, 1898-09-17
PAY FEES OR SUFFER
TIPS rHAT MUST BE GIVEN ON THE
BIG OCEAN LINERS.

Ia Passenger Who Seeks to Evsde This
sysssm Of Mild Biackmailinx Has a,s
Life ON Board Made Miserable By the
Employees of tho Steamship,
Inc Zee system is more rigidly en-
forced on a big passenger steamship
than anywhere else. 1t is one of the
places where servants demand their fees
and tell you the amount that they think
you ought to give them. While the
walters at restaurants and hotels expect
Tees Tor their services and will hint and
may perhaps make it embarrassing for
you II they are. not paid they have
moi gone SO far ms to tell you that they
want a fee and prescribe the amount.
Even porters do not do that. They come
around, brush your coat and hat and
run the whisk over YOU trousers, but
1t is seldom that they ask YOU for any
money, let alone a specified amount.
On the passenger steamers the stew.
ards regard their fees as a matter of
right as much as the steamship com.
pany regards your passage money. 1t is
possible to avoid paying the fees, as
they are not coilectable by law, but the
passenger who does not pay them will
have trouble in getting his luggage off
the steamer, and it would be we'll for
him to keep off steamers afterward
where any of the servants of that boat
r employed.
The stewards seem to have some sort
OF fee guidebook or black list of passen-
gers who do not give fees, so that they
can make them suffer on future trips.
Certain fees are regularly fixed and ex-
pected. irrespective of the cost of the
stateroom or the style in which a man
travels. while certain other fees depend
on the style. For an ordinary passenger
there are fees to be given to the state
room steward, the saloon steward, the
deck steward, the smoking room steward
and the barber and bath man.
The fee to the steward who looks
after your stateroom is about 10 shil-
Engs. The steward who waits on you
at the table should receive the same fee.
The deck steward, for bringing you an
occasional drink and looking after your
steamer chair and rugs, expects 8 shil-
lings, but he will take half a crown.
The smoking room steward expects 5
shillings, and if you are in the smoking
room q great part of the trip he feels
that he is entitled to as much as the
stateroom steward or your waiter. A
bath every day on the passage can be
had for q 5 shilling fee. =
These rates are fixed by long custom,
The stewards can tell whether OF no a
man understands the rates and if he will
pay at the end of the trip. If they do
not think that he will, they give him
hints from time to time until they got
some assurance on his part that he
recognizes the obligation of the fee sys-
tenn. II they think he will not pay, be
will have q hard time of it. He will
lnd that his stateroom is not well made
up: that he does not get care when he
is seasick; that he is served last at the
table and does not get the things that
he ordered: that the wrong drinks and
cigars come to him in the smoking
room, and that his steamer chair is con-
SANITY lost. The servants are as effec-
tive as seasickness in making q mans
trip miserable.
These fees N not to be paid until
the last day Of the trip. The servants
very speedily find out ut which place q
passenger Is to get off. II milking his
first trip, they are pretty sure to know
1t. 1t IL advisable for him in that case
to tell his stateroom steward and his
waiter that he will give them the regu.
lar fse at the end Of the trip if they
serve him properly and that if they do
not they will not get a penny. If he
tells them this in the proper way. he
will get as good service as the man who
10 we'll known.
The last morning of the trip the state
room steward comes round for his fee.
II the passenger does not offer it, the
steward suggests that 1t is customary
to give him a fee, and that the regular
fee il half q sovereign. II anything less
10 offered him and he thinks he can get
= half sovereign by refusing to accept
less, he will at once hand the proffered
eum back and say in an insolent way
that he never takes less than the regu.
lar fee.
With many passengers, particularly
women, this remark and the tone <
tract the 10 shillings The saloon stew
ard does the same thing. The stewards
work In with each other, and If q man
succeeds in avoiding the stateroom stew.
ard the saloon steward will ask him for
both himself and the stateroom steward.
Al . man cannot get of the ship until
IL stops, there Is no way Of escaping
these demands, which will be repeated
the last day Of the trip until the
passenger succumbs. New York Home
Journal.
Genuine.
Mrs.. Parvenu-That picture In the
corner 10 by an old master.
Mrs. swartloigh-Indeed. l would
never have sue,sed 1t.
Mrs. Paryenu- Yes, the HAn !
bought It from gave me q written guar
antee that the pahter was past 75 be.
lore he done . stroke ON it.-Chicago
News
In Use.
Mamma tat the breakfast tablet
You always ought to use your napkin.
Georgies
Georgfs-i am usin it, mamma. I've
rot the dog lied to the leg Of the table
With ik-Chicsgo Tribune.
Much 81 the artificial ooloring Of
10 traditional and NOT meant TO de-
llfve. Thus candies are colored obvious /
b - ptsase sbe eye and add to the ut.