Show Railroad Jating Houses and Landlords SALT LAKE CITY Aug 9 1883 Editors Herald Some time has elapsed since I troubled your readers and thinking it was time to trespass again I do so It has been my good fortune during the last year to visit several of the aforementioned hotels and I I find that they are not limited to any particular class as I could make myself comfortable wherever my Jot lull The landlords are always sometimes good natured if they see a good train coming In But of all salt pickle barrel expressions to be seen on a mans face is when a large train pulls up and only three or four of the passengers go to meals the waiters are cursed the train is cursed and the passengers are discussed dis-cussed In traveling over the roads between be-tween Omaha and San Francisco a fair sample of railroad hotels maybe II may-be gotten My digestion as a general gen-eral thing is good but nature never placed a coffee mill on a saucage machine in any part of my anatomy anat-omy to grind up a variety of cooked cooked is a burlesque but I will have to use it material presented for nourishment Many times my stomach has reproached me for the introduction of only a small amount of the articles presented but hungry eyes are only looking for fomething to relieve the inner rioting for hunger is like a restless mob and must be satisfied or there will be trouble Mauy times my innards have been wailing like a troop of orphaued coyotes and the eyes of my inner self would lookdown look-down and say Please be still and you shall soon be satisfied but I did not know the hotel and the result re-sult was tbit I went away a sadder but sicker man Very cheerful to sit down and have the porter standing stand-ing at the other end of the table waiting for you to scare up an appetite before he can take your order Meats ham lamb sheep or mutton and old pork Tea or coffee sir 1 he coffee is extract of burnt leather and the tea is five drops of logwood extract to the gallon gal-lon while you hear an old coffee mill running to keep up the delusion delu-sion The potatoes are seasoned with water and escaped the painful nrocess of neelincr In nassincr the fork to your mouth stop and look and make sure it is not a web foot with hair growing between the prongs Another class of hotels is all that mortal can desire for comfort and attention Again we find an eat inghouse with pork and beans served on tins and the host in a hearty backwoods tone of voice bids you welcome thusly Thar is what weve got stranger help yourself Wish it was better but yer welcome This makes one feel easy in mind if not in body But deliver me from the cat tail aristocracy aristoc-racy hotel upintheairall show i andnosubstance places that keen i egg and mustard calicocolored napkins variegated tablecloths and short rations so far as food is concerned But the palm is always open for the dollar sir Their table ilwaya looks as thou hit h-it was washday in the pantry or housecleaning in the vegetable scullery scul-lery with other domestic pleasures going on around the house I was initiated into a little of the inside workings of hotels while breakfasting breakfast-ing at the Junction hotel when stepping to the window with the hand on the customary placA on such occasions 1 asked the bill One dollar I pulled it out and paid It at the same time wondering why it should be so high why everything is so unreasonable While thinking another an-other party came up Fifty cents sir another party came along 85c On enquiry I learned that the latter was a railroad man That was all right but why such a difference I differ-ence and why did it run over so large a scale It shows a disposition to plunder transients and the tran scient from the force of circumstances circum-stances is compelled to give up Salt Lake reached and happy CHROMO |