The representative., 1901-05-09
TIP THE RARJEMOERs
"A Custom Lately Introduced In Up
town New York.

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A distinguished-lo looking man who was ar
rested a few days ago upon the samewhat
unusual charge OF Having 50 wives. on being
asked In the oourtaf 1t were true that he
was French count. became indignant, be-
having like one WHO had been insulted.
No. he replied ahCtly. # am something
better than that: Il am New York walter -
Tho average New York waiter Is more
prosperous than m&Ay old-world noblemen,
says the New York. Journal. During the
past ID years the tip habit has SO grown in
this city that probably it is worse here
than in any other part Of the globe. The
tips are larger. and the penalty paid by
those who think they cam defy the tip Gus
tom Is very severe. often worse than 1t IL
even In Italy, where mysterious signs are
put upon the trunks OF q mo tip" man.
Tho walter in New York is better on than
with. he receives $45 month II he IL in 4
good hotel. This is very different from
the fate of London waiter, who not only
gets no wages, as rule. but pays 81 day
for the privilege Of being permitted to
wait.
Bell boys" at the coed New York hotels
receive $50 per month. They are married
men as a rule. with families. Often they
live in four -story brownstone front build
ings In which their wives operate boarding
houses. The boarders don't know that the
landlady's husband 10 bell boy" They
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tant financial position In Wall street.
The bell boy" who shows a guest to
his room in a Fifth avenue hotel. feels in
suited II the guest gives him as small a
sun, as quarter. He has a term Of con-
tempt for such creatures-"quarter men. -
or something like that,
1t te the universal custom in New York
nowadays to tip the barber The smallest
sum he will be satisfied with is 10 cents.
AS the shave costs only 16, the tip seems
out of all proportion. The customer, how
ever. can "get back" at the barber by hav-
ing dollars worth of work done on his
head and face without increasing the tip.
In the past year the custom of tipping a
bartender-saying to him.: keep the
change" has been introduced In this city
by youths who are almost old enough to
know better and who have more In their
pockets than In their heads. Fortunately
the custom has not been followed so ex-
by the exceedingly rich.
GIN DEAR OLD LONDON"
In oLndon there are more kinds of SER
wants to tip but the gratuties are smaller.
In one well-known restaurant on the
Strand, where there is a fixed charge of G
cents for service attendance, as they
call 1t. the waiter who serves the meal
expects 4 cents, the man who carves the
joint and gives you choice cut gets 4
the wrong hat to you and loses your UNI
brella gets cents.
If you wash your hands in an up town
hotel the lavatory attendant. who conde-
scends to give you towel looks daggers
If you forget to give him at least a dime.
Some men say: keep the change even
to street car conductors. If New Yorker
gees to Brooklyn. or some other region
where path finding Is hard, he often gives
a small tip to the conductor on condition
that he remembers to put him off within q
mile or SO of his destination. Drunken
men. who go to sleep. generally pay rs cents
to be awakened at the right spot.
New Workers. are less entitled than ever
to respect that ancient boast about free
born Americans being the equals of any
one and looking, upon gratuities as so many
insults. They talk sometimes of forming q
Moral Courage club" to discourage tip
ping. but they don t. get much further than
an anonymous letter to the newspapers.
There is waiter In a Park Row saloon
freQuented by 'tBohemians." who owns
several tenement houses. He Is the only
man in the place who possesses anything
more tangible than7a red nose. husky
voice and an uncertain gait. There are
many walters in the big Fifth avenue res
taurants who are worth thousands and
thousands of dollars, and who could better
afford to pay for the dishes they serve
than many of those upon whom they at
tend.