The Press., 1893-11-02
BLAckMAlL IN RESTAURANTS.
How the System of Tipping Has DeGenel
 ated In Many Eating Houses.

Complaints of the tipping system, o1 rather want of system, are growing more and more common. It is the opinion o1 those who are in the habit of getting their meals here and there and patroniz ing the cafes about town that insolence among walters has visibly increased Everybody who knows anything about New York knows what that means-aE exceedingly disagreeable state of affairs
 The evil Is worse in proportion to the responsibility of the place. says mar about town. ''In other words. the more expensive the meal the more liberal tine tip, and the more insulting the walters if it does not come up to their ideas o1 what the amount of the tip should be-
 have been making some personal in vestigations in this line myself and m hesitatingly indorse the above opinion I have founA that in every instance the waiter expected tip whether he lac served well or not, and that this expecta tion is made so baldly apparent that the attention of everybody in the vicinity is called to the fact to bear uE willing Y it ness as to the extent of your libera V Also that tco small 8 tip will srlb;, q you to more pronounced insult that none at all; that any effort to correct abuse of this character by reporting the serv' ant is more likely to 1-;:ltitly your baG treatment tl.an to rct!uceit
 If the executive clorl, CT proprietor does not recognize in you valuable GUS toner of the place, the chances are two to one you will be received with more contempt than you got at tic hands ot the waiter. No cl1e man il eco thus of tended ever conn l'll.ins-he simply doesn't go back. Most city men and travellers are not easily offended by walters. Ia miliar with tho ways of the waiter, they either pay up CT ignore the intended of fense It is t3c sensitive 1Ian wlio is the more readily Ilaclmailcd, CT who, re sisting the ,Cvv, 1. els more kecn!y the lnsolencc l,,c !tnlal.
 In my experiments, conducted at six different respectable restaurants, I found that the poorest walters, tie men whC gave the poorest service, were the most offensive. At one place where, at the suggestion of friend interested in this class of human nature, we went back tC the same waiter on the next day, there was such a visiEle reluctance to serve us that we were compelled to call the head waiter before we could get any thing to eat. As my rule is to reward a servant proportionately for extra service and attention, and as some of these men rendered this service and got nothing, | cherish no hard feelings against them for the look of cold disappointment with which they greeted our departure. In | discriminate tipping has made tipping useless practically, so far as good service | is concerned. It has become merely Sc much black1nail, and the poorest service | demands and receives the same reward earned by and cheerfully pald the best. Men are awful towards and would rather | be robbed outright than thought mean, | even by a waiter.-New York Herald. | MT. Jarrett's Experience Forty-niner.
 ''The first time 1 was in Portland,' 5 said Theatrical Manager Henry c. Jar rett, ''was in 1849. I came around the | Horn from New York as supercargo of | three ships bound for San Francisco. After we had discharged our cargoes l hdQ some nCClo leisure on my nanQS, and I concluded to come to this country and take a look at it. 1 took passage on the Sea Gull, one of the very first steamers that ever came up the Colum- bia river. The blowing of the whistle caused considerable fright among the Indians along the banks. brought up from San Francisco hogshead of sugar | on speculation. When we landed in Portland the hogshead fell overheard, but was soon fished out. The sugar was about 150 pounds heavier after the acci- dent, but l sold it, water and all, for 32 cents a pornl. The sugar cost me 16 a pound.
 "I bought a large lot of potatoes here by the bushcl at very low price, and sold them in San Francisco at $t pound. I also took back with me four turkeys and told sailor if he would hitch them up with strings and drive them through the streets of San Francisco and sell them he could have 25 per cent of the proceeds! He sold the turkeys for $50 apiece to 8 couple of restaurant keepers, who wanted the birds as an advertise ment. This was just before Christmas, 1S49."-Portland Oregonian.