Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-30
or thew were sure of $50 or 500 at the very


least. Before We went ashore at Queenstown
he sent for the chief steward, thanked him
very politely for all the attention he had re-
ceived, and then handed him S. to divide
among the men. Disappointed? Well l
should say so! The boys were awfully mad,
and when Mr.. Spreckles stepped on board
another steamer for his return voyage to this
country there were no walters tumbling over
each other to do him any service. They had
been warned in advance, for these things 60
around among the stewards, and Mr..
spreckles waited on himself that voyage"
THE OTHER EXTREME.
"Now here's an example of another sort,
continued John. 81 crossed last year with
Henry D. Purroy, Fire Commissioner, or
something, isn't he, in New York? He had
a shipload of friends ON board to see him
of, and tugboats and small steamers, with
plenty of music and flags, went down the
bay as far as the Hook. You would have
very least. He had the first engineers
cabin on deck and it was piled full of cases
of wine, brandy and all sorts Of liquors.
That was the kind OF bouquets his friends
sent him, and there was enough of the stuff
to keep shipload of people full for whole
voyage. 1 never went into his stateroom to
see if he wanted anything that he didn't
give me bottle Of champagne or whisky,
or something, and one day he had me take
900 Havana cigars down below to keep them
dry. He never called for 'em again. Every
body that went near him got tipped.
He used to go down in the kitchen
and chalk the hats of his friends,
so that they all got the best there
didn't forget anybody with his money. The
cook and assistant cooks and kitchen boys,
the chief steward, bedroom steward, table
steward, boots, the smoking room steward,
the old fraud they keep up on deck to
swindle the passengers-everybody came in
for share. Now, how much do you sup
pose he spent in tips along or that trip?"
"Oh, $50 perhaps"
FIFTY dollarsl Why, he divided up over
$780,"
"That's what one might call princely."
"Princely nothingl Princes don't put out
money like that. I was Prince Arthur's
private cook when he came over in the City
of Paris, and not a man got a cent except
two or three servants about his person. And
speaking about Arthur, who was so close,
and Mr.. Purroy, who was so free, when His
Royal Highness left Liverpool for Halifax
there was only one little steamer, and no
band on that to see him of. ="
OTHERS WHO TIP FREELY.
"What other liberal Americans have you
found?''
"Lots of them. There is James Gordon
Bennett, who never crossed without it cost
ing him least 500 for the boys. Only last
season 1 sailed with Mr.. Frank McLaugh-
lin, of Philadelphia, and the way he tipped
the stewards and servants made them spring
about to serve him at the slightest intimatiou
that he needed anything. General Patrick
A. Collins, of Boston, was, I think, on the
same ship and was nearly as liberal as the
Philadelphia publisher. So was Senator
Chandler, of New Hampshire, who went
over with his son late in the season, but
slipped away without the usual accompani-
ment OF tugs and music which generally
follows politician down the bay"
''The actors who CROSSE"
"Ohl The actors? Well, 1 cannot say
very much for them. The managers are
generally pretty liberal. A. M. Palmer and
his son are always welcome passengers to the
steward and his assistants. They are both
free-handed with their tips. They expect
good service, and they receive it, and the
boys know that they will be we'll paid for
what they do. The same is true of August
inc DAILY, Manager Rosenquest, Mr.. Hill,
Rudolph Aronson and Others But the
trouDes they bring with them are generally
of no benefit to the stewards. The actors and
actresses as general thing imagine they
ought to have the best of service and pay
nothing for it. There's Patti-she's an ex-
ample. Why, she never gives dollar in
tips, and the result is that her own servant
has to look after her, and the attention she
secures on board ship is poor enough, In
deed. Nicolini? Why, nobody ever knew
him to pay out cent on vessel. He prob
ably thinks he ought to be we'll served be-
cause he is PATHS husband, but we don't
pay much attention to him just the same,
and his wife's servants have to look after
his wants at the table,"
SOME LIBERAL WOMEN.
"The stewards of the great lines never