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Show WAITERS WHO HAVE MADE THEIR MARK These aro Intances of waiters who have affected the destinies of nations. Descending to merely monoyetl waiters, wait-ers, examples arc legion. Thoro have beon several cases whore people sending send-ing for the proprietor of their hotel have discovered him In the head waiter or the hall porter, and we know that the ambition of all the waiters who swarm into England Is ultimately ultimate-ly to own a restaurant of their own. Many of them do It, for these waiters are an eager and vigorous crew. There Is one notablo little restaurant In Sqho whose proprietor worked here a generation ago as assfstant waiter, and who Is now Mayor of his native town In Italy. In New York Charles Miller, a waiter of the Astor Hotel, retired with a fortuno of $100,000, and the head waiter of tho Waldorf Astoria owns a racing stable, a motor car and a steam yacht, Jn Vienna, 1 again, the colors of another head waiter are among the most prominent on the racing fleld The head boots of a famous hotel In the Trossachs Is said to have amassed 17,000 In flvo years. With Buch circumstances It is not surprising to find that members of the aristocracy aro taking the waiter's wait-er's profession, and that a rigorous class standard is maintained. On November No-vember 16th last Viscount Charles Calosso, a waibor, was a witness in -'mK." 1 il1"" ' a police court case, and when some time ago the waiters of New York started a club of their own they wore very t rigorous that no "amateurs, ex-steerage ex-steerage stewards from Atlnntic liners lin-ers and scally-wags" were to be admitted. ad-mitted. Class distinction must bo maintained. London, of course has Its waiters' clubs, where the waiters have waiters to wait 011 them, and tip them out of their tips. And it Is not surprising to find that the London Lon-don branch of the Geneva Union, an International association of waiters, which already has Its own well -equipped clubhouse, Its own athletic club, and Its own burying ground, Is pro- . . . . n 1 pared to spend 15,000 on new prem- M Ises. London Standard. , t |