The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-28

chicken yard. with the door of the hen
house closed against them. / haven't
had much to do today. except to send
my baggage to the steamship. If I
wouldn't send my baggage to the
.'Moltke' until O'Clock tomorrow,
but the man says the ship will sail at
a. m, and I shall go aboard to-
night, although I know we won't get
away until 10 a. m. tomorrow. The
Educational Bureau. who accom-
panies me, 'S Lolder than 1 am, and is
going to the theater tonight with
Ruby Fullerton and her husband, with
whom she Is staying. 1 expect her on
fore 10 O'Clock, in ample time.
wish 1 could see the barber of the
''Moltke;'' I could then find out the
real facts, which have been denied me
at the general offices of the company
on lower Broadway. If the Education
al Bureau finds the ship gone when
she arrives at the dock. this is what
she Will probably do: send a wireless
go on board a tug. This was actually
done yesterday. according to the New
York Journal A man from Seattle
was booked for trip on the ARABIC,
which sailed without him. Reaching
the dock while the arabic" was in
the lower bay. he sent a Big
Kick by wireless. and the captain
cast anchor until the Seattle man
reached the ship by means of tug
The New Workers are buffers. and
buffer is always afraid of a bluff. The
Seattle man made such a row in his
wireless telegram to the captain that
the captain was bluffed, and held the
ship, thus giving rise to a report that
there had been an accident on the
Arabic
am finding a good many polite men
in New York. One of them is chief
porter at the Waldorf He was SO
polite in fixing me up that 1 went
away from his desk resolving to be
more polite myself in future. That is
the sort of missionary I admire; that
baggage master does a whole lot of
good in the world by teaching other
name is Dan Coleman; when you come
to the Waldorf, look at him; you will
hear of him some day in connection
with a more important and profitable
job. You can't keep man of that
kind down. Another polite man
met: E J. Graves who runs a type
writer exchange at 50 Nassau street.
1 went into his place to hire a type
writer a month, to be delivered to the
ship Mr. Graves was polite, and
didn't try to snap my head off, as most
New Workers do while taking your
money. I wanted a typewriter one
month, Mr.. Graves to send it to the
ship, and call for it when the ship re-
turns in February. He charged me
$3.50, which includes ream of type
writer paper. And he was polite.
Don't forget that people will hate you
if you are grouchy, and that they will
admire you if you are gentleman
Last night I went in to a drug store
The clerk was almost insulting; he
didn't intend TO be, probably,
but he was. having unconscious
Iy acquired the Big Town way. This
morning I wanted to make another
purchase. aud walked two blocks out
of nv way to avoid the Smart Aleck
drug clerk. I'll bet that the proprie-
tor of that drug store is quietly look
ing around for another man; in the
! course of a day a crouch disturbs a
whole lot of people who do a whole
! lot of talking, and, finally, the crouch
| gets both barrels from the proprietor's
| shotgun. Some hotel clerks and some
F.! clerks in ticket offices give informa-
| ton in tone of voice that is insult
| ing IF q bcwiIdered traveller asks for
| information at a ticket Office he is en-
| titled to it: the traveller is getting no
more than he was paid for, and, if
| the ticket agent snaps at him, the gem
eral passenger agent should be there
| to slap the ticket agent in the mouth.
And the general passenger agent of a
/ railroad is always a gentleman; he
| always regrets the rudeness of en-
| ployes. The general passenger agent
| of railroad is always a gentleman,
for only gentlemen are promoted You
never knew an exception to this rule
/ in your life.
| Having now settled New York in
such a thorough and painstaking
manner that the subject will never
again be discussed. I row proceed TO
settle the problem of Panama, the
have overlooked ANYTHING in New