The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-02-24
4 "RyOCR DOW" ARGUMENT
Il Oue of Those Advanced ~ . Eea.op WIZ
MOO e Tips Car Conductor.

Il Que "f Those Advanced ~ . Esasou why
Moo Tips ~ Car Conductor.
Why Is II. a correspondent ssks TnE Sun.
that nobody ever tips" n car conductor?
Every one else who performs any useful or
polite service gets tip regularly or OCCASION
ally. but the conductor never does. Why IL
this? A waiter is tipped so is a barber so Is
q bootblack. so Is n cabman so IL q policeman
sometimes he has to bel. so il m Messenger. so
even is barkeeper. but a conductor never is.
A man tolls tho barkesrer 10 keep tho
ohange;" he says to the newsboy never mind
about It," No one ever gave . ear conductor
ten cents for two fares coupled with the re-
ausst that he will let 1t go at that and say o
more about it.
Who renders more polite services OF gratu-
itous and generally unecknowledEed charac-
ter in his days work. than does the conductor
Of a New York car? How often is he put. I'M
necessarily. to the trouble Of making change.
not to collect the fare but to accom- odate the
passeugersr How frequently must ho help in
or out OF q car a person recurring such aid.
and who would com pensate for 1t any one but
a conductor? How often IA he oblig.'i to delvc
when a passenger has nselicently let .Tai, :
Few persons think OF these things. and fewer
ago in a lawsuit brought TO test the question.
that u conductor i not obliged to give chan &c
or railroad romrany !" supply Il. Inc stated
desires to utilize the conveyance offered he
must tender the correct amount. and the com
pany Is under no obligation to carry him IL he
fails TO do this.
count for the universal unwill rGness of trnv-
oilers to tip" conductor, In the first Dlace.
he Is the representative OF what IL generally
regarded as u monopoly, and his substantial
outward appearance Indicates that while
working for 81 big a concern no is not in need
OF any small additions to his salary. A acc
and reason is to he found in the fact
that conductors only handle amounts
q money diyisibls W Aye and .,t there.
small charge which ia the delight and usually
the prey OF the n"wshuy and the telegraph
Inesssn or. Tho telegram may be- forty-six
cents and the recipien VINO pays an even half
dollar Is usually satisfied to let the nov have
the change. hut the passenger on = street car
who rays Ave cents for his ride OF perhaps
several miles sees no necessity for presenting
another Ave cents to the conductor VINO re-
ceives. anil there Is nothing about the con-
ductor to indicate that he Will accent less. As
a result of this no gets nothing. though 1t In n
well-known fact that the duties OF eondu ctor
on n New York street car are the reverse %;
easy and he Is deserving 81 much better treat
ment from passengers ana from MS employers
than usually falls 10 his share
Another reason. not hattering to the con-
ductors OF other days. which accounts for the
failure OF Passengers to give tins to conduct
ors. il tina ingram but erroneous notion that
all conductors knock down." or nickel" as
IL Is now called. on their own account. and
are therefore able 10 get tips from the com
pany without look ing 10 tho passengers for
them. Such may have baen the case before
the DAYS Of hell punches and registers. but IL
is certainly not tho case to-day. when every
com many gets vigorously what is coming to Il.