The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-27
CHAMRFRMAIDs STRIKE.
The Carey Hotel Girls Refuse to Work and
Order a Strike.

a good many columns OF newspaper
space have been devoted to that dear
specimen of femininlty the hotel chamber
maids, but this is probably the first time
she has been recorded as a striker. Cham
bermaids have been frequently heard 10
kick, and TO whistle and TO sing Annie
Rooney and Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay when
tie dodgers felt very much like
striking, but this Is certainly the
first time in the history of Wichita at least
when cham bermaid took 1t upon herself
to play the roll of striker. And the worst
of it is the strike was over and done be-
fore anybody got around to describe it,
ind thus novel proceeding is lost to the
world. Now then. it Is a common
opinion that woman can't
keep a secret. but here il is found
that five of them actually put their heads
together and planned aud executed a strike
without anybody but very few knowing
anything about it. And then again very
few know the cause OF the strike to a GER
talnty for the said chambermaids are not
talking and therefore it Is next TO impoSsi-
ole to get their exact grievances. IL is
pretty certain, however, that the manage
ment of the hotel is not to blame for it,
strictly speaking.
Night before last the entire force OF
chambcrmaids flied down the stairs of the
hotel went 10 the Manhattan for the night
where they lodged aud yesterday morning
they scattered to the four winds of heav
en- Let it be said here that no house in
the land has a better reputation than the
Carey and let it also be said that no
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lived whose reputation is better chan the
girls who went out on strike night before
last. There never was a scandal at the
Carey and Notwithstanding the fact that
impudent, vulgar minded men seem TO
think they are licensed TO talk as they
please about the character OF a hotel
chambermaid, yet nobody has ever heard
u breath of suspicion or a word
of evil repute uttered against
the girls of this hotel 1t is actu-
ally stated that the strike was caused be-
cause the girls were jealous of their good
names. The story is that one OF the EN-
ployes of the house limited that one of
the girls was not as circumspect as she
might have been. The other girls took up
the cause of their comrade aud
refused TO work any longer until
proper restitution had been made
for this SANDER. Another story is
that the new housekeeper was not salts
factory to the girls; that they could not
get along with her and refused to work
under her Neither the girls or any of
the managers of the hotel authorized to
speak on the subject could be seen last
night and consequently no statement pur-
porting to be the facts in the case relative
to the cause of the strike can be published
authoritively.
The strike is causing the
hotel some inconvenience but probably
today everything will be running all right
again. Yesterday both Miss Carey and
Mrs Carey, the sister and wife of the
manager, were compelled to work from
morning till night making beds and ar
ranging rooms for guests, and it might
also be stated that the Carey has bigger
rush now than usual owing to the number
of gentlemen in the city attending the
Scottish Rite reunion.