The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-02-07
NO TIPS FROM TuBBs.
How Missouri Legislator Proposes 10
Wip1 Out Time Honored Custom.


Wipe Out Time Honored Custom.
Tipping is doomed in Missouri If Dr.
Alonz0 Tubbs, Gssconade county
representative in the Missouri state
legislature at Jefferson City. has his
way, says Kansas City (Mo.) special
dispatch to the Chicago Inter ocean
The doctor has introduced bill making
ii misdemeanor, punishable by a
fine Of not more than 5000, to tip a
walter. chef or steward at any hetel
cafe or restaurant"
When / so into a hotel or restau-
rant here and order a piece or two OF
pie and q glass of milk I'm not con
tracing to pay the walters wages, 7
says Or. Alonzo Tubbs. why should
| pay hotel the price ii asks and also
pay the wages Of the employees? |
hope TO see the day when every hotel
in Missouri viii be graced with the
sign, no tipping allowed It's time
we Americans shake from ourselves
this oppression. this tyranny in the
form Of custom imported from the
life sapped east. Anyway. I've intro
dnced a bill making it a misdemeanor.
and I'm going to see It through
Before introducing his bill Repre-.
sentative Tubbs took the precaution to
find 4 boarding place ID private
family and quit the Madison House for
the winter Or. Tubbs Is the typical
country doctor grown old ii tile prac-
tiee Of his profession Night rides
through storms and hard work have
helped the years TO whiten bis hair and
mustache With high ideals as a legls-
lator and a class Of patients none too
rich in the broken country in Usage and
! Gasconade counties. he has not accumu-
lated great wealth, consequently as a
prudent man be cannot afford to live III
the extravagaat fashion Of millionaires.
The Madison House, where he board
Cd for the first few days during the
senatorial contest, was the headquarters
Of sundry candidates for United States
senator. their chief assistants and some
visitors. Dr. Tubbs is opposed to tip
ping on principle as well as for other
reasons. and the walters were not long
finding it out
The senatorial contest week was
Jefferson City's harvest. The hotel
walters ID those few Eat days learned
to see a rich senatorial candidate who
gave silver dollars rs tips. These same
walters learned equally fast not to see
a plain. honest legislator who gave
nothing. So the doctor was at disad.
vantage. lie did not exactly blame tie
walters. and In his bin be provided
that the fine OF $500 and costs shall &c
paid by the proprietor Of the hotel res
faurant or cafe where the tipping il
permitted II also provides FOR pia-
cards, No Tipping Allowed. TO be con
spicuously posted.
/ II am really IN eanest about this.
Or. Tnbbs said Hotels and restan-
rants ought to pay their help, They
charge the public enough for what Is
eaten. There are plenty Of places where
the walters get only nominal pay and
have to make their wages out q The
public. / don't blame the walters. It Is
the proprietor who is at fault, and he Il
the one TO be punished
II can't afford to tip literally. and
don't believe it Is right. SO ! refuse on
principle to do II" he continued al
tie same time I know that the waiter
doesn't want TO pay any attention te
me. aud he usually shows It by neglect
ing the man who does not tip for ths
one who does. regard the whole sys
tenn MS bad