Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-25
NEW YORk'S $4,000 WATERS.
Some of the Unions and Organizations
of This Army.

Some of the Unions and Organizations
of This Army.
From the New York Sun.
More numerous thar the United States
army is permitted by law to be, the walters
of New York city and it's vicinity are more
than 5000 strong. There are seven organ
izations Of walters, and practically, on the
same line of division, seven groups or sub
divisions of New York walters. The Mag
nolia Association, branch of the Knights
of Labor, consists of men employed in the
large downtown restaurants. and has from
800 to 400 members. 1t is the largest of the
walters organizations, ana pecunlarlly, the
me st substantial 1t includes larger num-
Der Of American-born walters than any
other. The German Walters Union, also
affiliated with the knights of Labor, is
made up chiefly of downtown dinner wait
ers who also employed evenings at con-
cert halls and balls. They number 300
members. The Herbert Association of col
ored walters has about 10 members who
work in uptown restaurants chiefly. For
some reason which is not very clear colored
walters are much les in demand in New
York than in other American cities. In
Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Chicago,
st. Louis and Cincinnati colored walters
are regarded as the most capabale and
trustworthy, but in New York city, how
ever, they seem to be less in favor. The
Liberty Walters Alliance is an organiza-
ton having at present "a membership of 200
recruited from the ranks of those who are
employed in east side coffee houses, though
the larger proportion of coffee house wait
ers are women. In addition to these, there
Is still another organization known as the
Germania Walters Protective Association
made up of downtown dinner and ball
walters, with membership of 200
The Geneva Society of Hotel Walters is
an organization which numbers $50 and
maintains its own club house. Members of
this society are employed in uptown no.
tells. Nearly all of them are Germans or
Swiss, and majority of the latter are
from the canton of Ticino or Tessin 1t is
in the southern part of Switzerland, on the
Italian border, and with an area of 900
square miles has population Of only 1876
Ooo But the peculiar admixture of Italian
French and German Observation-Disclosures
activity, French politeness and German
steadfastness-makes combination which
Is particularly good one for walters, it
would seem, and waiter from this part of
Switzerland is accepted, the civilized world
over, as belonging to the first-class. The
Delmonico family came originally from
Ticino, and so did many other restaurant
and hotel keepers and chefs. Walters from
this part of Switzerland speak French with
greater fuency than accuracy, and they
are known very generally in the large no.
tells and big restaurants by the generic
name of French walters, though in a ma
jority of cases they have never been in
France and, in fact, know much less about
1t than about Italy or Germany.
The system of organization which pre-
walls among the Vertable French walters
In New York is not based upon the idea Of
the labor union, but is managed by GER
tain recognized saloon keepers who act as
bro kers or employment agents for cooks,
walters and cooks assistants. In the rear
of each saloon they maintain an inteIIi
gehce once, where there are always to be
found, day or night, unemployed cooks or
walters, ready for service