A VETERAN WAITER.
Treated as Friend by Dukes. (Special to the “ Star.”) LONDON, November 10. Head waiter at Skindles, Maidenhead, " Charles ” has retired after fifty years’ service at that famous hotel. Into his retirement he takes memories of the fashionables of three generations. “ Charles,” who is Mr Charles Ernest Henry Schnaper, is 74 years old. He considers that the many changes he has seen are not all for the best. When people came in dog carts, tandems and coaches they were a happier lot. “ Since the war people have been more serious. They eat bigger lunches, but they do not have better fun,” says the veteran waiter. “ Now it is all rush and hurry, and all they get is indigestion. There is no river season now. “ Maidenhead is as dead as a door nail; yet I have seen the time when the river banks were lined with people and at twelve o’clock on a Sunday you couldn’t get a boat for love or money. “ I suppose I have served millions of meals, but it was happy work and I made a host of friends. The fathers of the present-day dukes treated me not so much as a waiter as a personal friend, and I have been honoured with confidences and secrets.” “ Charles ” has laid aside the silver salver, but the name goes on. A new “ Charles ” reigns at Skindles.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19311214.2.26
Bibliographic details
Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 296, 14 December 1931, Page 1
Word Count
229A VETERAN WAITER. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 296, 14 December 1931, Page 1
Using This Item
Star Media Company Ltd is the copyright owner for the Star (Christchurch). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Star Media. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in