The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-01

in his own industrial trenches all
along the line. but nowhere has the
alien invasion Of French business been
so triumphantly successful as In the
country's lucrative hotel industry.
Not more than a year e the French
Minister of Public Works declared
that so per cent. of The nations hotel
commerce was in the hands Of aliens.
In Riviera hotels, the statistics
showed. was invested one hundred
million francs. most Of 1t foreign cap
ital. and So per cen of It's hotels were
run by foreigners. OF the employees
20 per cent. were Germans. IL per
cent. Swiss. 10 per cent. Italian and
but n meagre s per cent. French.
Out of 1907 900 hotel employees in
Paris. the stronghold OF the French
garcon, 1000 were Germans n Swiss
and 2 900 Italians and Spaniards. Many
big French spa hotels had not a single
French employee. having imported
their staff bodily.
The French nation sat up amazed.
Thanks to possessing the crack all
the-year-around battery Of pleasure
resorts Of Europe and the most varied
collection Of touring grounds. her
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possible.
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- 20 ,ha s,,ra,inn ,.han tho ,s,d-
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nuer I,ranca rsco,,,v n,ssed reso,u.
t,ons never again N emn,ov Germans
Ans,rians mr. uu,cori,ns in ,ho,r es.
A, Tho same TINE tho
nowerf,I Touring Club de France.
comnosed NJ aome goo GOO cmbers
semi out n neremntorv notice 10 its
hundreds If afsI,ated hotels through
out the count that any hotel EN-.
nlovinp foes Of France in the future
would he struck off its hotel list.
Patriotic measures these; but they
made the remedy loom up worse than
the disease. France now awakes in
real alarm TO demand Where is our
garcon of tomorrow.
To some this hotel employee cues
ton was one OF the most burning
problems that brought the Congress
of the National Union of French
Hotel Syndicates together recently in
Paris. The feasibility of importing lit
tie yellow natives of Cochin China
q. swarthy Arabs from French Alge-
ria fS- hotel service was seriously
discussed. II is true women workers
everywhere were bcir,: introduced n
the gaps in hotel service, but that was
merely a temporary ~eNpedient.
1t is to recruit the backslidin.,
French waiter that this congress Of
hotel associations has developed its
propaganda for the higher education
In the science of hotel keeping, hoping
to convince the French garcon tina
hote, service is no longer a mere trade.
but a profession in which by proper
training and application he can rise
from the ranks of scullery boy TO the
position Of commander in chief of a
great hotel. The congress points out
that 10 meet the e~xiCencies Of modern
life the hotel keeper must be some
thing of an architect. engineer. cleo
trojan artist scholar. sportsman and
-Iirgu,s, and above al, a man ~ the
-,o,,d
p,erre cbabert who o~rpan,zed so s,c-
cessful,v tho French hotel section of
,ba Co. rraroisco Exnos,,ion has heer
n,,an a coyarnuort nor,fo,,o under
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49,, keeners in con iunction with
Coyernment Aid
Go 10 he,ro mobi,i,ed tho army NJ
Erepcb ,orcors on whose dap is in.
scribed "French Hotels and French
Cu,sipe for France"
II Is n comparatiyely recent him
the professional hotel school,. but the
idea has been enthusiastically re-
ceived and has spread with rapidity
in the energetic, b~usinesslike countries