Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1911 — Guest ‘Jollies’ Waiter to Save Tips [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Guest ‘Jollies’ Waiter to Save Tips

S ALINA, KAN.—In the breach of promise suit of Miss Alice Bowes agdinst N. W. Sly, some Inside facta about how a traveling man may invarihbly get the best there is on the bill of fare at a hotel were made public. Miss Bowqs was a waitress in a Topeka hotel. Sly, formerly a Union Pacific conductor, and now a claim agent for that road, frequently stopped at the hotel where the plaintiff was employed. He "Jollied" her freely and she thought he was trying to marry her. ,Sly says he was merely trying to get the best there was in the house to eat The Jury took the girl's side of the question and gave her a verdict for 610,000. The girt says that Sly made love to .her and Induced her to go with him on Several trips, and wrote her many effusive letters. She could ndt produce {any of these letters. Though this statement was met by a denial from Sly ithat he ever wrote to her, she says i the letters were so warm she destroy- * icd them as fast as they arrived. Sly ; stood pat on a clear denial of every and insisted the whole ■vsaiQidr?*. • ’ wrh-.. J*-F t *

trouble came from |Mlss Bowes' Inability to differentiate between hunger and heartache. During his many years’ work as a railroad man Sly took liberties with his personal locomotive and mads many a flying switch on a lunch counter sandwich and cup of coffee. Trying to keep up steam on tough steak and cold apple pie Anally bad tyi effect and by the time be quit eating his meals in rag-time from the top of a stool his stomach was laid np for repairs and to get something he could eat at hotel#necessltated some kindly attention from the waitresses. He ■ags he was kind to all of them, for by. that method he obtained better service. In regard to Miss Bowes, he says he didn’t treat her any differently from the others.