The sun., 1901-10-27

,,on Of 4 fact, The waiter who esrns here
nj the head OF his estabIlshment an annual
salary of 5000 n one OF the fortunate men
in his bt,slna.s Sometimes be- has n,cans
81 getting more than tho tip that ms Gus
toner gives him Last spring when .ne
stock market was booming. one head waiter
In a hotel ON Fifth avenue was said 70 have
earned $4,000 by means of n tip given To
him by nm old customer who was a ttock
broker II was not - much as that to "
accurate, but he did speculate and msde
money ss his guest told him that mornlue
AZ breakfast 20 buy n CERTAIN stock II ho
wanted TO get rich. The prudent man
stspr.ad to the brokers office IN th" hotel
inauiring about the stock and gave an oid,r
when he found out that " was 'aIy
pronisin< He made nore out oi that
In Than out n "A nufnber Of tips Of the
kind on which A. n rul" he must rely.
The earning of the average head walter
In a large city restaurant or hotel, ranging
AZ they do from - 900 70 SOo year, are
enough To enable him 90 save money " uh
the object in view thai swims iei1r the
eye- ~ all Of them TO own or ~ least I" u"
proprietor II his own place. That h whit
most ~ them have in view, anhough ih''
are failures enough IN th"w weNls'ri"hc' 'N'tH
IN A larg, establishment that belong to
s,m.,,odv cl-a j. really a better business
than ri=king their own ssvlng- IA an enter
pri-., Of which they must bear the ri~h
3 HiIt TINT ufaN npt fltlllirH wv
! ~ the head winters To accuinulai" enough
| Ia start In for thcmselv'~ THIS ultimate
/ r,,sult b. made possible. Of cpur-e, only nN
/ tho uutnirr 81 tips that they resolve IN"
/ wage ~ a SUCCESSFUL and popular head
| waiter arc never large enough Tor MN
| TO ave a capital out Of them
| Tho bsst known ~ the headwaiters in
| town L. naturally Oscar. the Indispensable
J naItre d'h0'el of th" Waldorf Astoria
I and his prpsminenCe comes naturally h'n
/ ~, fact that the restaurant there h. larger
/ than auv other IN the city and eni"rtains
| annually NOR, guests than the Others ac-
/ comuoslate lie earns more than any oi
| the other head walters IN the ,1tN. ana one
! of his COLLEAGUES IN" other day '-iiumi"'i
| O-car's yearly incon. at about 500 from
| tho amount paid to him by the hotel and
| what he r,se,,fv,-s IN tips Perhaps the head
| vniirr who l.. next to Oscar. known to NOR"
| New Workers than any other r. Raymond
! Ort.c. or a. he - more generally called
/ RAYMOND who has b~cn Tor ~" last slN
! vrar. the head waiter al Martini, and had
/ ~ hi control always IN" seating 81 about
/ ~ ioe a. many hungry Ieople A. ih'r"
I wcrr seats for ~ The tables. III" has nov
| faiuei tn ambition of all head Maii"r~
] and T. To otau a new French hot"l 10 b"
known A. the lAaiayrtt" ia the present
/ Br"voprt on the ~ Of next May
-Ju," a. the Holland House has made
I ia. none Caf" of that hotel the resort of
many Young men who might never Y" there
h'V Tor ilr -Nttlihl iuNt' I'f'ki li'i .. NliH'
tb.y want for breakfast u II Said that
,Io. l. able t. tell az a glance whether it l. n
cooling grapefruit that his guest Graves
or whether or not he feels ia condition tu
.,art in with ~" uore solid items uf the
b.li of farr Joe has other ch'nts, who are
not 40 dependent on the state OF thrir nealti
,p th. morning a. th" younger men ar
likely To h. and they arUr.cia'o hs adNi'"
-a much ia III" matter ui IN" b'.ls al iafr
that they would b" served 10y nobody else
For a long time befOr" n moved uptown
the head waiter - Dclnunico'> restaurant
ws- PHILIPPE and lac j. there today Know n
10 the ctI-' ouers for YEAR, a. b" b' gan itl
'h. restaurant a a water, and b"i'r" h'
wa selected for hi present place hal lH =
come acquainted with most ut the Gust 'oul"r~
OF th. hn'l-" Ilr ls a frrnchnan. bui there
B.. 100 monopoly 81 IA" work hy the men ol
tNl' rae" Germans are lu-i a. popular
prI ifu cou-u- 81 the New York head waiter
w.rr taken II would probably u" found
that 'r.r. arr more Germans than p"rsof-
of any uthcr nationality lh"r" ar" also
Swiss and q fow Italians.