“Yes, I’m goin’ to. I ain’t got any people. I come from Lake George,” showing she was a floater after all.
“You sure you ain’t a floater and you’ll come Sundays, every Sunday and take your night watches?” suggesting to the girl that she will expect her to be skipping Sunday and watches. “Well, wages is $10.50 a week, live out, hours 8-3 with night watch every 20th night from 6 to 11 P.M. When can you start?”
“Tomorrow.”
“All right, now don’t go back on me, will you?” implying that the girls usually do.
Then, as an afterthought, “What’s your name?”
“Minnie ——, ma’am.”
“All right, Minnie, 8 o’clock tomorrow. Now don’t you go back on me, mind!”
Getting a job in a hotel
Now that the hotels’ employment agency is no longer open, a girl setting out to look for a job in a New York hotel first looks over the “Help Wanted” column in the New York World. There she may find advertisements such as these: