The Washington herald., 1915-08-29

, they kept them in the bottle and did not
bother to make up while 1 was there.
There is one thing that this city
can be very proud of and that's its
hotels. In addition to the three big
and famous hotels, the Fairmount,
ber of new and smaller hotels have
been opened since the fair began. They
are up-to-date in every respect, hand
somely decorated and furnished, well
run and reasonable.
I don't believe there has ever been
a world fair where the hotel accom-
modations have been so good. They
are usually high priced, crowded and
bad. Just the opposite is the rule
here. The hotel 1 stopped at was q
fair type. There are many others much
like it. I had a luxurious room and
bath for three dollars a day. The same
room in an equally good hotel in New
York, Chicago or Boston would have
cost me five dollars a day. The meals
were all table d'hote; breakfast and
lunch fifty cents each and dinner a
dollar. They consisted Of practically
anything you wanted to order, well
cooked and well served. in fact deli
cious meals. Moreover, there Is no lack
of accommodations. If the hotel you
happen to go to is full, the manage
isn't
You can almost forgive their
wretched climate and the way they
have lied about it in consideration of
their good hotels and the extremely
courteous way you are treated. They
certainly strive to please and they do
II by tickling your vanity. They have
made a business of ii. For instance,
arrived at night and left orders to be
called at eight the next morning. The
next morning / was awakened by the
ringing of the phone bell at the head
of my bed. A very pleasant female
voice said:
Good morning, Mr.. Miner. It's
eight o'clock and you asked to be
called at this time. you know. I'll
ring you again in five minutes in
case you drop of to sleep" s.
At the elevator. the attendant said:
Good morning. Mr.. Miner It's
pleasant day. You won't need your
umbrella"
The clerk behind the desk called
ager who was standing in the lobby
and SO did the head waiter at the din
ing-room door, who seemed really con-
cerned as to where ! would like bess
to sit.
By the time I had reached my table
was SO swelled up with pride and
conceit that il I had pricked myself
would have exploded like a toy
balloon. I had no idea I was such
an IMPORTANT person that everybody
at once recognized me. It was very
gratifying.
Afterward I found out that every
body had exactly the same experience.
It's part of the system. They 90
all they can in San Francisco to make
you like the place.
Too bad their efforts are useless.
The residence district has not been
rebuilt since the fire, except to apart.
vate residences. It doesn't look to me
as though It ever would be rebuilt.
Anyway, don't see why 1t should
be. Mob Hill at present looks like q
suburb of Newbursh except not 30 at
tractive.
At every cigar stand and bar 10 an
outfit by which you gamble for the
cigars or drinks, while the pig game.
in which you press numbers out Of a
hole to win a prize. Is omnipresent. I
was told also that there were some
gambling houses open. but In general
the f0st life in San Francisco. about
which so much has been written, IL
a thing Of the past Chinatown Is only
a name and place to bunco tourists.
while the famed criminal Barbary
Coast is simply dirty water front.
and life there Is about az wicked as
1t Is on a coal barge.
There are two or three would-be
fash restaurants and cabarets that
try hard to be gay and real citihed.
As a matter of fact. they are pretty
provincial. The famous Clin House.
across the peninsula on the ocean
front, would be considered quite .
swagger affair In Bangor. Ne.
The furore over the jitney cars IL
dying out. They are cheap and dirty
little automobiles that are seldom on
hand when you want them and IL they
are it's a sure thing they are crowd
ed. tax and bond have been placed
on them recently Nand 1t looks as
though the day Of the jitney was
about drawing to close. The whole
State nevertheless swarms with auto
People who are always quot
Ing ngures say that every third man
out here owns car. Ny estimate
would be that every man owned three. |
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