The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-13

COachmen Who systematically Rob
Their Rich Employees.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
The champion toll-takers are The coach
men. Most of them are importations, and
the government permits them to enter free
Of duty-an insult to our own drivers!
Bah! But they come here with purpose
to do our Anglomaniacs. The head
coachman receives from $50 to S75, and his
assistant. the fellow who is sometimes
called tiger" and funk" gets about $40.
The hay may be purchased of the most
reputable firm in the world, but If Mr.
Coachman does not get his "divvy," he
reports to his employer that the horses are
not doing well-the hay is not of good quail
ity. If the cat man on the Produce Ex-
change does not put something in the privy
purse of Mr.. Coachman the horses have
bolts, or something equally as impossible
the oats are unsound. 1t is the same
with feed corn and other provender.
One of the leading firms on the produce
exchange received from millionaire in
Fifth avenue last week an indignant let
ter calling attention 20 the very poor
oats which they had sold him al an ex-
orbitant price They proved that they had
given him the lot at the market price and
introduced a dozen witnesses 10 show that
the oats were the finest ever sold in this
market. But the firm refused to tip the
coachmanl In the matter of harness
why, our fool millonaires are robbed to
beat the band" There is an-alliance be-
tween the British harness dealers in New
York and all the coachmen in the city.
Nothing can be bought for horse to wear
unless through this dealer, who is liberal
txyTtv 7 n "a mil
who paid $500 for a set of harness that
could buy anywhere for half that price.
His coachman got the extra 5000.
The style In carriages changes every sea-
son, just to keep people buying and swap
ping. The eoachman stands In with the
more prominent carriage makers in this
city-deny ii who dares!-and if his en-
ployer, feeling a trihe behind the fashion,
wants 10 exchange his cabriolet a year old
for a new one he must pay nearly the
original price. His imported British coach
man makes, usually, from $500 to $500 by
an exchange.
On horseshoeing. axle grease, harness
oils, silver and gold polish. uniforms, etc.
the men connected with the stable of the
millionaires are expected 10 more than dou-
bic their annual salaries. And these inn
portatons, duty free, never fall short OF
expectations.
Down to the minutest detail of house
keeping there is profit for the serving man
and the serving woman, and woe to the
dealer--the butcher, the baker, the candle
stick maker-who refuses to see the en-
tended palm of Maj. Domo and Abigail
The mill1man pays his way before he de-
livers bottle of water solution. The but
ter man agrees TO divide before he scents
the pantry with a pound of oleomarsarine
The baker has no need of yeast in his bus
mess until he has fixed" the people below
stairs. The ice man-Great Scott! The
butler and the cook as quick as iiquefiet
air, and can give short weight TN eter.
nifty. Coal and wood? Every ton delivered
in the millionaire's basement costs so pei
cent. more than the common people pay
and every cord 100 per cent.