The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-03
WANT THE HANDSOME WAITER
COPS AND MRS. O'CONNELLS
BOARDERS SEEK HENRY.
Diners FOO Up a Collection; Then He Took
Up Another: Then He Took Himself
On-Bowery Photo Button the Sole
Consolation OF the Suitless Ones.

III AnOther: Then He Took Himself
On-BOwery Photo Button the Sole
Consolation OF the Suitless Ones.
There was joy in Mrs. O'Connell's board
ing house, at 800 West Fourteenth street,
on Thursday night. The landlady had
secured a waiter.
1t seems that there is a scarcity Of board
ing house walters just at present. Mrs
O'Connell has had a trying time Of it for
some weeks. The walters she could get knew
nothing Of the trade; they were clumsy
and inclined to let overloaded plates fall
face downward as they neared the boarders
inc they had a habit Of getting their feet
crossed about the time the soup was served.
So when Henry Chats all the name the
landlady got out of HIM arrived on Thurs
day afternoon and stated, like Laughing
Sam T. seen your ad in de paper, the board
ing house mistress was overjoyed, 1t was
luncheon time and not many boarders were
on hand Henry was tried out and proved
a wonder.
He could pile up a dozen plates on his
left arm and glide across the floor in Coney
Island waltz style so that there wasn't
even a ripple on the top of a we'll filed
dressed well. The way he parted his black
hair in the middle and banged it over his
ears was, according to the boarders, some
thing fir.
When the thirty-hve boarders assembled
for dinner during the evening rush hour
Mrs. O'Connell told them Of her great find.
She cautioned all hands to be pleasant to
Henry lest he should quit. Henry made a
great success. He served the dinner with
wonderful rapidity and had the rice pudding
on the table half an hour before the schedule
that the boarders had become accustomed
TO.
SO good an impression did he make that
John Glover, who works for the Govern
ment and is the star boarder, called a con-
ference of boarders and suggested that it
wouldn't he a bad idea to take up a collec-
ton for Henry so that he would feel that he
was appreciated. A tea cup was passed
among the boardersa and 81 As was the result.
This was passed TO Henry, who was profuse
with his tharks. All hands thought him
just lovely when he brushed his hair back
from his eyes and said:
Il knew | would like this place as soon as
l saw it,
Henry got breakfast over yesterday
morning so hat none of the boarders was
late getting TO work, and he maneuvred
luncheon like a foot race.
There was deep gloom in the house last
night when the boarders trooped in. Henry
had gone out during the afternoon and
hadn't returned. Mrs. O'Connell was serv-
ing the dinner as best she could.
Before being seated at the table Glover
had occasion to go to his room and he came
down stairs in a jify. Six brand new
shirts, several suits of clothes and other
things were missing along with a big suit
case. Then James Martin found his room
r~ansacked: a new suit Of clothes he hadn't
even worn was gone. William Creedon
was short two suits of clothes and a $50
gold watch. Investigation showed that
Henry hadn't played n favorites and
nearly every boarder had reason to re-
him.
Mrs. O'Connell was frantic and announced
she would report the matter to the
police. The boarders decided to accom-
pany her and fourteen of them trooped
her to the West Twentieth street
police station, Sergt. Gilmartin, who had
the desk, thought it was a raid when all
hands swept in.
Where's the officer in this case?" he
asked.
All hands looked at one another and
finally Mrs. O'Connell began to narrate
the story of Henry. All the boa riders
rhimed in and the sergeant had to yell
them to cease. Two detectives were
to heal the tale of woe and look
Henry.
The missing waiter left a good clue be-
hind. He had discarded his own coat in
dr. Glover's room and pinned to the lapel
a Bowery miniature photograph Of him.
The police took this and told the boarders
hey would certainly catch Henry within
wenty-four hours.