The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-07
RI tSES or TIPPING.
Complaints Of Paris Walters Ease Of
fielding out Tips on law

LONDON July ~ The tipJ ing system
NAV he ranked with the poor - ore
Of the things TIA will he with mA-kird
always. Il il true that there are plrCes
where tiIIs hry. been abolished 4 new
London hotel. for example. legan with
and mcintFirs the regulation that s.y
employee accepting a zip will be- dis
mtssef. hut many visitors ComplFir thrt
the service ~ sleek that hellboys a. q
attendants are orly alert when the eye Of
. superior - on them and few DAYS
stav al this hotel conViuCer many thst
after oil tipping l. one 81 the things for
which YOU get your moneys worth.
Paris hotel keeper amour 80. that
all tips are abolished At his establishment.
he il a. orce accused ~ seeking cheap
advertisement 4 heat writer writes
10 the payers savirg that mer ~ his call
ing would be the first To welcome the
suppression Of tips II hotel managers
would our iruple their present salaries
OF from ti2 TO SO a north We work
sixteen 20 eighteen hours day he
says. We must know French. English
and German. and with our meg" raw We
have 70 count on our pourboires
Another heed writer. who has worked
ir hotels 81 shteen yerrs. writes. I assure
you that II I were q hotel client | would
never enter hotel where tiJs were Given
I have myself coI lInittei many acts
Of sabotag lwilful camayel at the ex-
penss 81 customers who were not Rerer-
Gus. I have seen things dore To c,u.to-
mers for which II hat been the client I
would have killed those who did them
I believe that's why We get lers In tin.
than ten or twenty yesrs ago. The 'ip 4.
almost extinct and We the employees
have hal enough ~ begging
Paris walters said a London man
who goes to Paris frequently with his
family. ARE a clever lot spent a week
with my family at a we'll known Paris
hotel. Upon leaving I gave fairly gener-
ous tips TO the persons who had served
me. Igave a louis ga to my table waiter
and a louis 20 the head waiter Not
long after ! had returned To London
got a letter from the waiter politely asking
me to tell him how much had given the
head waiter.
He explained that the tips in the hotel
were en- ironc.' that IL they vent into a
general fund and were divided nro rata
He wrote that the head waiter had told
him ] had given him only Ave francs.
while he assumed that must have given
the head waiter tip quite a. large as
the tin he received
I didn't know whether 10 notice the
letter or not Finally I wrote TO the
manager Of the hotel. telling him about
the walters inquiry. Returning TO the
hotel not long ago made inquiry for INV
waiter and learned he had been dis
cha rged Ivy the head waiter after the
rec cipt Of my letter 10 th. manager.
We'll. that made me mad and left the
hotel instantly. IL stnack me that the
head waiter ought To have been discharged
for holding out and violating the morale
tie- Of the en- tronC' tip system 81 which
th. manager approved Apparently the
head waiter had been deceiVing his under
iings for q long time hence th. suspicion
which resulted In the walters letter Of
inquiry IN me. and III" subsequent
tragedy
TIPS have received legal recognition
IN a de-, ision by a f.ond IN Judge ia a suit
brought under the workmen's cornpan-
sation act Tn" driver Of a delivery
wagon had been thrown from his wagon
and injured and he sued his employers.
an express company. for compensation
under the law
II was di,.clos~d that the drivers wages
were 80 a week and that hs picked w ~
tips about 81 W,s'k Judge Bacon held
that the drivers tips were TO h. cousid-
cred as part Of his wages and ths. Cotnpan
was ordered To- pay him half his total
wages during his illness accordingly