The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-18
TIPS SMALL,
WORK SCARCE,
WAITER in NEED
First Cafe Server to Seek As
sistance Applies to Com
merce Board
MANY TRAGIC TALES
OF WANT STILL HEARD
One Man With Three Children
Says Home Is Without Bit
of Food

Three orders OF chicken a La king
one order OF chicken in GREENLAND
the tips for the night for this waiter
in one OF Detrolt's fashionable hotel
cafes totaled 80 cents His wages for
| this Saturday night. for he was work
| ing Just one night as an extra" were
so cents, and before he got through
work. early in the morning, the head
waiter came around and said 10 him
What you got 10 give 10 the bus
boy?" The bus boy, you know, per
forms certain work in the movement
of silverware from one place to an
other. and. therefore, gets tipped by
waters
So this waiter, who had worked all
night and part of the morning TO col
lect So cents in tips, looked at his
pile, and left 10 cents for the bus
boy. Then he went home and told
his wife that the income for the night
was - cents. and that so far as he
knew. there would be no more work
until next Saturday night. when he
could again go on as an extra In
the same cafe. The earnings OF that
Saturday night are gone, there is no
food in the house, and this waiter
he's not one OF the butterfly, highly
manicured type, but good, substan-
tial and rather elderly family man
Is In keen search of some means OIL
relief. He came to the Detroit Board
of Commerce Friday, being the first
waiter who has registered with the
relief committee The waiter is NO,
loo in The Times list of unemployed.
Others for today's list are.
107-A gear grinder. who is trying
TO keep up his home, with his wife
and three children, from weekly in
come OF $3.50 paid by his sister as
board The father has been out oil
work six months.
1OS-This man, who has three chill
dren to support. reported that there
was not a bite OF food left in his
home lie worked last as night
Waterman, but was laid of three
months ago.
109-A youth of Is years. who can
drive team or do light work lie
has aided his mother In supporting a
smaller sister and brother. The fam
lily is In debt for meat, and the rent
Is almost due.
110--This mans demand for work
WAS dlSO II utiildIu IOI q VI
maintaining his position as head OF
his family and. he says, his respect
He can no longer see his wife 90 10
work early in the morning, he SAYS,
come home In the evening and then
try TO catch up in her household work
He wants work. and he wants his
wife To stay at home. He has done
nothing for folr weeks. Worked last
as an oil distributor, Can do any
kind of labor Has two children
1l1-He is unmarried, and has no
one dependent upon him, but his case
is acute because he will be turned
out OF his room next week, unless he
pays rent Works OH the lakes in the
summer and is strong enough 10 do
any kind OF labor,
l12--To support his mother, this
young man has borrowed money on a
ring, and has gone $40 in debt His
resources are exhausted, and he now
fears that he soon will be forced TO
give up his home because of inability
to pay rent. He is bricklayer
1lS-This mans four children are
i'm need OF shoes. and the supply of
food and fuel in the home is depleted.
The father worked as a stove repairer.
He was laid of two months ago.
114-For 80 years he was mo1der,
but the constant work over hot metal
weakened his eyes, and he was forced
to give up several weeks ago. He
has been unable to find other work.
which he needs badly to support his
wife and children.
115-This man and his wife have
been served with a notice TO leave
their home, because they are sl2 in
arrears on rent. The husband Is an
assembler.