Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-11-18
Stories Of Cufbstone and
Corridor

Il notice good deal of discussion
in the newspapers on the subject of
| tipping" said L. H. Patton, of the
state land department, "and ! want to
say the travelling public is kicking
about something it is responsible for.
A tip to start on is nothing more nor
less than a bribe The drummer at
the hotel table slips the waiter a
quarter with the thought that he is
going to get better food and better
service than the tight wad who never
gives up anything. In other words he
is grating. He wants to cheat the
rest of the guests out of their even
break. The hotel keeper is not %
blame for this. He provides food and
sleeping and other accommodations
for his guests and makes a uniform
charge for it. Now if some fellow
comes along and brides his help he
cannot help it. This tipping business
! dates back several hundred years and
| we are not going to be able to change
such a venerable and bewhiskered
custom by little newspaper discus
| sion. 1t is too deeply rooted. 1t has
gone on until the hotel and cafe pro-
prietor accept it as an asset in their
business. In the employment of help
the wages paid is governed to some
extent on the amount of tips the posi-
lions yield. Some places are more
profitable than others in tip yielding
and the circumstance counts in the
wage scale. The bell hops in the no.
tells generally depend upon tips for
their pay and they make big wages.
The Pullman car company pays it's
porters $50 a month. The public pays
them in tips from $50 to 1900 a month.
Certainly not the Pullman company.
The porter in the barber shop gener-
ally depends upon tips for his pay.
1t is custom pretty we'll established
and when you start on trip you are !
pretty apt to figure tips along with |
your other necessary expenses. And
it is going to be difficult to break up |
the tip habit as long as certain class
of people continue to bride the serv-
ants"
"Say," said a we'll known lawyer at
the Grand Pacific last night, don't
let Jim Campbell and Assistant At
torney General ,Heffron put one over
on you in their pretended controver-
sizes. They are old cronies and when
you see them rushing at each other
in print you may put it down for
joke Both are good fighters when
they get into court and the scraps
they put up are something beautiful
to see, but don't let anyone make you
believe they are not friendly.
Deputy Insurance Commissioner
Austin is the kind of politician who
gathers fun out of a campaign. He
does not believe that speech-making
makes many votes. Zone Of the best
speeches l ever heard was delivered
in a political convention one time
euloeistic of . a certain candidate.
When the vote was taken the eu0li-
gized asplrant got just one vote and
some were mean enough to say he
cast that one himself. Did you see
this little verse pasted up in the state
house carpenter shop? No! Well,
it is pretty good and runs something
like this:
when on the candidates men call
And bid them mildly speechify,
Light variable winds" are all
We undertake to prophesy."
"You wouldn't think it of him,
would you,' inquired President
Welch, of the Bismarck Commercial
Club, "but that man John Huyck who
sells horse shoe nails for a business
and peddles w. C. T. U. tracts as a
side line, is some sport. Here is
little offering he left with me and
thought it might make good holiday
reading:
My Uncle Jim is popular.
We know he ought to be
A president-but that is far
From what we're like to see.
He doesn't figure in the shout
When candidates are named;
The way they leave my uncle out
They'd ort to be ashamed.
"But jes' the same he gets smile
From every one ne sees,
And children walk fer half mile
To sit upon his knees.
An hear him tell about the times
When he was young an strong
An mebby- tell 'em funny rhymes
Or sing little song.
"He knows a lot, does uncle Jim,
But somehow he enjoys
1nstid O. lectures long and grim
A talk with gals an boys.
It takes a gentler, kinder man,
When all is said an done,
:, n he a favOrite uncle than