The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-17
Chicago Waiter Girls on a Strike
at Granada Hotel.
All Have a Grievance Against
the Manager.
TAKE FOOD TO CLERK.
They Thus Win Their Point
and Better Fare.
Male Help Profits by the Girls
Bravery.

Chicago, March 17.-'fWhen Is deter
mined maids thirsting for vengeance
combine to attack one defenseless man
he might as we'll capitulate on the
SPOT thought Clerk Peter P. Flick of
the Granada hotel, when the Is cham
bermaids, Mattresses and other female
employees of the hotel went on strike
against hash as a steady article of diet
Mr. Flick capitulated and the hash was
abandoned. Today everybody around
the hotel is happy. especially the girls.
The male employees. who did not strike
but who got the benefit of the girls en-
deavors. look somewhat happy and also
a little sheepish.
COMPLAIN OF THE FOOD.
The strike occurred yesterday. For a
long time, according to the girls, there
has been complaint against the quality
of the food given the help" of the no
tel. So yesterday, after having deliver
ed an ultimatum that If hash were
again served they would quit upon be-
ing given the mixture, the girls walked
out. Out of the dining room, that IS,
and up to the hotel Office, where Clerk
Flick, standing in his might behind the
desk, was oVerdraWing an intending
guest Mr.. Flick sighted the girls in the
office, and saw trouble approaching. He
cast about for help. None was in sight
'Helpl" he cried, and all the help
came marching upon the scene.
Each bore in her hand a plate of the
offending mixture In the other hand
each bore a caseknife. Mr.. F'liclx's first
thought was that the girls We're about
to throw the hash at his head and then
to carve him. Then he had visions of
being made to eat the hash, shoveling
it into his mouth with the knives. He
was soon undeceived, however.
Taking up a position confronting him
the girls begain talking all at once, ex-
planning the nature of hash and pro-
ducing a sound that reSeInb16d an at.
tempt to pronounce the Greek word for
the substance-the longest word in that
language.
out of all this confusion Little Bobs, -
the leader Of the girls-known before
the organization of the army of fifteen
as Annie-hnally succeeded in getting
order. Then she made the demand on
the clerk that the food should be
changed. Mr.. Flick cast about for re-
endorsements, as the girls were threat
ening to turn his TANKS and get be-
hind the desk. Assistance was apparent
" in sight in the person of Manager
Harry B SaynOr Before he could be
called upon, however, Little BObs'
divining the clerks intention, had also
sounded a call for re endorsements and
had brought to her side a bellboy, who
announced that if the petition of the
girls was not granted the men the hotel
staff would go out. too.
Then. indeed, did the courage of
Clerk Flick desert him, and in a weak
voice scarcely audible beyond the front
line of his trenches he announced that
he had surrendered. Drawing d white
flag from his pocket he waved it slowly
to and fro in sign of this. Sympathy
for vanquished foe is ever strong in
the female breast, but in this case it
could not check the enthusiasm of the
maids, who broke out into wild cheers
and rushed madly to the basement,
where they We're shortly served a. meal
that met their approval
Nav, we men didn't strike said
one of the employees today. We let the
girls do that. We get the good food
just the same and didn't run no chance
of getting fred