The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-27
GOODCHANCES IN HOTEL WORK
BETTERrHANP r. ACES ~ SHOPS,
SOS ONr VINO HAS TRIED.
Head Hos,srk erprr rr,is ef nrr M.~
since she Game Here = tsreenhorn D.
Wears Age Got Her First rratning
in Domestic service nj - Q Manlh

| In nn. ~ the large hotels in New York
ih, head itU,is.htSfssT IL az Irish wourRr
" no eighteen years ago came to this
country entirely unframed. and with
no friends ar Rrpuain'ances excepting
rho-c mad. on the voyage over
4 Mas what is called n greenhorn
said she. and ! was just about as green
as IA girl could he who had been brough'
up in civilized country The Laws
were not as strict them rs they are nov
bui even then | might not have been
allowed 10 come in II ~ hadnt been for -
" oman missionary connected with on"
of the emigrani girls homes She was
IN The wat ch rnr just such girls AZ wa>
and IN. officers let me pass because sh"
Sopk chlrge Of me
was there in the home for nearlv
:, week aud learned a little about scrub
hung the floors and making beds. PROM
the home ! went To- work IN a small town
rlp th. Hudson. for a mother and daughter
They lived alone in n small Nat. The
daughter MAS a school teacher and the
muthcr was partially paralyIed They
paid me - a month a. a sort OF maid Of
all work Because | had heard so much
about the high wages paid in Amerra
didn't want To take this place until
the people AZ the home explained that
was not worth higher wages
4 took the place and remained with
that school teacher ak months. and tn"
,st two months was after she told me |
vas worth higher wages than she could
ray ms. She and her mother used To talk
o mo = los about what I wanted to do
THAT was the reason decided tn TAX"
the work did the best and stick TO II
A. | was not particularly fond Of cooking
both the mother and daughter advised m"
against becoming "A csok. and becal-"
didnt care much about sewing. though
could sew better than I could csroS. they
thought a better give that up too They
assured me that could earn better wages
and be surer Of n place IA a first class
chamb.rmaid than A. a poor cook or An
indifferent sewing woman.
Both Of them had in mind a plac" m
a private family and I suppose | would
have waited for sJich AN opening II =
hadn'r been that a friend Of theirs WI"
was housekeeper IN IA New York hotel
cam. out so -pcrd sunday with them.
Sh. wa. going 10 TAX" charge of "A summer
hotel IN few weeks and offered TO take
me along a. chanbermaid ! WAS tn
hav. fourteen dollars a month wages. my
board and room with not more than four
other girls She -aId might not have tn
share my room with NOR" than two other
girls and | might he able 90 collect -
much "a five or ten dollars week IN fees
from th" guests ! took rh" place and It
l,roved H. good a. she had promised. for
| rot only got nv fourteen dollars IN
wages but thnrc wasn't a w~ek when !
didn't get al least five dollars IN tips.
AT the end of -he SIMMER | followed
this hoti-akeeper hack I" the oity AMI
rot a plnCe in tho hotel with her. she
didn, Fk. IN" hotel as much "a the one
she had worked in before going TO the
and Wa always signing to get
hack there 4, WAS hearing 40 m'icn
ai,o.,t that hotel thaf made me take a
place there the following summer M
stead of following her into the country.
| went there at si2 n month with room
and boa I'd. and | worked there for seven
long wears heard of places whore tn"
hello got more money but had 10 sleep
out In some they got one meal day.
TN others two. and then again none at all.
In some tho tips were double those that
had ever come my way hut hecal~e my
first employers. tna' fhotnef ana uanAn-
ter had impressed on me the value of
sticking at on. thing IL ! wanted TO rise
I remained M that hotel
Finally at IN. beginning OF my nth
summer. th"re was vacancy IN the
linen room and IL fell tn me, Here the
" ages were so a month. hut there were
no tins knowing that 1t was a step mp,
however I took IL | had been saving
ip my money with the intention of going
back home and | thought u would pe
nice Ia LAY l had been IN charg" 81 tne
linen room i'm one Of the grandest hotels
in New York few months after took
that place 7 heard ~ a woman who had
been promoted from the linen room I"
s-sistan hou--lsp-per. so when the wintHr
rsm. instead Of going back TO the old
country for a visit determined TO stick
until got 80 be assistant ho'i-ekeeper.
Il, took me- two years TO become fourth
hoIIsekeeper. The next seven
wears | p,ishs.i up to ftr~t ASSISTANT then
Il. ho,isekeeper ln that seven years !
had on. holiday of twelve weeks. You
SEQ zach assistant housekeeper IL en-
titled 10 two weeks vacation during each
year with wages. had set nv heart
m going bsck To my old home. NO | let
NV vacations accumulate. II was with
IN, permission II the proprietor. and when
The time came for me to 60. he got me tn"
lOb " travelling companion with young
adv who had been guest in the houa~,
and was going over so England To JOIN
and back so that my vacation cost mo
pniv what ! wished 10 spend seeing my
leOpl"
When ! came back | brought two ~
nv COUSINS With me and they are both
yorking under me in the hotel A. chamber
maids Before taking them into the hotel
got thers places in the country az low
wages where they could get some training
md learn the customs Of This country
The girl who wants tn rise in domestic
work must stick to her job. In hotel work
ler. in New York summer il the tir;,, '.-her
most 81 the changes are nlad. know "
,lrl who came in from farr, last spring
. e. To work IN a ~ bre. She was too laO
or the stores - took the only thing -h'
'Ould ind Chambermaid in "A first class
lotel The regular help was running
N TO the country and the houseksen~I
gas glad to get her IN her second
month the assistant linen room girl was
AIKEN sick and this farmers daughter
vas put int, her place In tho fall the
men room girl was made assistant house
ecper and the girl from the country
fepped right into hsr shoes