Word: waitress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Then, on the matter of service, the outside table can hire a cook and waitress for twenty-five men at not over $10 per week. This is forty cents per man for service, while at the dinning-hall the cost for service per week is seventy cents per man. This includes the salaries of all officials from the steward and auditor down. One waiter has 14 men, and he receives $4.50 per week, while at the club table one waitress has 25 men and receives not over $4 per week...
...friend that the place where he was boarding was being run on the same plan as Memorial Hall, though of course on an infinitesimal scale. A freshman had started the enterprise. He had secured rooms on Bow street; engaged table-ware, etc., and hired a cook and a waitress. He then issued notices and got up a table of twenty-four men (chiefly Law School men who had left Memorial). He buys the provisions himself, pays the servants and other little expenses, and gets his own board free for his services. The bill of fare is very much like ours...
...conductor often passes you by on account of the crowd, and thereby you get into the Union Railway for eight cents, which is most comforting. In the half-past twelve car you will find all the seats occupied by private tutors and now and then an unfortunate waitress sandwiched in between them. The car for real enjoyment, though, is the half-past one car. This is known as the "guff-car;" it is often chartered by private parties, who proceed at once to clear out those who have dared to take a seat before them. No reserved seats...