The Natchitoches enterprise., 1919-08-07
other night. and it never moved


ont of the yard for an hour and
ten minutes. The car was cold,
the porter uncivil, and the arrival
in New Orleans ten minutes too
late for a western connection.
Whot would happen if any
owner of an automobiles rail
road official, if you wilI-was him
self subjected to similar indignity
when endeavoring to avail him
self of the facilities of service
station? And this railroad is a
wonderful institution, doing mar
velous things, and praised beyond
measure for the size of its per-
formance.
In days of former affluence, be
fore the bears hit the stock mar
ker, you bought house. l did.
On a cold night in February the
water pine froze-yours has, many
a time. Only a motor car radia-
tor must never freeze. You
phoned the plumber; three hours
later he showed up minus tools.
Three hours more and the thirty
minute job was finished. You paid
him and a helper for six hours
time. and cleaned up after him
and you joke about it. it's national
humor. Suppose the plumber
owns motor car and his radiator
freezes. He phones you to come
and get the car, and appeals to
unseen forces because you didn't
tell him it was going to be cold,
wants car to nse while his is be-
ing repaired, and cannot under
stand why he should pay the bill.
"Service BY Wire''
In September / ordered by wire
two dozen red roses to be daliv-
cred at the wedding Of friend:
The wire was transmitted red
crosses" and the florist supplied
carnation pinks. Can you imag-
inc what would happen is a tele-
graph company official ordered a
left rear fender and we shipped
him seat cevers!
Hotels Sometimes Prevaricate
A party of four arrived at a
we'll known hotel at -siy-thirty,
tired and dirty from hundred
mile automobile ride, and ordered
dinner in the room. An hour and
a half later the manager apollo
yized: the order had been over
looked, the kitchen was closed.
and we ate at a greasy spoon"
around the corner. The manager
of this same strictly modern hos
telry is a mo: o:or.oar owner. He
recently complained that the front
right tire wore out at 4,s0O miles
while the left was O. X, and
wanted free replacement, though
he admitted on cross-examlnation
he had bumped a curb and had
not noticed that it had knocked a
wheel cut of true. I'm acquain-
ted with the hotel. It's first
class-one of the best in the Sec
tion, If not the best. us a pleas
ure to stop there. Bnt if one
followed the practice OF the car
owner, that hotel could sue for
defamation of character-could
fold its blinds, close up shop and
quit, unless it could get patronage
that was deprived of hearing the
story of this one mistake.
/ ordered FIVE pounds of candy
| to be delivered at a hotel in New
Orleans. The hotel was mile
from ths famous candy dispensary.
Eight hours later Twenty minutes
before train time) | learned, after
sixty minutes Of telephoning, that
1T got ont on the wrong wagon. "
l directed the taxi driver to pro-
ceed to the station via the candy
shop. | spied the package-it
had never left the sales floor. But
| the next time | go to New Orleans
I'm going to buy candy at that
same shop. The little saleslady
was profuse in her apology; that
helped. 1t might be suggested
that rood looking. pleasant voiced