Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-08-05
INSIST ON THEIR DIvvY.
Imported Conchmcn and Servants
who systematically Rob Their
Rich Employers.

The champion toll-takcrs are the
tions, and the government permits
them to enter free of duty-an insult
to our own drivers BAIL But they
come here with purpose to "do" our
Anglomuniacs. The head coachmun re-
ceives from $50 TO S75, and his assistant,
the fellow who is sometimes called
"tgcr" and "tunk,' gets about SIC.
The hay may be purchased from the
most respectable fir;n in the world, but
If Mr.. Coachman does not get his "div-
Wy" he reports to his employer that the
horses are not doing wcll-the hay is
not of good quality. If the oat man on
the produce exchange 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 lately received from
n millionaire in Fifth avenue an indig-
| nant letter calling attention to the very
poor oats which they had sold him at an
cxorbitant price. They proved that
they had given him the lot nt the mar
kct price, and introduced dozen wit
nesses to show that the oats were the
finest ever sold in this market. But the
firm refused to tip the coachman! In
| the matter of harness-why, ou1Sfool
millionaires are robbed to beat the
band" There is an alliance between
the British harness dealers ir New York
and all the coachmen in the city. Moth
ing can be bought for horse to wear
eral in his "divvy." could name a mil
lionaire who paid $1,000 for set of
harness that could buy anywhere for
half that price. His coachman got the
extra 5000.
The style in carriages changes every
season, just to keep people buying and
swapping. The coachman stands in
with the more prominent carriage MAX
ers of this city-deny it who dares!-
and If his employer, feeling trifie be
hind the fashion, wants to exchange
! his cabriolet year old for Il new one he
must pay nearly the original price. His
| imported British coachman makes usu-
ally from 5000 to $400 by an exchange.
On horseshocing, axle grease, harness
oils, silver and gold polish, uniforms,
etc, the men connected with the stables
of the millionaire are expected to more
than double their annual salaries. And
these importations, 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 women, and woe
to the dealer-the butcher, the baker,
the dlestickmaker-who refuses to
see the extended palm of Major-Domo
and Abigail. The millman pays his
way before he deposits bottle of wa
ter solution. The butter man agrees
to divide before he scents the pantry
with pound of oleomargarine. The
baker has no need of yeast in his busi-
ness until he has fixed" the people
below stairs. The iceman-Great
Scott! The giant monopolist? Why,
he freezes to the butler and the cook
as quick as liquefied air and can give
short weight until eternity. Coal and
wood? Every ton delivered in the mil
lionaire's basement costs so per cent
more than the common people pay and
every cord 100 per cent.-N. Y. Post.