The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-08-09

hotel steps to take my suit case and
machine from the bus porter. He car
ried the things to the desk for me, and
when registered and got my key he
conducted me to my room. Twenty
flve cents for that one. which brought
my tip account up to s1.90 up to the
moment of reaching my room.
The ehambermaid had forgotten to
put any water in the wash jug Of my
room since it had last been occupied,
and J rang for the chambermaid. The
bell boy who answered the ring and
went after the chambermaid was so
good natured in responding to my but
ton touch that l handed him dime for
his labor. That brought the tip ac-
count up to pat two dollars.
when the ehambermaid made her
appearance and asked for some water
for my water pitcher, the girl looked SO
sad and aggrieved over it all that I
felt that the least I could do would be
to assuage her sorrow with little tip,
| The smallest / had was a half. The
ehapbermaid got the half, accepting it
with an air OF the greatest imaginable
sadness of spirit. Thus l was two dol
lars and half out on the tip question
up to the moment of washing my hands
and face.
Before dinner dropped down to the
barber shop for a shave. The, shave
was two bits, and let the wistful-look-
ing barber have fifteen cents change
for himself out of the half-dollar that
igaye him in payment of my bill. That
put me back just s2.65 for tips up to the
time / sat down in the dining room for
a bite of dinner.
The waiter assigned to my table
treated me as if he were perfectly con-
Ifident that ] was Charlie Schwab or
FJohn w Gates or Thomas Lawson or
one of those fairly comfortable indiyid-
uals. knew perfectly we'll that he had
no such an idea in his head, but we are
all susceptible to the insidious hattery
of servitors, and when my dinner was
lover felt that to give that waiter any
thing smaller than half would be pure
meanness. gothic half, all right, and
I was $3.15 to the bad on tips when I
Irose from the dinner table.
After dinner started up to my
room to get ready for stroll on the
board walk. When reached my floor
II found that / had forgotten my key
from the hotel rack The elevator boy
lcheerful1y informed me that / needn't
take the trouble to go down to the office
THAT he'd get the key for me. He
got the key and ten cents for his work.
That made the tip account a pat three
lS0llarr af4d a. ma Ysfe
After listening to some music on one
of the piers, I went into a highly illu-
minated and ornate cafe for little
drink. The drink cost a quarter. but
| the German waiter who brought 1t to
lime was so courtly so pompously over
powering in fact. that when handed
Thin half / couldn't do aught else but
mod to him to keep the change. That
made it three dollars and a half for
tips. Before turning in dropped into
4 another cafe farther down the board
walk for a club sandwich and some
thing cooling to go with it. Club sand
wich was thirty cents, and the cooling
thing to wash 1t down a quarter. I
Igave the waiter half and a quarter,
and dodded to him to keep the change.
He looked some sore, at that. over the
Ifneasly tWenty-cefit tip. But it carried
Imy tip account for the day UP to $3.7O.
1T was some little distance to my ho-
ltel, and so, being, tired, took a rolling
Ichair FOR the trip. The rolling chair
boys bill was a. hale dollar. but he
Hooked at me with such wounded deer
leyes ait the end of the journey that
there was nothing for It but to relieve
his misery by giving him tWo-bit tip
That made 1t 1895 for tips.
| When got up to my hotel room I
rang for a pitcher Of ice water. The
hoy who brought it deposited 1t on my
wash stand and then gazed at me so
reproachfuIly, seeing that I was maxi
ling no move toward my depleted change
pocket, that handed him the last f1f-
teen cents in silver that had.
THUS, when CAD got into my night
apparel and switched off the ,electroller
II found, upon making that little mental
calculation as to tips. that had dis
tributed just $4.10 in the way of pour
boires since setting out from Washing
ton for Atlantic City little after the
hour of noon that day.
! Had I been a fool? OF course I had
been. had baen weak sheep, be-
sides. The one consolation had, in
thinking it over, was that I hadn't been
the only fool by a long shot to make
the journey from the interior to Allan
tic City that day. All the rest OF the
travellers had been fools and sheep with
me. Washington Star.