The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-12-12
. HONOLULU NEED
Employment Office to
Furnish Servants.
The Present System coadsnnea :
Views Of House keepers on ne
Sources OF Help.

There is great need of a reliable
intelligence ONCE in Honolulu. Thu.e
who employ domestic help have long
felt the need of some source of supn,y
which can be depended upon to furnisi,
household servants upon short not ice
This is especially the case in HOnoluiu
owing to an unreliable class OF son.
wants, mostly Japanese. which families
are forced to employ. Here the donles-
tic labor supply is furnished almoss
exclusively by japanese and Chinese
intelligence Offices, and 1t is safe to say
that not one out of twenty sent az ser
wants know anything about their busi-
ness.
In many cases japanese servants
fresh from plantations are sent from
Japanese employment Offices into fami-
lies to cook or perform housewurk
After day or two of trial they are of
course discharged. or. finding they are
incapable Of doing the required work.
leave themselves. For these incom-
petent servants the employment Offices
always take pains to secure the highex,
wages possible and invariably recon-
mend them as capable servants. Owing
to this state of affairs 1t sonnet lines
takes weeks or even months before a
reliable servant can be secured. There
are no recommendations required or
offered In Honolulu simply because {,
has heretofore been impossible to estah-
lish such system. The cooking school
lately established by the ladies' of Ho-
nolulu is a move in the right direct ion.
but 1t only covers portion Of the field
A large portion of the servants hirssi
in the city are not cooks. but at the
same time have such household duties
to perform that they must be especially
trained for the work.
The rapid expansion Of Honolulu dur
ing the past few years has largely in
creased the demand for this class Of.
servants while the supply. has seeming
ly diminished. It Is now very gen
eral complaint among housekecpesx
that 1t is more trouble to get proper
help than 1t Is to do the work in the
family. One lady says: II have had
four Japanese servants within month
I consider them a perfect nuisance
These all came to perform householdi
work. Not one of them knew the Arst
thing about 1t. l discharged three aftsr-
a days trial each, and, tired ont. Z
to teach the last his duties.
After a week had him going all right :
then he demanded a raise of wages
This | would not give and two days,
he left with several days
pay coming to him. and l was without .
help for two weeks before could SGT
another man to teach in his place. 4
would rather do the work than fsA
with them, but what can l do; must
take what can get, and that is what
ever the Japanese employment once
wishes to send me-" s.,.
Another lady says that she will noA
have Japanese female servants in the.
house because they are so unreliable
and dirty. II seldom ever got Jap
anese woman who would stay with nKi
for more than few weeks and then Il
always takes two or three more befor'
can I'LL her place. What We need Is
a reliable intelligence Office in Honoln-.
III run by white men, who will furnish.
good servants and no others. Such an
Office will be patronized by every.
in Honolulu"