The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1907-03-26

off a couple Of thousand dollars every
morning That would make $4,000 a
day, or $4,000 900 for the year.
This generosity on the part OF the
travelling public would be all right II
the porters got the benefit Of 1t. Bug
they do not Under present conditions
the tips are merely another source OF
profit for the Pullman company. One
would suppose that all the time of a
grownup man, in most instances with
a family to support, would at least be
worth $40 a week, or $40 q month, to
concern earning millions of divl-
dends But the porter gets only S25
a month, and is left 10 get the re-
hainder from the public. Therefore
the Pullman company, on account of
tips given to its employees, makes
| saving of SIS per month on each of
them, amounting to $4,000, or ST.
100000 a year.
! After the thousands OF passengers
arriving at their destinations in this
| country every morning turn over &c.
600 to the Pullman porters, they give
| away another thousand to station boys
| who carry their bags out from the
| trains. Before they get comfortably
| settled down to the breakfast table an
other donation of $4,000 or so is made
| to hack drivers. Then the walters pro-
ceed to "get theirs" After the por-
| ters no other class of servants de-
pends SO much upon tips as the
walters.
In many of the large establish
ments in the cities the attendants
| have a perfectly organized system for
securing and sharing the proceeds
they get from the public One way of
| working 1t thus: When you. enter
the dining room for a first meal at
table andl then wETAOINETAOINA
hotel the head waiter places you at a
table and then watches carefully when
you leave to see if you fee the waiter.
| If you leave some change, the head
waiter claims part of it. If the one
who attended you should refuse to
| divide, the next time you enter the
dining room you will be put at some
other table, presided over by square
man."
Sometimes the only way waiter
can get prompt service in the kitchen
| for a favored guest is to "see" the
server. Thus, when you leave a quar-
70 Op
does not always go into the pocket of
the man who attended you, as you
might suppose, but is distributed
among a number of employees with
whom you do not come in contact.
| If you fail to leave any change under
your plate and remain at that hotel
for any length of time, you will be
likely to receive scant consideration.
for the servants will be busy looking
after those people who are not abb
sentminded when they finish their
meal.
Ose hotel proprietor tells this ex-
perience he had with a new waiter
who came to his place. The new man
came on at the breakfast hour. and
in the course of time was sent to wait
upon the manager without knowing
who he was. Instead of serving a
small cup of cream for the coffee he
brought milk with it. The manager
said to him: Here, take this milk
back and bring me some cream" I'VE
have no cream" said the newcomer.
TIE surprised manager looked I'D at
him quickly and said: Like thunder
you haven't. | am the manager of
this place, and l just checked in a
hundred gallons of cream not more
than 20 minutes ago." With genuine
embarrassment the new recruit replied:
"Oh, l didn't know you were the man
ager; I'll bring 1t at once, SIR" The
motive was to please certain regular
customers of the dining room. who
made practice of tipping, by keeping
liberal quantity of cream in reserve
for them, giving ordinary patrons
milk with their coffee.