Word: weekbusboy
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...away from home to become an elevator boy in Vienna's Hotel Sacher, was coaxed back into the family on the promise of being taken to New York. Three days after he arrived in 1906, prodigal, 15-year-old Ralph Hitz ran away again, became a $3-a-weekbusboy in a Broadway hashhouse. Then for nine years he crisscrossed the U. S., paying far more attention to learning about hotels as waiter and cook than to polishing his English. In 1915 he married and by 1927 he was making $12,000 as manager of Cincinnati's Hotel Gibson...
| 1 |