The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-25
MR.. FAIRBANKS LOST DINNER
WAITED TEN MINUTES, THEN
LEFT TABLE IN A HUFF.
Failure to- serve the Nlce-Presl dent
Promptly At I'm Indiana Hotel Led TO
his Making an Address without Having
Broken Fast incident Commented On.

Broken Fast -Inctdent Commented On.
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 24.-The following
| editorial, which appeared in the Richmond
Item, the leading Republican newspaper
OF eastern Indiana. last week. has provoked
n good deal Of comment throughout the
State:
Now. can you ina CINE Charles Warren
Fairbanks fraterniZing with sailors, being
voted a Jolly shipmate." riding on steam
shovels and eating at lunch counters along
with the ditch diggers? Why. Charley got
so mad when he was at the West colt Hotel
! in this city that he left the dining room. The
cause of his offence was the failure Of all the
walters TO drop their dishes and fall on their
knees Immediately upon his solemn appear
anoe. Charley insists upon his dignity and
great superiority being recognized and paid
its full tribute.
Investigation indicates that the Vice
President got ruAted because he did not
r~eceive( prompt service at the Westcott
Hotel on the occasion Of his recent visit
and that he refused to eat at the hotel and
spoke at the Coliseum that night without
breaking his fast.
) Mr.. Fairbanks reached Richmond about
5 p. M. and met a number Of politicians in
the lobby of the Westcott Hotel before going
/ W HIS IOOIls Jill vi ~ POtltANit"S Nv
companied him for a chat in his room and
it was $50 before he entered the dining
room.
He Vas accompanied by A. c. LindeInuth
and two or three others and they seated
themselves at a table and continued their
conversation.
Ten minutes passed and no waiter APP
peared at the table. Mr.. Fairbanks had
spoken of being hungry in his room q
ne seemed restless as the minutes sped by
and ~ ri NNAnEA
Without previously intimating his pur-
pose to his companions he pushed back
his chair from the table and walked out OF
the room. Mr.. Lindemuth fastened to the
lobby and told the clerk that MIR. Fairbanks
had not been served promptly at table
and that he had left the room very much
offended.
The clerk asked how long the Vice-Presi-
lent had been at the table and Mr.. Linde-
muth replied hat he had waited at least
ten minutes. TIT hotel manager wa
called and the story told TO him.
He went to the dining room and called
the head waiter. The latter said khat he
saw the Vioe-President and his party enter
the dining room but the other tables were
crowded with guests who had come before
the Vice-President, and he had simply fol-
lowed the rule that guests should he served
in the order in which they were seated at
the tables.
The manager said that the chief waiter
hdA hoAND VAa1NAy AkhN oh@o NA@N Vs. -
could not make any distinctions among Its
guests. According to the Westcott's mana
ger IL was not a case in which any Xplana
ton or apology was due the Vice-President
of the United States and he would make
none.
II Mr.. Fairbanks would return to the
dinin room, however, he would assure
him that he would be served as prompt.
as possible, remembering, Of course. that
it was a rule Of the hotel that each. guest
must be served in the order In which he
reached the dining room. Mr.. Fairbanks
was informed OF the manager said,
and was asked TO return and eat his dinner
before going to the Coliseum. but he refused,
and he is said to have left the house in high
dudgeon.
= Though the principal speaker OF the
evening, Mr.. Fairbanks cut his remarks
very short and before his train pulled out
from Richmond a lunch was got at a restau-
rant and served in his car. II consisted OF
ham sandwiches and coffee. Some Of the
local politicians, knowing the Vice-Presi-
dents fondness for buttermilk, tried to get
some at a creamery. but there was none
except from the churning Of the day before.
and was assumed to be too old.
Some Republicans and some Republican
newspapers that don train with Mr.. Fair
banks's crowd are trying TO make capital
out Of the Richmond incident, but his
friends defend him OF the ground that he
was wearied with a days speaking, that
the walters at the WestCott Hotel ought to
have recognized his presence as an honor
to the house and that when they failed 10
do SO he was justified in leaving,