The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-06-02
NO VISIBLE DANGER
Of MATTRESSES STRIKE
The Managers Of Dcnnett's and
Childs's Say So With
Confidence.
GIRLS ARE SATISFIED
Say So Themselves - Mems
Work Too Heavy for Them,
Some Think.

The strike fever doesn't seem to affect
the female constitution. IF you asked a
waitress yesterday How about it?" she
invariably responded briefly but firmly
Nothing doing As consequence
there was beatific smile on the face OF
every manager of hotel or restaurant
where women are employed.
Not single manager of a Childs place,
and there are fifty-five of them in town
turned hair at the word strike" In
one OF the firms chain of refectoriilms,
were seventy girls were hustling food,
the superintendent perspired satisfaction
ut every pore. He intimated that he
would guarantee to eat every girl that
could be tempted to walk out of his place
on strike. This he said not from blood
thirstiness. but because he felt no sure
that there was indeed nothing doing
in the line of a waitress tsrike.
This firm has been in the business for
about eighteen years and had always
employed Mattresses" he said. We've
never had a strike in all those years and
We won't have one now. I overheard
some of our girls talking about the present
trouble and they said they couldn't see
anything in it 80 far as they were con-
cerned. Az they didn't know l heard
them guess those we're their real senti-
ments.
we are satisfied with our girls and
think you'll find they're satisfied with
us. We pay them s. a week for working
five hours day. No girl need work more
than five hours il she doesn't want to.
IL she works longer she has extra pay.
But don't let those under me work more
than eight hours. because l think that's
long enough for any of them.
-Of course l don't know what their
tips average. You can Ike sure it doesn't
come anywhere near what the men
waters in the swell places gather in
But | have heard some of them tell of
I've heard girls complain that they didn't
make thirty cents day in tips. imagine
the average is somewhere between those
extremes. read in the paper this morn
ing about man at an uptown hotel that
paid for S32 dinner with $50 bill and
told the waiter to keep the change. II
such thing happened to one Of our girls
she would probably drop dead no per-
haps it + lucky that nobody is likely to
try il.
day about whether the strikers places
COuIu Inc 1IIeu Dy RlTIk. tnlnk tley
would find that work too heavy. II II
were not for that ! don't see why they
couldn't I'LL in. They are neater than
men and just as quick and quis. and
accommodating In fact they are a great
deal more accommodating and give better
service than men walters would who re-
ceived as small tips az these girls do
Certainly. 40 far as | know-and have
tried to find out--our patrons have no
fault to find with mattresses. Nobody has
ever suggested that We change to men
And. in view Of the present strike. think
the girls will be more popular than ever
At Dennett's. another large employer
Of girls as Mattresses. the manager was
as cheerful as Christmas cricket. He
surveyed his crowd of white robed SOUP
servers with yard-wide smile when he
was asked whether the strike was likely
to hit him. He said that bennett has
employed waitresses for twenty years
and had never had a strikeY or any kind
of trouble with them.
These girls won't strike" he said.
Not much! Men will shout and wave
their hands around and work themselves
up into fever over something; they're
not always quite sure what they re up in
the air about, but they like to feel that
they're raising rumpus. 1t makes them
feel important. Girls have n lot of good
hard sense about certain things. lfthey' re
we'll of they don't believe in getting in
bad just to feel their importance
At the Martha Washington there was
the same air Of serenity. The mattresses