I MAY 28, 1902 Part 2
=The Casual Club=
On last Thursday evening the Casual Club was gathered about a corner
table in Sherry's. The great room was beautiful, the music brilliant,
the setting and table appointments magnificent, and the dinner all
that might be asked. There came but one thing to grieve the tempers of
our members--the service was slip-shod, inattentive, vile. One wonders
that so splendid an arrangement should be left unguarded in the most
important particular of service; that Sherry, when he has done so
much, should permit himself to be foiled of a last result by an idle
carelessness of waiters, who if they do not forget one's orders
outright, execute them with all imaginable sloth. They attend on
guests as though the latter were pensioners, and are listless in
everything save a collection of the gratuity, personal to themselves,
which their avarice and a public's weakness have educated them to
expect.
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Clams had occurred, and while we were discussing these small
sea-monsters, Fatfloat broke suddenly forth. "I don't know if it be a
subject for self-gratulation or no, but I observed that the daily
papers took quick note of my statement that Tammany Hall was looted of
its last shilling.
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