The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-08-10
Eoos IN SuratOga Walters.

A CORRESPONDENT Of the Detroit 1f20ttnc,
writing from Saratoga, describes the CO.
operation system which he asserts prevails
among the hotcl-waiters at that famous wa
tering-plaCe:
There is less rcd tape at 4 Saratoga hotel
than at any other hosiery IN America. buI
there are more negroes. You Will nave no
trouble with ANYBODY if you make it right
with the blacks. This year they have 1t all
their own way, and have reduced their sys-
tenn to the most perfect working order. IL
is the old, timc-honored system OF gratul-
ties. but it is put upon new and Slnguiarly
exact basis of cooperation. There is anomi-
nal sum charged at all tirst-claSs hotels-say
five dollars day-for board, but this is 4
mere bagatelle ; the real expense is the gra-
tuities. Fill one of these hotels as full rs
YOU can get it with guests, and then there
will be three negroes to every one OF them.
Every negro expects to make enough In the
three months Saratoga campaign to keep
and he generally manages it. lie eX-
torts money from his victim at the
rate of twenty-five cents Az hour. 1t
is worse tyranny than Our trades
unions. The black hydra cannot be
reachcd-you are completely at his mercy.
His fundamental theory is that the average
American would rather be sWindled out OF
his eyc-teeth than thought poor or parsi-
monious. 1t is in the dining-room that he
has the American completely at dlsad-
vantage. Fail to give him fifty cents at
your first meal, and when you come again
your chair is turned over, and he waves
you on with a lordly gesture. That gesture
is contemptllous and Geographic. So fur rs
YOU are concerned it means, "You can't
come to this table, old boy the seats arc
engaged" So far rs the other negroes are
concerned it means. Look out for that
fellow, he doesn't pay" They will then
guard their tables from you scrupulously
until you get to the bottom Of the room to
place reserved for delinquents and cele-
bratcd for the corrugated character of its
steaks and the billiard-ball consistency of
it's biscuit. The only way to escape from
this pureatory is to knecl ut once to the
| first waiter you can find, acknowledge your
| error, and pay him one dollar. This done,
| the fact will be telegraphcd to every black
in the room. and YOU will be allowed to en-
dure. / found nothing new in this but the
admirable system of it, which is another
evidence of the influence Of trade co0pera-
ton.
Last season shrcwd New York fellow
conceived the idea of paying these fellows
Oft in their own coin, and came provided
with a supply of counterfeit stamps. His
libcraIity liked to have killed him the first
day, for he overrated himself, and could not
move Il foot without having relay Of ne
grocS on to him with broon-brllshes. On
the third day matters changed. His chair
was turned over, his bed was hard, his
boots were spoiled, his coat cot secret
mark from some nigger's broom-brush. He
was doomed man. He saw that he was
the subject of snccrs and jibcs, and all the
black arts of the tribe. Finally, in despair,
he went down to the Iodine spring with the
suicidal intent of drinking himself into
diocy when two dark fellows ipulaGRsb T.
aprons pointed him ast y constable bic
uttsria and he was arrested 70
80 sriS counterfeit money. lie Is a terri
| Die example Of trying to resist this lnvlncl