The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-28
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! The stranger, m Europe, when he
! looks at the tariff Ct hotel room, bills of
I fare, coach hire, etc, conceives that
/ they are very low, and IL seems little
! strange that cab driver charges no
more for three persons than for one; that
/ he Will take your party, inclu ling trunk,
/ for five shjllings, but at the end of the
I trip siXPence (l2 cents) is charged for
| putting the trunk on the hack and gra-
tUity asked for the driver.
You step into the restaurant when
about leaving the station, and call for
/ bread and butter with coffee, the t1riff
of which Is one shilling and ST., pence,
CSC cents. Bread and butter are placed
before you, and you eat al libitum, and
call for your bill, which reads: One
plain breakfast, IS. Cd; attendance Sd.
You protest, but are told that coffee
and bread and butter means one small
cup of coffee and one small piece of
bread and butter. AS If the atfront was
not sufficient, you are aCcosted with
Remember the waiter, sir"
But" we reply, turning to the bill,
% we have paid for attendance"
Yes, sir, but gentlemen always re-
member the waiter"
You may say, as the custom is volun-
tary and unjust, l would not fee the
waiter. But you will. though. 1t is
pretty difficult thing to set at defiance
the customs of the country. A little
illustration Is in point. A party of young
bloocs agreed that they would not sub
NIT 10 the custom, and thereupon went
to restaurant and called for refresh
ments. After eating, they called for
their bill and paid 1t, and on the appeal ::
" Remember the waiter, SIR" the leader
accosted him:
- Alphonso, am president OF a society
to break up this nefarious custom OF
feeling the waiter, and am going to begin
with"
The sentence wPs unfinished, for lust
about that tine he felt tingling sensa-
ton on his legs, ana found cup OF het
tea had been spilled on his Immaculate
trousers.
a." And | would have you understand"
said A'phonso, that | am president of
q society for spiliing not tea in the laps
OF those who refuse to recognize the Gus
tom of feeling the poorly-paid waiter"
There are more ragged, dirty women
and children in Liverpool than in any
place we ever visited, and as the fellow
traveller eXprec sed it, "all the people
wear secondhand Clothes" at least
nearly all we saw had dowdy appear
ance. Little rag ged urchins crowd the
thoroughfares, come into the doorways
of prominent hotels and about the sta
tions, stand on their heads and turn
cartwheels, and cry, PLEASE give me
penny, sir"
In English phrase coach is car,
railway car Is carriage, baggage is
luggage, baggage car is a van, a trunk
is d box, q street car is q tram, feelng is
tipping, price list is a tariff, an eleva-
tor is lift, two cents penny and four
cents tiIppenCe.
Service and information are pressed
upon you at every point. but gratuity
is expected ID return. Nowhere have we
seen any disinterested politeness among
the English people. You need never fear
giving otfense by tipping an Engi'shman,
from railway superintendent down to
a street gamin. Ii you so to theater,
Madame Tussaud's wax works, or any
other place of amusement, you buy your
programme. If you embark or disem-
bark from a steamer the fee Is tuppence,
putting on or taking off your trunk is
tuppence and valise penny. If you
hire a hanson or cab, The driver COL
lects his wages besides the fare, of you.
If you 20 into a lavatory Ut a r2ilway
station the collector is at the entrance for
a fee of from one to four cents. \
drunken sot sees you are a stranger, vol
unteers information, follows you, and
you give him penny to get rid of him.
while heightened corporation, like that
of Gage & Sons, after selling Paris excur-
sion tickets to cover the cost of hotel,
coach, conductor, passes to places of in
terest, attendance, to-, to permit the con-
ductor to pass the hat among the eXcur-
sionists, TO be Immediately followed by
that OF the driver, for gratuities, it seems
a little out of place, and detracts from
the popularity of an otherwise deserved
IL useful and popular CORPORATION.
Free trade" forsooth. There is a
tariff on everything. II is belittling 10
the English people TO subsel siently pass
the hat or beg for gratuities. They are
a nation of beggars and are fast losing
their supremacy among the nations.
They buster and back down before they
will fight. Her lords, many of them, are
weak minded and effeminate, and dis
grace TO the positions they hold. The
i'm morality that exists among the higher
classes and even in royalty, is not only
revolving, but destroying to the nation.
Hyde and Regents Perks of night re-
veal as much rottenness as the Champs
Ulysses and other no,ed resoI IS of Paris.
l think that no good citizen of the United
States can visit England without feeling
that America is Gods COUNT in COM
parison. and while he may enjoy for
season the treasures and works of art
accumulated from the centuries, he is
glad that three thousand miles of water
separates the old end the new. The me
chanic and lahore have no chance for
spot of earth they can call their own.
They have, but in the most rare instances,
no chance to rise at ove the position in
which they weIe born into the world.
The Duke of Westminst II can have ten
square miles of thickly-populated Lon
don, the Duke Of Argyle can have deer
park thirty miles in extent, and posses
sions that reach half way across Scot
land, but the POOR man can not trap q
rabbit, or shoot grouse or partridge
without fine or imprisonment, and the
law of entail does not pei mit, in Amer
lea, the breaking up and distributing of
these lordly estates. 1t is to be hoI ed
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