The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1893-09-21
With a New Issue Hotel Walters
Again Seek to Organize.
TIPS HAVE FALLEN OFF, TOO. AND THEY
HAVE A REAL GRIEVANCE.
Next Monday Nlgh,-Ail the New
York Hotels Have Done Poor Sum-
msr Business, with Reduced Wages
~ = Result-still the Employees
Don't Conte IN plato . Strik-.

A mass meeting of hotel employees
will be held next Monday evening at the
headquarters of the National Alliance OF
Hotel and Restaurant Employees. No. 81
East Tenth street to form an organiza
ton to resist the movement of hotel
propretors to reduce wages. on account
of the summers bad business and the
gloomy outlook for the fall nearly all
the prominent hotels in town have an
nounced reductions Of wages.
The Cosmopolitan, Murray Hill, Hon-
man House. Coleman and Plaza already
have returned to the old scale which eX-
spring. Before then they had been pay
ing walters s2S a month for the Amer
lean plan and S25 month for the Eu-
ropean. This scale was based on the
American does not tip as literally, as
the one who dimes on the European plan.
| After the strike nearly all the big hotels
raised til, wages of American plan walt
ers to $55 per month and the European"
plan walters to $50.
To add to the unhappiness Of the wait
ers. tips have been deplorably bad this
season. The depression ~ the tipping
market has been especially felt at the
summer resorts, where In ordinary times
walters make the most money:
we have no idea Of striking, how
eTer said n,Ts eGEs e't of Hotel
and Restaurant Walters: which has It's
headquarters at the Chimney Corner
Sixth avenue and Twenty-hfth street
Times are altogether, too bad for strlkes.
There are too many thousands Idle. Too
many are begging beer and living on
free lurches. We are going to try to get
proving the character OF the service.
We want them to look at this fight in
the same light as we do. Many walters
are men OF intelligenGe ana rehnem ,i,in..
They cannot do that on So n month.
They have to depend on tips, When
times are bad tips, are small. tip Is
a luxury, and when banks fail and
money IL tight many excellent diners:
epicures Of most exquisite taste. cut off
that luxury. This falls as ii heavy blow
t "nTT 50 some pauvrcs Earcons can
not resist temptation, and they over
charge. W.,
Therefore we call together the Inter
national. Waters Cni%n, the , Spanish
New York, the Magnolia Union the Ger;
Union, the Hotel Walters Alliance. and
the Herbert Union OF Colored Matters to
Inc hotels are doing very bad business.
and they are going 10 have our sympd-
thy In this movement
II is very true that the hotels are do
1.-THE Columbian, Exposition is respon-
ney, or the Hotel MetrOpole. IL mas
cut off the Western business that comes
to New York during the summer. and It
has brought no foreign travel to speak
OF. We have suffered less than any OF
the big hotels, ! think. because we have
n large Hudson River patronage. but
all have suffered. 1t must be pretty
bad when at one time this summer the
Fifth Avenue Hotel had ninety guests,
the Windsor twenty-six, the New Meth
erlands about the same, the Normandie
thirty and many OF the other big hotels
less. We have been forced to reduce
wages slightly. We have not reduced
the wages OF our walters. however"
1t has been common. gossip around
town that the Waldorf, with 800 ser
wants. at one time had only nine guests.
Al the Hotel Normandle It also was
said that the bad business had been
caused by the Worlds Fair. Many OF
the regular boarders had gone to Chi
cago instead OF returning to New
York after their stay at the summer
resorts. Many hotels expected a big
foreign travel. and made expensive
preparations for 1t. but It did not mate
rialize.