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Updated: June 7, 2025
His arrival was always the forerunner of great prosperity for the bell-boys, and there was the customary struggle for his baggage. An hour later, having bathed and changed his linen, he was whizzing toward lower Broadway, with the roar of the Subway in his ears.
The driver threw the suitcase into the vehicle after his passenger and climbing to his seat, yelled to the team. There was no rush of brass-buttoned bell-boys to meet the guest at the door of the hotel, and the room was well-filled with a group strange to the eyes of the young man from New York.
I know all about your plot to shut her up in an insane asylum and steal her fortune. I have found you sooner than I expected, and I intend to see that the law takes its full course with you." Two policemen now arrived on the scene, with a number of eager bell-boys and porters in their wake, ready to take part in the excitement. Richard had turned deadly white at the words, "She is my wife!"
Gone is our ancient glory our rep. is irretrievably in the tureen. Henceforth when a pilgrim from the pathless Southwest registers at an Eastern hotel the bell-boys will not fall over each other to do him honor as a dime-novel hero, nor the gilded clerk insure his life before politely requesting him to pay in advance. The last lingering shadow of our greatness hath departed.
He saw that his youthful visitor was evidently a well-bred boy, but that did not prove that Dick was not looking for work. College boys often serve as bell-boys or waiters at summer hotels. "If you will step outside then, a moment, sir," Prescott continued, "I think I can show you the nicest lot of black bass you ever saw." "A string of bass, eh?" "No, sir; quite a load."
We walked back through the office, and, as we passed the bench upon which the bell-boys sat, Raffles stopped before the lad who had delivered the telegram to him. "Here, son," he said, handing him a quarter, "run over to the news-stand and get me a copy of this months Salmagundi I'll be in the smoking-room." The boy went off on his errand, and in a few minutes returned with a magazine.
Subdued, pulsating, penetrating, the murmur of the great hotel came to his ears; the drone of indistinguishable voices, the pattering footsteps of bell-boys and habitués, the purr of the elevator as it moved from floor to floor, the click of the gate as it stopped at his own level, the renewed monotone as it passed by.
Thomas Jefferson, awe-struck and gaping, found himself foot-loose for a time in the Marlboro rotunda while his father talked with a man who wanted to bargain for the entire output of the Paradise furnace by the year. The commercial transaction touched him lightly; but the moving groups, the imported bell-boys, the tesselated floors, frescoed ceiling and plush-covered furniture these bit deeply.
If, finally, I were asked to name the characteristic sound of the United States, which would tell you of your whereabouts if transported to America in an instant of time, it would be the musical tinkle of the ice in the small white pitchers that the bell-boys in hotels seem perennially carrying along all the corridors, day and night, year in and year out.
The proprietor, waiters, and even the bell-boys treated him with poorly concealed contempt, and though he spoke to them in perfect German, would always answer in English, as if to show him that they knew he was of that despised race. Count von Hemelstein left him with the understanding that he would call for him in the morning and conduct him to General von Lichtenstein.
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