New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-25

whether from defect of intellectual acuteness ana
inability to distinguish between what Is theirs ana
yours. or from loi indulgence In bad hahits, have
got into the custom of regarding these grauties as
kind of tribute which they entitled to extort'
ard tho traveller rs hound to render For the better
enforcement of this erroneous notion they adopt III
too many cases. like my friend with the umbrella.
tone Of menace they believe that the travellers
fears are to be worked upon they resort TO words
and yes, ures VIII, IA are se.bru'ai ana they have,
IL l. probable enough found llIis ethOd efficient
with ladies' and even men who unused to TIE pc
culisrties IL Swiss ravel that they pursue it with
greatly increasing energy.
Nv advice # Tor once NAV presume to offer II, is
never ~ subnii to tnis sort OF extOrtiOa-o extor
ton that is accompanied with threats rudenoss.
or any iucivillty whatever. Most demands which
occur III travel I cou,d meet as / have said
with an open hand, whether just or
unirsf. paying FOR peace and pleasure; but
paying Hcvtr q p.uug 20 "a maa who tries to get It
10y violence. OF by what comes to the same thing b.
mere brutality manner and persistence and noise.
It must be- borne in mud. on the other band, that
a parental government has taken many of these
matters mo its own benevolent hand and has
lcgahzyd and made obligatory upon the traveller
many tax which once was voluntary. In sucn
cascsauG these .he ioIcl gner must find Gus for HIM
sol-thcrc is nothing for t but 10 pay. be the de-
mand ever so rulH1niy in form.
p RslsTENCE OF LOCALIZED ROBBERY
remember being much struck when was last
in Switzerland with the patient elaboration of tine
system by which small swindie, were converted in
10 legitimate Tobberie,; aud with the minute less
OF the organization all over the best known dis
trcts and lts efficiency. Going board steamer
someyg here or oeher had refused pourbor re or
what supposed 80 be o pOurboire. To porter who
was more oif,asiye than usual. He went bis way,
after the usual explosion OF ill temper, and | went
mine. travelled ail day, slept az hotel that night,
and On asking for nay bill next morning favored
10y the landlord WI th interview. and az eX
pianation i5em IN hts bill 20 which he begged
lesvc-a most unprecedented act-fo call mY atten-
zion. The Ilem charge of - cents rOr por-
forage. never cOuld make ont whether ,he iana-
lord wanted 20 apoOziz- for pdtuu- 1t iutphis ac-
count. whether lac coveted the pleasure OF Wit
M such q triumph over the toTc,gneT-pr0baply
she latter. Tbs - cents, n appeared. winch haa
the porter was legally entitled ~ make; on~ porter
having deposited my luggage on the Nh.ri ~ 90 der
that the other gnt td&y 10 GA board INC steamer
IN sons mysterious way the cAarIe had attached
lien OF il. ard bad travelled with 80 whole IT. Us
Journey, and TAD been paid By the land ord Of niy
MOTEL "a r.tcIVi 3 my trunk. Ht night. ANA 80 app
pearcd lu the bi.i. 10 tins day have no notion
nalf dOZ tunes during th" day, aud there
visible Label or other token 81 indebtedness
- cents and thanked he landlord for inform iug
me Of li, auG assured hm, With perfect sincerity
that 1 believed no other Government ID
the world would have been capable II inFtuJug ANA
cXecUtlUr 1au %. administration adequate t. -urD
an exploit. And after some years. further expert
ence ! an stin ga opinion tI&t the Swiss beat all
other 8alons ga fic art OF getuug tle mos, 0ut "
traveller and giving hm the iea-f t"r his money.