Morning journal and courier., 1890-07-31
WoKKING WOMkN.
The storeroom Girl at the Summer
Hotel.
From the New York Tribune.I

Hotel.
lrrom the New York Tribune.I
Its glad enough am Of q change when
summer comes" said the storeroom girl,
Though a storeroom girls work Is an awful
lot harder than my work in winter, making
work. YES, s'pose il is. ss 1 fatien upon il,
aud can sleep all night, instead of lying
awake till IL o'clock, as am apt TO do after
being doubled up all day over a waist that
some lady is bound 10 have that same eve
ming, because, TO let her tell it, she is utterly
destitute Chats the way the rich ONES TALK.
and has nothing else that Is ft TO wear.
You may be sure never look q. either nee
die OF thimb!e from the last of June till FIRST
of October. for Il ain't much i need In
the way of duds, except a lot of big aprons.
'Should think I'd like to rest In summers
No, / ain't been brought M TO hold my
hands, and all the rest want Is q change of
what am doing; and i can tell you do get
change when I put MP my work bssket,
and go into the storeroom of q hotel. Long
hoursi Yes, the wstchman knocks me up
at 5 o'clock in the morning. and don't often
get a chance to go to my room again tin alter
8 in the evening But when lido go. IL ts TO
sleep soundi Sometimes I've dropped OF 20
sleep with the gas burning, and slept all
night with Il fisring In my face. Room 10
mysslfl Yes, the stoTeroom GIRL always has
a room to herself; she don't have TO double
up like the chambermaids.
"The fret thing / have to do in the
/ morning is TO see 10 the cream and butter for
| breakfast, no small matter In n hotel, where
there are are dozens upon dozens of cream
pitchers to ill. and butter pats to make
Then there Is the fruit to be picked over.
You would hardly believe me IL was 10 tell
you how many cantelopes and peaches 50
through my hands every morning. Slicing
wa,ermelons, aud taking the seeds ont OF
cautelopes, and piling peaches on plates aini
no light JOB, can tell you, when it has q
be done for such lot Of people. Some o
the guests eat more fruit than anything else
and oihers call for IL Just because they wan
to get their share of everything that's going
, I believe If there was dishes of bdckbst
put on some of the tables, them that sat q
the other tables would call for 'em too. Ia
as much fruit ss I liket Yes, but wn
would care to eat peaches and melons tha
| has 10 handle 'em by the crate and BY th
dozensi Then there's rsspberries and sucl
things to be picked over and dishsd, an
thstis an awful lot of bother. The fruit
, my greatest trouble, for no matter how care
ful the caterer may be, some OF IL VIII com
} In specked, and If throw 1t away an as
cused of wasting il, and il i send IL TO th
dinipgroom the guests will make fuss.
"Trouble to cut up piesf don't hav
nothing TO de with no pies. The baker ai
, tends to them, him and the walters, and
{ pretty big business 1t is, as there is such
lot of different kinds to be made, to &c
| every body suited. The pieces must be cr
! all Of a size, too, or there'il be war. Didn
suppose O slight difference In size would
: noticedi Umphi I've yet to find out IL thel
D | is anything too little for some rich folks
. grumble about.
/ sT have the tea and coffee to measure on
OF course they has to be of the best, as foli
don't go to frat class summer resorts
. drink elm-leaves and chicory. Some of Zen
: does lot of growing when the coffee aim
5 40 strong as It might be, and then, thong
: that Is the cooks fault, the walters come an
r Give me fits. If you could see me in tbs
j storeroom, You wouldn't say il was any va
{ cation time with me, for with one thing an
j. another am constantly on the go. Besut
o | ful scenery around therel So there may bs
but don't see no scenery when I am there
q except the shelves and tables in the store
: room. As true as live, I didn't see the su
i last summer all the time was ct K
O Springs. I'd creep around the ground
d sometimes in the evening, like cat, an
t once in q while had a chance to go into th
i. clearinghouse and take swim, but in th
g daytime 1t was nothing but work. As 500
L as breakfast was over had to get thing
e ready for dinner, and as soon as dinner va
: off my mind, here would come tea, and thel
Q would be cake to slice, and jams and jslli,
g and canned fruits to dish, and fresh suppl
J. of milk and butter to fuss with; you CO
O believe me, carrying heavy crooks of mill
), and squeezing the water cutof butter ain
e no easy job.
,e "Paid well for my work. Fifteen dolla
/ a month, which seems quite q lot in q pla
,e where there amt no way to spend IL.
1. course earn more at Madsme's, but then
't ] was to sew for Madame day in and day o
is all the year round IL wouldn't be long
~ fore somebody would be sewing on shro
n for me.n