. How to know New York City : a serviceable and trustworthy guide, having its starting point at the Grand Union hotel, just across the street from the Grand Central depot. HOW TO KNOW NEW The above picture represents a hotel-clerk, in the act of answeringa question. From his bland expression, you would not suppose thathe had been pretty steadily answering questions from his youth up,and has probably answered this very question upwards of a milliontimes; but such is the case. A good hotel-clerk must be a walkingencyclopaedia, directory, railway, steamship, and postal guide, and, inshort,
. How to know New York City : a serviceable and trustworthy guide, having its starting point at the Grand Union hotel, just across the street from the Grand Central depot. HOW TO KNOW NEW The above picture represents a hotel-clerk, in the act of answeringa question. From his bland expression, you would not suppose thathe had been pretty steadily answering questions from his youth up,and has probably answered this very question upwards of a milliontimes; but such is the case. A good hotel-clerk must be a walkingencyclopaedia, directory, railway, steamship, and postal guide, and, inshort, a universal fountain of knowledge and information. No manis more maligned than the hotel-clerk. In current fiction he is de-scribed as a haughty and unapproachable despot, who, intrenched 4 How to Know New York. # behind a large diamond shirt-stud, superciliously assigns tremblingtravellers to remote and cheerless chambers. As a matter of fact,he is usually the most good-natured and accommodating of he not of a serene and placid nature, he would long since havedecorated a cemetery. He is expected to be pleasant under the mosttrying circumstances; to remember everybody by nahowtoknownewyork00swee_2
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