The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-14
I'm Hotel Corridors


on train and luXuriously dining with
smiling white toothed "cullud gem
men, in attendance, give thought
TO the man who has planned and super
vised their meal, and though he works
| hard and late little credit is given him
by the travelling public.
Rio Grande cafe cars, is in Salt Lake,
guest at the Wilson. Talking about
the evolution Of the diner, Mr.. Dempsey
expressed the opinion that the public
has just begun to appreciate the ex-
cellent meals that are being served
to them awheel. "The old days. he
meant packing lunch, to be eaten
when musty, stale and unpalatable. with
case of dyspepsia waiting at the
| journeys end, or a frantic scramble at
wayside station, where barbarians in
the shape of farmers wives dispensed
food monstrosities, have passed away
forever, Today the traveller, no matter
where bound, gives no thought to his
food, any more than he would while
stopping at a metropolitan hotel At
meal time he goes into the diner, and
for all the service or quality of food
indicates, he might be ensconsed in
New York hostelry. This means
"trip fresh and we'll, for the irregular
hours for food and the inferior quality
provided in olden times had much to do
with the idea that travelling was a most
taxing and wearisome performance.
"More and moro the economical are
beginning to appreciate the advantages
Of the diner cafe, and whore former
| ten go now. The service is being
constantly improved and certainly in
the few years since it was installed, it
has made vast difference in the lives
of those who spend much Of their time
on trains
Groom and bath, please" and the
from PHILADELPHIA looked up at the
clerk at the Wilson imperiously. eyes,
sir" said the genial chap behind.
''Front, % for this gentleman The
forid chap looked at the clerk sus-
piciously, but nary a grin was dis
cernible on the smooth ones fnce.
But the bell hop; as he took the key
impudcntly, and said: "Twenty.
for you, SIR" and then there was
| laugh all around.
"You wouldn It believe it, said the
clerk, "but %, as room number, is
almost unpopular now as 13. 1t sounds
foolish, but theatrical people and travel
ing men are the most superstitious
folks IN the world, and take no
chances on getting hoodoed. Why %
should be black listed I don t know, but
it is, and / expected, when that chap
hesitated, that he would balk at taking
| it,
! AT the Knutsford hotel there is no
number % or 13, but the clerk declares
that if there were they would not be oc-
cupied often, for the old superstition
is as alive today as it was in olden
times. "Don't know anything about
! %. but Is is certainly no favorite in
the West - he concluded.
"And still they come" tourists
homeward bound from the coast, taking
advantage OF the balmy spring Zion
weather to do little hurried sight-see-
ing. Wendell Baker and Sidney Hop
kins. Jr., are New Workers at the
Knutsford, while registered from Phila-
delphia are Mr.. and Mrs. w. N. Kleine.
| guest stopping over on his way home.
n. P. Bingham of Wind River. Wyo,,
is in town attending to business mat
tiers, and is guest at the Wilson.
A visitor to Zion who will, while in
Utah, take careful note Of its school
Mich, n guest at the Wilson. Mr. Yost
| is prominent in educational affairs in
his own State, and while here on bust,
ness visit will embrace the opportunity
TO compare Utah and Michigan.
SIN the past twenty years, said
! Clerk Clarke of tho Kenyon yester-
| day, "the local hotels have not re-
ccivcd so many. express packages as
thoy have during the past week
For the last few days the bundles have
simply piled in upon US, until we are
at our wit S end to know what to do
with them. The past three months
have seen the express deliveries in
creasing, but the last six days have
caught us unprepared for the onslaught
of parcels Why, in five days we re
ceived four loads big wagonloads, from
the Pacific coast, and two from the
| East
1.-THE merchandise comprises every
thing. from bird cnQes to gold
watches, I presume, and if any one
/ things clerk s life is an easy one dur
/ Ing n pile up of this kind he has an
| other guess coming The desk is su-
rounded by people three deep, NIL intent
on getting their things at once, and 1t