The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-13
Where Job of Keeping House
is Multiplied By Thousands

3 dishwoshing machine. As the dirty
/ dishes are brought in from the din
Ing room they are stacked into met
al baskets and started through %
chute. In passing through this open
| ing they are under fCrcible spray
Of boiling soapy water that removes
all dirt. But thus far no one has
invented dish wiping machine, and
that operation is attended 10 by
hand.
Returning to the dining room
there are many Incidents happening
there daily of which the general
public never hears. For instance,
hundreds of pieces of silverware and
small glasses disappear every year.
There are two causes: one Is the
loss through carelessness OF em-
ployes, according to Calvin Knives
forks or spoons are allowed to find
their way into garbage Cans-and II
Is anything but a desirable job to
hunt for them. The other cause
provokes most surprise--patrons of
the dining room put the sarticles into
their pocket or purse ana take them
| home.
Some Diners Covetous.
you would be surprised to learn
vorwarc and small glassware we lose
every year from that latter cause"
Calvin explained. The loss through
each of these two causes is about
the "a me; that is, we lose the same
amount in garbage that we do from
theft.
And what would surprise you
most is the class OF people who sur
rcptitiously remove these articles
from the tables while they are eat
ing" Calvin continued
Just to show you what I mean,
here is one case; A nicely dressed
woman unaCcompanied ate dinner
here the other evening. l won't
mention her name, because you
would recognize 1t in an instant. ]
was standing over In one corner,
whore she could not easily see me.
Shortly before she had finished her
meal, and while / was looking in
her direction, she stealthily removed
one Of the ree-way' salt shakers
from the table and put II in her
purse. A three way shaker is one
Of those small affairs made Of sill
yer, the containers holding salt, pep
per and paprika. ] said nothing. l
suppose that little shaker might now
be found at this woman's home,
gracing the dining table at every
meal. And ! know personally that
her husband could buy the entire
Hotel Tulsa and probably not seri-
ously injure his bank account.
"Why do they do it? / don't
know. Apparently the article ap-
peals to them as they watch and use
II while eating, and they just decide
that the hotel will never miss 1t If
they take It, ! am satisfied they do
not look upon such thefts as seri-
Gus. | doubt IL they even think 1t
constitutes theft. IL they had seen
the same article In a store they
would doubtless have bought II. But
II may be something slightly out Of
the ordinary and appeal 70 their
taste for the unique, They proba-
bly, presume the hotel management
wouldn't sell ~, 50 they surrepti-
ously remove 1t from the table and
hide Il.
"Ordinarily the same person will
not take more than one article, re-
gardlcss of the number OF times he
or she visits the dining room. How
ever there are some exceptions.
They are persons that are not con-
tent until they have obtained a set
of spoons or knives or forks. They
may take only one article at "A visit
there may be many visits when
they take nothing--but in the course
OF several months they probably OBJ
tain the entire set.
Rcprovcd Customer,
mo, don't think that everyone
who visits our dining room is ad-
dicted TO this practice. Possibly
not more than enc article Is taken
daily, and this is not so large con-
sidering the number who patronize
the room. But we do know that We