The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-11
FOR THE ADJUSTMENT or THE
aTlPPINGv NUISANCE

several travelling men to reprint the
following article against the tipping"
nuisance from the Palm Beach Post.
That paper says:
Precisely when and where the tip
ping nuisance originated is difficult
TO determine although it is known
TO have been brought to this country
from Europe where it was thought
TO have reached stage of prefec-
fion. 1t has been found, however,
that it was really in a very incom-
plete condition when introduced here
for it has since had the distinction
OF having all the trimmings added
here: it has been worked to death,
or as the country papers are wont to
say, 1T has become scab on the
-,Ody polite"
Bill Will Be Offered
To discourage the tipping nui-
sance" has been uphill work-al-
though many methods have been en-
dorsed and many agreements made
among the men who have been the
greatest victims of the practice. In
every case of this sort there have
been those who have allowed their
cowardice to flatter their vanity and
-sc1ucked" at, there are those who
win promptly turn over for tips the
money that is, in many instances,
really needed for the payment of leg
itimate bills for the house and home.
There are travelling men-men
with families to support-who ham
die difficult lines upon commission
basis, with their own expenses paid
by themselves. The tip custom will
cost them between fifty cents and a
dollar each--and they would, appar-
entely permit their children to go
barefoot rather than to resist the i'm
positions of the "tip-grafter."
One State Protected.
There is one state, that of Mis-
sissippi, in which a "No-Tip" law
has been enacted, which goes far to-
wards suppressing this unpleasant
evil. Under its rulings every hotel is
the state must post copy of that
law in each sleeping-room in the
house; and in every sleeping car en-
tering the state the porter must dis
pI0 81 Of
the car: The moment the car reach
es the state line upon its outward
trip the colored porter quickly and
deity takes it down.
A perusal of the law, which is APP
pended to this article, will inform
the reader that the giving and re-
ceiving of tips is a misdemeanor
While it is impossible to entirely pre-
vent people from violating any law,
and tips will be given under cover,
IL person does not care to give tips
only the enactment of this law will
protect them from possible insult.
European travellers have stated
that In Holland a fine hotel has been
owned by the same family since the
thirteenth century, yet the present
proprietor, although immensely
wealth, dons the uniform of the porter
TO get tips.
The tipping system benefits the
rich only. Evidence of this can be
shown at any time at the Union sta.
ton in Jacksonville, Florida, where,
on the arrival of each train. every
negro porter employed by the Ter,
minal company will make a dash for
the Pullman cars. One is never
seen at the day coaches in which
Poor but worthy people travel, es.
pecially women with children, with
baskets, with lunch boxes, who real
~ need and should have service, but
whom the negro porter avoids, be
cause he figures that they have sense
enough to not give him something
Tor what they think the Terminal
company is paying him to do. The tip
CRATER intimidates, some of them
are experts. and "brow-beatine
lawyer" is insignificance itself when
compared to them.
1t is a risk to patronize sleeping
G-s often or on regular run where
porters are employed regularly. A
chance is taken in patronizing the
buffet, as person who is known moi
10 give tips will be punished, if b,
Essonther manner than by having thu
distardly negro expectorate in his
coffee while preparing it. Or an UNI
prella or parasol will be lost, proba
by in an upper berth when showed
up, and then found when the owner
starts rukas, and generous til
is anticipated. 1t has been known
that these punishments have beer
melted out. therefore If ;S time :,