The times dispatch. [volume], June 21, 1903, EDITORIAL SECTION, Page 10, Image 10

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Will Have Ifs Planning Upturned in the Prices Made
fo Close Large Lots.
The Muslin Underwear Sale
Will Appeal to All Richmond.
There are a whole store
full that were in thc greater
part priced one-half and
more.
403 pairs 7,ndies' Muslin Draw
ers, tlio bargain price of ?which
has been 19 nnd Cue., 15e. a pair;
29c. ones will be 10c.
Tlio 60c. ones nre marked" 29c,
One of the Best Makers of
Corset Covers,
10c ones for 12'/2e.
110 dozen elaborately trimmed
on ps for Son.
Corset Covers, in various styles,
value up to $1.00, for COc.
170 Dozen Gowns,
goods that cost to $2.00, dioica
SSo.
Those that wct? 70o. will bo
69c.
Large lot of Gowns, best 6Cc.
value, will be sold for 35c.
17 Dozen Muslin Skirts,
trimmed in lace or embroidery.
$1.50 to $1.88 values, dioico 98e.
$1.76 to $2.50 values for $1.25K
Tucked and embroidered, avo
rago up to $1.25, for 70c.
? lot of Cambric Skirts, about
60 dozen, will be sold for 45c.
Your Boys' Wash Suits,
Now or never, 25, 35, 65. 75c.
and $1.00 will buy wash Suits,
the very best nf styles, that cost
three times the cost of these
figures.
$3.00 Boys' All-Wool Sprlsj
Suits for $1.50.
All tbe $5.00 and $5.00 ones for
$3.50.
Anv of the $3.50 to $4.00 onr*
for $2.50.
$1.00 and $1.25 Suits for 65c.
Corduroy Pants, to 16 years
old, 75c. ones, for 40c.
A lot of Boys' ????? Pants will
be sold for 15c.
High-Toned Ladles'
Made Garments
come to grief. Some price
has to take them. The stock
is on a far broader line than
ever before.
The Newest Shlrf-Walst Suits,
The $4.75 to $5.76 ones for
$3.50.
All tho Suits that were up to
$2.85 as bargains go into tho
$1.75 lot.
Pure Linen Suits, that were
$8.50, will sell for $5.50.
The Handsome White Dresses
Rnd tlio Hnndsoraost China Silk
Dresses, all will bo sold at a price.
59c. for SI.50 Wash Skirts.
Others nre $1.00.
$2.76 will buy Pure Linen or
Handsome Tailor-Made P. K.
Skirts, that cost to $4.00.
Some nre $3.50 and $4.75, tho
original wholesale cost of which
was $0.00.
A lot of Long Kimonos are 98?.
Also a lot of Dressing Sacquoa,
good $1.50 value, for 76o.
Lndies' Wrappers, In light nr
dark shades, a good $1,25 value,
for 65o.
Ladles' Shirt Waists
of white India Hnon, tucked and
embroidered, instead of 86o., 60o.
Others are White $2.00 Waists,
for $1.25.
$2.50 White Linen Waists for
$1.05.
$5.00 Embroidery and Lace
Waists, medallion trimmed, will
be sold for $2.75.
$2.50 and $3.00 ones for $1.86.
Linon Lawn Waists up to size
44 for 76c.
A lot of Black Lawn Waists
for Coo.
China Silk Waists,
some that were up to $3.50 will
be put in the lot for $2.45.
Others were $6.60 to $8,00, .will
be $4.75.
Many Infants' Things
arc selling for less than their cost.
85c. Muslin Dresses for 60?.
$1.26 Stylish Blouse Dressos for
75c.
50c. Infants' Long Nainsook
Dresses for 30c.
Some of tho low neck ones,
that were $1.05, are $1.00.
Underskirts that were 50c. are
20c.
The Long 08c. Skirts will be
sold for C5c.
(Main Floor.)
S 1.50 Parasols for 98c.
Newest styles of Pnrasols, that
have been $3.08, are marked $2.50.
$2.00 nnd $2.25 ones for $1.50
and $1.75.
Umbrella Sales
All tho Silk Umbrellas that
you have paid $1.75 and $2.00
for, the best of them Monday 05c.
All the Great Stock of
Linens.
The most superior qualities
ever placed on sale. You may
get your share of them at
prices that have never had a
calling.
2 yards wide $1.00 Tabla Damask
for G8c.
German Table Damask, full 2
yards, "fy.d?, should be 65c, for 3Do.
All the Table Damasks that are
valued at $2.25 and $2.50 will be
sold for $1.25.
75 and S5c. ones for 60e.
B0 and 59c, Mercerized Table
Damask for 39c.
" 121 a to 10c. Linen Huck Towels
for 9c.
50c. Bleached linen Suiting for
36c.
I-yard-wide Bleached Linen Suit?
ing for 10c, a yard.
The 20n. Damask Tray Cloths
will be 19c.
$1.00 and $1.19 Linen Sheeting,
2% yards wide, for BRc.
About 200 dozen Barnsley Linen
Towels, damask and hemstitched
borders, $4.60 a dozen ones, for 25o.
each.
637 dozen Finest Double Damask
Napkins, that cost $5.00 to $0,50 a
dozen, for $2.85 and $3.40.
$1.25 and $2.75 Napkins for $1.00
and $2?0.
A Half Store of Ribbons
WillHelp.
Sash Ribbons?Ribbons of
every width and color and for
every use and for half the cost
of tbe silk in its raw Btate.
Wide Sash Ribbons, all pure silk,
Hie lowest sale of which has been
85c, are 35c.
2Dc. buys the newest styles of
Sash Binbons, in soft and pure silk,
that Bold for 85c.
" '25c. buys 30 to 50c Wide Rib?
bons, all colors nnd kinds.
Sash Width Taffeta Ribbons, in
all colors, ]2!/??.
45 nnd 35c. Fancy Ribbons will
sdl for 15 nnd 18c.
A lot of 25c. Louisen? Ribbons,
5 to 0 inches wide, for 9c.
3, 5 and 8c. buys thc Ribbons that
you pay a great deal more than
double for.
Large Sowie of Extracts
and Toilet Articles.
Princess Violet nnd White Rose
Extract, Monday, 10c, ounco.
Ruppert's Pnce Blench, with a
box of Egyptian Balm, $1.50.
Best 20e. Faon Powder, 5c.
A l?t of 25c. Dressing Combs, l?e.
Palm Sonp, huge cakee, for 2c,
Is Filled ; Is Fuller Than It
Has Ever Been Before.
Prices have strongly stood
in opposition to values for some time? but now the culminating
price time has arrived, and
THE END-OF-SEASON SALE
must quickly unload this store by the thousands of dollars'
worth. The reduction hours are sought and relied upon for fu?
ture success. Come for what you can use, whether it's men?
tioned here or not.
House-furnishers can save a good share of their pur?
chase during this sale. It's to be a trade sale of Carpets,
Mattings, Oil Cloths, Rugs, etc.
Linen-Warp Matting, in carpet
designs, will bo sold for 13y?c.
The usual Fancy 12f/ja China
Matting for 8c.
The 40c. Linen-Warp Damaok
Matting for 20c.
3x0-foot Matting Rugs for 76o.
2 Lots of Floor OH Cloth.
various designs, the best 26 and
35c. grades, for 10 and 25o.
A lot of Linen Window Shades,
with rollers, all colors, for 16o.
Hollar-Tray Trueks,
full canvas covered, brasi look
nnd iron bottom, for $3.75.
$8.25 ones for $0.60.
Canvas-Covered Trunks, Iron
bound and bottom, for $1.75.
With leather straps, $??0.
Brass Trimmed Suit Cases for
$1.10.
Now Porch Shades,
all colors and kinds, most satis?
factory ones made, now soling at
$2.00 up.
340 Metal Beds.
3 pieces, with Braes vase and
guaranteed springs, complete, for
$0.26.
White Iron Beds, bras? filled
and ornamented, wiil be sold i or
$7.50.
A lot of White Enameled Beds.
with brass vosco, for $?.(19 and
$2.75.
Cottage Curtain Muslins,
an imported colored lot, that cost
"5c, lor 10c.
10c. Fancy Cretonnes for 8% a
A lot of Muslin Ruffled Cur?
tains, fancy designs, that were
$1.98, will be Bold for $IM.
110 pairs Venetian Lace Cur?
tains, $2.50 Irish Point designs,
for $1,30.
Mosquito Gartopars
complete with fixtures, $1.45.
Fidest Ball Bearing
Sewing Maohine
thnt could bo bought for $45.00,
for $15.00, with a warrant.
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Your End of Season
Choice for Summer Silks
While they are here make
a choice for less than whole?
sale cost. The first day of their
sale is Monday, and the stock
begins full.
$8.50 Japanese Habutai Waist
Patterns, handsomely embroidered,
"put up in boxes," white and black,
to close, at $3.0S.
60c. White Wash Silks, in the
heavy corded effects, to close, at 25c.
60c. Yan Ki Pongee, a soft, pure
silk fabric, that will launder, all
light and dark shades, to close at
25c.
75c. Pin-Strlpo Washn.ble Taf?
fetas, popular colorings, to close at
39c.
WliiLe Japanese Silk?, 27 inches
wide, lustrous, washable kind, usual
39c. ones nt 25c; 60c. ones at 30c.j
75c one?, 36 inches wide, at 45o.
Black anil White Taffeta Metal?
lic, guaranteed pure silk, wears
like iron, soft, lustrous finish, $1.00
quality, for 65c. yardj full yard
wide,
Fanoy Taffeta Silks, in various
sizo checks, to close, tho regular
75c. grades for 45c. yard.
Hand-Mufle Black India Silks, 27
inches wide, lustrous, smooth
weaves, 50c. one for 35c; 65o. one
for 30c; 75c. one for 44c. ?
30-inch Imported Blnck Taffeta,
iho handsomest $1.75 quality, spe?
cial price Monday, $1.00 yard.
25-inch handsome $1.00 quality,
special price COc. yard.
$1,00 Blnck Grenadine, made of
double-twisted sewing silk, 27 inches
wide, to close for ?Oc. yard.
Black Ground Foulards, with
figures and dots of white, jilniii nnd
satin face, to close nil of the 75
und 85c grades for 49c,
! Your Hosiery Time.
26 and 36c Lace Lisle Hose, for
ladies, 12y3c
Imported 59c. ones are S6o.
3 pairs for St'a, same Hose that
have been sold this season for 29c.
Also a lut of Ribbed 25c. Hobo
for 15c.
14 kinds of Misses' and Chil?
dren's Roso, that were 22 and
25c, are marked 12% and 15c.
Thousands of White
Goods.
Every conceivable style, no
matter how high in range of
elegance. The prices will be
for quick dealing.
White French Mull, 40 inches
wide, will be sold for 12yao.
Whito Wash Organdies, always
20c, for 15c.
Fine 40 and 60e. Imported P. K,
Welts for 25c
118 pieoos 9 and lOo. India Linon
for 6%c.
Sheer Persians, that coat to 40c,
for 15c
Whito Paris Mousselines, 46
inches wide, instead of 38c, 25c.
40-inch-wlde India Linons for
oy2c
The Best 12 ??a Madras of the
season for 8%e.
25 to 33c. Mercerized Madras and
Damasses for 17 and 19c,
Yard-Wide Whito Duck Suiting,?
'linen finish, for Oo.
Thc $2.00 English Nainsook, a box
to 12 yards, for $1.511.
The Finest Linen-Like Linon, to
be sold for 12'/3?.
Ladies" I5c to I9c Em?
broidered Hand?
kerchiefs for
I0c.
Very fine pure linen hemstitch?
ed ones for lSi^o.
A lot of Men's Whit? 7c. one?
for 3c, and others.
Embroideries &.nd Laces
by the heretofore price induce
menta were cheaper here than
ever before. There are hun?
dreds of iots to close now.
10 inches wide Embroidery Skirt
Flounoinge, the open-work, 29a.
kind, for 12y,c
A lot of 36a Embroideries ?re
10c
French Embroideries, that cost
to 60c, for 26c
1,700 yards of Embroideries, that
cost 8 and 9a, Monday da.
The Sale of Laces.
New lot of Point de Parta Laces,
vp to 12c value, for 6o.
The new Tcnca-iffe or Point de
Paris Laces, that were 29a, are 10a
8 to 6-Inch Applique Lace will he
eold for 121/jC
White and Ecru Lace Insertions,
10 to 12yso.
A lot of French Val., 60c a
dozen, that have been 81c.
A lot of 35 and 46c ones for 25a
? dozen.
The 19 ana 21a will be sold for
15c. a dozen.
Black Silk Chantilly Laces, that
have been 19 to 48c for 10c
Throngs of Fine Cotton
Fabrics
await you. A loss to us
throughout the highest class.
They'll be the cost of their
cheaper neighbors Monday.
lOo. Cotton Bonxette Cloth for
8y2c.
Silk Ginghams are marked from
19c. to" lie
Finest 12y8o. Batiste, in all colors,
ore marked down to 7%c.
Fancy Chali ?es will sell for 8y,o.
Black Dotted Muslins, imported
87c. goods, will be sold for l5c
Silk Mousselines and Foulards,
early In the eeaeon 50 to 60c, now
19c.
Scotch Batiste, 10c. quality, for
6c.
Closing Out Thousands
of Gloves, Lisle
and Silk.
Plain Lisle Gloves will be 15a
Elbow Length of $1.00 Gloves
?will be 65c
50c. Black Silk Lace Mitts for
26c.
Lisle Gloves, that were 09c, will
ba sold for 39c
And hundreds of other sorte.
Special Fan Chains.
Mexican Mixed or Pearl Titfmraed
or Turquoise and White, several
lots, 10c.
Double Knotted Black Chains,
00 inches long, will be Bold Monday
for 25c.
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fJHS |
With Its Thousand Shopping Inducements.
wants all Richmond to help. The wnrerooms are to be |
emptied now. It will be money-getting to buy.
0,200 yards Whito India Linon,
40 inches wide, 5c.
White Persian Lawn, 10 nnd
17c. quality, 7%c
Highest grade 40o. India Linon,
that cost to ?5c, price ?a
10 and 19o. White Oxford nnd
Choviots for 7%o.
Heavy Corded P. IL -will be
sold for lie
A lot of Iluck Ttxvo'.n, red bor?
dors, each, 2c
Checked Glass Towelling. 3%o.
Fringed Iluck Towels, ?a
Ladles' Gauze Vests.
Choice of a lot of bleached,
that cost 2y2c, for Oc
25 and 10c. ones, silk + apod
neck and arms, white or colored,
12y3c.
Fancy lace front pilk taped
ones, sold to 25c, now 10a
A lot of Children's Fancy Net
19c. ones reduced to I2yac.
Misses' full sizo, tape neck
and arms, will be sold for 6c.
Children's Nazareth Waists, to
12 years, are 10c.
670 Lbs. Writing Paper,
Irish Linen, that cost ISa, for
OyjC. pound.
Boxed Paper. 15c. kind, for 10c.
The salo of Books at half and
quarter prices continues this
week.
12 I-2c Spotted Curtain Swiss
Monday's price 0ysc
Silkolino, 12y3c. quality, in
Remnants, to close, 4c.
170 pairs Nottingham Lace Cur?
tains, $1.50 ones, for 05c
Silk Stripe Madras Curtains,
that cost $3.00, various styles,
for $1.50.
75c Bleached Sheets.
plain or hemstitched, highest
grade made, for 54o.
42x30 and 46x30 Pillow Casc<<,
handkerchief bordered, hemstitch?
ed or plain, 15 to 20c. grades,
choice 12y2c
42x36 and 45x30 Linen Finished
Pillow Cases, always 12%c.." Mon?
day 8 l-3e.
88 Whito Quilts, $2.25 largest
size, Marseilles center, for $1.00.
A lot of $1.00 and $1.25 ones,
choice 75c
45a Double Bed Crochet Quilts,
Monday 29e.
Lawns and Batiste,
the 0'/4c, light end dark, the
most desirable stylo, for BVia.
Upwards of 10,000 yards of the
Finest Percalos made, all the
styles that cost 12ft to 10a,
prioo 8%c
Best Sea Island and Wlndaot
Percales, usual 12'/?a ones, for
IW.c
9,000 yard/i best H^a. Ughi
Shirting Print?, 3%o.
Yard-Wide Cambrio Finish
Cotton, the 7c. quality, for 4y,c
Rl-3c Scotch Batiste, newest
and most stylish dosigns, for 4.y.a,
6 and On. Apron Ginghams, all
colors, 3%c.
2y?-yard-wide Sheeting, best
25c quality, for 19a
Also 4,000 yards Andxosooggin
Cotton for 7a
Real China Dinner Sets.
handsomest Limoges decorations,
$25.00 sets, for 810.50.
The $17.00 Spray Decorated
Sots, 100 pieoes, for $12.00.
24 Decorated Dinner Sets, 100
pierce, will be sold for $5.98.
Handsome Imported Tea Sets
for $5.00.
10c. Toilet Sets, full size and
equal to any $4.00, for $256.
$0.60 eets for $4.50, any shape.
jar and Pedestals for $4,75 end
$0.00.
13-piece Berry Sets, handsome?
ly decorated, for $1.50.
13-piece Berry and Fruit Sets
for 90c.
Handsome Cnko Plates for 60c
A lot of White China Plates,
Cups and Saucers, choice 6c
A lot of White Covered Dishes,
30a
Tapestry Firs Screens
for 75c; Silkolino onoo for 39a
$3.25 Clothes Ringers for $2.00.
Jelly Glasses
for 22c. a dozen.
Ice Tea Glasses, 73a a dozen.
Tea Goblets, 0c each.
85c Thin-Blown Tumblers for
48c.
O-Quart Granite Sauce Pans
to he sold for 3So.
17-quait Dish Pane for 63a
Doublo-Coated Seamless Uhm
Boilers, 98c
10-quart Wafer Pails, 60a
6-quart Teapots, 49c
4-qunrt Pudding Pans, 19c
Vegetable Dippers, 2c.
10-quart Galvanized Pails for
29c
2-quart Oil Cans, 7a
Seaside Pails, 8a
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Thousands of New
Neckwear
Come too laie to fill our orders.
25c Lace Cuffs and Collar Set??
for 15a
A lot erf Tab Collars, 16a | 26c.
for 30o. Collars.
Not Often Such Leather
Goods.
Leather Wrist Bags, that cost to
$1.50, choice 48c
10 arid 15c buys Bega that cost
three times that much.
7 gross White Duck Belts, with
brass, nickel or black buckles, for
10c.
Black Belts, with wicket buckles,
25c ones, for 6o.
In the Same Aisle.
Needles for le a paper.
Best 6a Whito Beading, So.
Jet Pins, 3 boxes for 5o.
Like San Silk, for knitting, all
colora, for 3c a spool.
8 and 10c. Garter Elastic, 5c.
6c Hooks and Lyes for lc.
Read of the Black and
Colored Dress Goods,
We are done .with them;
it's your time. They must be
closed if any price will effect
sales.
$1.25 Colored Etamines Monday
65c
62-inch Mohair Sicilians will be
sold for 50c
Tho 30c Colored Albatross for
29c
Cream Brilllantlne, that was 69a,
for 60c
Cream, Pink and Blue Half-Wool
Nun's Veiling will be sold for 9c,
and so for all the rest.
Sale of Black Goods.
Snlin-Fnco Venetians, were $1.25,
will he sold for 75c
$1.75 Brilliantine will be sold for
$1.00.
39c. Black Mohairs will be 29a.
65e. Blaok Voiles for 39c.
60-inch $1.20 All-Wool Hopsack
ing foi?-75c
16c. will buy Black Mohair Gre?
nadines, double width.
SIMILAR PRICES FOR ALL
GOODS IN STOCK. ?
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Tt-ei'o le no class of mon In the com?
munity who are bo Imposed tipon and have
eo much nbuse heaped upon tliem ami
get so fat on It as the hotel men. Tlio
law looks upon tlio hotel man as a cross
between a licensed pirate and a free In?
surance company. Tho public look? upon
the hotel man as one whom it Is no crime
to red?, no dishonor to deceive, and a
crown of fvlory to fcet ihn hrst of In any
way possible. Wo mipply three-quarters
of tho community, fr$e of cltarge, with
snap, towels, stationery, toothpicks and
intellect, and yet every man who swells
cur collere by spending ton or fifteen cents
at our bar (??.? Incidentally absorbs tlilr
ty-tflve cents' worth of freo lunch) thinks
we are grasping monopolists, and devotes
the remainder of his days in trying to
.get "hunk" with us. We are supposed to
he so affluent that we air t-xpected to
htiJid off every subscription list, to con?
tributo liberally to every charity and to
cash every man's check, regardless of
race, color, or previous condition of serv?
itude.
Hotel men get caught on had checks
rnore often than in any other vay. It's
,the worst feature of the business. Men
(ire traveling a.-id don't want to cany
????*6. ?um? of tasa, ;.: ?.?./ have their
I
funds In checks. They want the hotels
to bei I heir hankers. Ot course, wo like
to bo obliging, but It Is hnrrt to discrim?
inate between tho honest and tlio dishon?
est, and about once In co often we are
left with a worthless chock.
You've probably hoard ?bout tho con?
tinual peculation In botole, No one
realizes tho extent of It except tlio hotel
men, Tho year's Ioks in that way Is
simply incredible. Nobody set-ins to
have any' conscience tibout robbing u
hotel. Wo can't keep sugar t<>ngs or
oyster forks or after dinner coffee
spoons. All tho silver goes fast. Towels
vanish Ilka mugic. Wu simply can't buy
towels fast enough lo keep up tlio sup?
ply. Traveling men are particularly ap?
preciative towel collectors. They stock
up here In New York ligulnst coming
towel (stringency in country towns.
Sometimes 1 think tlio women .no wurm?
.it tbftt than ?lie mon. yet it was a man
thai 'playiil tlio limit bore; he ??>? away
with a pair of blunlu-ts. cut hole* in tlio
middle of them, stuck his head, through j
tho hole?, put on his long overcoat end
buttoned it up urai starred out or the
hotel. Tho corners' or the blanket hung
down below lil.-i overcoat and caught ll'"v
clerk's eye. We saved tho blanket?.
It was n mu?. too, who tr|ed to steal |
, our marble parlor clock, Xh? clock |
weighs muro than 300 pounds. Tlio man
walked right Into the parlor and delibe?
rately look this superb tlmoplonn from
the mantel, There wero guests in the
room, hut they supposed he wus n
clockroaker on business bent. Ho lugged
it up to hi? room, ? chambermaid,
opening his door suddenly, saw lilm
groveling wildly on bla stomach on tlio
lloor nini pushing something under tlio
bed, but Shu didn't think anything Of.
It. Hotel people aren't easily surprised.
After u wliilo Iho clock was missed nuil
the gossip about It ran through the hotel.
Tho chambermaid, rcmetnhererl me im?
mun turtle. Sha trotted up to his room,
dived, under th? bed and hauled out the
cleok.
(.'ollego hoys hnvo a taHte for hotel
.?.'oKcuint. vyhen the JTaJe-Pdnceton foot?
hal| game used ?q be played In Mow
Voil., tin? hotel proprietors ha?] to hire
men to Mt on ,?.?? tin?r movable property!
l)ie pay? v.ti.t throiiiiii ihn b?tela like
ion t through ? farm. \\'t didn't even
have a "This way to (ho elevator" hIrh
?eil ? ? the lem.,,, pifen 111? ?uva Hug horde
?w< pt on.
? good many of lb.mtry guests col?
lect hotel souvenir?. Uncle Joshua, comes
fiom u Knvn where hO can Ilvo on '?'.
n?nia a v,iek. and when a boiel man ?ii'k?
him to , ? .? day ii'? think? i?e'a
being ? : ? ?? r,;i ? robbed, He figuro? t bal
? avei i'tbing he ? in carry off tvun'l beginge
ma?? Mm RUH?
j iiut the country, guest4 arnu't an}
llghtcr-niigerod than tlio city guests. The
proprietor of one of the finest botole In
Now York told mo of a lady who cams tc
irlsit his wife at thoir country home last
summer. Tho maid went up to unpack the
visitor's trunks and told her mistress that
the trunks wem full of towels nnd silver
and napkins and pillow shams' and all
that Bort of tiling, niurked wit It tho names |
of the different hotels where the visi?
tors had been staying. The Joke of it was |
that the gems of tU? collection bad been
gathered from ilio hotel Of the man at
Whose' bouse ? ln> woman Wi,H visiting.
1'vo an hle.a, .founded on bitler expe?
rience, thnt thousands of happy homos In
this great country' must be furnished j
chiefly m thu oxponso of the hotel keep?
ers.
10/ciy hotel Ins Its crank hoarders.
Sometimes their crankiness takes the
form of what Is?'politely called klepto?
mania.. Everybody in the hotel knows the
boarder Hits (hinge, but If ho pays hit
bills nnd Is unobjectionable In overy other
way, no scandal is stirred up. There are
ways of keeping even without hard feel?
ings.
? ? one of the good old New York hotels
there .1 on ohi lady who, for thirty years,
has ; ????? a plate at each meal. She
picks out whatever nuits hor fancy.
Kverybody knows she does It. In feet,
ehe doeen'l trv to hide her propensities.
J,?i:e bus her rouin lull o? ih? plates, all
over tbe wall and the ulielvee. She's not
quite right In her mind, but bho'a unex?
ceptional in regard to everything except
plates; so they wink at that little pecu?
liarity. The proprietor Bays ehe never
tries to take any of the plates out of th?
hotel, and that ?he will never bo away
until she dies. Then he'll get his prop
arty hack. Meanwhile eho'B a paying
patron, and thorn's no use hurting heir
feelings over thruo plu tes a day.
I don't oncourage old ladles myself.
I like them, hut not In my capacity of
hotel proprietor, ?????? they come to
stay, 1 don't try hard to cater to them.
They go away. There's ono hotel In Now
York where most of Ihem land. They
don't admit any guests at that hotel
unless they havo gray side curls. A
nice old lady Is nice, but the average old
lady la a troublesome boarder, and we
U.ivo enough troubles without courting
any.
Ther? or? drawbacks to running a
hotel next door to a railroad station.
Half the peoplo who conio for meals aro
trying to catch trains. A man h*?*?? twelve
minutes to spare, and ho comes la and
orders an extra thick porterhouse. In
two minutes he begins' to squirm. In
three minutes he calls tha head waiter
and says ho ort?ered a steak and has. been
waiting three-quarters- of an hour. . In
oight minutes, ho goes'off swearing and
blackguards the hotel over after. We've
ttx?d tao thins now-, i bought a timo
stamp. The clerk stamps each order with
the oxact time It Is given. When a man
at the end of three minutes swears bo's
been waiting three-quarters of an hour.
wo take tho stamp cheek to him and toll
him he's a liar. Perhaps we don't do
exactly that, but you see the Idea, This
hotel business is very trying,
Crockery and hotels are allied indus?
tries.
Woro it not for the breakage of crock?
ery, tho hotel man might, by the exor?
cise of prudence and economy, make
enough money to keep him out of tho
poor-house, and. perhaps, be able to
leave enough behind hlrn to provide for a
neat though unostentatious funeral.
You recall Tennyson's poem beginning,
"Break, break, break!" Alfred must
havo beon stotpplng In a hotel when he
pontieri that line, so fraught with Joy
ousiiess to the crockery man, so fraught
with eadness to the hotel man. I have
always . suspecte?! that the employes of
hotels are In leugne with tbn crockery
dealers. Talk about a "Hull in a China
shop!" It Is nothing to an able-bodied
adult ioiuale Irish lady in a hotel pan?
try.' ,.
You havo all noticed "The Pottery on Iho
Hotel Table." AVhen you first 'glauco
at your plate you aro In doubt whether
it is really a pluto or a circular saw,
owliur to tho nicks. on the edge. You
also notlco in the bottom of the piatti
something which looks ilko a Herald war
mup. This Is owing to the fuct that It
Is of French, chimi made In Trenton, New
Jersey, and warranted not to chock or
itar. At Carlsbad I was shown some
?clutiUe. chine? which .wouldn't break; if
dropped on the floor, but I understand
tho rnnn who tried to introduce ? Into
thla country was pushed ovor Niagara
Fulls to join tho scoundrel who gave
away the secrets of Masonry.
And ns for hotel waiters. The waiter
who lacks the gyinnustio ability to pre?
cipitate, himself head nrst down a night
of stairs with a trayt'ul of china In either
hand Is lookod upon by his associates In
crime as a mere tyro.
Tho hull-hoy, too! Much of a hall-boy's
life is spent in tlio futllo attempt to forca
a cubo of eight inches diameter Into :*
crockery pitcher four Inches In diameter.
What Is the consequence? Tho crockery
man goes as Ambassador to Turkey, or
?h permitted to spurn tho office of Mayor
of tho city of New York, while the hotel
man hastily pucks Ids belongings In a
collar-box und moves over to tho poor
farm.
I have always regretted lh.it I did not
slick to tho crockery business myself.
1 havo noticed the Insidious way lu
which tho crockery game Is gradually
absorbing all other business enterprises.
Let a dry-goods doaler. hi a moment of
temnoray aberration of mind, permit "?
erockeiV man to rent a small upaca, in his
storo and "his nupie Is Dennis." That
constitutes what might bo termed tha
entering wodge, You remember thu fable
of the Ara)) und tho camol? Tho Arab,
In a moment of weakness, permitted tlio
camel to, put his head under his tent,
and tho camel "kept a-pushln' an a
sliovln' " until he got his whole body in,
nnd the hospitable Arab was obliged to
movo out before the expiration of Ills
lease; wlljclr proves that tho camel had
wind and push;
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