Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31

told me that he had just sent it. Natur-
ally, the letter having been mailed from
New York, l figured on getting it the first
thing in the morning. But l didn't L
inquired at the desk. No special delivery
letter At noon l inquired for it again.
The clerk looked miffed at me, really.
Nix. No letter for me. About in the
afternoon / went up to the desk resolved
to get that letter, or obtain track OF IT, or
do a little perishng in the attempt. Again
no letter.
The clerk looked pretty sore when in
timated that maybe the letter had got
couldn't hep his soreness. / stood by
while he waded through the deadwood. 1t
took him long time. He mumbied dis
paraging remarks about me while he went
through the lumber letters back OF the
desk Nothing happened. I noticed that
the one pgeonhole he hadn't looked into
was the "A" pigeOnhole. There was only
one letter in that pigeonho e; l polnteo
to it. The clerk sulkily took the letter
out IT was the letter / should have had
that morning--late the night before, in
fact-for it had arrived in Washington at
10 O'Clock the night before. Ii had got
mixed up with the "a stuff. Did the
clerk say he was sorry? No, he did not.
He merely tossed the letter at me and let
il go at that. / wonder why? OF course
1 couldn't have expected him to be hon
est-and-truly sorry. but he might al least
have said SO, thought and still think
Is
Do hotel cashiers try to put little
things across?" l wonder. When I went
to pay my bill at that hotel the top item
was; Room, SD" I'd been at the hotel
four days exactly. I'd asked for room
and bath at s. day. That, for four
days, would make so, and not $22-I do
preen myself pretty highly on these
mathematics, So I asked the large, glob-
ular cashier as to the wherefore OF the
additional two bucks. / always figure In
these matters that the two bucks or the
three or five or seven seeds, or even the
two bits thus tackled on are just as good
in my own nankeens as they ever Would
or could be in the jeans OF any Dioated
corporation. So. Why the extra TWO
bones?' ] asked him. He looked me
over severely.
Didn't you ask for room with twin
beds" he asked me-
The room I'd occupied had twin beds
No" said /. Il did not ask for room
with twin beds, and. far from the same
! was considerably chagrined when
found that il did have twin beds. l not
being twins and having a Partially Tor
refnlar full-sized beds. And" l went
on brutalIy you know that [ did not
ask for u room with two BEDS
Which neighbour, that cashier did
know, That was merely his little way
of snuirming out OF it: to ask me IL /
hadn't asked for room with twin BEDS.
He erased the 81 stuff and made 1t so,
and gloweed upon me. But ever since
and I'm fact, for a long time previously,
other things Of "A similar sort having nap
pened to me in my dealings WIN notei
cashiers-I've been wondering II those
functionaries of the great modern hostel
ries really do attempt to put little
things over on the patrons OF said cara
vansaries? And. as | was really booked
and recorded as a guest with a five-dol-
lar-a-day room, / really wonder just
where those additional 81 would have
gone had / paid the bill as it was present
ed to me without bucking?
But I've only begun to kick. l got Into
Washington at $40 in the evening on q
train from Philadelphia that was COM
posed mainly of pariOr cars. There were
a whole lot of folks on the train. men and
women; and most of them had heavy
hand baggage; hand baggage that looked
in many cases, as if II might be cluttereC
up with Christmas stuff.
Seven eight young men. besides theil
grips. had sacks of golf clubs did sew
eral girls.
Now. remember this Washington rail
road station is the second largest ra.lroai
station i'm the western hemisphere, If no
the second largest railroad station in TIT
2 world; / think 1T is easily the secont
l largest in the world.
5 There were at least fifty people will
: grips and things who got of that train
r with every hope, with every Legitimate
: expectation OF finding red-capped station
Y porters to tote their things to taxicab
and cars.
: But there was not one station porte
g at that train. Not onei
| "Dey was 'nuther train, boss, come IL