New-York tribune., 1901-07-14
BARMAIDS IN HOROKEN
NOW THAT THEY ARE PROHIBITED TH-
GERMAN SAILORS COME To NEW
YORK FOR THEIR BEER

Hoboken has been for many years one of the
important gateways to Europe, and its large
HottIhg population is afoat also when it leaves
Hoboken-It consists OF sailors. The population
Of the place is upward of sixty thousand and
Is made up mostly of Germans who for years
have supported Irishman for mayor \ child
IN Hoboken school was once asked what the
place was remarkable for but instead of an
swering as the teacher hoped ne would for its
great steamship piers he said: For its lager
beer saloons
mat was many years ago. before the upper
part OF New-York was We'll supplied with Ger
man recreation resorts and when the picni,
ground for New-York's German population was
H"noken- But its claim to notoriety because Of
It's lager beer saloons still holds good although
the character of the patronage has changed
The place has 80 saloons and until last week
there We're 81 Twelve were closed because the
city authorities revoked their licenses on ac-
count of the disorderly character OF the places
Investigations We're set on foot because many
residents OF the city objected to the employment
Of harmaids in the resorts The objections were
favoraty considered by the authorities. and IN
ordinance was introduced before the Board of
Aldermen on Wednesday prohibiting the en-
FIuymrnt of Wome walters and As con
Nersatonalists' in licensed saloons
young woman who with her sister assists
her father in running Hoboken lager beer
saloon in speaking Of the ordinance. said:
It's ali right 70 shut up some of the places
where there ara girl walters because they are
vulgar and bad They have side rooms and pri-
Nate apartments. but those are not the real Ger
man places. There is nothing vulgar ar low
about "a woman serving man with mis- haer n
"A large open place like this and the man vb1
Is accustomed 10 receiving his drink from !
woman IS not satisfied TO have a stupid bov walt
VI, VI. - '..r.' me men VINO patronize the Hobokea
saloons are German sailors. They come here
"itt' haNinS been On the water week or two
and besides their beer they want a little. music
Ihty enjoy these, but they want d girl waiter
TOO lhtN r. used To that in F,uropa vhere
no one thinks that just because sirl brings \
man his beer she must be vulgar Th. neonIa
who object 10 the girl walters object To rusi,
t'" and We must stop playing on the piapo ~
hall past ten. Now that NAV b. al -irbt m
some places. but not where the customers are
FeIilah sailors. When you take the Keltnerin
an" 'H' music out OF the places where h. goes
the beer has no taste-he wants all three W.
had the best illustration of that when the fight
against the hdrmaids began. Men from German
vessels whom We have known for wears came
here and when they We're told that there would
be no music they said: Well. Wen go 10 New
here
The young woman explained that she did not
serve beer. but simply assisted her sister at
''entertaining" her fathers guests. and il would
take more than city fathers edict to drive
her out of the place.
The proprietor OF the place indcrsed with great
emphasis in German all that his daughter had
said in English, and added:
When an American goes to Furope one of tho
things that he writes home about and tells a
lot about when he returns is the way his beer
was served To him in some of the famous bier
stuben- He always thinks that it is Just right
and wants to have the experience over again,
but when some one in this country wants to
introduce the same thing, just for the aCCommO-
upon by women, then he makes up his mind that
II IS wrong and that's why the sailor beer trade
Will be driven over 10 New York. where there
are no wicked barmaidS.