The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-22

hotels, and was besides the best DO
ker player of his time, drawing two
OF a kind oftener and going further
with them than anybody from Adam
down to Big Tim, Boniface didn't have
friend to push his claims.
There were hotel men at the Wal
dorf from Pittsburg to the Battery.
more tnan six hundred of them. with
city officials.
There was a note of thanksgiving
running throughout all the speeches
over the election of Mr.. Taft. and gen
eral predictions Of prosperity for the
next four years.
Mr.. Boldt. who presided. asked the
judges and legislators present to keep
in mind the rights of hotel men and
: do their best to see that the hotels
got a square deal at Albany, and in
the courts. A modern hotel in these
days, said Mr.. Boldt, was nothing else
than a city. and not a little city at
that The Waldorf. by actual count.
was visited in one way and another
by nearly $4,000 persons in one day
on which a count was taken. Mr..
BOldt told them. and like other big
! New York hotels has its own police
and fire departments, its own news
/ paper and its own system of admins
tration. Mr.. Boldt asked Mr.. Ford if
he would kindly say a few words, and
+ Mr.. Ford obliged sOlemnly.
: The last time l made my appear
ance as an orator" said he. was
about a year ago at a banquet in Bos-
ton. Mr.. William Howard Taft also
spoke We made a fine cross-match-
Z ed team. He weighed considerably
more on the hOOf than l did, but |
made up in mental pOise what l lack
ed in avoirdupois We both got on
swimmingly. In my opinion my
speech was the more finished and
scholarly of the two, but Bill carried
more weight 1t was a triumph of
matter over mind
Fools rush in where angels fear
/ 20 tread. so in the course Of my re-
marks took a few genteel cracks
at President Roosevelt, which seem
! ed to please and crafty the audience.
I Mr.. Taft got hot under the collar right
away and when man gets hot I'M
/ der a undetermined collar a lot of ca
/ lOric is generated. So he sat on me.
I I haven't uttered a peep since. But
truth crushed to earth will rise again
and here [ am. my puncture healed,
comparatively re-infated and as full
of hot air as ever.
q like Big Bill All hotel keepers
| like Big Bills. l believe he will give
+ US all a chance TO make a living again.
! The very day after his election a gent
brushing the cobwebs off our regis
ter signed his name and asked for
+ a room. As soon as the clerk recOv-
/ cred from his swoon he welcomed the
guest and said. 4 never expected to
/ see YOU again. l was afraid one of
those cheap joints up the avenue had
captured you for good And the guest
replied. Now that prosperity is about
n return l want comfort even if it
costs more. Give me a nice dollar
room
1t was pathetic to read all through
the hard times. New York hotels
provided TO suffocation.' No guest has
been suffocated in New York bOtel
/ in many a long day One or two Rave
died from loneliness. but none from
suffocation. We sure have had a
.ough year. but we can hear the roar
Of approaching prosperity and We are
all ready to dive in.
We have had TO retrench and our
: wives and daughters have stood by US
nobIv. Note how limited is their
4 wardrobe this winter. They make Sa-
lone look over-dressed and Mary Car
oen ike a union suit The ways Of
/ women are past understanding. One
year they are all bewircEing curves,
. the next wear ali Obtuse or acute an
giles But with all their faults we
,o,a them stiI"-New York Sun.