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- Hotel del Coronado Records, 1888-1995
Letter from E. S. Babcock to F. G. Barry, Esq.
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V019-465
Letter from E. S. Babcock to F. G. Barry, Esq.
Bound Correspondence, Volume 19, page 465
09/17/1891
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Babcock, Elijah S.
Babcock writes a letter to F. G. Barry with an inquiry for a pastry cook.
Hotel del Coronado; Letters; Correspondence; Elijah S. Babcock; E. S. Babcock; Hotel industry; F. G. Barry; Pastry cooks; Employment; Kitchen staff
1500 Orange Avenue
California - Coronado
- Hotel del Coronado Records, 1888-1995
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September 17, 1891
F. G. Barry, Esq.
Dear Sir:- Your favor of the 10th inst is received. If I can get a first-class pastry cook who will do the work, including bread baking, with one cheap assistant when we have 125 people or less, I will pay him $1000 per year. When we have 125 or more guests he can have another assistant who will be a good baker. We do not pay transportation, as we found it worked very unsatisfactorily if a man has paid his fare he will remain here long enough to see how he likes it.
I hope you will get Mrs. Jewell to come out.
I have taken hold of the hotel myself, on the grounds of economy, and because I wish to make the hotel a little more popular than it has been, and I found Mr. Zander was not inclined to carry out my ideas regarding meeting the guests.
Other things being equal, a sober, steady, unmarried pastry cook is more preferable than a married one.
Yours truly, E. S. Babcock
F. G. Barry, Esq.
Dear Sir:- Your favor of the 10th inst is received. If I can get a first-class pastry cook who will do the work, including bread baking, with one cheap assistant when we have 125 people or less, I will pay him $1000 per year. When we have 125 or more guests he can have another assistant who will be a good baker. We do not pay transportation, as we found it worked very unsatisfactorily if a man has paid his fare he will remain here long enough to see how he likes it.
I hope you will get Mrs. Jewell to come out.
I have taken hold of the hotel myself, on the grounds of economy, and because I wish to make the hotel a little more popular than it has been, and I found Mr. Zander was not inclined to carry out my ideas regarding meeting the guests.
Other things being equal, a sober, steady, unmarried pastry cook is more preferable than a married one.
Yours truly, E. S. Babcock
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