New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-31
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The Commercial Travellers Association
OF Austria at a convention held In Vienna
recently adopted resolutions recommend
ing strlcter supervision and regulation OF
hotels, with a view to bringing about
changes which Will conduce 20 the COM
fort and protection OF guests and put an
end TO abuses which seriously interfere
with the happiness OF the travelling pub
lie. The resolutions suggested twenty
two measures Of reform" and a copy OF
the proceedings was sent 10 the inter-
national convention OF hotel men at CO.
logne. In the course of the debate which
preceded the adoption OF the resolution
the American hotels and the methods en-
ployed in conducting them we're highly
praised.
Manager-Are you good at collecting
money?
Applicant-Couldnt be better II ! were
a college president.-Life.
HALLOWEEN.
All! what night was Halloween
At our home up the state!
The night we told ghost stories,
Huddled close about the crate.
Odd taps came on the window pane,
Queer creakings on the stair;
You never knew what minute
You would get an awful scare.
on Halloween. in our old home,
We daren't raise the shades
For fear we'd see a pumpkin head,
With eyes and nose ablaze.
But here in town We raise the shade,
And all that we can see
Is cross the shaft. a table set
And people having tea.
At our old home on Halloween
The gate would disappear
And hide itself behind the barn.
That couldn't happen here.
Our nome is in a Harlem fiat,
Up five flights, down the hall;
We have no gate, no yard no barn;
Just doors and stairs and wall.
on Halloween. in our old home,
We had a feast of grub;
We ate our fill OF nuts and ducked
For apples in tub.
But here we play no tricks at all;
No ghosts are heard or seen.
New York's lonely place to be
On dear old Halloween!
w. w. !.
A perspicacious young man, passing
where an old colored man was busy set
ting fire to the dead grass in a meadow
Don't do that Uncle Eb; don't do
THAR
You will make that meadow as black
as you are"
Dat grass will all grow out an be as
green rs you is!"-Judge.
This dog story is vouched for by New
England correspondent OF "Our Dumb
Animals: "a woman with three chill
dren. the youngest in an lmprovlsed cart
Of wheels and soap box, waited for
a train at the flag station at Windsor
Vile, Me. With them was dog. When the
train stopped the family party boarded
It, leaving the dog and cart in hay field
near the station. The next morning the
dog was seen watching the cart. At the
dawn of another day he was still there.
That day some one brought him food. A
day later the mother and her children re-
turned, and as they alighted from the
train the dog seemed to be In ecstasies or
delight and followed them and the cart
over the hill that soon hid them from
view, probably proud OF having so faith
fully guarded the soap box vehicle.
did your kick to the gas company get
you anything?"
yes. A fine lecture on the infallibility
Of the meter."-Detroit Free Press.
Portland. Me-, enjoys the distinction Of
being the only city I'm the United States
which owns an organ and employs an
organist. Pittsburgh has the Carnegie
organ. but IL is not municipal organ.
and the organist is paid out OF fund
provided by Mr.. Carnegie. Will c. Mac
who resigned HIS place in st.
Thomss's Church and the Temple Emanu-