Delta chief., 1883-09-05
STUDENT WATERS.
A Newspaper Lecture Mxnliness and In
dependence.

A Newspaper Lecture Mxnliness and In
dependence.
New York Sun.
We are told that in departing from =
hotel in the White Mountains, Mr.. Will
liam II. Vanderbilt left three thousand
dollars to be distributed among the
walters. 1t is customary for very grand
royal personages to scatter their gifts
freely among those who attend on them
when they travel. and there are few
kings who have at command SO much
money for their personal use IS Mr..
Vanderbilt: but we never heard before
Of his tipping servants so heavily as
that, especially after very brief visit
to . hotel.
Mr.. Vanderbilt made An exception in
the case of the White Mountain walters.
it seems, because they are not regular
walters, but college students, who take
up the business in summer only, and
only while they are students. These
young men hire themselves out as wait
ers for small wages, and yet expect to
lay by enough during . few weeks ser
vice to pay their expenses At college
throughout the autumn. the winter. and
the spring. They cannot earn the money
in that short time. and they have NO in
tention of stealing it. No. they will beg
it.
That is what it amounts to, though
they do not actually 60 around solicit
ing aims from the boarders at the hotel.
They only make it understood that they
are there to get grstuities, and, being
what they are, they know that the tips
given them will be larger than those
handed to ordinary walters, who attend
on table as regular business and to
make their living OF course that is sub
stantially begging. The money is given
them by the boarders. not because they
have earned it, not because of their ex-
ceptional abilities and assiduity rs wait
ers, but because they are poor young
men trying to get through college.
II is not at all probable. it is hardly
possible. that they are AS expert at the
business AS men who give their whole
pie will fee them better than the others
in order to help them along as poor STU
dents. or because men and women would
feel hesitation about giving them an or
dinary tip only. But whatever is offered
these young men take. Their hands
are always bent to receive the fee. Mr..
auutTnlll alius Ntie thtIeioIt tSSct-
ly awaited. doubtless, They must have
expected something handsome from so
rich man.
And these are sons of New England,
born and reared among the hills where
manly self-reliance. was once supposed
to have its especial abode!
Daniel Webster was also New Hamp-
shire boy. and was poor also, and he
likewise went TO college, entering Dart
mouth in 1897. But did he go about
getting tips and grstuities for being
civil, in order to pay his way through
collegcP Did he pick up quarters and
tifty-cent pieces thrown to him rs to a
menialp
Nobody would have dared to treat that
young man after such fashion. He
was neither beggar nor a lackey, and
therefore Daniel Webster went to work
to earn money to support himself in col
lege He taught school during the win
ters. AS hundreds of the most distin-
guished Americans have done, in order
that he might get his collegiate educa-
ton.
There was one thing that we may be
sure Daniel Webster would not have
sacrificed to get collegiate training.
much as he wanted it, and that was his
Great men are not made
out of the sort of material which enters
into the composition of lackeys. They
are prond and self-reliant in youth, not
ready to hang about waiting Tor gratui-
ties. What they get they want to earn.
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