Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-14

H Us ANNIELfLfo uOlti GlGlh " III oooiA
have an organization among them
- selves something similar to the
"Greeters" and Don't Worry organ
izations of other large cities if the ag-
itation which is now on foot keeps up.
At the meeting in Denver Of the
"Greeters of America" national or
ganization among hotel clerks will
come into being and Of every section
of the country Los Angeles and vi
cinity will probably be the only one
not represented This fact is seeming
ly going against the grain with the
local desk men. hence the movement
to organize club here.
OF all the clerks on watch yester-
day afternoon, who were seen every
one was in favor of such an organiza-
ton with the exception of Hugh Sib-
bold. room clerk at the Alexandra.
The other clerks about town, q. G'
Washington of the Lankershim, Fred
Prosbrey and Fred Wood of the Hay
ward, Room Clerk Mullen of the An
gelus, Tommy Law of the King Ed
ward and AL Selby of the Holenbeck,
all seemed to take a different view OF
the matter and expressed themselves
as ready and willing at any time to
enter such an organization.
e. G. Washington, who was one OF
the organizers of the San Francisco
association, is very enthusiastic about
the new organization and is doing all
in his power to boost the thing along
Mr.. Presbrey of the Hayward IS also
strongly in favor of such an organlza-
tion. believing that it would be of un-
told benefit to the clerks in Los An
geles. if organized and conducted on
| proper lines. And Mr.. Presbrey knows
| something about it, for there Is hdruly
a hotel man in Los Angeles VINO mas
had any more experience ABOUT holel9
than Mr.. Presbrey.
Tommy Law is strong for the organ
ization and also he has had some eX-
nerience with associations of this char-
acter and recent ones, too. The "Doh I
Worry club of Douglas, a town OF
| about one-twentieth the size OF Los
| Angeles. was organized and run on the
same plan as the proposed clerks clup
and it was an unqualified success. .
The only thing that seems TO pe e Iil
| someone to head the movement. Here
| is a dandy chance for someone TO come
from under cover and start things go
| mo IF someone would only Go that
the clerks themselves would nlllsIi the
nueiness and be organized in short or
| der.
Col Edward Durham of the King ing
Edward hotel was standing pehlnu 'lle m
| a little stick. -. eo.o,,
! someone asked .,
"Have to take that much string
home every night" replied the colonel
and he went on winding. ,..
After he had finished the inqulsltlVe
one asked Tommy Law, what on earth
the colonel did with all the tWlne eacH
evening. =, r,o,,
NV soThat's what he uses it for. He
| brings in bouquets of flowers each
morning from his home and ne uses
that string to tie them up with.
"But what in thunder does he &c
with the flowers? He had enough
! string there to wrap up a uozeh Jun
! dies. 1 only see two there?
HE does wrap up dozen pullcilea'
! and them some," explained Tommy
| sHaven't you heard? The colonel pre-
| sents a, bouquet of flowers grown out
| AT his home on West Adams Heights
| 70 every woman guest who comes 10
| this house He never misses a one
/ AS soon as a guest that/is woman
guest. arrives he sends bunch Oh
flowers to her room. And say II Goes
tickle them. Fasteners, you Know,
who don't get real mowers very oltei'
are simply dee-light-ed to get tnenn'
"And it's getting noised abroad, 100
| travelling man was telling me the
other day of woman telling MN on
the train out in Arizona about the
| flowers the colonel sent her
When consulted about the matter
the colonel admitted that he did send
flowers to his guests. Said that was
what he grew them for.
Gee. how thew are jollying c. Kip
baut a New Yorker, who is guest at
the HolIenbeck. AS soon as he appears
on the horizon in the morning and
| lust before he retires at night some
| one hands him a bunch about smell
| shell games-shot gun shell or any
| other kind of shells.
The season-Mr. Kiphaut bucked a
shell game the other day.
You see he is city ticket agent foI
! the Southern Pacific railway in New
| York CITY, and he is out here on a
| little vacation.
Naturally the local ticket agents
wanted to show him a good time, sc
they have been hiking him around to
the different points of amusement
Day before yesterday, in company with
District Passenger Agent Lathrop OF
Pasadena, Mr.. Kiphaut went to Cata-
lima island. OF course when they got
there they had to go out in the glass
bottom boats and view the submarine
gardens-Sure Mike-and they went.
The divers were especially busy
while they were out and were fOrtu-
nate enough to secure some mighty
| fine shells from the bottom of the deep