PARTICULAR WAITERS.

Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 55, 2 September 1916, Page 16

PARTICULAR WAITERS.

The Daily Chronicle relates an incident which it describes as " highly discreditable to the persons concerned." Six London waiters, who described themselves as Englishmen, went to Tagg's Island on the Thames for a day's work, but, fearing the loss of tips, they declined to assist in waiting upon a, party of 600 wounded soldiers from the various London hospitals," who were the guests of the Eccentric Club.

After leaving Tagg's Island in a body, the waiters,. whose unpatriotic conduct was strongly resented, called at other hotels in the neighbourhood, but, with the aid of the telephone, news of their behaviour had preceded them, and everywhere they found there was " nothing doing." At the principal riverside hotel at East Molesey they encountered the head waiter, who is an old soldier, and his refusal to give them work was expressed in terms more forcible than polite. At another establishment their request for a job was met with the suggestion that a, ducking in the river would meet their case.

In the end the men had to return to London without being able to get any work. .