The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-26
WATERS HAVE A CHRISTENING
NEW TITLE OF THEIR UNION rs
QUITE MOUTH FILLING.
hut Why Should Their Brothers Across the
Water surpaSs Them In NOmenclature7
An Day Debate Which Became Peace
fuI When q Working Waiter Appeared.

Ilnt WHY SnUulu IhNNI EtONO NAAN
water surpaSs Them In Nomenclature7
All Day Debate Which Became Peace
full When q Working Waiter Appeared.
Arguments in almost all the languages
~ Europe were heated literally as we'll as
fplratively all day yesterday in Terrace
Cs rden, where the assembled delegates
al the Geneva Union-the real swell walters
examination Of America-tred 10 come to
some agreement about a new name for
the association. The word union, Head
Waiter Walther Of New York explained,
eives iaymen the impression that the Or
SANITATION is made up Of trades persons
or w~orkngmen. and Is therefore unsuitable
10 the profession
Head Waiter Walther says that as soon
as the season wakes propitious he is to
accept the commission OF captain at Sherry's
Casino at ~Narragansett Pier. Just now
he is at liberty and is giving almost all his
attention 10 the entertainment OF the visit
ing delegates who are here from Boston
m San Francisco. Week end parties and a
bit Of golf are in sight, but just now the
delegates are giving their time 10 convention
business
Arguments about the new name yester-
day had to do with a choice Of 1.-THE Geneva
THE Geneva International Association
sThe International Geneva Association
THE Association of Internationsl Geneva
The Universal and International Geneva
Association Of Hotel Employees The
Universal Association Of Geneva Hotel and
Restaurant Employees" "the Geneva
International Hotel and Restaurant En-
rloyees " and several others. NJ. Brillow
Of Chicago was strong for The Geneva
International Association" and said very
pointedly 20 the convention that THE Inter-
national Geneva Association" was utterly
absurd. NJ. Tomaso Mcdonnell. who is
captain in the Hotel LenoX, Boston. argued
fervently for simply THE Geneva" The
Boston head waiter said this was better
English and that as long as the name was
to be changed it should be Englished
properly.
There was much rapping for order from
President Becker Of Chicago in the course
Of the debates. Especially did the con-
vention go up in the air when Delegate
VI. Hugo Ernst Of San Francisco got up,
after the arguments had been running
strong for some time, to suggest that the
convention had no right to change the name
and drew attention TO page 9 OF the by
laws. Page 8 begins very directly and to
Landesteil hat elnen dem Namen des Ges-
amtvereins e~ntsprechenden Titel zu
flhren,' DC. On the face of IL, there was
nothing to it after that paragraph had been
unperceivable to the layman, however, for
the presiding officer called the delegates
attention to q point of order by remarking
to NJ. Ernst. "Sit down and shut up" NJ.
Ernst took both directions,
There was strong opposition TO the Bos-
toneaa plea for RimDlicity. Why RhOuld
they differ from their brothers abroad?
asked some OF the opposition. In Germany,
for instance, the body has the euphonic
title, Center Verband der G~asthofgehil-
fen in Deutschland" And take the name
that runs across official stationery from
headquarters in Observation-Disclosures
aler Center Verband der Hotel-und Res
neutrality-suspicious." The paucity Of
the Bostonese title is apparent, too when
compared with the name of the French
body, La Genevoise Societe lnterna-
tionale de Secours Mutuels des Employees
d'H6tels ct de Restaurants"
The ~coatless delegates were on their
feet by turns all afternoon and waved their
fans excitedly while they argued for their
~favorite titles. NJ. Oscar Hahn, the general
secretary Of the union for all countries,
who came all the way from Dresden TO
attend the convention. argued in German
for the International Geneva Association"
NJ. Tomaso Mcdonnell Of Boston fought
this and all other titles except The Geneva"
Above all things, said NJ. Mcdonnell, the
walters here want to Americanize the
NATIONAL? Two or three delegates who
wanted to see the American body Ameri-
canized pleaded in various languages
also that the un-American international
be stricken out.
Finally a motion was put that the body
call itself henceforth The International
Geneva Association" This motion was
amended that a subtitle he added, of
iotel and Restaurant Employees Next
the amendment was amended, after Dele
law about "Jeder Landesteil hat einen dem
Namen," &c, to the effect that the delegates
be empowered TO change the name by
ballot.
The amendment to the amendment was
voted on first and carried amid polite ap-
rlause. The amendment to the motion was
then about TO be voted upon when the door
opened and NJ. Fritz Schatz, a regular Ter
race Garden waiter. came in with trays and
glasses and things for the Officers the
stenographer. who has filed reams Of paper
with speeches in about ten languages. The
%halloting stopped without the formality OF
q motion. Miss Lappini was the one who
took lemonade.
After a brief rest everybody ,elt better
and the amendment to the motion was
carried. Then things rose to a white heat
again when the first motion came to the
Hofatch, The motion was carried by q vote
nj 10 s. The Boston purist lost out grace
'll!y. The official title therefore is now
The International Geneva Association OF
Hotel and Restaurant Employees" The
explanatory clause Nof the United States OF
North America" wsa considered super
huous and was not added.
As the sun went down the captains OF
p9!mistry we're considering the question
whether TO use up the stationary printed
with the old title or to go right ahead and
GET new paper printed with the elongated
ute Immediately. Delegate Valentine Won
der Lin head waiter at the Waldorf, thought
that the association should get new sta
uonery, but Delegate Nader favored the
purchase Of a rubber stamp and going over
the old paper with it. When the matter OF
buying or not buying the rubber stamp is
settled the convention will take up the sub
lect Of building a s75, 900 clubhouse in New
lork and other matters Of lesser Importance.
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