The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-10

prices of the none too easy to please
travelling public.
The responsible work of the cash
iers is easily apparent when it is stated
that each of them not infrequently
takes in $1,000 a day.
The Big Task of the Head Laun-
dress.
Another important woman is the
head of the storeroom. Under her
immediate charge are the salads, the
fruits, the ices, etc, and their excel
lence and proper serving largely de-
pend upon her ability to direct her
assistants.
The head laundress is also factor
to be reckoned with. She not only
has charge of scores of women, but of
many men as well, the latter doing
all the washing and also the ironing
OF such pieces as shirts.
An insight into the amount of work
that her department is called upon to
do may be gained from the fact that
at the Waldorf Astoria it is a rule to
have about $4,000 sheets and an equal
number of pillow cases for daily use
in the 1885 rooms; nearly 10000
towels for daily use in 800 bath rooms,
and about $1,000 napkins, or six for
each guest for service for the same
period.
The housekeeper, while she is still
given much responsible work, is not
so important as in the old days. Then
she not only directed the chamber
maids. the -linenroom girls, and the
cleaners, bait she also frequently look
ed after the haugings, the decorations,
and sometimes ths refurnishing. Now
she only looks after the chamber
work, the cleaning and the seam
stresses. The rest of her former duties
are performed by separate forces OF
men. For example. men are busy the
whole year long doing nothing but
taking down worn lace curtains and
replacing them with fresh ones.
Work of the Women Much Special
lied.
This specializing of work is a fea-
ture of the modern hotel. There are
cleaners, whose sole work it is to
scrub up the bathroom floors. The
sweepers of halls are not called upon
to clean rooms. The women in the
glass pantries do nothing day in and
day out except to wash the glassware
by hand. Even the humblest woman
employee has her own special task
and is never saddled with another.
For this reason, the hotel does not
find it a difficult matter to secure the
domestics in private houses, the
chambermaids know that when they
have finished making the beds, they
will not be ordered to polish the sill
yer, or to scrub the front door steps,
or be set at cleaning windows. Ser
wants are only too eager to secure
employment in a place where their
time is their own after certain tasks
are ended, and wages are liberal to
boot.
Where Women are Superior 10 Men.
In general, managers of modern
hotels have come to recognize the fact
that, excepting the walters and few
others, women are better equipped
than men in many respects to do much
of the work necessary in the making OF
successful establishment. or the
1856 men employed in the Waldorf
Astoria, the greater part are walters
Women are used as cashiers, because
unlike their masculine rivals, they car
be said never to make mistakes, sc
rare are they. The glass pantries are
in charge of women for the simple reu-
son that experience has shown that
men smash delicate glassware when
they try to cleanse it. A woman floor
clerk is as good, and, because of her
tact, often superior to a man. And
so II goes even the kitchen, the strong
! hold of the imported chef being gen
erously given over to women.
While nurses for children and sick
guests, or shopping guides for out-or-
town patrons are not yet on the list
of the women employed by the up-to-
date hotel. it does furnish itself and
those within it's walls protection by
means of women, as we'll as men, de-
tectives. And these petticoat sleutns
are found to be extremely efficient.