The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-06-02


rcss"s and keep his restauyant going full
blast. He said he was having little
trouble at the Cafn dcs Bea,ix Arts, wher.
thcr" was a strike on Saturday night. and
ne might have waitressos there If h,
couldn Z get competent men.
AZ the Firth Avenue restaurant in the
fifth Avenue Building the manager
Alexander Bonlang. told the walters al
10 o'clock in tho morning that they were
being paid $50 n month. the new scale
ana " they were dissatisfied to- got out az
he would not recognize th" union Eighty
waters and buses got out. The kitchen
stan did not budgc. Tho head walters
and the captains hustled around and the
usual midday crowd got food withou,
unnecessary delay Manager Boulanp
said that the receipts for the day were
about $50 under those Of last Saturday
which didn't mean anything.
AND THEY wALkED oCT ON SIMEON FORD
" th" hotel men got any amusement
ont of the situation yesterday il was when
they learned that about forty cooks and
waters had walked out at the noon hour
Sim Ford, humorist and hotel man, who
owns the Grand Union, had been telling
his friends that his men would not desert
no. not his men. Manager Hatch of the,
hotel felt the same way
He was standing in front of the hotel
talking to Capt. Gray Of the East Thirty
MIN street station. assuring the captain
that nothing would happcn NJ his hotel
when couple of reporters came around
the corner
Just saw part of your force walking
ont: they told Manager Hatch
My. my. is that so." said Mana rer
Hatch as he hustled inside to see what wa .
To hp done
As many Of the old employees had re-
fused To quit the hotel was not crippled
To any extent
=, SO they quit on my old friend. Sim
Ford. said Proprietor Sweeney OF the
Victoria, when he heard the news That's
funny"
About half an hour before this happened
thc entire fore" at the Victoria walked
out. Those who had food in front of them
ate II and those who didn't waited until
proprietor Sweeney rounded up ten men
ana put them to work. He got more
help IN the afternoon and he said he would
get along with very little trouble
MANHATTAN AND wALCorr MI.
About the same time that the walters
and cooks left the Grand Union the signal
Tor strike came IN the dining rooms
of th" Hotel Manhattan The cooks
walters had remained loyal Not all of
them Went back on the management
yesterday. Forty walked into Forty
sccon6'strect and joined the strikers from
the Grand Union. This caused some
excitement and the police had 10 keep
tn" Saturday crowd ard the waters
The walters in tho Wnlcot, in West
Ihirty-hrst street decided at noon that
II was M To them 10 take n holiday and
marched ont. Two-;hrds of the force
left the hotel A. the hotel had clos,i
one dining room for the summer the
mana cement said that ii expected to be
nnle To accommodate anybody that came
along.
About the same thing happened at the
san Reno on Central Park West. The
manager asked the fifteen walters en-
ployed IN tine hotel il they intended TO
stand by tho union This was shortly
before noon. The walters 81 i'll they did.
lie manager told them they might leave
did and the hotel brought in several
waters,
HASH As 4 SrIIHF SIGNAL
10 add to the excitement in Forty
second street the waters in the Athens
Joined the strikers. II appears that the
strike signal has not been the same in
ali note and restaurants. In one place
th" ieId"r mas dramatically put his hand
over his h"drt. la another there has
been u whistle sounded Bur al the
Athet- they adopted an entirely new
method. One oi the walters droppad
n tray h"hped with hash. Bofor. the
echoes Of the crash had died away All
IN" waters were moving toward tn"
doors while diners looked on in astonish
ment.
The hotel men We're Is confident ycster
day "a ever that they would pull through.
Slost OF the hotels where th,ra had hnen
strikes reported that Will" thov wor. not
smoothly they w"r, moi hnyi,r
much difficulty. Louis sherry
thirty students at Columbia University
had applied To him for Jobs hut when
he found that they had had no cxterienca
n" told them he could not Use them
Mr.. sherry said he would rather close
down ms restaurants than have an mex
perlenced force of waitrrs.
NO BREAKFASTS At HERALD sorABE.
lh.. Herald square was as badly
rrippl'd a. the other hotels. Thirty
more waters walked out Yesterday
morning. As a result no m",l. wa-.
served al breakfast The manager said
he had refused to hire strik. breakers
and had taken no precautions against the
men walking out He expected To get n
new force of men before III. day was over.
IN" management at the Martinique
sad that they had little trou le in ac-
their customers For n
time they were short of BUSES but when
five students from New York University
showed up everything was pleasant
Manager Mulligan M the Breslin said that
h" had received fifty applications from
most Of them Princeton
and Columbia men. and he would put any
OF the boys To work who had done waiting
and knew something about IL The bows
said that they wanted to earn money in
ne summer months TO help them in
getting through college
III they go TO summer hotels WHY can't
they work her-?" Manager MuIligan
asked, This town isn't such a bad place
IN summer for a college boy, especially if
he makes a tidy sum
Manager Marshall at the Vanderbilt
said that he would not employ negro
waters az he did not have to- so many
Applications had come from white walters.
ne only trouble he had was in picking
good men. The dining and breakfast
'ooms were open and :'ie patrons of the
,otei were mot being ;ncOnvenicnced.
V OSCAR DOESN'T WANT NEGROES.
Oscar, at the Waldorf Astoria, said he
would not hire negro walters except as
! last resort. 1t was also said at the
Waldorf that college boys would not be
aired until the supply Of regular walters
lad been exhausted
The hotel proprietors have been joshed
4 bit by their dodgers. Said Baron Hen
5elmuller To Proprietor Haan of the st.
Regis yesterday morning
Well II you need help, call on me.
II put on an apron"
Congressman James H. Wadsworth
III YOU need waiter III take the lob. ="
The Congressman may have been iokine
AZ ne was on his way to Geneseo