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Show HOBO DINES AT WALDORF Tells Waiter to Put Bill on Ice and Cheerfully Goes to Prison. "NEW YORK. Nov. 26 This is the . dinner that a tramp ordered and ate at the Waldorf-Astoria. Whajt happened . to him afterward comes later in the story: ' - Three Manhattan Cocktails. Blue Points. Astrakhan Caviar. Fondants St. Hubert Consomme Beatrice. , Fillet of Pompano, Metternich. Ducklings Montgolfler. - j.-i.. j.-i.. - Golden Plover.-- - . Biscuit Tortoni. . Champagne. When he had finished up his ice cream " he summoned the waiter and languidly inquired whether he had any good cigars ci-gars in the house. The awe-struck waiter who had ' mistaken the uncon-ventionality uncon-ventionality of the man's attire for the negligence of a Colorado mining millionaire, million-aire, replied that he had some very fair 'ones at H each. The man replied tolerantly that the $4 ones would do, and the box was presented. pre-sented. He selected a long, black weed, bit off the end. lit it, nodded his head approvingly and then, rising slowly, said to the waiter: "Just put the bill on ice, will you? - I'm In a bit of a hurry now." . However, he did not hurry quite fast enough, and Assistant Manager Barse and Special Detective Thornhill Intercepted Inter-cepted him at the door. He was escorted escort-ed smiling to the Tenderloin police station, sta-tion, entertaining his captors on the way with the story of his last winter at the Hoffman house. "Last night." he said with tears In his eyes, "I was I hesitate to relate the outrage rudely thrown out of Beef-steak Beef-steak John's. It was the worst lndig-f'ty lndig-f'ty to which I have ever been subject-. subject-. e 1. swore then that I would never ajaln be guilty of eating in an inferior - restaurant This sort of thing Is the treatment I consider due a gentleman." The man said he was Joseph R. May, and that he lived at the Mills hotel No. 1. He Is known about the Tenderloin as "The Hotel Terror." 1 ' ' in 1 |