Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 29, 1901, Page 25

N L THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1901, EVOLUTION OF A BELL BoY of the Hardest Kind of| Hard Knocks Process Full DOES MUCH HOPING BEFORE HE FLIES | — | People Give Him Whatever They Choose and He Has to Take It, Whether He Likes it “Front!" It 18 the large man with the Aiplomatic smile and the aldermaniec curve to his vest who speaks. He Is the manager of the hotel, and his terse call, apparently ad- dressed to the inkwell brings to the desk, with more or less promptness, a specimen | York newspaper devised the plan of havingasne war. of the genius Bell Hop. Bell Hop is not Latin. Neither {s the hop himself. He may be almost anything else, white or black, but he Is not Latin, for Latin Is ancient and the bell hop is modern—ex- tremely modern. The name originated fn the hopper's assumed ability to fiit about aa the sparrows do. The boy himself origl- Dates—anywhere! In the larger hotels of Omaha a total | of about fifty bell hops, or, more politely, | bell boys, are employed. Of these not half | are known by name to their employers, and | not a dozen have been troubled for any | more detailed account of themselves than the name of the last place they worked. In some Instances they never really have worked apywhere and evince a reluctance to break themselves in. Such do not last long. Sometimes the recruit has worked but never bofore in a hotel. The develop- ment of such a boy, his initiation into the mysteries of the business and his advance- ment to & position of such responsibility that he draws a good salary, wears good clothes and smokes good cigars right along {8 & process more interesting than the evo- lution of the butterfly from the caterpillar. When He First Ap When a new boy applies at a hotel for a Job he Is invited to go to the manager, the clerk, the bell captain or the deuce. If it 1s the latter he generally exits to marvel at the coldness of the world. 1If It is either of the former and he happens to apply at the right time he is sized up, given some scriptural admonition to guide his conduct and a uniform which was made for son other boy and which fits him usually llke a second-hand bargaio. Then he takes his place on the bench reserved for his crew and the process of sophistication begins Tho manager teaches him his place, the clerks teach him his duties and the older boys teach him to “wind up the elevator with a crank,” seem busy when he {sn't and smoke cigarettes off watch. Later, from all of them he learns how to favor- ably impress a guest who looks like easy money, how to part his hair in the middle with his fingers, how to know much some- times and nothing at all some other times, how to make a $15 sult look like it might have cost $30, how to jolly the maids when the housekeeper isn’t about, how to reverse & double collar and how to keep out of the way of persons who make It disagreeable for him. When he has learned all these things, In weeks or in months, he has be- come a professional bell hop, with a salary of from $5 to $16 a month, his board and the privilege of taking everything that Is oftered him. Record for Ti, In this latter matter of tips, it is not al- ways the largest house that a boy finds most profitable. In recent years the best | which was Newspaper War Fleet | A Feature of the Spanish= American War, Edward Marshall, one of the war corre- spondents who saw active service In Cuba 1n 1598 and was severely wounded in one of the battles preceding the capture of San- tlago, relates in Pearson’s Magazine inter- esting facts about the operations and the cost of the newsgathering fleet in the war He says in part “Within a few daya after the destruction of the Maine correspondents from all parts of the country were rushed to the scene ot the disaster. The mews-reading public de- manded every possible item of information regarding the affair, the grave import of immediately appreclated. But the Spanish officlals soon instituted a cen- sorship so rigorous that very little informa- tlon percolated through the cable from Ha- vana. To cope with the situation a New its dispatches sent by boat from the Cuban coast to Key West, where they were put upon the wires and sent direct to the news- paper offices. The other papers were not slow to adopt this plan and soon a large fleet of tugs, yachts and small steamers were plylng between the fsland and United States territory. This was the beginning of the firot fleet of newsgathering vessels ever assembled. The work of following the movements of the squadrons under command of Acting Rear Admiral Sampson and Commodore Schley, and of attempting to locate the whereabouts of the fleet sent across the At- lantic by the Spanish government, afforded plenty of occupation for all these press boats and for the scores of correspondents tkat they carried. Manifestly the only way to be absolutely certain of obtaining all the news was to keep track not only of the large fleets, but also of the detached ves- sels which were sent along the coast for patrol duty, and the newspaper boats had to make dally trips to Key West in order to put thelr dispatches upon the cable To patrol a coast line as great as that of Cuba (the Island is over 100 miles long) and to know every event of importance taking place within (ts limits, was an ex- tremely difMcult matter. The plan adopted by most of the press representatives was to follow up the fleet, keeping the flagship In sight until @ bombardment or some other event of news importance took place; then to make a dash for Key West, put the dis- patches on the wire, and, returning, pick up the fleet as soon as possible. This method Involved glorious opportunities for “beats.”” Not only this, but there were often exciting races between the boats to get the wire at Key Weet The cables leaving from that port were always overcrowded during the progress of There was a great amount of government matter to be transmitted and government dispatches {nvariably took the precedence of all others. With the corre- spondents it was “first come first served." and the man who got in late. no matter how important his dlspatch, was not likely to have It printed in huis paper the next day. There were occasions when rival tugs came racing fnto Key West with thelr steam gauges registering a dangerous pres- sure, and some of the correspondents serv- ing as stokers and feeding portions of the woodwork of the vessel into the furnace. There were some exciting eplsodes among the experfences of the men who carled these dispatches. On some of the boats ofl in barrels was considered a necessary part ot the vessel's outfit, and danger point or no danger point, It was poured freely over the coal burned in the furnaces, the corre- spondents preferring to take the chances of blowing thefr boats up rather than risk be- ing “beaten” by some rival news-gatherer. The hoats were most of them small, al- though one editor, finding that he could not get good tugs, on two occasons chartered veritabla ocean steamships and used them as dispatch boats for his newspaper. Of course these ships had little to fear from the weather in the Gult of Mexico, but the smaller craft frequently enmcountered real danger in crossing from points of action to far-distant cable atations. Many of the tugs were without decent sleeping accom- modations, and the hardships of the news- paper men who manned them were severe. Nor did the weather present the only dangers which the dispatch-hoats encoun- tered. I know of one case—that of the New York Sun tugboat Simpson, at Guantanamo when the boat went Into the harbor for news, and came out with anywhere from twenty to thirty holes made by Spanish bullets in its upper works. A good indication of tne amount of money spent by American newspapers during the Spanish-American war might be found in certain entries on the books of the New York Herald. For good reasons the Herald kept no deposits of money in any one of the islands of the West Indies except those in the Danish group. As much as $10,000 was deposited there at a time, to be drawn on by the Herald correspondents, and at one time the Herald owed the Boston Fruit company as much as $30,000, which had been drawn from the Port Antonio office of that company by the Herald correspondents, who had credit with this concern. The New York Journal spent on the war alone an average of $121,000 a month. At one time one of the Journal's correspondents spent $27.60 a ton for coal for & dispateh- boat at Cape Haitlen The story of the battle between the American and Spanish fleets at Santiago cost the New York Journal $10,000 in one day, and the New York Herald and the New York World spent almost as much in get- ting the same news. — —~ — a mail and key clerk at the patrlarchal Palmer house in Chicago when the town was still in knee pants. the land of fresh fish and clambakes to learn the west's way of handling the food | and shelter business. Dan Bales' first stunt was with an office broom over at Carroll, Ta. Jay Ross was on the bench within the eary Tecollection of people still very young Billy Andersos must have commenced sometime and somewhere, but «o long ago | that he himself has forgotten and modern history fails to give it In the hotel business a pull helps| mightily, but there is always a practical advantage In having first caught hold ot the rope at the lowest knot and where it 1s real work to hold on. And this reflection Is probably the one sustaining reflection of the common, every-day bellboy—that diminutive valet who works when others play, climbs stairs while other ride, treads gloomy halls while other sleep, tempers complainte while others profit and even- tually succeeds only by hustling while oth- ers loaf, | CHASED BY DELEGATIONS OF VOTERS ——— PALACINE OIL, high grade safety light. Love's Gramm Philadelphia Pross: “I wish I dared to nek you something, Miss Millle,” sald | Bd Fitzgerald left | | WILLIA MRINLEY'S DOUBLE Trials of an Obio Editor Whe Resembled o Late President. Tom Merton's Experience with Poll and Camera Mistook Him orite So ticlans, Rooters Flends Who for Ohio's ¥ While President McKinley, in Buffalo, was making his strong-willed fight with death there stood In the eager crowds that scanned the buletin boards in Pittsburs, night bearing and expression so resembled the stricken president that men who passed that anxious figure started and stared and | wondered whether thelr eyes were not play ing them false. The man was Thomas Mer- ton, the editor of a Pittsburg evening news- paper and an old and valued friend of the chief executive of the nation. Mr. Merton, 1tke his famous double, comes from Canton, known record was in & house of less than 200 rooms, but in which one hustler made in'May, 1808, $48.35. He was a frugal young man and he kept books for himself. Some day he may own the house, or better still, the bar. From bell boy tho usual oruer of promo- tion 18 to bell captain, whose duty s almply to keep account of the work and behavior of the subordinate lads on the bench. Next in line is the position of mall and key clerk, which gives the youth his first chanco behind the desk, his first oppor- tunity to aesume some dignity and his first experlonce at talking a guest into belleving that he is satisfied with the accommoda- tions whether he {8 or not. From mail and key clerk the steps upward are few, but long and hard to take. Night clerk, room clork, manager or assistant, lessee or pro- prietor. How rapldly a boy takes these strides de- pends somewhat on circumstances but largely on the boy himself. If he can stay sober seven days a week and etay awake soven nights a week and still look pleasant eternally and always, a clerkship will come. To go higher he must have business ability of no common kind along with his other virtues. Many good clerks there are, but good managers are few and successful pro- prietors still fewer. What Some Others Have Dome, Beliboys with ambition find some In- centive in the careers of a few who now occupy good positions in Omaha hotel ranke. Rome Miller caught hold of the lower rung of the ladder when he w 13 years old and had a cash capital of con- siderable less than a dollar. A. S. Lee took his academic course in a stewarding depart- ment fnto which he forced his way on & meat and gamo wagon. H. B. Peters' long and claesic logs used to bear him up and down hotel stairs with a pitcher of lce water in each hand and clght room num bers in his head long before he ever saw electric 1light elevators, bartenders with bolled shirts and the other distinctions of the histelry that is modern. DickJohuson was Archey, with trembling volce and wabbling chin. “Why don't you dare to ask maiden sald, demurely. “Because 1 can see ‘no' in your eyes." “In both of them?" “Y-yes.” “Well, doun't you—don't you know two negatives are equivalent to an—how dare you, elr! Take your arm from around my walst, fustantl But he dida't. 1t?"" the Trouble Begins Trouble begins with the back, 'Tis the first symptom of kid ney ills. The aches and pains of a bad back Are the kidneys’ call for help, Neglect the warning, Urinary disorders—diabetes—Bright's disease, Quickly follow, Doan’s Kidney Pills A remedy for kidneys only Will cure every kidney ill. Any bladder trouble. Endorsed by Omaha people. Mr, J. Flick of 1808 C the best remedy I ever us s stree t, says for kidney complaints. “'Doan’s Kidney Pills a A friend of mine recommended them to me and I vrocured them at Kuhn & Co.'s drug store. 1 was troubled for several v ars with sharp paius when stooping and tho irregular actlon of the kidney secretions, especlally at night, caused me much misery. Doan's Ki faction. They they cure. I ba Tesults were obtained.' At All Drug Stores, 50 Cents—Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. duey Pills gave me complete satl e 80 mild you hardly know you are taking them, ygt advised friends to use them and in all cases good Y EDITOR MERTON, PRESIDENT M'KINLEY'S DOUBLE. after night, a man who In feature, | his disappointment, thought hard for a mo- ment, then eaid “We'll work this address out together and right now. Let's take these notes and see what can be done with them." With his notes in his hands the governor began an address to an audience of one. Around and around the great easy chair in the library he strode, speaking rapidly and with fire, seemingly forgetting that he was not addrescing a large gathering, while his | audience furiously pursued him with the angles and pothooks of stenography. Pres- ently the speech was finished. “How's thai, Mr, Merton?" Merton eought in vain for a sultable ex- pression of thanks. Before he could find it the future president sald “Well, come on—the afternoon address.” In a moment he was racing along, out- | lining his second effort of the day. Just as he had got fairly into the swing of It | there came an unlooked for interruption. | Atter a turn, in his pacing up and down, | that brought him facing the window, tho orator broke off hort in the middle of a sentence and uttered these surprising words Look out! Here ls trouble. “Here Is trouble,” murmured the reporter s he mechanically embodied the words in his written characters. Then realizing that it was not part of the specch ho looked up astonished. M. McKinley was half way to the door. There was a smile—it was perhaps more of a grin—on his face. “Goodby; don't let them scare you," he sald, pointing to the long window open- ing on the lawn, and was gone. Wheeling around, Merton beheld what scemed to him half the population of Cook county making for the window. He grabbed his notes and jumped up, but the time for escape was past. A six-footer strode through the window, seized his hand and began to pump-handle it energetically. “How are you, Major McKinley? 1 hope to see you President of the United States some day." “But I am not “Ah, Misther McKinley, Ol'm fer ye fer pope or prisident or anything,” interrupted a warm-hearted Irishman, getting posses- slon of Merton's disengaged hand. Other men were close behind, and there was one woman who demanded, with shrill iteration, an autograph. Merton edged to- ward the door through which the real Mc- Kinley had deserted. Seizing the oppor- tunity he made a dash, slammed the door after him, and fled to a secluded retreat 0. The editor 1s a much younger man; but | many strange instances of mistakes, th which journalist and statesman were mis- taken for each other, have been recorded, and on more than one occasion Mr. Merton has been forced, to his great embarrass- ment, publicly to impersonate Mr. McKin- | ley. On Memorial day, 1892, Mr. McKinley, then governor of Ohfo, reached Chicago, where he was to make two addresses, one to members of the Grand Army of the Re- publie, another in the afternoon to the American Mechanics. Merton was then dramatic critic of a Chi- cago newspaper, but owing to his personal acqualntance with Mr. McKinley, he was | sent to find McKinley and get from him, it | possible, advance coples of both his speeches for the day. The McKinleys were stopping at the bome of Lafayette McWilllams, a cousin of the president. Merton reached the house with difficulty, being compelled to work his way through a great crowd that had gathered to catch a glimpse of the man then being spoken of as the next president, passed the police lines and rang the door- | bell. Orders had been given that Mr. M- Kinley should not be disturbed. A colored servant, frowning severely, opened and the frown gave way to a look of consternation. He rutbed his eyes and looked again. One minute before the servant had seen Goy- ernor McKinley at breakfast; but here he med to be at the front door. 1d Merton, chuckling to himself over the servant’s worried look “Dar's Mr. McKinley's twin brother, or bis spook, out dar,” was the message deliv- ered to the butler with the card by the col- ored man. The future president promptly recelved Merton. i Working for a Scoop, “Governor," said Merton, me for copies of your addresses for today. We want to get out extras as soon as you begin speaking, and we will put them In type at once it you will help us. | ""I nave no addresses prepared,” replied | Mr. McKinley. “On the way over I jotted down some points, and hope to have an hour before time to g0 to the meeting In order to get them in better shape.' Merton's face fell. “Take this card to Governor McKinley," | The governor noticed | beneath the staircase, where he remained till the police had cleared out the re- mainder of his reception party. His paper had a “scoop’” on Mr. McKinley's morning speech, but the afteromon effort did not appear in full. The crowd had come too s00n, Merion at Canton, In the famous “front porch” campalgn at Canton In 1896 Merton played a consider- able part. He had been sent by a news- peper to report the campalgn from that point. Here he was frequently photo- graphed as the candidate, and many of the dally and weekly papers plctures of that period purporting to be photographs of Mr. McKinley are really reproductions of Merton's face and figure, taken with the tacit consent of Mr. McKinley, who once remarked that these counterfeit presentments were “just as lifelike and rather better looking than the real article.” Five hundred people, all of whom knew Merton personally, saw him do his first posing of this sort. A famous publication which has always prided Itsel upon the accuracy of Its plctures, sent a corps of men to Canton in the early dayvs of the campalgn to get up a big pictorial issue. They arrived on Saturday afternoon, only to learn that the candidate was not feeling well and would probably not be about before dusk. While bewailing thls delay the leader of the picture corps saw Merton passing and captured him by main force, “I want you to get up on the porch and pose as Mr. McKinley for us,* he falrly shouted The newspaper man thought the fellow crazy and began to back away when he saw him take off his long Prince Albert coat. The matter was explained to Mer- ton. In a.few minutes, dressed in the artist’s coat and silk hat, he mounted the steps of the McKinley home and while the owner and future president slumbered in- side, he posed for pictures which after- ward became famous. Mr. McKinley told ¢ following of the incident, laughed and when the pictures appeared a week later he declared they were among the best he had ever had taken. Embarrassing Attentlon, During the campaign there were many other situations more or less embarrassing | tor the time to Merton. Oun several oc- casions he was stopped on the street by delegations from outside towns who had | come In to see Mr. McKinley and present thelr compliments. There was a freight | agent named Martin at Canton whose spe- clal dellght was to point out Merton to v ors. *“There's Major McKinley now.” he would say. ‘'He always denles his ldentity when strangers tackle him. But don't let that bluft you. It's only his modesty.” Then the strangers would beset Merton fn spite of his protests, to his own wrath and the glee of the station agent One morning in question a delegation of per- | haps 100 enthusiastic republicans from an | adjoining county reached Canton. with Chiffoniers, Etc. 18.00 golden ok Chiffonfer with 36.00 quartered oak Buffet 45.00 quartered oak Buffet .. PLAIN FIGURES Former Reduced Price. Price $ 7.00 oak Chiffonter $ 495 9.00 quart. oak Chiffonter .... 600 Dressers and Bureaus Reduced Price. $11.00 Former Price 0 antique Dresser .... 5.00 antiqué Dresser 30.00 polished oak Dresser § mirror “ 28.00 mahogany Dresser 20.00 mahogany Chiffonter with 8.00 mahogany Dresser mirror eseienee 00 mahogany Dresser . 25.00 mahogany Chiffonier with 50.00 mabogany Dresser ........ 31.00 mirror Hvevdvvevvyeve J000 ORRi 30.00 mahogany Chiffonier with IMIPPOF sovvioiovusnniven coe 10.50 Couches 40.00 mahogany Chiffonfer with Former Reduced mirror ETTRRLITS ceees 24000 Price. Price. 8500 bird's-eye maple Chif- $20.00 Box Couch $15.00 fonier with mirror 2850 1600 Flat Couch L1100 Velours Couch . 1800 AR T Tapestry Couch .... 19.00 China Cases 17.00 Bed Couch . 1100 47.00 Leather Couch 35,00 b aad Reduced 75y eather Couch Price. Price. $16.60 golden oak China Case ..$ . 24.00 golden oak China Case .. Extension Tables 23.00 golden oak China Case .. All 8 Feet. 26.60 golden oak China Case Fotmad Reduced 47.50 golden oak China Case .. Price Prive 40.00 golden ok China Case $18.00 golden onk nsion 50.00 golden oak Crystal Case.. e ‘ $10.75 50.00 Flemish oak China Case.. 2300 golden oak Extenslon Table s + 15,50 i 26,00 golden onk nsion Table . . « 1750 Buffets 20.00 golden oak Extension Former Table Sh AT Price. 2000 golden oak Extension $10.00 quartored oak Buffet Table . 18,00 20.00 quartered oak Buffet 00 golden oak Extension 23.00 quartered onk Buffet Table ¥iis . 26,00 32.00 Combination China Case 70.00 golden ok (round) Ex and Buftet ension Table 0 Flemish oak (square) tension Table ley residence when the mischievous station agent came along. Far up the street he had #pled Merton coming down and he halled the standard bearer: ‘Going up to Major McKinley's?" “Well, the major ain't at home now,"” ob- served Martin, ““He's gone out for a walk. But you're in luck,” he added, pointing to Merton, “for here he comes now.' Martin dodged behind a wagon. The leader of tho delegation spoke a few hur- ried words to the band, which struck up “Hall to the Chie:' and the processisn moved. Merton, unconsclous of impending trouble, was brought up with a round turn and found himself surrounded by a crowd of gally decked country voters, The band screeched a welcome and stopped. Merton eould start to run the spokesman advanced with a roll of parchment and be- gan an address to Major McKinley. Merton glanced round helplessly and caught sight of Martin, who, by this time, had mounted the top of the wagon and was almost in epasme of joy. Merton turned wroth and stopped the speechmaker, saying: “I'm not Mr. McKinley, my good man. You have been imposed on.'" The epokesman glared at biurted out: “Why aln't you Mr. McKinley?" This was a hard one. Merton floundered, trying to explain that he wase the victim of a joke, but the spokesman would have none of it. He pointed to the life-size ploture of McKinley on thelr banner and asked Merton If he dare deny, In the face of such proof, that he was Mr. McKinley. He grew both angry and loud. He declared that the supposed McKinley was trying to throw down the voters from that end of the state by declining to recognize them. He sald the county from which they have now come had always stood by McKinley, but they didn't want to be made sport of in thls way. Merton and Stralghtening the Tangle, Merton was in a cold sweat by this time. S0 wae Martin. The last thing either of them wanted was to lose votes for Mr. Mc- Kinley. So Martin came down from His wagon and between him and Merton the tangle was straightened out, but it was not until the delegation saw Mr. McKinley and Merton together in the same yard that afternoon that they were completely satis- fled. As long as Merton stayed in Canton he was the victim of encounters of the follow- ing sort. He would be approached by a lot fore the boldest of them would venture to advance and extend his hand, saying “I beg your pardon, but you are—" “No, sir; I am not," Merton would reply wearlly ““Is it possible that I am mistaken fn—'" “Yes, #ir; it is. More than possible. And if you'd been asked that question as many times as I have you'd be pretty sick of it, and away he would go, leaving his interlo- cutor still doubting. It got so that anyone could put him to ignominious flight by merely approaching him with hand out- stretched Some years ago Merton went into the office of a big Ohlo newspaper where a life size pleture of President McKinley was one of the prominent wall fixtures: While was walting two people who had evideutly not been long in the town came in. They glanced at the picture, then at Merton, One of them came up and, without any prelim inarics, began to talk business. Merton saw there was some mistake and told him to speak to some one connected with the papér. ‘Don’t you own this paper?’ said the stranger “No. Sorry to say, I don't,” replied Mer- ton. “Now, what's the use of you telling me that. We've got to have this thing fixed up | their braes band and banners. They were starting up from the station to the McKin- and there's no use of you trying to tell lies about It. You're the man that owns the pa- Before | of visitors, who would scan him closely be- | he | EDUCATIONAL, primary, preparatory and academic. ical training by professional 0ol reopens Beptember 16 erate. Send for catulogue. Macrae, principal. Omaha. NEW PUBLICATIONS, Tor-Furtue T Fo BY THE ZODIAD, &y ctrmes oo ot Ihrening ook on Auology, I Your Birth A starup for revarr post 12 mate beoole hatiy’ and full of Fage . “Alldr 3 % William Stroct Nom Is your office cold in winter? 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