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Excerpt from Abuses or About Hotels
The hotel proprietor gives no thought to the happiness or well being of his help; or if they should receive any thought fulness from him it would only be in the way of contempt.
His thoughtfulness is manifested in the way he diets his bell boys. He feeds them on refuse, sleeps them in dark and fil thy basements, huddled together like swine in a pen. Wash women, cleaning girls and this class of help fare about as the boys do. Hunger is seldom appeased among these toilers in this seeming place of plenty; stark and gaunt it lurks perpetually among these sickly forms, even sickness among them awakens no sympathy in the breast of the em ployer. He feels a secret satisfaction when his help dine upon a waste crust or a few odds and ends from the kitchen. Hotel men sometimes give liberally of their means in a pub lic glory way, but would it not seem more consistent if they practiced some modest generosity at home, but as it is, their help are worked and starved under their avaricious and un feeling hands. Bondage would be almost preferable to the way hotel help have to live. If a man has a slave worth one thousand dollars he is interested in his physical condition, so that he will not depreciate in value, consequently the owner will look to his bedding and food as a means to that end. Some hotel help are slaves without this much in their favor, and they do not seem to know how to better themselves.
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