Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1884 — The Hotel Porter’s Story. [ARTICLE]

The Hotel Porter’s Story.

“Unless the man happens to be rich anil has traveled about a good deal he ■will never go to the clerk for information. The average hotel guest will stop a bell boy. or a bootblack, or go to the newstand for information first, or, as is most likely, come to me. The other day a dudish-looking thing came in here with an umbrella cover on him for a Newmarket, and after waiting around for a while stepped up to the baggage book while I bad turned my back. I had seen him before; he was a new reporter. So I asked one of the guests whom I knew to go up to him and tell the dude to send for his baggage. He did it fine. The young dude turned to him with an awful face and said he didn’t know anything about any baggage. The guest replied indignantly—he made out he was indignant—‘l don’t want any of your impudence. You are the porter here and I want my baggage,’ Well, sir, there wasn’t room enough for the dude to get out. He ran against the columns and over the chairs and into the spittoons. The last I saw of him ho was trying to open a storm door the Wrong way.”— Chicago Herald.