The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-15
EMPLOYED
IN MANY LONDON CLUBS
Dearth of Male Labor on Account of War Broadens
Field for Women, but Government Makes
Little Use of Registry Scheme.

yesterday mattresses have been doing
the work that was done before by young
fellows who are now in khaki. The
same is the case at the Garrick Club
and the National Liberal Club. Many
other clubs are also employing wait
resses and before long 1t looks as II
every club will have to follow suit.
waiter Problem Grows.
In hotels and restaurants the waiter
question is even more acute. Custom
ers refuse to be waited on by Ger
mans or Austrians the British walters.
or course, have to a great extent Joined
the cOlors IL of military age. and the ell
derby English waiter has for so many
years been knocked out by his continent
tai competitors hat he is very little good.
With Italy entering into the war the
waiter question became at once more
difficult than ever, owing 20 the de-
parture of the Italian walters, and
many hotel managers will have to STAFF
their establishments with women. The
new Regent Palace Hotel is almost ex-
clusively stated by women. Girls are
being trained TO wait at even so con-
~servative and old fashioned a hotel as
Claridge's. Since last Friday more tina
a thousand women In London have APP
piled to one large agency for employ
ment as mattresses.
II should be said Ina both AZ the
clubs and the hotels where women are
now for the FIRST tlme doing the work
OF men servants. members and custom
ers alike declare that the work is done
quite 80 efficiently and more smoothly
and pleasantly.
There are now thirty-six girl ticket
collectors at the London Bridge station
OF the Brighton line. BY the end OF
this week girl ticket collectors will be
on duty at Victoria station. at Brighton
and at other stations on the line. The
facetious Young city men call these girl
ticket collectors 'collectorines." They
wear uniforms of a we'll cut tailor made
In blue serge with "A high collar bear
gold. The hat is n fiat topped peaked
cap in dark blue like a military stan
cap.
Since Saturday last one woman who
has taken up this particular line has
received more than 400 replies to her
advertisement for middle class girls and
young women who are ready to work
on the land during the summer.
VIII work without wages
Many Of the letters she has received
are from young war widows n from
the sweethearts and even the mothers OF
war prisoners in Germany. Many
young women offer TO work without
wages beyond the cost OF their keep.
\ woman official OF the National Po-
litical League said on Monday that they
were receiving a stream of applications
from women volunteers for farm work.
Since this subject was last written
OF in THE SvN there Is a very noticea-
BILE Increase In the number OF women
that one sees employed in every day
sort OF work that has hitherto been
done by youths or men. In the sub
urbs there are butcher girls who call
for orders and deliver them instead OF
he blue coated butcher boys. Door
keepers NJ shops and big departmental
stores are now frequently smartly uni
formed young women
But for the fact that the allowance
given to the wives AMI dependents Of
the recruits in Kitchener's armies is so
generous the amount Of additional
woman labor now employed would be
enormously greater, but as time goes
on there can be little doubt that the
increase will be steady in every
branch Of b OF which women are
physically capable.