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Show UTAH CELERY GETS i DESERVED TRUE Railway Writer Establishes His Own Fame While Extolling Its Virtue. COURTESY IS A RULE Waiters on Dining Cars Told They Must Come Down to Mother Earth. Some literary chieftain of the Union Pacific system dining car and hotel department de-partment took his typewriter in hand the other day and wrote a treatise upon it. which W. S. Basinger, general passenger pas-senger agent of the Union Pacific, had multiraphed and sent out over the system, sys-tem, in order that all employees may know that "Utah celery the best in the world" is served, among countless, other delicacies. This story of the dining cars reached the general offices of the Oregon Short Line yesterday and such were its compelling com-pelling words that only with difficulty could the passenger department employees em-ployees he restrained from rushing down to the yards aud clambering aboard a train, in order to eat one of the delectable delec-table meals served in the dining car. One chap averred that the literature sounded like a maitre d 'hotel's dream of heaven. Courtesy Is Keynote. Besides informing employees of the general facts about the Union Pacific's dining car department, in order that thev may jjjisousa it intelligently and favorably with patrons, the circular cites some of the rules for dining car employees. This by way of showing the service given patrons. "Courtesy' is the keynote of those rules for dining din-ing car conductors and waiters. The old-fashioned darky in the diner, who said, "Yas, lady, I '11 fetch dat right away," has changed his reply to "Yes, madam, I will bring it at once.' "Lady" is taboo. Women passengers must be addressed as t ' Madam ' or 'Miss." The general public may be interested in knowing that it is always right on the dining car. Tf the boorish man in the loud suit insists that the waiter has brought him cutlets when he ordered or-dered chops, the waiter must bring him cpops. "Arguments and altercations with passengers should be avoided," say the rules. "Tf a patron objects to the quality or condition of fffiy dish, his judgment is final." Makers of Trouble. Here is what the rules say about the unreasonable trouble-makers, who frequently appear on trains, as well as elsewhere: The fact that patrons are often inipolite and unreasonable is trying try-ing and vexatious, but does not justify jus-tify similar conduct in return. The patron pays his money with"the implied im-plied privilege to do as he pleases. If the patron is impolite and unreasonable, un-reasonable, such conduct hurts him or her far more than the employee concerned. The employee is not responsible for the good breeding of the patron. The company, however, how-ever, is responsible for the behavior-of behavior-of its employees, whose duties always al-ways include politeness. The company com-pany puts the matter on higher ground than this even, and asks that every employee be polite and' . attentive for his own sake. Courtesy Cour-tesy makes friends for the employee himself and friends are a valuable asset. The ciroular contains staggering statistics sta-tistics as to the number or potatoes, eggs, trout and so on used on the roaa in a year and advises that the products of territory traversed by the Union Pacific Pa-cific system arc featured as Utah celery, cel-ery, trout and fruit. |