Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-04

N nOSES-ROSES! Beautiful roses.
x Gee, but they're expensive in
IO Frisco!
If you don't believe it. ask e. G.
Washington, room clerk at the Lanker-
SHIN.
But ask him at a distance. over
the telephone if convenient, because
Wash gets rather excited when the
subject is first broached. It's only
after he gets to talking about it, and
realizes what a really good joke IL
was, that he is approachable.
You all remember that Washington
formerly managed the Manx hotel in
san Francisco. Well, Wash stlll mas
Il warm spot somewhere in his anatomy
for the Manx, and every chance ne 8els
he sends guests to it. AS result ne
and the present manager, Gus Larm,
are fast friends and they do love 10
slip one over on the other occasionally.
It's on account of this slipping over
process that Wash is 81 little peeVlSh
on roses in general and San Francisco S
American Beauty roses in particular
Some very nice people had been stay
ing at the Eankershim few days ago
and they left recently for san FRAN
cisco. Wash. in all generosity, wired
ahead for them for rooms at the ManX
and also tackled on little personal
request to Manager Larm asking MN
to purchase some nice roses ana nave
them i'm the new guests rooms When
they arrived from Los Angeles,
Gus Larm did just that. lie pougilt
nice ones, the best on the market.
Beautiful, fragrant American Beauty
roses, two dozen of them. He then
wired Wash: Roses purchased and
installed as you requested. klhdly
nav the charges on this"
Wash didn't think any more about
the matter until yesterday. Then he
began to pay mighty serious attention
to it, A bill arrived from the swell
est florist in Frisco, bearing the joy
full news that e. G. Washington room
clerk, Lankershim hotel. was indebted
to their firm to the extent of S96 for
two dozen American Beauty roses.
Rather nice, huh! There's more com
ing kilograms, night letters, ordl-
nary letters and post cards are arrlV-
ing at the rate of about two per hour
asking about the price OF roses IN
Frisco. Even the local bunch of hotel
men have got onto the gag and are
making Wash's life miserable with
gentle inquiries over the phone about
the outlook for good rose crop next
year.
And Washington has to pay the bill
He says he'll do it, but that he VIII
get even with Gus Larm if it takes the
rest Of his life.
AS tribute to John S. Mitchell, ana
because they found the members of the
Hotel Mems Mutual Benefit assocla-
ton such an excellent bunch of men
while they were out here at their con-
vention, memberships are literally
pouring into the organization. Every
hotel man in Southern California is
proud of the fact that a Southern Cali
fornia man is at the head of this or
ganization and that that man is
John S. Mitchell. Their way of show
ing this appreciation is by joining the
H. M. NJ. B. A.
John S. Mitchell, general manager OF
the Hollenbeck is thinking of taking
a long fishing trip up on the Santa
Ynez river near Lompoc. He has set
no definite date for his departure, how
ever.
You see, among the guests at the
Hollenbeck is L. L. Moore, proprietor
of the Arthur hotel at Lompoc. He
and Mr. Mitchell were jollying each
other a few nights ago and Mr. Moore
told several stories in which the size
of the trout caught in the Santa Ynez
figured rather prominently. Mr.
Mitchell was properly astonished at
their extreme largeness and plentiful
ness, but was just a wee bit doubtful.
Mr. Moore called in F. w. Arthur,