YELLOWPLUSH AT NEWPORT.
Batters Saaoide Resorts Attract Many DoomsHc BmplorM In Snmnti.
At such a place m Newport there is, of course, much driftwood, and queer social flotsam and jetsam find their way there. A curious instance is the number of waiters, butlers, second men and domestics of all kinds who are not regularly employed. These do not go to Newport in the hope of securing a permanent position. They do not need it. They give up good positions for the advantages of the summer.
The caterers and other providers are always in need of extra men, and a first-class butler for a luncheon or a dinner commands a very high price. There are many of these who take these transient positions and who find Newport very profitable in the summer. It is the bohemia of the domestic employe, and there is not a butler in one of the large houses who has not a list of men available for any emergency.
A barroom near Tlellevue avenue, says the New York Times, is really the waiters’ club of the place, and as the rooms upstairs are not innocent of he green cloth or the turn of the roulette wheel this resort corresponds to the Gentlemen’s club of Thackeray.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 2172, 10 March 1903, Page 3
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208YELLOWPLUSH AT NEWPORT. Dunstan Times, Issue 2172, 10 March 1903, Page 3
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