Show WHY HE QUIT THE ROAD ex drummer voices regret for the th disappears nce of face and clerk oh for the old fashioned hotel elerk smiling accommodating always tri friendly endly who never forgot a face obliging and always making a fell fellow ovir feel eel like he was at home sala rank frank whitsell whetsell of portland ore a ac cording to the el BI paso anso gierald II erald what a difference between the old professional hotel clerks of 23 25 years ago oven even up to 15 years ago and the au all to matte mechanical clerks who never try to oblige I 1 might call them auto grouches of the present day behind the hotel registers if you ask orto of them a question he or she nowadays intimates that you get your room and meals just exactly what you tou pay foro for arid and not a thing more please understand that I 1 was a commercial traveler for a quarter cen tury up tip to sir years ago and I 1 know why we old drummers ns na they used to call us felt at home in those thosa old hostelries of the western states just on account of the clerks say they were gods noblemen those old timers they to anticipate a n fellows wants and would go to all sorts of trouble tp to accommodate one the milk of human kindness flowed in their hearts arid and it ma made de business bustness too I 1 havo have stopped at tin an inferior house many a time because I 1 had bee been n treated so well by the clerk and I 1 can say bay too tho the proprietors were much the same way in those days hotels were ivere nindo made flo melike not a big box with where you are to ie be tucked away at so much per pei that was one of the reasons I 1 quit the road the chilli purely mechanical hotels of the present day |