Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1890 — The Waiters Liked Cigars. [ARTICLE]

The Waiters Liked Cigars.

New York Sun. There was a superabundance hot only of wines but also Of cigars at the dinner to the Supreme Court Judges in the Lenox Lyceum, and in consequence there were a couple of funny scenes in the anteroom adjoining the banquet hall, where the waiters passed in and out. When the dinner wss over and cigars had been passed at the tables, one of the managers stopped a waiter whose clothes didn’t seem to fit him. “I want those cigars," said the cold voioe of the manager. The waiter’s face expressed indignation, surprise, and grief as he stopped short and ejaculated, “me!” “Yes you,” insisted the manager. “Shed ’em!"

It took about minutes to go through the waiter’s clothes. He had the inside pockets and the coat tail pockets of his dress coat crammed with cigars; there were cigars in his vest pockets and in his trousers pockets* and when his vest was unbuttoned a score of cidropped to the floor that had been crammed between his vestand his Shirt. Seventy 25-cent cigars were counted. Then the waiter was told to put on his

coat aud get'out. Half an hour afterward the same manager, who had been Improving his time, tackled another waiter in the anteroom. This time there was no proof of guilt on the waiter’s person, but when the manager charged him with getting orders for 25cent cigars from the Judges and sending out and buying six cigars for a quarter 1 at a neighboring tobacco store and palming them off on the legislators, while he pocketed the profits, the waiter hadn’t a word to say. in his own defence. He did not wait for a judgment in his case, but walked out of doors with extreme dignity, and with a button-hole bouquet in the lapel of his dress cosA-T^zy: