The Detroit times., 1911-01-09
TIP TRUST GRABS
ALL YOU GIVE
Pretty Checkroom Girls, Bellhops and
Walters Smile Away Your Money,
But Don't Dare Keep 1t.

CHICAGO. Jan 9.-Pitty the pretty
little checkroom girl, for she has no
pockets! Also the bell-hop la brass
buttons.
The fair one who takes your hat
as you enter the diningroom, or the
demure damsel who takes your grip
or overcoaI over the counter OF the
checkroom. whom you tip with dime
or quarter, the amount depending
IN part on your state of mind. or finan-
cial condition, or this particular girls
type OF beauty, has no pockets into
which she may drop your tip.
She-like the bell-hop--is but a
slave OF the tip trust, the pettiest.
meanest. cussedest little trust in this
land OF trusts.
Ii her tips are not large enough TO
satisfy the trust, she loses her job.
II the little lady smiles In a way
that you may think stamps her as
being too fresh" don't jump to the
conclusion that she Is bent on mash
ing you. She is merely trying to make
an honest. but humble, living for her
self, and MUCH MONEY for the tip
trust.
She doesn't keep the tips. The re-
finement OF tip trust cruelty mas pro-
vided that its employees shall have no
pockets-no places To hide away an
occasional bit of silver. All goes into
the box, and the tip trust holds the
key. The employe gets a salary" OF
six OF seve ndollars week.
If the smiling persons tips do not
amount to anywhere from S. to $50 a
day she disappears. A better smiler
is hired
TShe tip trust Is owned and oper-
ated by Bernard Neuberger and
Jacques Rousso. A quarrel between
the mhas resulted in all this exposure
Neuberger has filed bill in Cir
cult Judge Honore's court for a re-
ceiver for the rich incomes Of the tip
trust. He says that Rousso Is the
high financier in field which includes
New York, st. Louis. Milwaukee and
Chicago, and has created a tip monop.
oily In hotels and restaurants. Bell
boys. porters, walters and checkroom
girls are supplied free to these places
and the tip trust pays handsomely
for the privilege besides!
Neuberger unblushingly acknowl-
edges that he is still a partner OF
Rousso SO far as the Savoy hotel and
the Congress cafe in Chicago are con-
cerned; but he complains that Rousso
has unjustly,. frozen him out of his
share of the big pickings at the new
College inn.
Now the new College inn profits"
are no small matter. The tip trust
paid the managers Of the inn $4,000
In cold cash for the privilege" Of the
place for the coming year, according
to the papers fled by Neuburger.
The College inn has capacity OF
$50 people. Four hundred and fifty
people are at Its tables on an average
night, and of these $50 will give up"
The cloakroom, Neuburger says, Is
worth $50 a night, the washroom $50,
and besides there are the bootblack
stands, big banquets frequently held
there, receptions, balls, conventions,
and so on, which are termed extras"
In his contract with Rousso-for this
trust has it's contracts and legal VERDI
age just like any other trust.
Waters used to get $15 and SIS
a week." says Neuburger. "but Rous-
so has reduced the scale to 81 and
So, and he demands just as sharp
pickings as ever"
The girls shall smile just as weet-
" at ugly men for 81 week as they
smiled at ugly men for SIT wtek.
The frst-class hotels Of this city
Blackstone, Congress, Auditorium and
others-deny having contracts with
the tip trust. But their managers say
that majority of the hotels in Chi
cago, New York, st. Louis. Milwaukee,
Denver, Philadelphia and other I'M
portant American cities are furnished
free help by the trust.