The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-06-02
CABARETS DISABLED.
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Cabaretting in New York these last
! Few mornings of the walters strike
has been done under difficulties. Getting
supper after the theatre for some has been
a matter of uncertainty, for the reason
that few seemed to know where to go
| with any assurance that the walters would
not walk out just as soon as hunger was
| stimulated by the cocktail or the hors
d'Puvres For that reason hundreds
who are in the habit of &c tting bite of
food before going home to bed have ha d
the cook leave out something cold on
! their own dining room tables. That
hundreds of others who have the dining
out habit have been eating at home has
been evident from tle looks of the res
taurants.
But the ha hitual cabareter will cabar ret
IN spite OF everything. and the person
from the other side of the Hudson or
nearby institutions of learning who con-
siders a trip to New York of smal II a account
without an early morning turkey trot
has been going about the last few morn
ings in a limited area. The cabaret at
Louis Martins has been closed for a
fortnight or SO. and some of the newer
| ones up the Alley have been experiencing
money difficulties. and certain of the all
night eating places have been tied up
| by the strike. So when the crowd started
out to cabaret on Friday night it was
not an infrequcnt experience to be told
10y the man with the gold braid when you
got out OF your taxi that there was nothing
doing.
The Bustanobys' place, where there
had been a strike early in the evening,
was crowded when one dropped in there
"A little before midnight for something to
eat. Inside the entraDce man was telling
people who came in that they could wait
for tables If they wished. but he could
not promise them the usual service; il
| they were willing to wait for food they
| could get il. Most stayed and took a
chance.
humor. NJ. Andre hustled up and said
that he had heard that some of his walters
| were going To strike, and pouff! he had
fired them. just like that. but the rest
were doing their best. The other BUS
tanoby was alternately helping with the
! trays and doing IA modern dance with
| some favored client
| The captains seemed pleased il you
ordered cold food. though it took a little
| time to get This. Getting liquids was a
simpler matter. and you could order
beer or ginger ale and get away with it
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| of vintage
Persons who wanted to dance got out
on the floor and turkeyed and grizzlied
| to their hearts content and il was after
O'Clock before the crowd began to thin
out. But those who then moved on George
| Ractor's We're halted before they left
their vehicles, -Been closed since /;
nothing doing" said the carriage attend
ant. SO Murray's was the next port of call.
The big room upstairs was filled and
gayety was proceeding as usual and the
walters insisted uppon coming around
and telling that they had been going to
strike at ! O'Clock but that the propri-
etor had given in TO them and had prom
iseti to sign an agreement the coming day,
and every one thought he ought to be per-
sonally congratulated The head waiter
from Bust,tnoby's came in with party,
and though he was non-union man lie
had no difficulty in getting served
Numerous elderly. prosperous looking
business men were distinguished In the
wriggling throng that filed the floor
most of the time and at daybreak the
negro musicians were still playing