The evening world. Newspaper, June 1, 1912, Page 2

Geet the hotel men to appear as a Committee of the union. It was pointed Sieh a committee. Finally the ‘OMcors agrees to et the com- #0 to the conference—f a conter- ia be arranged—as representa the mien on strike and not as ives of the organization con- the atrike, only subject open for media- ta OF artitration ts recognition of the Tetermational Hotel Workers’ Union WOted the hote! men have persistently Fefaapd to allow. it was learned to-day the Executive Committee of the Mens’ Association tn meeting yes: Granted the walters all their « for more pay and better con @nd, in some instances, even went Gather than the demand Pellowing is the wage scale the men have adopted. It has been to all the walters’ associa- to the International Union as Increases £0 into effect to- Waldort-Astoria, the Plaza, the Vanderbilt, the Ma: Imperial Hotels regardie: that strikes have been de- wt all these houses 232 th Rg z it i : yittale i i 3! i e members of the association getting thelr signatures to the terms outlined above. Practically everything the waiters asked through their union is granted by hotel men except recognition of the ‘Only two strikes were called by the thirty waiters a ‘om the nd Central Station, went out shortly r Boulant, pro- how many men belonged to the ‘The whole staff of forty mani- tested union sympathies so Boulant dis- them on the spot. Of the hotels in which strikes w test night the Herald Square is most ecriously crippled. This is be- Manager Wildey has not tried to corps of strikebfeakers. He empioy negroes Gné says ie money by laying low until is the trouble is over. ‘The New Vanderbilt served breakfis: & corps of thirty walters, and Mars! rooms wih reduced forces, but the to be satisfied. Holland House was fecding only guests, The Knickerbocker and Were apparently running emooth- At Shaanle; that full force of walters be on hand to take care of the il ee that the hotel men would refuse to | a 9 rv How Guests Are Fed at Bid Hotels WHAT IP THE GIRL You WERE DINING HAPPENED To HNOW THE "RAM 'RAH WALT outsiwe 3 walooaP ; \ ee) “4 % ; "7 ; , THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1913. Told by Evening World Reporters boys, bootbiacks and levator beyd were reméving ‘waiters had left to the patrons when the walkout took place: Nossir!” said @ colored boy at the telephone booth, when on | whether @ later application might bring forth real food, “Noselr. Th out and they left their guests sitting at their tables. The hall-boys and the vator boys had to do the best they could.” It was apparent that the hall-boys and elevator boys were doing the “best they could” cleaning off tables. Nobody was served. Nobody could be served. penal A bol el New Forces Able to Serve All Guests at Knickerbocker, Gotham and St. Regis. | At the Knickerbocker, Proprietor James B. Regan, who bas bolted the Hofel Men's Association and is fighting hie strike alone, had all hie dining rooms open, and declared he was able to give regular service to all patrons. the service was hampered by the ‘tramp” from San Francisco, who proved a first-class waiter. All the guests were served last night and also @ special dinner party for H. B. Steffannson of the Swedish Embassy, a Titanic survivor. At the St. Regis the guests were all served last night, and the fact that ™any were out of town fer the holiday and weck-end gave the now force a chance to break in. Proprietor Hahn was sure he would hi working smoothly by Monday, and said all hie strike-breake: men, Room Guests Get Dinner at Martinique; Late Comer Finds Big Dining-Room Dark The Martinique, unprepared for any but its reom patrons, managed to get dinner for them last night. But a man who tried to buy a late dinner found the big dining-roome dark. Only the pads were on the tables. There were no walters in sight. Guests sat in groups on the hall settecs and talked in under- tones, Hall boys, elevator boys and clerks forgot that they were impersonal Public institutions and debated hoarsely. When interrupted to ask for the Proper method of negotiating something t eal rything rst-clase the remnants of food the THe CORRIDORS WERE CROWDED WITH ‘THOSE LOOMING RoR TROUGLE DRIVER Careful Tests of Actual Conditions in All Big Dining Rooms. The Evening World sent reporters to the leading hotels where Strikes are on at the dinner hour last evening with instructions to digest their experiences along with their meal, What they saw and heard follows: At Hotel Astor Service Was Prompt; Recruits Quick if Didn’t Know French It was a good-humored and thoroughly tolerant crowd of dincrs that filled the orangery and the adjoining cafe of the Hotel Astor at the dinner hour last night, The tables were all filled and there was no lack of watters. To be sure, qome very square-shouldered men in evening clothes, who sauntered about the entrances to both dining rooms, gave the hint that detectives might be keeping & careful eye on things; but in the two hours following 7 o'clock none of these @uardians had occasion to do anything but stand about. Women—and there were as many of them as usual—came in their evening gowns, evidently quite willing to take the risk of something being dropped, But there was not the crash of a falling dish or the clang of an overturned cover during all the time that the orchestra kept accompaniment to the march of the waiters. Some of the women and their escorts seemed at first to be disappointed that no trouble interrupted their dining. One young person in clinging green was heard to say that “it was perfectly meap that everything ‘s running as it ought to.” Many of the waiters were eager youths who had recently been promoted from the position of ‘bus and who were doing their best to please. Such an business, which is very heavy on RRY K ING HI8 RESTAU- RANT OPEN: Louis Sherry is keoping bis restaurant Afieen waiters golely to ac- q@ustomers who insist on be- he could by closing up for the sum- Antoinet:e, whe yesterday mornin of one-third L a! & ~NY i rs i A strike run- sual t i the wi t t 2 5 May. The Empire dining cooma were and lifteen cooks business to-day, bu: expected a sirike and Of waiters in resery johnston of the Majestic has megto waiters hidden away house for two days. Only t ty walters Walked out last night he had told them that he would fecognise the union, Banquet con- at the Majestic have not been A banquet to 200 was served reserve force was close Up the work of waiting should the regular staf gill . | alten i 3 Hotel practically waiters was on hand today all guests were being served. M. the manager, took time yesterday and gathered a staff ‘relief waiters before his union men : out. Ansonia Hotel has made a novel for keeping up its servic of @ strike of forty ere. Harriman bh in reserve forty waitresses oil hotel in Lakewood, ‘They: are ready to step in on short Botice, ‘All the restaurants in the Imperial ‘The chef and the most importa Kitchen assistants of his kitchen n duty and there il Ko on strike, sald Mr. Town- y ‘ feeding all comers, outsiders ‘asiour guests and will continue to do 80.” ‘The strikers posted pickets at all the rellwey stations to-day to head waiters coming from other cities. The pickets were active and effectly ‘could off the train, About fi come from outside jal men among waiters are not the waiters and with the way the strike has conducted. They will hold # co: ference to-morrow to dis of the influent: Daschner, head el Devon, to-day fe no sense in this bullheaded attitude on both sides. The whole thing could be straizhtened out with a Mttle common sense. If the waiters in- nist On recogiition of the union they last more than ten days bo- re is no reserve fund.” schner is Vice-Bresident of the falters’ ciation, which jt Ww. of three hundred and Atty wail ers and captains, . )|Hour for service that management was doing ‘ts best under the circumstances, earnest faced youth paused at the side of a diner who was examining a menu and deferentially interrupted his perusal: Teading the French side. la “Excuse me, sir, you"! Would you just turn it over and read the English, tain about French. The head walters were in vising the green hands in| whispers, and occasionally asking this and that guest if everything was all right. Everything distinctly was, ————— Waldorf-Astoria Serves All Patrons, Though Machinery Is Yet Out of Gear. It was evident to even the casual diner at the Waldorf-Astoria that the usual well-oiled machinery was out of gear While the service was fair, treachery in the kitchens was apparent. Tho strike-breaking their hands to sympathizing diners and exctaimed: kitchen, Bee on gee poor water until gay a See bilstaires on zee poor hands, It eca terrible. Looks of anguish accompanted violent gesticulations, It was not necessary to inspect the hands of the waiters to undetstand that sympathizera somowhere in the big establishment were passing hot ones to the new wal The cooks at the Waldorf, upon which fraternity the str: walters rely in their fight, kept no diner waiting for food, however, There was little or no comptaint. The menu was tested throughout by the hundreds of diners who assembled as usual in the main dining hall, the cafe and the large grill room. In the main hall, frequented by women as well as men, the service appeared to be normal. For this provision had carefully been made by the management, It was noticeable that omnibuses in the grill room, many of whom looked MUke college boys but all of whom dented, had to be instructed in the laying of the tables and serving the rolls, bread and butter, It was also obs veral could not understand h when addressed. ‘They were “there,” ver, when it came to serving seldele of Pilsner, Wursburger and Culmn- bacher, In this they excelled, and aroused at once the admiration of the French artists, One waiter in the grill room, undoubtedly an old-timer who had taken lesoens in a Beefateak John's sort of emporium, tried an old Joke on @ diner in swallow tails who had complained of delay in being sorved three soft exes. The lowbrow whispered into the 1 oe three-minute exes just run a dead heat and they've got to run it over ." ‘The guest de- manded the dismissal of the waiter and he was transferred to the cafe. One of the head waiters was asked by an Evening World reporter if the service was satisfactory to the management. “Of course not.” he answered candidly, “We are in bad ahape here, but 1 striking waiters and others will be back in a week or two, They rry. Aw for the several dining rooms we will be able to manage jon, New Vanderbilt Guests Make Joke Of Plight—Only Grill Room Service. The ining room service at the New Vanderbilt Hotel, at Park avenue and Thirty-fourth street, was completely demoralized last night, Manager Marshall was able to secure but ten raw walters to take the place of the sixty regular ones who had walked out In the afternoon, Only the grill room was tn operation, The main dining room waa closed. Printed cams were placed on each table asking | the Patrons to overlook any shortcomings In the service, and stated that order And discipline would be established at an early date. The fow diners accepted the situation good naturedly and the usually brilliant ining hour resolved itself into nothing less than a comic vaudevill ‘The alx |head waiters, or captains, who remained loyal, were the buslest persons tn the hotel and a elves admirably, doing the bulk of the serving in per- on, The ten new waiters were little short of worthless, resembling #o many suddenly come to life in the middie of winter, If there had been the usual number of diners service would have oven tmposalble In any kind of order, Aw EMBARRASSING TO HAVE Derectives WATCHING ¥ TA MANNERE NS YOUR Re, THe DisHer SOME OF THE STAINE BREAWERS Members of This Newspaper’s Staff Make|Strange Waiters in Most Places, but Service, While Slow, Is Fairly Good—Some Restaurants Closed. the best the management could promise was that by Monday order would atored. ————————-+- Service at Belmont Again Normal, With a Waiter Ready for Every Diner. But for the fact that eight big policemen were unsucesssfully trying to conceal their bulk in dark spots about the Hotel Belmont, and that the numerous dining rooms had more waiters*than diners, 90 one would have known that a strike was inner hour last night. 'y, which was the first in which a strike was ordered, also was one of the first to recover from the walkout of garcon and his brothers, and at Ginner last night boasted more tip receivers than tip givers. From hors d’ouvres (Hungarian for thirst provokers) to dem! tasse (Swedish for small cups of coffee) the service was perfect. In the grill there were less than fifty guests at 8 o'clock, with more than that many kelners. In the main dining room the same condition prevailed—and every walter in sight was sufficiently intelligent to understand what wi anted when French dishes were omered, which indicates « high order of intelligence, © a Misfit Waiters Serve Breslin Guests In Cafe; Big Dining Room Closed. Dinner at the Hotel Breslin was served last night in the cafe. There was no music, The Mghts were out in the big dining room. The tables were covered with cloths to indicate that they were out of commission. The strike-breakers in the cafe were a misfit. Some were waiters, but most of them looked like mov- ing pictures on the Bowery. There are tw four in all, working in twa ghifts. The cafe closed at 9 o'clock. The waiters rattled the dishes and sometimes got rattled themselves. But the head waiter was on the job, and the misfits got away with it. Occaston- ally one would ask for a corkscrew 9 open @ bottle of wine, but he got the proper hunch and tore off the cork, They looked wise at the French menu, nodded their heads and took a chan: Generally they made good. The drum of the Salvation Army went whangiag by. The waiters stopped where they stood. They seemed to fear the strikers were about to descend upon them, But there were no strikers outside, only policemen at every approach to the hotel. The men say that they got their jobs through « detective agency. Applications for jobs are coming in, and applicants are presenting themselves in person, Some of them look like as if they would fill the bill, Some already on the joty can holler “two floats," “sunny side up,” or “eggs in the country,” better than they can interpret pomme de ‘tern beans a la carte, But they are all industrious and willing to work. They are Hving on the fat of the land, desides, dining on the best the hotel can offer and occupying some of the swellest rooms. They don't have to leave the house, The majority don't care to leave. Some of them don't care if they never leave. The life Js great. “I don't think the strikers can win,” said one-of the strike-breakers, who had walked out at the shrill of the whistle from another hotel. “At that, the men have grievances, although the public doesn’t believe it, Te: fined at fine for being late, there's a fine for a spot on your sult, thers fine for breakage, and in some places they hold out so much a week whether @ man breaks anything or not. Then, what a man ts given to eat and where he has to eat it. and how ft is served in some places, is simply the limit." Four Loyal Captains With Little Aid Meet Emergency at Marie Antoinette Four captains were all that remained at the dinner hour last night of the battalions of walters who had ministered tothe hungry at the Marie Antoinette, but they were not overworked, When times did grow a little strenuous the cashier and a girl checker or two from the kitchen wer essed into service, dnd nobody went away with a gnawing sense of emptiness within, nor did the guests have to walt ao long that their tempers rose. At 8 o'clock last night there were but ten persons dining in the red dining room, which was the only one open, The four captains were on the job and the cashier passed finger bowls. “We have had busy a day waiter sual at this time of year,” said one of the captains, “but wo have got through it all right. It me that this was & bad time for the waiters to go on a strike, People are leaving the city right along and it won't hurt the hotels so much. But 1 guess {f they had tried it 'n the busy weagon tt would have gone pretty hard with the strikers.” No Hitch in Service at the Plaza; Trained Men Fill Place of Strikers. Manager Fred Sterry of the Plaza promptly filled the places of strikers. The result was that when the, guests assembled for dinner last evening there was no delay or confusion in the service, Manager Sterry was not at the hotel, but Assistant Manager C. E. Railing found his staff large enough to take care of all the diners, He waid that ail the new waiters, all whites enit from York and nearby cities, were | experienced men and fully capable of handliag the patrons at this time of the year at least, The dinner hours of the Plaza run from about 7 until 9 o'clock. During that time meals were served with wonted smoothness and at no time wi there any sign of disorder. Plainclothes men were stationed at all the en- trances, but there was no indication of trouble. Herald Square Is Able to Serve it was, there but @ poor attempt to give the regular ellte and fastidious @inera a semblance of good service, The rattling of knives and forks upon the floor and the misserving of the different courses by the eager but confused strike breakers put the diners and the faithful captains on the broad grin, For a single order it took more than an no better than could be obtained in any third rate Everybody took it good naturedly and realized that the To inquiries by the New York restaurant, Nothing But Drinks at Dinner Hour At the Herald Square Hotel an Evening Word reporter found the dining rooma full of negro Lell-boys and clevator attendants, who were smilingly anx- lous to serve nothing, Severe, cold canvas was stretched over the tables in the restaurants, Normal business was being done only at the bar, | "Drinks, yes! Food, no!” sald the bartender, There were no walters, The investigator went out to the cafe. Negro hell a Jong enough to say ‘Not until to-morrow, sir.” FEAROF THESEA DRIVES GIRL MAD ONBOARD LER (Continued from First Page.) terday, when mother and daufhter went down to La France's dock prepared to sail, the daughter balked at the sight of the steamer and refused to go aboard. No amount of urging or coaxing would prevail. In tears, the girl bexged her Mother to gail without hei ye could never go on the ocean again, cried. Genora Puertolo allowed the steamer to sail without them, then,she took her daughter to the Hotel Lafayette in University place and there succeeded In quieting her nerves until she agreed to MJ on the St. Paul to-day. Tickets were exchanged and the two went down to the St. Paul's berth at Pier No, @ ‘an hour before sailing time. The youns girl went aboard, but when she heard the warning gong for “visitors ashore,” she grew hysterical, then violent, [COND = WOMAN’ OUTBREAK OCCURS ON LINER'S PIER. The doctors at Bellevue Hospital say the Senorita’s hysterical outbreak unusual one, but that her dei will not necessarily be of long standing. ‘The white-faced girl, with staring eyes, now lies on her cot, her dips framing Draken sentences about the horror and the terror of the sea. Another woman also showed maniacal fury at the pier before the sailing of the St. Paul. Policemen, ship's officers and dock Idlers all tock a hand in sub- duing the sevond women, Two outbreaks of violent insanity dis turbed the suiting of the American liner St. Paul from the Chelsea pliers to-day. Mrs. Helen Erickson of Copenhagen, deported by Government order from Chicagy, broke dut of the ambulance in which she had been taken to the Ameri- can Mne pier from Fils Istand and as- saulted Mrs, Fairman, the Elle Island matron, who had her in charge and was waiting for her to alight peacefully, Mrs, Erickson ran to the sodded park- ing in front of the piers, climbed the’ rail and screamed for help. “Bave me! she shouted to a group of nap me and put me on that ship.” Policeman O'Connor, Special Police man John Graham and the chauffeur of the ambulance ran to her, She scratched and bit them and tore their clothes before they could overpower her aud take her through the crpwd, wh: collected, to the ship, Where she locked in the hospital under care of Bur- geon Whiton, Only @ few moments later there was an eruption of f1 en from the st pler, The. fugit an was killing h The policemen and offi ran down to the steerage. They found Fernanda Penertola, @ slender sir, choking .her mother, who was appar- ently in serious danger. A number of Steerage stewards, panting and with scratched faces and tom collars, were standing back. Miss Penertola was recognised as a woman turned away from the French liner France when she sailed last ‘Thursday, On boarding the France, she had been seized with @ violent attack of what {s known to steamship people as In hysterical to stay on the ship and yet, when on the pier, she insisted on being allowed to It was necessary to call an ambu- r to the psychopathic Pots and Pans use earline Cleans Fverything phanulactared only by JAMES PYLE & SONS, New York \STATE OF NEW YORK PAYS FOR SENATOR’S FUNERAL. Undertaker Gets $1,200 Check From Government in Payment for McCarren’s Obsequies. Following the State an dFederal cus- tom of paying the funeral expenses of law makers who die in office, the State of New York has paid the bill inciden- tal to burying Senator Patrick H. McCarren, who died at his Brooklyn home on Oct. 23, 190. John T, Gallagher, an undertaker of No. 204 Bedford ave nue, bag received a check for $1,200 settlement foh sf bill, from the St Comptroller's office. Provision for meeting funeral expanses was incorporated in thé annual supply bill, which passed by the Legislature on the last day of its session, and It is sald the presence of this item in the general bill was known only to @ few persons. |The supply bill items are usually not jknown beyond the chairman of the | Finance Committee of the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly, but the pro- viston for burial of a Senator or Assem- blyman, if his eath occurs during his term of office, {sa matter of custom and not trreg P. O'NEILL LARKIN DEAD, Had Been Active Many Years in Irish Cause in United ites. BOSTON, June 1—P. O'Neill Larkin, an Irish Nationalist leader in this coun. try for many years, died at his home in Roxbury to-da: Larkin was born in. 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