Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-13
HEARD AROUND
THE CORRIDORS
HOW NEWLY MARRIED COUPLES
"GET THEIRS" AT THE HOTELS S
BY THE EAvEsDRoPPER


A bride and bridegroom at a hotel
are always the subject of lively inter-
est among the guests, hotel clerks.
| bellboys and everyone else with whom
| they come in contact. From the time
| they register until they pay out"
| their movements furnish food for in
| teresting gossip.
The clerks tell many funny stories
about the embarrassment of man.
when he writes his name for the first
| time with "and wife" after it or a
"Mr. and Mrs" before it.
Yesterday an Oakland bride and
bridegroom arrived at the Westminster
and the man in his furry wrote "Mr.
| S. and Mrs. r. Gordon. This was a
| new one on the clerks.
A few days ago a Mr.. Newlywed
walked into the Angelus hotel with
his bride and asked for room. He
registered his own name and forgot
all about the land wife,
| isn't the lady going to remain?" the
clerk asked, and then the man apollo
gized.
You see-well-you see-the fact is
we have just been married and 1 for
got all about her. l have never done
| 1t before, you know. With the assist
ance of the clerk he managed to RENE
dy his mistake and luckily for the
young woman, she was looking in the
other direction and her bushes were
spared.
At one of the hotels, the name of
which 1 have promised faithfully not
to tell, a very young bridegroom just
in from the country, and a shy little
bride who could not have been more
than sweet 16, registered. They ar
rived just a few minutes before 6
o'clock and at that time the watch
changed.
About $3.50 the boy, for his years cer-
tainly> would not dignity the name of
man, decided it would be we'll to have
some water. He had heard that ice
water was provided in hotels, SO he
took a pitcher and went down stairs.
| The clerk was busy and when he
heard, will you tell me where l get
the ice water?" the clerk thought him
a new bell boy and directed him to the
porter, standing at the other end of
the. lobby.
please can have pitcher of ice
water?" asked the bridegroom of the
porter.
please, can you have some ice
water? you idiot, don't you Know where
the ice water is kept. You're a pretty
kind of a bellboy. Ever work any
where else?" All this without looking
up from his work. When he did look
up he found the poor little bridegroom
with his pride so badly hurt that he
was almost in tears.
81 never was a bellboy. I am a
bridegroom and / want some ice
water" Explanations followed and the
porter apologized profusely, as he tried
to hide his laughter.
| The bridegroom and also his bride
were initiated into the telephone sys-
tenn and with few minutes practice
they ceased shying at the instrument
and became on such intimate terms
with it that they kept the real bell
boys hopping.
Travelling Men as Seamstresses
A travelling man, tall, heavy, neatly
dressed, approached Charlie Smead at
the Hollenbeck yesterday.
did the maid find thimble in my
room?" l. asked.
"Is this it?" the clerk replied, as with
a laugh he held up a thimble.
That's it," and he took it and
walked away.
"It's getting to be a habit" Mr..
Smead said. 81 suppose a third of the
travelling men carry their own little
work baskets now. They find it easier
to sew on their own buttons than call
a bellboy and wait for a tailor to 40 It,
They may not do the work very ar
Il tiStically, but you bet When one OF
those men gets through sewing on a
button, it stays.
There is no man who has travelling
down to such a science as the COM
mercial traveller. He is on the road
so much of the time that he becomes a
very independent invidual and you
would be curprised at the number OF
little things he does for himself which
some people think men never do"
Are Personally Conducted
Members OF an excursion conducted
by the Chicago & Northwestern, under
the personal direction of G. r. Lem
mer. who arrived at the Hayward yes
terday. include Mr.. and Mrs j. II
O'Boyle OF Indianapolis, Mr.. and Mrs
|, Max ROsenthal of Milwaukee, w
Strachota and two daughters of Mil
waukee, Mrs c. w. Leftingwell OF
Knoxville, ILL.,; Mr.. and Mrs. Q. A.