TALE OF A RESTAURATEUR.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4254, 19 August 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

TALE OF A RESTAURATEUR.

It is not often, we imagine, that Mr Pond makes a mistake, but accidents will happen in the best-regulated establishments. Some time ago, during one/ot his rounds through one of the many pa»tial hotels conducted by Spiers and Pond, Mr Pond entered a room suddenly, and discovered a window-cleaner leisurely engaged reading a newspaper. Being rery

active, himself, he has no use for a lazy man, or a man who slights his work. He discharged the cleaner on the spot, and ordered him to go ter the office for his pay. The man obeyed, g«st his money, went to his room on the upper floor, arrayed himself in his Sunday suit, packed up his duds, and descended to the servant's apartments to take leave of his former associates. About this- time Mr Pond entered, but did not recognise his quondam employe in his different clothes. " Here, my man, you look as.though there was i(ood work in you ; do jou want a job ? " The ex-cleaner admitted that he stooi in need of* one. "G&nyou clean win.lows ? " The man allowed that he could. •• Well," said Mfr Pond, " I've just ; .discharg'ed a man who has been doing that sort of work. I paid him a pound a week, but if you take his place and go strnigiit to vv,irk I wil! pay you a guinea." The proj osiiion whs quietly*Bccepted, aod in half an hour the discharged employ* was cleanup nwny in the same old room.