The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-13


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In the Swell Hotels.
Then think of the thousands of dol
lars collected in tips in a modern up
to-date hotel of New York, Chicago
Philadelphia or Boston. A hotel of
this sort employs all the way from L.
600 to $500 persons, and excepting the
clerks and a few others, everybody Is
out for tips. There are the walters to
tip three times a day; the pages to
tip; the bell boys to tip; the guides to
tip; the doormen to tip; the elevator
boys to tip; the baggage porters to
tip the chambermaids to tip; even the
cooks and the steward, whom you new
er see, to tip, If you want to be known
as the kind of man who delivers
with grace. William Waldorf Astor,
when he left recently for Europe, dis
tributed $4,000 among the hotel en-
ployes who catered to his wants. The
chef got $500, each of the doormen 800,
and so on down the list, according to
the services rendered Many a mil
lionaire is equally free of hand with
hotel lackeys; as a doorman at the
famous New York hotel with the
hyphenated name said: Indeed, sir,
it is very poor week when there ism :
at least one of them rich men throw
ing $40 gold pieces to us that works in
the hotel"
The BARRIERS Average.
Although the barber does not get
so many chances to collect tips as the
hotel lackey, still he does very well,
thank you. A good barber in a good
shop takes care of twenty-five men a
day on an average, or $50 a week. The
city man who does not give a barber a
tip nowadays is the exception, and the
10 cents that the barber fails to coll
lect from the exception is more than
made up by the "swells' who insist
on tipping a quarter; so that a barber
side, or 81 more than he gets as wages
on Saturday night from his boss. The
biggest barber shop in New York at
present has twenty-five chairs. The
tips collected there in a week aggre-
gate $3.50. or $17.16O year.
The ship steward Beats Them All
Munifcent as are the tips of the
waiter or doorman in the hotel fire.
quented by the rich. they are mere
bagatelles when compared with the
tips of a ship steward. The ship stew
ard beats them all. Here you have
tipping in it's most extravagant form,
and because of this fact many a re-
tired steward to-day is spending his
declining years on the income of the
dollars-not dimes, mind you-that he
got from his victims during the ten
or fifteen or twenty years that he SAIL
ed the seas. There is former stew
ard in Newark who owns one of the
largest cigar stores in the Jersey me-
tropolis: and he does not hesitate to
say that he bought the business with
tips. when he became tired Of the sea.
Even on such small boats as those
engaged in the West Indian passenger
traffic. a steward is bound to grow
rich if he will but save his tips. One
boat that makes fifty-two trips a year
five days down and five days back
has accommodations for forty first
class passengers. and all berths are
generally taken on each trip. Now
on this boat custom has decreed that
from each hrst-class passenger the
bedroom steward must receive IS; the
bathroom steward. So: the table stew
ard, So the smoking-room steward, 81;
and If the passenger takes nip now
and then, the barkeeper, So; total of
s16. and for the forty passengers an
aggregate of $500.
on this boat there are five bedroom
stewards, and other stewards I'm pro-
portion, so that each bedroom steward
gets in tips about $40 a week, or $1,000
III lIlc lOuAot Va q JC0A w. HN%1 cN@f~
his hire.
The Transatlantic HoId-Up.
OF course. what these West Indian
stewards collect in tips would be
sneezed at by even the humblest stew
ard on an ocean greyhound, where a
table steward gets all the way from
$40 10 s25, the bedroom steward the
same, and no steward less than IS.
Here, too. the number OF stewards to
be tipped multiplies enormously, so
that where the passenger has five
stewards at most 20 tip on a West
Indian boat he has twice that number
10 cope with on big boat, among
the addition being the cigar steward
and the wine steward. And think OF
their augmented opportunities for col
Letting tips-300 and 400 first cabin,
and 500 and 600 second cabin passen-
gers.
Tips for Answering Questions.
Sometimes the victim has 20 give
up" even to have a question answered.
Two men were walking by a build
ing In the process OF construction. In
front. next 10 the curb. a man was
mixing mortar. One Of the passers-by
stopped and asked the man what
grade OF sand was being used and
whence Il came-whether from Long
Island or the Jersey coat. The In
formation elected, he started to 20 on,
when the man. holding out his hat, ex-
claimed:
And, sure, mister wasn't that
worth the price o. a pail O. beer7"
In truth. the greatest OF an CRAFTS
which hedges nearly every man about,
take no small slice Of his yearly In
come
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