The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-06-01
NO WATERS STRIKES ABROAD
fried once In iOndOn and Failed
Too Many ATtrr the Jobs.

Hotel men who have worked IN Iiroi"
SAID yesterday that such n thing a. th"
present walters strike could not be under
taken in London or Paris with the smalle-,
Irssible chance of success The reason
n both places is the abundance Of Ger
man walters that would be only too willing
10 step in and TAX" Jobs
In each capital there are enough of th"~.'
TcLtonic servitors To make up a good
sized army Est imates give io.Nn of them
10 Paris most Of them with army train
ng and 1900 TO London and the other
cite, and seasiie resorts ~ tn" British
Isles, In the bigger restaurants Of Paris
IN" French waiter is dying out He is a e
rpady gone from London. the English
waiter with the mut;onchop whisk"i-
having long disappeared, and as the Ger
man waiter will work for little money
he gets Job when il is offered
About seven years ago IN" waters
and other male help al the Savoy Hotel
thought they would go on strike. News
Of their intent ion got out One hundred
and fifty of them quit and by the time
they reached the back door they found
40 others on the Embankment aiting
to get their jobs. Since then, It is said
there has never been a walters strike
in London
In that city the number of boardin {
houses runs up into the tens Of thousands
In them, with few exceptions, You will
find young Germans who have put in a
| walters apprent iceship at home, working
, for 5 shillings Isl rs, week When they
have remained long enough to learn a
little English they try to get Jobs in hotels
I, at 81. so to $40 "A month.
! German walters flock to Switzerland
| to learn French. Such are called pic
colos.' that il to say they have been
| volunteer apprentices for at least three
wears in their own country and must
bring references testifyinS 10 their good
! character. Hero man Just out of Sing
Sing may get job in many restaurant
The -piccolo" gets Il wage in Switzerland
of SAa month. He is not in on the tips at all.
the small republic All the tips are put
into hat, and first the head waiter taaas
out his'n whi h amounts to one -ha 4
of the gross receipts. Then the real walters
get theirs. which is twO-thirds of the
remainder, the "commis," who are omni-
buses Of the first rank. pOcketing the
| remainder, The piccolo doesn't get a
look in.
Some time ago the president of the Ger
| man Hotel Proprietors Association, who
runs a hostelry at Aachen, made wager
| that he and his wife could travel through
Switzerland without giving tip, When
they started to leave their first hotel
the usual array was lined up near the
front door. The hotel man smiled his
| thanks TO all. but gave no tips, He looked
back to encounter black frowns. At his
next stopping place the smiles that met
| him cooled after the star gor a look at his
baggage. 1t bore three crosses. During
, his stay in this hotel his boots could never
J bc found. holes wer" burned in his hest
clothes and all sorts Of annoyances visited
| him However, he stuck to his resolution
, not to tip.
When he got home he counted up dam
age. He figured out that he would ordi-
narily have spent in tips during his journey
about 4OO francs. The damage To hi,
clothes and his baggage he estimated
al not less than I 600 francs. lie published
his experiences AZ u warning to travellers
! Of anti-tipping prejudicss.