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Show BOOTJACKS NOW NEEDED IN MOTELS LOS ANGELES, Fob. 9. "Boy, a bootjack for the gentleman in fifty-four" fifty-four" Is the cry that resounds every day now in the lobby of the large hotels of Los Angeles. The return of the bootjack is due to tho prevalence of "the military -uniform, with its boots ! ) for mountrj officers. r "We have fifty bootjacks on hand ; it here." said the manager of a large ' jH hotel recently, "and our guests greet ' them with joy when we send them up. . The bootjack has been out of use for 1 so long that it is novelty to the younger officers, and when a man in I ' boots registers here, we don't wait for , him to ask for one, wo just send it 'i along." I tM oo |