The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-13
His Present Capital Is the Result Of Seven
teen Years Savings.
FIRST EMPLOYMENT At $40 A WEEK.
SIN Speaks With Joy Of The First Money No
Earned In The Country Tried TO Run'a
Saloon but LOST Money.

New York. Oct ia waiter pought
nm Tuesday, with his earnings as walt
er. a house for s1s,5 He Is Hermann
Hefnerck householder, on the tax lst'
He is Hermann the waiter still 10 the
guests Of a Hungarian eating house
on Second avenue, where he has been
servant foD five years
He is short of stature, duich, anable'
He has pale blue eyes that are always
clear and smiling, dark brown hair and
an air of being sure of the dress OF eV-
cry table i'm the dining room, ana thls
air inspires respect.
About his own affairs he is not taih-
atiye. but If he be questioned ABOUT
them he has nothing hidden He salo
last night: "Yes, 1t is true that PAID
SIS. 800 for a house. How did you known
OF course, there is a mortgage. put
have money in the bank for the inter-
est. and shall live there with my wire
and two children and rent apartments
and save more money.
EARNS PLENTY OF MONEY.
IL earn plenty of money. Since i have
been in this country-I came here In
1881 have been idle only two months,
and | have never earned less than SlO
"a week | never had less than $40 an tips.
/ have been married ten years. we
have a boy, eight years of aGt, ana
girl six.
I'VE know how to save money. My
wife was a servant in hotel on Broad
way when / met her. We had both been
poor and I'VE knew what money Is worth
She worked until our boy was born, ana
after She took care OF our rooms ana
OF our money
II was born ait Naumberg on the
Saale. in Germany, forty -one years ago.
When / arrived here / had $3.50 in my
pocket. | landed with that. To sleep IN
n hotel that night paid 80 cents. Then
j bought food and had no more money
But l:had a place already.
lit was in a liquor store at the Gu.
ner OF Houston street and avenue "a
j got s10-fifty marks-a week at o.ee,
FIFTY marks a week. thing OF that!
was very happy. But people saAd hfty
rnarks-SiO-don't go far here You nave
10 spend more than in Naumburg on the
Saaie. BAH / didn't spend more Wha'
was the use? -. c,...,,,,,i,
CIuh and worked hard. When nae
saved a little money ! opened a hgel
beer saloon. But II didn't pay los
5000 there in six months. SO became
waiter again. I am a gooo Waieer' hoth
ing else.
WORKS HARD ALL THE TIME.
mo I never speculate, or bet, o.
gamble | was never SICK. work hal
all the time. You see me here from
in the morning until = AT nlght. VIZ
shouldn't | make plenty OF money
When | leave here / take the car at IN
door and go straight To my rooms o
East Seventy ninth street-it VIII
past Seventy second street soon-S'ii
stay there. 4a,.,,, !
.ba summer / take the children out 10
q walk i'm the park before coming 10 III
work. The children speak German an
English. and when you see oher yo
know that they have all they want
eat and to wear. ,
bear Wagner's 'Tannhauser becaus
the orchestra here plays an unS III
pieces OF IT, but i can go IL WISH;
get tickets from the musicians. l elN
them TO my wife, She puts on ~, ne, and =,
silk skirt and her Sunday nat anu ~
,,ites a woman who can't aHoru TO pu
,icLets and knows nobody VINO CIV
them. 10 60 win her' ,a 40 81.
r1She goes 10 Coney Island, 20 rl'
Island and elsewhere with the uniieiJ az :, =
'a,,ts loo cream or coffee, or beer. 81
Ss,,,, rbav,, 20 ask-nae-for- the none
c. bas II. We put all that we ca
snare in the savings bank every ID
urday.
WHAT HIS BOY MAY BE.
"Ny boy Is growing. II he wants
- waiter when he is a man. all rigi
but he wants tn be something else
panker or an admiral-I don't MIR
Hell have a chance to Know Wnde
iilses hest. want him TO get an e1
,t,r and learn what he likes best
GOES 70 the common school ana ne
very bright Nt.
uermann Meinerck said these things
The Intervals of his service at the tap .,
and of his checking orders or or
t,ors IJe had a casual supervision
W. room that taxbl him little.
IA his story without questioning II
.bormingly sincere manner.