Tony Cichielo,  longtime bell captain at the Algonquin, talked Monk off the hotel's roof; Monk, Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge and Teddy Hill outside Minton's Thelonious `Round Table` Monk     MY MOTHER RAN THE CHECK ROOM concession for years at the legendary Algonquin Hotel on West 44th Street in Manhattan. The velvet rope to the Oak Room was outside of her checkroom. My mother's boyfriend, Tony Cichielo, was the bell captain. Once the Countess, a muse to the finest boppers, was staying at the Algonquin and entertaining jazz pianist Thelonious Monk. Monk wound up on the hotel roof. Tony went up and talked him down. I asked Tony if Monk had been suicidal. Apparently not -- "he was just giggling and muttering stuff," Tony said.     Below are ink-and-marker sketches Tony made of himself with some of the Algonquin's well-known guests from literary and music fame. In the one below, Tony's pulling Monk back onto the hotel's roof. (You're listening to me play "Well You Needn't," a Monk tune.) Thelonious Monk gets a helpful tug from bell captain Tony Cichielo on Algonquin roof.  A suicide attempt, or just playing around ?>    Tony gets an eye full during Harpo Marx party at the Algonquin.  Actors Peter Lorre, left, and Charles Laughton flank Tony in the Algonquin Hotel lobby.     Tony gives columnist F.P. Adams the damages.    Tony has nothing but roses for stage and film actor Louis Calhern, of Uncle Willie fame in "High Society" (1956).