Happy New Year from ComicsDC (during the New Gilded Age)

 Happy New Year from ComicsDC! as the story remains the same over a century later - only the names at the table change.

 

 

• New Year's eve at the hotel prosperity / Kep.
• -  Caption: The Head Waiter Sorry, sir, but all our tables are reserved.
• -  Illus. in: Puck, v. 66, no. 1713 (1909 December 29), centerfold.
• https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.27593/
  

Summary

• Illustration shows waiters Joseph G. Cannon and James S. Sherman turning away a man labeled "Average Citizen" and a woman at the "Hotel Prosperity" dining room because all the tables have been reserved; there are signs on the tables that read "Reserved for Wool Interests, Reserved for Coal Trust, Reserved for Steel Trust, Reserved for Senator Aldrich and Party, Reserved for Cold Storage Interests, Reserved for Sugar Trust, Reserved for Ice Trust, [and] Reserved for Franchise Grabbers".

Names

• Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956, artist

Created / Published

• N.Y. : Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, Puck Building, 1909 December 29.