THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL?, PORTLAND,' SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 18, 1915.
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The Seven Secrets of Success for Bellboys, by One
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PLAY the honeymooners hard ; newly wed men love to make a splurge
before their wives.
Waste no time on the "big bugs."
Shower women guests with attention. t If they tip at all they tip
handsomely. j ;
Never "stall." Do your part and leave the rest to the guest. ;i
Never, neglect a tightwad because he is a tightwad. Shame hira
with faultless service. . ' . ' ;
Don't make yourself objectionable, by greed for tips. "
SAVE YOUR MONEY. . ' 1
By MARY O'CONNOR NEWELL.
ELLHOPS, : here's a
tips. Take It for noth
ing from Evarta S,
Risk, Chicago's pluto
cratic bellboy.
iNever tip your mitt,
but save ; your tips,
and on a tip with your
tips buy lease, furnish
ings and good will of a hotel ail your own.
That's what Evarts Risk did, who only tae
other day doffed the uniform of bellboy at one
of Chicago's multimillionaire hostelries to
stand behind the desk of a hotel of his own.
Five years ago Risk entered the employ of
the Blackstone Hotel as a humble bellboy,
though not bo humble at that, being a Ken
tuckian of good lineage! and Chesterfieldian
manner.
Like most youths who begin business life
by sitting on a bench and straining their ears
for the call of a distant bell, the wanderlust
consumed Evarts, too. He had the habit of
never stopping In one hotel longer than six or
eight months at the longest.
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In it, admits you into a Japanese black and
yellow hallway, and from thence Into par
lors oak-beamed In early English style.
There Evarts Risk - himself, was inter
viewed, though much embarrassed over
the publicity that had attended his modest
efforts to lay the foundation of a fortune
and inclined to depreciate both them and
himself.
HeV Modest, Too.
"There's nothing extraordinary in what
I have done," he maintained. "Any other
fellow could have done It if he had bent
his mind on getting ahead and ; being
somebody, as I always have.' At that, I
never was as good at collecting tips as
many of the other men on bells. i
"Can't say I ever thought particularly
on the saving question, either," he went
on. "What was in my mind was to gef
ahead and get out in the world and do
something better. I didn't waste my
money on the things some of the bellmen
spend theirs for simply because these
things did not appeal to
me."
Risk does not smoke.
Neither does .he drink ,
hardly. ; . . -
"I went out with, the
boys occasionally,' as fel
lows will, but I never re
member making an ap-
pointment to go 'out and
i-S-whoop it up all night for
the fun of the thing, as
boys look at It.
"So many of the fellows
I have known on the bells
,o wrong from nothing
else but having easy
money all the time. It
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Yon Would Earn Tips, Play
Honeymooners Hard'
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Bellboys boast of how many hotels and
how much territory they i can cover in a few
years. ( . :-"'
The Blackstone Hotel or its ; management
captivated Evarts wandering fancy. Or was
it the tips collectable there? He stayed on
and on. The longer he stayed the more money
he had. j
Five years slipped bygf then the other day
he quit i- i
"For why?" naturally nquired Manager,
F. W. Tobin, who hirea the bellmen. He had
hired Risk in that fifth year backward.
"To run a hotel of my Wn," answered the
erstwhile bellhop., j ;
Manager Tobin promptly fainted.
Risk Took No Risks.
It was true. Risk had taken no risks In
the years he had been at the Blackstone, but
garnered tips while the garnering was good
and stored them up. where neither rust nor
moths break In and steal.
He used the garnered gold to buy a nice little
hotel of-his own.
. The tips through which young Risk rose to
present modest fame and. fortune Were not
merely pecuniary. I :
Garnered from his notebook are the nota
tions for bellboys which appear elsewhere on
this page. They represent seven secrets of
success by one who has Succeeded. And over
In Prairie avenue, in the neighborhood where
Chicago's best ' known multimillionaires now
live, or had homes In former years, Evarts
Risk has the tangible evidence of this success
-his hotel.
Almost across the street from Mrs. Marshall
Field's Chicago residence It is, and diagonally
across the street from Mrs. George M. Pull
man's splendid city house.
It was the home of the Secor Cunninghams,
an influential family that went with, the migra
tion of the wealthy to the north shore.
' It Is a stately brown; stone front, with in
terior trim of rare woods. ;
J, stained glass door, with Greek figures
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Waste No Time
On the Big Bags
gets away from
them as easy as it
gets to them, though
at the Blackstone
the men on bells
were not that kind.
When I went there
I never expected to
stay any length of
time not more tlian
six months. r j It's
more of a position
there than at other
hotels. .Lots of ' us
have had the chance
to go behind the desk there, if we wanted to,
and learn to clerk, but we did not want to.
"In hotels generally, If anything , goes
wrong, it's find the bellboy the first thing.
Well, in, all the time I was at the Blackstone
there was never a single charge even against
a bellboy for dishonesty in the rooms. For two
years I was on nights, and the night clerk
used to let me carry the . keys to all the'
rooms. I could get into any room, -whether
locked on the Inside or not. That shows how
much we were trusted, and I gcess we made
good. - . t .
"If s being square, and going along easy, and
having an ambition that brings fellow; oat
Shower Women
Guests With
Attentions
Evarts S. Risk, Former "Bellhop," Whose Tips Bought a Hotel
all right, If he has it In him," says JBvsrts
Risk. ' ' " -
Being close-mouthed about his own af
fairs, too, one might add In the case of
Risk. "An awfully good sort," say hli
brother bellmen, "but quiet as they make
them when it comes to talking about him-'
self.- Never does that. Deep, that's
what be is." .
Bellhopping at the Blackstone has
financial aspects not to be despised, from
Evarts Risk's record. He saved from $80
to $100 a month, year in and year out. j
Part of his capital stock was under
standing of human na
ture of the hotel guest
variety, as was shown in
the tips from his note
book. Here are more:
"I learned early not to
expect much from na
tional celebrities. . We
were never glad to see
Taf t's party come. It
meant many obsequious
attentions and no gratui
a lot of the good side, too, believe me.
You know that the fellow with the shin
ing front has had to stand off his laundry,
and his big talk doesn't butter any pars
nips with you. He puts bis coin where
It will do a megaphone for him. You get.
to know pretty young in life the kind of
men there are in this world, and the tags
and clothes and talk that tell one sort'
from another." ,
Chicago's model bellhop ' is unmarrfed
and good looking, as you may see for
yourself.. There's another tip this time
not intended for bellhops.
But Always Remember to Save Your
! Earnings'
War Decreases Crime.
And Forget About
Tips Occasionally -j
ties. Taf t was not al
together to blame, for
we rarely saw him.
His secretaries seemed
to . think the honor of
waitingon the Presi
dent sufficient recom
pense, so they gave us
l.o tips. v 1
"Most men In high
positions are poor tip
pers. .
Never Stall
to Give
the
Impression
That You
Are Giving
a Guest
Lots of
Service
When You
Really
Are Note
' Shame the Tightwads
"We counted it a lean day that was devoted to them;.
"We might wait on a woman as opon royalty and never
get even a thank you. On the other hand," she might tip
handsomely. If she gsve- It was not the dime that most
men' make the maximum of their tips to bellmen.
. Bellboy Risk's dream Is to own a string of hotels.
Nothing 1 Concealed From Bellboy.
Much contact with magnates makes him see life through
the little end of a telescope. . j
."Why not?" says he. "The biggest men in the profes
sion began on bells. At least some of them did. A bellboy
gets an understanding of human nature not to be beaten.
Nobody hides anything from a bellboy, except perhaps his
coin. . i
"Xoa sea , lot-or the seamy-side or human-nature. And
THE astounding decrease In crime In
Paris since the outbreak of war, is at
tributed by Alfred Capus, in ah editorial in
the Figaro, .not to the war itself but the"
atmosphere of military discipline which has
imbued all the .citizens since the beginning
of hostilities.
There have not been," says he, "more
than two or three really criminal acts in the
last five months. Even the Paris
apaches have acted in moderation. '
"This cannot be attributed to the war
alone, for I remember hearing a magistrate
say at the beginning of the struggle : 'Here -in
Paris, in the void caused by the mobiliza
tion, must be feared the growth of a mob
of little apaches of from 14 to 16 years, who
will constitute one of the gravest dangers
of the ejptire situation.' ,
"The pessimism of this magistrate ha
not been confirmed by experience. Not a
single young bandit has attempted to com
mit any startling crime, either of assassina
tion or of violence.
"This la because the criminal instinct,
combined with the opportunity, does not of
Itself produce crime. There must also be
a special atmosphere, created either by, for
example, bravado, or by the literature of the
outer boulevards, and in which this instinct
' may flourish,
"Then, at a given moment, the' scattered '
electricity condenses in the individual who
serves as the pole and the spark, which is
the crime, jumps between him and society.
; "The war. has, for the present, sup
pressed in Paris the center in which the '
malefactor flourishes, and the social state
which, by Its effervescence and disorder,
attracts this malefactor. . Anarchy in high
places provokes temptation n lower spheres.