The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-18
THEY INSIST ON THEIR DiVVY.
Servants Who Systematically Rob Their
Rich Employers.

Rich Employers.
From the New York Pres.
The champion toll-takers are the
coachmen. Most of them are importa-
tons and the government permits them
to enter free of duty-an insult to our
. own drivers Bah. But they come here
with a purpose to ''do"our angloma-
MACS. The head coaehman receives
from $50 to $75, and his assistant rhe
fellow who is sometimes called tiger
and funk" gets about $40. The nay
may be purchased of the most reputa-
BILE firm in the world, but if Mr.. Coach
man does not get his 'divvy," he re-
ports to his employer that the horses
are not doing Nell-the hay is not of
good quality. If the cat man on the
produce exchange does not put some
thing in the priVy purse of MIR, Coach
man the horses have bolts, or some
thing equally as impossible-the oats
are unsound. 1t is the same with feed
corn and other provender.
One of the leading firms on the pro-
duce exchange received from million
aire in Fifth avenue last week an in
dignant letter calling attention to the
very poor oats which they had sold
him at an exOrbitant price. They
proved that they had given him the lot
at the market price. and introduced
dozen witnesses to show that the oats
We're the finest ever sold in the market
But the firm refused to tip the coach
man! In the matter of harness-wny
our fool millionalres are robbed 20
beat the band" There is an alliance
between the British harness dealers in
New York and all the coachmen in the
city. Nothing can be bought for a
horse to wear unless through this deal
er, who is liberal in his "diVvy.' l
could name millionaire who paid ST.
200 for a set of harness that l could
buy anywhere for half that price. His
coachman got the extra $500.
The style in carriages changes every
season, just to keep people buying and
swapping The coachman stands in
with the more prominent carriage
makers of this city-deny it who dares!
and if his employer, feeling tribe
behind the fashion, wants to exchange
his cabriolet a year OLD for new one
he must pay nearly the original price
His imported British coachman makes
usually from 5000 to $500 by an ex-
change.
on horseshoeing, axle grease, har-
ness oils, silver and gold polish, uni
forms, etc, the men connected with the
stables of the millionaire are eXpect5 /
TO more than double their annual sala-
ries. 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 candIestick maker-who refuses TO
see the extended palm of Major-Domo
and Abigail The m1lkman pays his
Way before he deposits a bottle of wa
ter solution. The butrer man agrees
to divide before he scents the pantry
With a pound of oleomargarine. The
baker has no need of yeast in his bust
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
iinuafie5 air and can give short weight
until eternity. Coal and wood? Every
ton delivered in the millionaire's base
man costs so per cent more than the
common people pay and every cord 100
per cent.