Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-03
ANT|-T|PP|NG LEAGUE
Organization Started by New
York Brokers.
BECAME A NECESSITY
THE CUSTOM HAD GROWN INTO
A NUISANCE.
Even the Typewriter Girls Learned to
Expect a Memento-New
York Notes.
BECAME A NECESSITY

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, May p 1902.
| Down in the Wall street district the wait
ers, BARRIERS, messengers, bootblacks, office
janitors, public typewriters and the like
| are In a state of panic. A couple of weeks
| ago about 400 brokers of the stock eX-
change, the consolidated exchange and the
produce exchange formed an organization
known as the Anti-Tpping Society. The
membership now counts up LOO OF the
brokers and their assistants, and the roll is
growing every day. Every member OF the
Anti-Tipping Society is solemnly pledged,
on his word of honor as a gentleman, not
to give tip to any paid servant or employee
under any circumstances whatsoever. The
violator of the pledge is not only to have
his name stricken from the society's roll,
but must suffer, on discovery, the odium
necessarily attaching to the man of the
broken pledge. Thus far there has been
| no case Of any of the Anti-Tppings So
| cietys members breaking his word. In all
probability the Anti-Tipping Society has
come along to stay, and all over town
| movements are on foot among men OF other
| callings, banded together in certain dis
| tricts, to form similar organizations. The
downtown wholesale dry goods men are
| about to get such an outfit together and
the movement is even spreading to the ten
derloin, that paradise Of the panhandlers
| for tips.
Necessity for the Organization.
The brokers simply had to form such an
! organization for their own protection or ''go
| broke as good many Of them put it,
| They found that they had their hands in
their pockets nearly all the time, doing out
tips to adroit tip schemers. The telegraph
boy would stand on one leg and then on the
! other, waiting for his little quarter, and If
! he didn't get it his next message for the
non-tipper would be delivered a good many
minutes behind the schedule time and de-
! lays of this sort owing to the sulks of un-
| tipped messenger boys have frequently cost
brokers thousands of dollars. The waiter
of the financial district who failed to get a
| tip of at least a dollar-perhaps for serving
a luncheon consisting II a chicken sand
wich and a bottle of mineral water-en-
! rolled the non-tipping broker on his little
! list and totally ignored him from the hour
/ of his delinquency.
The barber of the financial district who
was not the recipient of at least a half dol
| lar for moving the countenance of a
| broker, took it out the next time he got the
| offender in his chair by stuffing suds into
! the mouth of the victim, skiIlfully and
| alphabetically gashing him, and otherwise
! prosecuting him. The bootblack who did
/ not succeed in Swinging the man OF
| stocks for a minimum of a quarter for a
| shine or polish hencefOrth regarded the
! contributor Of the adequate but humble
! dime as an individual Of exceeding Cheap
| ness, whose footwear, In the future, was to
| be stopped over with great speed and care
| lessness. The office janitor, paid to clean
! out the Offices and dump the waste baskets.
has of recent years fallen into the habit of
| expecting diurnal mixed ale money for his
! services from the occupants of the offices,
| and failure on the part of the tenants to
| come to the 'front.' In this respect has
| been inevitably followed by the vitupera-
ton and scorn. and, worse than that the
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performance of his duties
Typewriters Expected Tips, Too.
Even the tidy typewriter girl, banging
away at her machine in corridors of the
great office buildings, has, of late years,
come to expect her little "honorarium"
from the broker in addition to the regular
fee for taking the dictation Of a few hur-
ried letters, and the broker ignoring such
an anticipation on the part Of the girl has
been the recipient of shrivelng, whitening
glares from the young woman Of the let
tered keys. Moreover, even the letter car
riers of the financial district, SO say the
brokers, have come to expect frequent con-
tributions during the past few years, and
many of the bartenders have permitted
themselves TO fall into the habit of look
ing the eyes out of the brokers for size
able tips after devising skillfulIy blended
drinks.
Northern men, travelling In the south,
have frequently spoken and written of the
obSeQuousneSS of the colOred waiter, bar
Der, etc, in his efforts to extract the re-
luctant tip, but the work of the colored
man and brother in this respect is simply
coarse in comparison with that of the white
tip-diggers over here. The anti-tippIng So
cieties are great institutions, nor would it
be bad idea if the scheme were to take
national root.
Paderewski Kissed.
That inspired Pole with the aureola of
sunset locks, Paderewski, was the recipient
of a very proper kissing at his supposed-to-
be farewell appearance at the Metropoli-
tan Opera House the other night. He was
only down for one rendition on his instru-
ment Chopin sonata, and his. piece came
late on the bill, the orchestra having the
platform until well on toward 10 o'clock
Then the great Ignace ambled out onto the
stage, shook his name neryously and began
his performance.
Occupying an aisle seat down in front
was young woman, a visitor in New York
from Georgia, who was booked for train
leaving for the south at a quarter to IL.
The young woman had willingly paid a
Spectator s. for a ticket to hear Paderew-
ski but she had to catch her train for her
southern home, nevertheless. 1t was Just
about 10 o'clock when the shaggy-headed
musician took the stool. and the young Wo-
man had just about enough time to get
across the North river and make her train.
But she at least wanted to be liable to say
that she had heard the phenomenal Pole
strike few bars, and so she held her seat
until he got into the first movement. Then
she rose from her seat and started I'D the
aisle.
The shock-headed Ignace happened to be