HOTEL MAID

Many years ago, on that stormy night, an old man and his wife went into a small hotel lobby in Philadelphia. Trying to avoid the rain, the couple approached the front desk to get a place to sleep. "Can you give us a room here?" asked the husband. The clerk, a friendly man with a smile at the couple and explained that there were three conventions in town. "All of our rooms have been full," the waiter said. "But I can not send a nice couple like you out in the rain at one o'clock in the morning. Maybe you want to sleep in my room? Not much, but enough to make you sleep comfortably tonight." When the couple hesitated, the young man pressed. "Do not worry about me. I'll be fine," said the waiter. So the couple agreed.

As the early morning when the bills are paid, the old man said to the waiter, "You are like a good manager should be the owner of the best hotels in America. Maybe someday I'll build one for you." The clerk looked at them and smiled. All three of them laughed. As the couple drove away, an elderly couple was agreed that the waiter was very helpful indeed exceptional, as finding people who are both friendly and helpful is not an easy thing.

Two years passed. The clerk had almost forgotten the incident when he received a letter from the old man is. The letter reminded him of the stormy night and accompanied by a round-trip ticket to New York, asking the young man came to visit the old couple. The old man met him in New York, and brought him to the corner of Fifth Avenue and 34th Street. He pointed to a magnificent new building there, a palace with the red rock of, with a tower that rose into the sky "That," said the old man, "is the hotel I have just built for you to manage". "You must be joking," replied the young man. "I assure you, I do not," said the old man, with a big smile. Name of the old man was William Waldorf Astor, and the structure of such an imposing building is the original form of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The young man who later became the first manager was George C. Boldt. The young man will never forget the events that brought him to become manager of one of the most prestigious hotel chains in the world.