New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-30
Custom

WHY. lust 70 think 81 y. m eighth o.
q century ago the station porter prob
ably got salary Of only 13 cents a
month. To-day. under more munli-
cent. frce-hcartcd under pres ure)
regime. when with nervous anucipa-
tion he proudly signs his name 10 the
companv's payroll at the end Of the
month. he is handed negotiable order
on n bank for the princcly sum Of 100
cents
One dollar month Fine business.
No wonder the Judge advised him to
get a position that paws something.
No more wonder. IN the circumstances,
that he needed money. Also, that ne
should he tempted 20 dip short
change" or lust plain steal a man
cannot lavish any mcntionahic degree
Of modern luxury on his family on "A
salary Of 81 month. not If he pays
his bills regularly cash. 80 DAYS; nor
even if he take advantage Of the , per
cent con delivery" discount. One com
pcnsating consolation he may have.
And he is entitled to il. The income
tax collector will never pester him.
But how. YOU ask, is this man 70
corral enough money TO pay his living
expenses. since the railroad company
carelessl1 ncglects TO provide suiii-
cient amount IN payment OF his ser
vices? Tips.
Tips must furnish the answer, and
the cash Not in this case alone. hut
IN most others of underpaid employees
who render intimate individual service
TO the public. and whose employers IN
gracious consideration (of themselves
grant TO said public the privilege Of
supplying the deficiency in the wages
which their mercenary RIGHTEOUSNESS
creates.
Pcnurious? No. Perspicacious.
Shrewd, not to say sharp. business.
Why pay an employe for serving the
public, for which service the public has
once paid the employer, when said pub
lie can be bulldozed into paving for
the service all over again? The en-
plover knows the answer. So do you.
If not. YOU have Just one guess.
Having bought your fare and Pull
man ticket, which last entities YOU to
the services of attendants. you NAV go
from the Atlantic coast to San Fran
cisco without handing out tn. Also
YOU NAV make a flying trip through n
luxuriant cactus range on pitch dark
night. That IL. you may, if you care
to- The porters will see 10 II that YOUR
Pullman trip is not made greatly more
uncomfortable than night NIKE
through the cactus The untipped Pull
man porter can be depended to give
YOU many an uncomfortable quarter OF
an hour He knows the art.
Also, he is just as artful in extract.
ing a tip, if not anchored in heart OF
adamant. Further, il is necos sary that
he be a successful tip getter, or starve.
Espocially when he has to pay half the
dining car menu rates for scraps and
lcft-overs. And even at half price,
which is out Of proportion 20 food
value. he would not be likely e over
eat on the SO cents day which for
the last forty years the Pullman com
panv has paid him to serve and care
for its patrons. This, OF course, makes
no allowance for the cost Of always
in-order uniforms, street clothes and
oT-duty expenses, to say nothing o.
the support of family, at each end
Of the line.
Therefore. since the Pullman com
panv considerably furnishes porters
TO serve its patrons, who pay IN ad-
vance for the service. without paying
the porters enough 10 mention for said