The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-29
ARMY OF HELPERS IS
EMPLOYED FOR WEEK
GENERAL BUSINESS MEM EXPECT
NO RUSH.
Hotels, Restaurants, Barber Shops, sa-
looms, Soda Fountain Booths and Fur
nishing Stores Prepare to Take Care
Of Visitors Who Will Throng the
Oity-More streetcars. Il Il.

Already the extra help which will
be needed to handle the crowds of en-
campment week are appearing in many
restaurants and hotels and getting the
training which they will need when the
strenuous work of feeding 200 900 more
people begins.
While much extra help will BE- needed
ness houses will not " increase their
forces. The increase will come in the
hotels, restaurants, barber shops, sa-
looms, soda fountains and furnishing
stores. The general run of business
men expect falling off in trade.
Porters and Bellhops.
The extra heir in thez hotels will con
sist chiefly Of porters and bellboys.
So far as caring for the rooms is CON
cerned, little if any extra help will be
needed, as the house force is ample in
every hotel to attend to all it's rooms
at all times. It is possible that a few
extra helpers may be added to the
kitchen forces. =
"The average hotel has force ade-
quate to it's capacity, !" said a leading
hinder rather than help. [ think that
10 per cent will more than cover the
average increase athruout. the city,"
" aAcS4S &lIe.t lId1u1Hg.
Much the same e ondition prevails at
the restaurants. Unframed help would
De worse than useless, and too many
would merely add confusion. For this
reason the more farsighted proprietors
with the expectation of holding them
thru the encampment and fair week. s.
Owing to the fact that the number
OF workers is limited by the number Of
chairs, there will he little increase in
the barber shop forces, tho the pres
enGe OF the visiting veterans probably
Will be more apparent there than any
Where else. The same condition con-
fronts the shoe shining Adjustments
Mixologists III Demand.
Double forces will be the order Of
day in saloons and at soda fountains.
The business of dealing out liquid re-:
fres n will be trenen dous and prac-
ideally every unemployed "mixolo-;
glst !, in the city. whether Of the hard
or SOFT variety. is engaged for the
week of Aug. 13. ss.e @s A .1.s y
No preparations will be made at the
dry goods and lothiinng stores to- han
die the crowds as they do not expect
much patronage. The furnishing bust
n, ness will expert fence a boom, however.
sale will have extra clerks for, with
200, 900 visitors in town and hot wealth
er, the call for clean collars. cuffs.
shirts and nderwears will be immense.
One leading shabsrd sheg SAYS. that he
the week and wiz Be ready for st,
Extra usheer sal IFS wilh.be!
ia ken q on on "a the alters and other
places of !. amn ys en- le q
81 III Plenty Of Cars. ST { 9ss sS SSsss3s
: The street railways company has 300
new men in.trainingaas motormen and
conductors. It will put every available
car into service and, allowing four
men to car for a day and night Shift
this means that seyenty-fve extra cars
Will be on the rails.
!. A special book Of information and
instruction, giving the exact location
of every public building and point Of
interest with reference to the car lines,
has been issued to III conductors and
they have been ordered to study it dill
gently in order tes acc ommodate the
hundreds who will Wish to see the city.
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