The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-09-20

&c can instantly read new guest's
character and discover his social stand
ing, yet he prefers old customers.
| knowing. how to treat them, as well
| as how he himself will be treated anu
tipped
ment,g says Auguste, I'VE walters, like
everybody else, hnve often to meet
many who are not gentlemen. When
man snaps his fingers at his at
tendant and speaks as IL he were call
ing n dog, we naturally know where
to place him, and that person does not
get better service than others, to say
the least. But the waiter must exer-
else judgment Sometimes n man has
stayed up too late the night before
and may have taken more than is
good for linn. His nerves are on edge;
he has two headaches one over each
eye-and the world Is JET black to him.
The good winter understands all this
at glance.
cor perhaps the man has been a
good fellow ten times, but the eleventh
time he is :; brute. Well, we cOmpre-
bend. Something has gone wrong-he
has lost money or there has been
trouble of some kind. He is handled
with kid gloves by his waiter and is
strolled. as it were, with a hand OF
velvet, gently, soothlngly, sympathet-
icaIly. As like as not the guest be
comes ashamed of his I'll temper, and
the waiter gets conscience money in
the shape of u dollar instead of
quarter tip
The waiter himself is under too strict
discipline ever to show irritation or bad
humor. In great hotel like the Aston,
where the STAFF employed in the four
dining rooms numbers go regulars, ex'
elusive OF the host of subsidiary attend
ants who assist behind the scenes,
everything is organized with the utmost
precision
In each dining room there are three
watches. consisting of twelve men and
six omnibus boys. Two of these
watches are called steady and the third
the reserve The reserve is always on
hand and helps the steady watchers al
trmnteIv. At the end OF the week tho
reserve STAFF becomes steady forthat
week and one OF the stcadies relieves
the reserve. The first watch comes on
at o O'clock. opens mp the place anG
goes Off at II o'clock. Then 1t returns
ut 6 Ia the evening and stays til closing
tIme--say about 1:3o n. IN. The next
morning Che watch which has closed UP
does not come on until Il ana Stays
until s. and thus alternately, so that
every day, there are different men on
the different watches. The opening up
and closing are. the really hard work Of
the room
40 man has the same table or even
the same side of the room twice con-
secutiveIy. in order that there may be
no favoritis:n and that he may get
handy ana experienced in every part OF
the room The stations Of the captains
are ulso changeable. Another item OF
interest is that each piece of work has
three men to look after it.
Some people are fond Of asserting
that these imperturbable purveyors, IN
stead OF being paid by the hotel pro-
prletor, not infrequently have to pay
for the privilege of working in tile es-
tabllshmeut. AS n matter, OF fact, the
best New York walters get $25 week
and their clothes. Their tips, It has
been calculated, run from 500 to Sl;1
n month. n generous salary, hut one
which is certainly well earned.-Se':'
York Tribune.
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