Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-08

A MAN who sells vacuum cleaners
~ with a pianola attachment, hav-
IA ing headquarters at the Hollen-
beck, relates the following bit of yarn
every time he gets chance:
q guess that that nearsighted fellow
that calls on sister is getting worse"
said a small boy aged IL, possibly
called Jimmie.
THAT is enough from you" said the
indignant sister.
what makes you think he is get
ting worse?" inquired the father of the
son, possibly called Jimmie.
Because | heard sister ask him last
night if he thought she was the blarney
stone" replied the boy, possibly called
Jimmie.
A woman walked up to the counter Of
a fashionable Los Angeles hotel and
| asked for a package of Valuapes
which was in the safe.
'If | had not wanted one particular
thing, [ suppose that / should have left
the package where it was for another
three years" she said to the clerk.
Yes said the clerk in answer to
question after the woman left, that
package has really been in our safe
for three years. Why, we have all
i sorts of valuable papers, jewelry and
even money that are entrusted to our
keeping for years at a time. People
seem to prefer a hotel safe to safety
deposit vault. One reason. perhaps is
that it costs nothing. Another is that
the standard of the hotel clerk has i'm
proved.
ut is astonishing the amount Of
jeWelry that is kept in hotel safes. OF
| ~ferfT agal
stopped in the hotel, but they go away,
leaving their valuables. and L have
known such persons to be gone away
as long as two years without making
an inquiry about their property.
This is an age of doubt. To prove
that statement the following converse
tion overheard recently in a downtown
cafe is repeated. The conversation con-
sists of two parts. The first part is
made up Of the words of the first
speaker The second part is made up
of the words of the second speaker
The joke, or rather the proof of the
statement ventured above will be found
by the careful reader in the second
part, consisting, as before stated, in
the words of the second speaker. The
conversation as here presented, it will
be understood, is merely fragmentary.
Here is the conversation:
when DR.. Cook was at the Wal
dorf-"
Show me the hotel register"
Harry Mulligan, formerly of the Wal
dorf-Astoria, is head clerk of Chicago's
new costly SkyScraper hotel, the
Blackstone, which opened April 10.
"Out of 121,673,091 hair cuts admins
tered in this country last year eighty
ioht j11cf hn c
desired they should be-" is the state
ment of a representative of a large
Cincinnati barber shop house, who is
stopping at the Hayward.
Overheard in the lavander room of
the King Edward:
Lady-Are they wealthy?
Second lady-They gave their baby
an auto tire to cut its teeth.
Something wrong with my right
foot" said the man at the hotel coun-
ter. Gould you direct me to a good
carpenter?"
"Excuse me-" said the clerk, with
sly glance of amusement at the lady
bookkeeper, "but of course you mean
a chiropodist."
mo, I'm going to be patient with
you, young man, and tell you that /
want good carpenter. My right leg
is a wooden one.
"The whole country as far as I can
see is hotel mad" said Daniel +.
Ritchey hotel broker, New York, re-
Gently. "You see, only a few years ago
owners of old hotels and residents of a
town would be opposed to the idea of a
modern hotel in the midst of their in
terests. They said it would ruin the
business of the old places So they sat
back and watched other cities make
the experiment In every case tne new
hotels added business all around. The
old places are obliged to brush up
bit, and the overflow alone from the
new hotels generally brings to the old
ones a better trade than they had be-
fore. For instance, annex after annex
has been built on the Hollenden or
Cleveland, one of the first of the mod
ern hotels in that part of the country.
Rochester now has three fine new ho-
tells, and among other places to try
new structures with success are Al
bany. Waterbury and Bridgeport,
Conn; Reading and Scranton, Pa;
Springfield, Mass; and so on down
through the states, If you WISH. Los
Angeles cannot build hotels and ada
annexes fast enough to accommodate
increasing business. The direct benefit
to the community it not to be ques-
toned.
'Many odd mistakes have been made
in the erection of hotels, through mex
nerience. Bath rooms should always
he placed next to elevators or baggage
rooms to deaden noise that might 9th
erwise come next to the bedroom. Then
each bedroom should have an outside
window, and dressing mirrors should be