much about it,"
Mr., .Soulby also denied being an
English lord in disguise, so / ceased to
try to catalogue him.
Pink Silk Mystery
More thrilling that Hoyt's "a Milk
White Flag" or any detective story Of
the Sherlock variety might be the story
of the disappearance of a pink silk
handkerchief at the Alexandra yes
terday. l was standing in the lobby
watching the people coming and going
and enjoying the speculations of some
as to whether the marble is real, when
man from Boston, dressed in the
height of fashion, approached the clerk
in great CONSERVATION. "A pink silk
handkerchief which had been in the
right hand outside pocket of my coat
when the clothes were sent to the
cleaners has disappeared" he ex-
planned.
1t was not that he cared so much for
the handkerchief, but it had been given
to him and-you know the rest
sympathetic clerk, half a dozen
sympathetic bell boys, the porter and
the second assistant porter and every
other employe of the hotel were hunt
ing for the bit of pink silk when /
left.
Whether f. L. Sylvia of Boston is
still mourning the loss of his pink silk
handkerchief I know not, but if 1t was
not found its recovery can be put
down ON the list of things that are
not within the realm of human possibil-
tiles for the detective system is flaw
less
"Ninety-five per cent of the articles
lost by hotel guests are recovered,
say the clerks. The clerks are called
upon to find anything and everything
from diamond rings and studs, up and
down the list, but 1t is safe to say they
never before had to search for pink
silk handkerchief
Finds an Unusual Man
George A. Cleland, handsome young
mining engineer of Tonopah, New, arr
rived at the Alexandria hotel yester-
day morning and since that time has
had more than the usual amount of
attention lavished upon modern
young man bestowed upon him. Per-
haps it is because he is an unusual
young man. Unusually handsome to
to begin with, unusually clever to go on
with and the possessor of a wide SOM
brero that fairly radiates desert at
mosphere TO end with.
Mr. Cleland has just come from the
hospital, where he underwent an OPP
Grafton for appendicitis. and he has
come to Los Angeles to rest.
II feel as If | had been out OF the
world for years and years" said Mr..
Cleland.
"You can't imagine what veW nice
place this old world is until you have
to come near to getting out OF It," he
continued.
Mr. Cleland is a college man and
wide travel and education have given
him an amount of polish that no length
Of time out Of the so-called world could
rub off.
People do not really know what
great country the Nevada desert Is
when they see Il from such distance
as Los Angeles" said he. There have