New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-11

The boy FASTENED to the hotel minister, saying:
q 1t amt a death-its a Weddin.
Whereupon the divine seized the proper books
for such a call just the hotel doctor would
seize his medlCIne-CaSe the hotel plumber his tool
chest or the hotel electrician his wrench and rubber
gloves Twenty minutes later the two IN No. I424
had been made one with the hotel proprietor as
witness. Then the couple followed their trunks
pell-mell to the railroad station to begin their
They were from Philadelphia said the hotel
proprietor the next day. 1t a middle-agcd
runaway match, with furious stepchIldren in the
No, we don't often ring up the hotel chaplain
with wedding-bels. His services are more fire.
quently required sadder occasions. That's
natural The population of this hotel IS larger than
that of many toWnS-httcen hundred guests and as
many more in help. Sudden sickness, weak heart
and the parson is here to soothe the lone traveller
the poor servant in his final hour. OF course,
the dominic Is not officially on the hotel staff. He
simply lives here at a reduced rate, same as give
to the hotel doctor. Many hotels make such an
arrangement for the sake of having reverend on
The proprietor of one of the largest metropolitan
hotels vouchsated these facts in the intervals of
multtudnous demands of guests. | heard him
promise patron from Pittsburgh TO act as bonds
in d legal transaction; then he granted the
request of the president of the Daughters Of some
thlng-or-other to perform the duties of master-of-
ceremonies at = social function which the society
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
room on the top floor he assumed the position of
fiscal agent; he welcomed patron from England;
he God-spceded the man departing for Mexico; for
all he was guide, philosopher and postmaster. As
he FASTENED away to attend a christening in No.
1902 he said: Call me Pooh Bah"
There two hundred such Pooh Bahs of the
first class in larger cities and twenty thousand in
the United States. They in charge of two
hundred million dollars worth Of property and
under them employees twenty times greater in
number than our regular army, or more than a
million. They not only provide phones in every
room, kitchen every floor, strawberries in
December but they also conduct extraordinary
and tarreachng enterprises. Several have their own
looms IN Belfast Ireland replcuishing linen to the
extent OF forty or fifty thousand dollars a wear
Some have their own tobacco plants in Cuba for
the supply OF special cigars. Others have even their
own vineyards in France and Germany. Moreover
certain great hotels spend much as fifty thousand
dollars year in keeping the equipment up To- the
standard.
The manager of the biggest has an office in which
velvet carpet richest hanGIngs and MASTERPIECES of
art form the setting for Il carved rosewood desk
edged with push-buttons He receives the highest
salary OF any on the payroll next to the chef He
told me that the hotel salaries and wages amounted
10 as much each month as the President of the
United States receives in wear. He mentioned
thousand bedrooms, eight hundred baths and =
building so large that a Charity Ball attended nv,
three thousand persons could be held in the hotel