New-York tribune., 1910-07-24

, way thrOng. but hour or later wher
the observer returned to the lobster palace
on another errand. the buxom damozels
were right on the job. Exactly what they
We're at remained mystery. They whisked
by him in the lower hall: they took the
elevator up and down half a dozen times;
they were to be seen in the upstairs hall
ways. the table dh0te balcony. the main
floor dining room--in fact. everywhere.
Are those girls employees of the house,
was the question with which the observer
startled the elevator man out of his
serenity.
The latter grinned widely as he answered
mo. sir! Good friends of the boss guess.
Anyways, they bring a heap of trade here;
the walters knows them an they Sc got the
run of the place. It's the girls that makes
the restaurants volunteered this philoSo-
pher of the hoist
Nioletta and Angeline had dinner with a
pork packer from Chicago and a lumber
man from Seattle. Presuma bly,. on the
programme d roof garden afterwari.
The Westerners must have got lost in the
shuttle of the after-theatre crowds Toward
midnight their fair companions were back
in the lobster palace attended by new
escorts. One of the escorts was a wine
agent, the other a colIegian with more
dollars than wits
The process Of buying wine" started, in
earnest. As the Corlls popped and the .'fizz'
danced upward and went to the heads of
the drinkers, the girls were in their eIe-
nient They told stories and launched funny
sayings that made the collesian and the
wine agent double up with merriment. At
10 minutes of / o'clock {. servitor came
around to each of the tables and took the
Iiaud orders for the rest of the night
Haynor rules" was what the diners called
this and by o'clock when the outer doors
were closed. the tables and sideboards were
piled high with champagne, whiskey and
liqueur bottles and magnums
Toward morning the crowd dribblcd
away, little by little. College boy and wine
agent suffered the fate of the previous en-
tertalnerS of Nioletta and Angeline. a new
set or. Ralph Roister Dosters. gay from
their tours of the other night places, came
on the scene, honk-honkne their automo-
bile horns to herald their coming. The girls
got into the big limousine and were whisked
away to a WestcheSter dawn and high
links on the beacl
If they got back in time they were at the
restaurant again next afternoon at 5
CLOCK, alert and buSinesslke TO renew the
carnival which constitutes the sum OF their
existence and which yields the boss Oust
from the efforts of these two ''hustlers'D d
pleasant little income of anywhere from
hity TO several hundred dollars q night
ITS the girls that make the restau-
rants That's the oft repeated story.
broadway does II politely. unaggressively.
NO coarse work-no running from table TO
table-no brazen entry of notorious street.
walters through the front doors of dining
rooms! Not 1t all. But the prop of many
d lobster palace is the bedamonded. iuXuri-
Gus creature who manages TO observe the
forms of conventional behavior-even the
rules about escorts-and yet brings the
trade and plugs the game" Broadway
palaces and side street drums look alike To
New lork's Mayor. He views the results
as the same, whether the participants wear
SILK and fine linen or cotton and shoddy.
Not all the lobster palaces, II should be
said. are propped by the girl trade. We
contFiVe To worry along without It," said
the proprietor Of 4 conservative establish
hent In our three restaurants we do a,
business ag6resating 81. 100000 year. and