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Show WHY HE QUIT "THE ROAD" Ex-Drummer Voices Regret for the Disappearance of Oldtime Boniface Boni-face and Clerk. "Oh frr the old fashioned hotel rlerk. smiling. nccommoilatlnK, always friendly, who never forgot a faee. Obliging and always making a fellow feel like he was at home," said Krank Whitsell of Portland, Ore., ant cording to the n Paso Herald, "What a difference between the old professional profes-sional hotel clerks of gfl years ngo, even lip to 18 years ago, and the nu-'tomatlc, nu-'tomatlc, mechanical elerks who never try to oblige I might call them nut(-mnfle nut(-mnfle grouches--of the present day behind the hotel registers. If you B-dc one of them a question he or she, nowadays. Intlmntes that you get your room and meals, lust exactly what you pay for, and not a thing more, please understand that. I was a commercial com-mercial traveler for a quarter century cen-tury up to six years ago, and I know. Why, we old drummers, ns they used to call us, felt at home In those old hostelrles of the western states. Just on account of the cferks. Say, fhey were Cod's noblemen, those old timer. They seemed to anticipate n fellow's wants iiimI wnnhl go to nil sorts of trouble to accommodate one. Tho tuiik ii' human kindness Rowed in their hearts. Anil It mude business, too. I have stopped nt nn Inferior house, many a time, because I had been treated treat-ed so well by the clerk. And I can Ray, too, the proprietors were much the snme way In those days. Hotels were made homelike, not a big box with Comportments, where you are to be tucked away nt so much per. That was one of the reasons I quit tlie road, tlH ehllly. purely mechanical hotel of the present day." |