Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-09

" HREE cheers for Carleton Gilbert
and the Virginia. The unanimous
II verdict reached about one minute
after the hotel clerks Of Los Angeles
and Southern California arrived at
Long Beach Saturday, where over one
hundred of them spent the afternoon,
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Carleton Gill
bert at the Virginia hotel, was that
as a host and hostess the clever man
ager and his wife are about the best
ever.
And say, they certainly enjoyed
themselves for a few hours. The daily
life of the average slave who attends
the wants of the travelling public con-
tains time for few such larks as Sat
urday's affair. However, when the op-
portunity does offer itself, the way
they take hold of it makes up for the
rarity of such occasions.
From the minute the visitors step
ped off their special car in front of
the big Long Beach hotel Saturday
they were made to feel that the place
was Internationally theirs, at least for
a few hours Mr.. Gilbert took the men
in charge and escorted them about the
hostelry, while the women of the party
became the special charges of the man
ayers pretty wife, who won everyone
regard by the cordiality> of her well
come.
On arrival the guests were led into
the great dining room, where lunch-
con was served. The visiting guests,
representatives of the Long Beach
chamber of commerce and of the Long
Beach Bath House company, sat down
around the big banquet table and, with
formality thrown to the four winds, en-
joyed themselves. Toasts were pro-
posed and drank to the hotel, to Mr..
Gilbert and to the secret of his sue
cess-Mrs. Gilbert-to which both the
honored ones responded
Following luncheon, through the
courtesy of the Long Beach chamber
of commerce, the visitors boarded one
of the small launches stationed at
Long Beach and went for a sea ride
to the Los Angeles harbor and Portu-
guese bend. On the launch the party
sang songs, told jokes and watched
Frank Cummins, representative of the
ST Francis hotel, do his cute little
cork tricks. Returning to the main
land the visitors were invited by the
Long Beach Bath House company to
enjoy the privileges of the bath house
and plunge, and many took advantage
of this kindness, enjoying dip in the
salt water.
The clerks returned home in time to
go ION watch in the evening, and
around hotel corridors the trip TO Long
Beach was the chief topic of conver-
sation yesterday.
r. ]. Prince, a travelling man of
Boston, will entertain every travelling
man he knows tomorrow evening at
the Angelus with a banquet. Every
body who has ever joshed him is in
Vited-at least that's what some of his
closest friends say.
You see, Prince has to square him
self some way or be joshed to death,
and giving this little spread is the
way he proposes to do it.
Prince a few weeks ago had an
invitation to a banquet to be given in
q large hotel in San Francisco. 1t was
to be one classy affair and Prince
was very proud of the fact that he
was to be among those present. He
took no pains to keep the fact to him
self either, and let everybody with
whom he came in contact know that
he was going.
The night of the banquet arrived-at
least the night Prince thought it was
to be pulled off-arrived. He bade his
fellow knights of the grip good-by and,
rugged out in his gladdest rags, de-
parted for the big feed. Maybe the
bows who were not going enVled MIN
Just a little, but they said nothing.
Prince arrived at the hotel, and
stroIling up to the desk asked in
rather loud voice:
"Where is the banquet to be this
EVENING"
clerk. -,
"Why, the travelling mems banquet!
replied Prince loftily. What other
do YOU SuppOSe?'
"The travelling mems banquet?
my dear sir, that was held
last evening"
''What!" screamed Prince. Last
night? Impossible. I'm sure it was to
be held tonight"
"Oh, no; it was held last night. Big
bunch of travelling men here, and
thew certainly had a bully time" an
swered the clerk, unconsciously heap
ing Goals of fire on poor Princes head.
Prince turned from the desk in
despair He didn't dare return to the
hotel and face the bunch there. He
realized what would be coming to him
if he did.
Instead, he wandered around town
for about four hours, until he thought
all self-respecting drummers should be
in bed. Then he returned to his hotel.
The bunch was waiting for him, how
ever. Some other drummer who had
attended the banquet the night before
had blown in and had let out the fact
that the banquet was thing OF the
past.
When Prince arrived at the hotel
the reception he received was one he
will long remember. They laughed,
yelled, joshed, joked, poked fun at him
and made him buy until he was weary
both in soul and pocketbook.
Since then the fun has never ceased.
No one who is on ever sees him With
out referring in some manner to BAN
Duets. And so Prince will entertain
the bunch at the, Angelus tomorrow.
The only thing he will demand OF MS
guests, in return for the feed, is that
they individually and collectively
swear that they will never mention
banuuets again in his presence. A
large attendance is expected.
George Young and wife"-A gentle
man stepped up to the Angelus desk
the other day and wrote that on the
register.
Young" asked Room Clerk Mullen as
he jotted down a room number after
the name.
"Yes, right away" replied the gen
tleman, grabbing up small hand bag
and handing it to the attentive bell
boy.
''Wonder where his wife is?" asked
Mr.. Mullen. HE seems to nave Tor
gotten all about her."
| Inst then another drummer, for Mr
Young is a drummer and travels for
! house in Portland, stepped forMaro