1931 Old Waldorf Bar Days by Albert Stevens Crockett

Hall of Fame The clerk who had sent up the card therefore turned to the caller. "Mr. Drexel would like to have you come up," he said. A few moments later, when Drexel shouted "Come!" in response to a rap on his door, instead of a trunk borne by a husky porter, in staggered the "drunk." Herman Oelrichs, agent for a big German steamship company, was a good patron' during the first few years of the Bar; and William N. Wood, head of the Ameri– _can Woolen Company, was only one ~fa large number of notable industrialists who were often button-holed in the place. Foxhall Keene, son of James R. Keene, famous mar– ket operator and race horse owner, and himself one of the foremost American polo players early in the cen– tury, would drop in with a number of friends. Clarence Mackay at that time was a very popular patron, not only because of a pleasing personality, but because he always gave generous tips. E. Berry Wall, kn_own as the "King of the Dudes," could sometimes be seen wiping his long mustache after a lioation at the Bar; and in contrast with his slender figure the next .man to him might be the portly Colonel William H. Roe, manufacturer of woolen goods, but incidentally a con– noisseur of wines and a big buyer at the bar-side. "Joe" Leiter, son of a famous Chicago mercha·nt, and brother of two beautiful women who married well– known or titled Englishmen-himself a big speculator in grain-was to be seen frequently. George A. Huhn, a banker from Philadelphia, was well known there- [ 35]