Show i WHY HE QUIT T THE E ROAD Ex Drummer Ex-Drummer Voices Regret for the tha Disappearance of Boniface Boni f face ce and Clerk Oh for far the old fashioned ned hotel clerk smiling g accommodating always friendly who never forgot a a n face obliging and always making a n fellow felio feel teel like he was at nt home sall Frank Whitsell of Portland Ore according according ac ac- cording to the El Paso Herald What a Ii difference between the old professional professional professional hotel clerks of 25 years ago even eyen up tip to 15 years ago and the automatic automatic au au- mechanical clerks who never try to oblige I oblige I might call them automatic automatic automatic auto auto- matic grouches grouches ot of the present day behind the hotel registers If 11 you ask one of them a n question he or she nowadays Intimates that you get your room and meals just exactly what you OU pay for and not a thing more please understand that I was a commercial commercial commercial com com- mercial mercial traveler for n a quarter century century cen cen- tury up to six years ng ago and I know Why we old drummers as they ey used to call us felt at nt home In those old obi hostelries of the western states just juston on account of the cerl clerks s. s Say they were were Gods God's noblemen those old They seemed to anticipate a n fellows fellow's wants nn and and- would go to all sorts of trouble to accommodate one Tho The milk mIlko o human kindness flowed In theta their hearts And It made business too I t have stopped at an nn inferior house many ninny a time because I had been treated treated treated treat treat- ed so well by the clerk An And I cansay cansay can cansay say too the proprietors proprietors' were much the same way in hose lose days Hotels were made homelike not a bi big bo box bos boswith with compartments where you tire pre to tobe tobe tobe be tucked away at so o much per That was one of the the reasons reasons I quit the road the chilly purely mechanical hotels hotch of at the present day |