The Washington times., 1918-06-02
TO Protect It's Guests?

Here come two babies! What's Ii
matter with these?'
81 aIo obliged to specify some of tn
course and vulgar language used to sho
how pers,stently was insulted in the pre-
ence OF lotel employees. cannot brin
myseH Il repeat everything that was sait
I'VE hurried on to the elevator. Thos
two dreadful men came after US no on
attempting to stop them. After the. doc
was closed a young girl employed as
telephone operator on the floor, believt
signalled that she wanted to get into tn
car. The elevator man let her in and sh
said she wanted to go up The two drunl
en- men said she must come down wit
them and the car started down. At frs
they fooled with the young girl and trie
to kiss her, think.
Then they turned their attention to VI
One Of them put his arm around m
friends shirtWaist, but she thrust hin
aside with a tremendous effort. He the
grasped me round the waist and held m
tightly, completely at his mercy. H
forced me into a corner Of the elevator an
in this crowded space was quite helples
against this powerful man. It shocks m
to repeat everything that happened, bu
now that have made the case public
feel it is my duty to prove how dreadful
my treatment was.
This man thrust his hand into my cor
sage and then kissed me foreibly on tn
left cheek. was at first able to turn m!
face sufficiently to prevent him from kiss
ing me full on the mouth.
"All this time the elevator
boy was grinning cheerful 4
ly, as II he enjoyed our suf-
ferings. My friend was call
ing to him to stop the ele-
vator, but he paid no atten-
tion.
1--WE don't want to ride
with these dreadful Great
ures! Let US off!' she
cried.
The young girl left at a
floor Just before the ground.
but even then the elevator
man closed the door before
we could escape.
When the car reached the main floor We
rushed out. Our tormentors were then in
sulting US in a different fashion. AS We
went out they yelled at US:
"'You are two nuts Of chambermaids!
Good-by, you chambermaid muts!'
81 was crying when stepped out Of tbs
elevator. spoke to a clerk at desk anC
told him had been dreadfuIly insulted and
ill-treated. wanted the two men held ant
arrested. The clerk laughed and behaved
most frivously. He said I might look fo
the hotel detective.
81 went over to the tearoom, but could
not find the detective there. At this poin
my insulter. who must have wandered al
the way round the floor, met me. All this
time none Of the hotel employees made any
effort to hold him. Finally found one o.
the assistant managers-a very smooth
spoken but evasive gentleman. He tried
to explain that nothing worth mentioning
had happened to me. He said the hote
detective might be on the twenty-second
floor, and finally he brought him down
Meanwhile our insulters had ample time
TO get away
81 was nearly prOstrated with fright and
distress and have never been quite the
same woman since"
Mrs. Clifford speaks sarcastically of the
hotel attitude toward insulters of women.
According to her it might be expressed
thus:
Little things like this will happen and
we. can't prevent them. Sometimes there
will be bit Of a fight and we can't get
there before it's over. Sometimes a man
will feel iirtatious and we can't always be
on the spot just at the right moment"
In fact she says, they suggested that
promiscuous kissing was a rather pleasant
feature Of life.
After her shocking experience she took
a little lunch in the dining room, communi-
Gated by telephone with her husband and
in his company made further efforts to in