The Coloured Waiter's Capacious Memory.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 322, 5 December 1888, Page 4

The Coloured Waiter's Capacious Memory.

'Talk about good momorie- : w hy, the hotel waiters in thU> country beat the world,' said an Englishman who went over to America in the City of New York with Mr Blame, and i? spending 1 a foy» weeks in New York seeing the sights 'Yes, indeed/ he continued, 'the coloured man who gained such notoriety liom such ability to return 50 or more guesls their hats, without recourse to cheques or any other leminder than his memory, is far in the hhade fioin what I have observed in the 'ew days since my arrival here. It would poem that, the waiters in any of the firstclass hofcel? Jcnosv the name of every person who comes into their respective establishmenfcno matter if it be only once a year. Last summer 1 happened to dine only once at the Fifth Avenue Hutol, and although I did nob registor, have any luggage, or even know any one in the place except Hie gentleman wit.h whom I dined, when I went in there yesterday the waiter asked me by name tor my order. It is really remarU/ib'e.' 'Oh, pshaw, thoie'b nothing in that,'replied a member of the Union Club. 'I'll explain it. to you. It is a fad among New York waiters to know everyone by name, no matter whether they amount to anything or not. [f we .should happen to go into c. strange hotel, now, for instance, the person who waited upon u- would learn both our names by simply listening intently until either one of us called the other by his name. Then the waiter would make mental note of the names and photograph in his memory ourlikenes&et). Withoutattracting attention he would immediately communicate our names to another waiter, who in turn would pass them aiound, so to speak, until we were named and photographed to them all. In this way they train their memories for names and faces. It is not considered at all odd for a gentleman from New York to enter a Chicago restaurant or bar-room and be asked by the first attendant, 'MiSmith,' or whatever his name is, 'what will you have ?' ■' , '

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