The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-07
TAPAN HELP COMES HIGH,
BUT IN R MEASURE IT SOLVES
 THE SERVANT PROBLEM.

Fo Some HoussLespsrs Japanese De- ms,tlo. seem IdssI-othsts cau Them Unsruthfui and Un,ras,worthy- cIsvsrneu and Ambition Marked Traits.
 Judging from the recent influx of Japanese men eager and anxious to ake places as servants in New York amilies, word of Americas xexing ser |ant problem has reached the Orient. It IS certain at any rate that never be- lore were there so many Japs in this .|ity asking for work as servants; and Mere it not that from wage stand 'loint the Japs comes high. some peo- He think he would mean a partial so- 'jItion at least of the help question. t Thirty-five dollars a month is very Moderate wages for Japanese general House worker, cook, butler or valet. Nifty or sixty dollars comes nearer to {he mark; forty is the average rate. Ind yet in his own country the Jap Forks for about one-fourth this sum t-not so hard, though. Said New Fork man who has lived in Japan:
 "The Japanese servant in his own Hountry is not an all round worker. He Ipecializes.
 While living there my wife and my .eIf had four servants to do what one Hoes for us here. The four cost no fhore than one would in New York, and hey had their quarters in an out fuilding and we never had to bother fbout what they had to eat or provide pr them in any way.
 My wife gave the orders for our heals, which were quite different from heirs, and that was all. Each of the bur did his own special work. which fas very little indeed, and no more They were genuine native servants who Hays.
 ''The Japs who come over here tc hke service are, as rule, quite intel igent and not of the lowest classes host of them speak a little English Ekhich is taught in the public schools h Japan, and that gives them an ad- antage at once.
 < You will hardly find one applying |5pr place who cannot make himself Understood Many are fairly well edu hted, and their aim in coming here is |b earn enough money as servants tc et themselves up in business in theil Wn country.
 "These are perhaps the exceptions hough. Tn country of fortyfou1 ! Millions of people it goes without say HAg that there is bound to be big serv. lg class who will never be anything
 se but servants; and it is equally cer' Ain that as stories of the pecuniars hccess of the Japanese servants now Ter here travel back to Japan, as the. ertainly do travel and will continue grow. Perhaps when Japanese ser. hnts become more plentiful over here hey won't come so high. Their wage' bay take a tumble. They ought to. hink."
 At Japanese mission in this city
 here many of the newly arrived Japs bngregate, not because they are Chris
 ans, but simply because the mission
 a good ard respectable place to ad
 ertise from, it was learned that there
 e now about one thousand families
 New York who employ one or more
 hpanese servants, and that none bu
 absolute greenhorn who canno
 peak any English. will accept smaller
 ages than $35 a month. Such a green
 brn, it is said, will take s2O if he car
 et it. But, then, as one of the Jap
 the mission explained:
 sIn one week if lady teach him, ; &eenhorn know how to do everything. N 'Quick work that!
 With few exceptions, they all learl
 ew ways and customs with remark Able ease, and, moreover, they are in
 Allieent, quick and indefatigabl