The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-04-05
TOURISTS HAVE NEW
STORIES TO RELATE
McGraw's Experience With
Waiter; Ivory and Merkle
in Same Class.

NEW YORK. April 4,-IoS1 McGra "
OF this city, we'll known as a globe trot-
ter returned from his iaunt through for
eign lands with this little story:
While In Australia we took dinner
walters. The darkey who served our
table seemed bit new at the work
and also biz f1ustered. ordered thick
vegetable soup He brought on: It, ana = ,ynm w1s
the tray TO the table when his nerves
overcame him. he Tilted the. plate and the
soup landed on the shoulder OF a nice
new coat I was wearing
The darlley Immediately began mop
ping up my soup p-smeared shoulder with
a napkin. and after he had removed
certain portion OF the adhering vege-
tables. he stopped down and whispered to
"'pss Alright, Mistah MeGraw. Don't
soup. we's got lot OF Il heabr
in the Orient, Australia and Europe don't
bathe," remarked Iris Speaker Boston
outfielder and another touring person.
'but will say. they don't battle as oten
the best hotels In the places we visited,
yet In only q few OF them were any OF
the rooms equipped with private baths.
On each floor In these hotsls ;,,s there rev was h.S
TO serve the bathing desires oil all tne
persons lodging on that hoor-numners
ranging from twenty to fftyMyou might
take place for the bathing privilege.
''Some persons who visit those hotels
object 10 bathing In public tub and so
the hotel manaSsr mar axes %bes ahsp Sss in
their rooms giving themselves sponge
BATH
"The Man With the Ivory Dome. ana
who also was In the party, tells THIS
story on himself:
Just as our boat was about to sail
from Japan for Austrsns' sn,,s ana m1s, VI was as
heard outside. Pretty soon some Ssps.
nese officers began hammering on the
door OF my. room; ! asked mem wa ,he,.
told me they had been told had taken
ihey wanted II back--that the ship could
not sail ndn until uTs dd 'Srr ont whSt Stet they were
driving at. and finally referred them 10
McCiraw. He was puzzled ~ hrst. ano
then the ,Ss dawpsd on nm; nseers and ns ns
sRut where's the Joker" asked young
reporter person who had horned his way
In on Merkle's recital.
Mcrkle gave the youth the up and
down couple Of times and then, as he
started to walk away. said:
Jimmy Callahan. manager OF the White
Sox. took Ms 9-year-old son. Dan. along
or the worlds tour to act as mascot. and
got himself severely criticised thereby
Danny, serving rs mascot, OF course. wore
tiny uniform. hustled bats back and
forth for the benefit Of the players. and
during the practice sessions often donne1
big n,itt and warmed up some OF
the pitchers.
"Horrible. quite horrible" remarked
some Britishers, when they, saw the d.
ninutive Danny lahoring like a regular
ball PLAYER. THE very idea of setting
even the little children to work q, me
game so early. Why, the child ought 70
be In school The H'Amerlcans ousht
to he h'ashamed OF themselves and the
father OF the child bought 20 ave
'orsewhpping Tor maxim the child work
so . nd"
While on the subject OF World touring
one might. point out the startling tact
that during the tour that embraced
something Ike seventy days ON the water
every one OF the tourists was seasick-
and not one OF them WAS seasick- And
there you are.
subject were you seasickT" Immediate
iy assured the anxious questioners that