Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-16

,rt ANTIC CITY. April l6.-"Me dining
- acknowledgment dining you to
YOU Nv golly and thunderation, I'll
us y" waddywant. a hundred shares OF
-:ning ~ stock for bringing me a pitcher
y water?" ,.,. .-o,,.or.
am, Tallawaly, Mont, said he was de-
iIShtsd with Atlantic City.
nse s,t,ut the last time l was here with my
family. in 1874, 1 got away with nickel
,lns he observed.
Hs was one of many who had heard
,hat the chill fingers of the terrible
.sTinblnR Trust" had closed in Icy Gluten
.ro,nd the throat of this coast village.
Thsre's absolutely nothing to that, all
tne loan of Arc of Chicago may say to
me contrary Notwithstanding.
Hotelkeepers kept shaking their heads
all the time the touching story OF Joan
was being retailed to them today SIG
r,fylng NO. that may be true of Chi
cago, but it isn't true Oh Atlantic City, Oh
course"
The story trips along like this: Mary
t,nAvagnor was an ambitious girl livinS
Il the past,res of Iowa. She learned in
dream that she was fated to go to Chi
earo and there battle with three enor-
mons octopuses, composing the board of
directors of a new trust. Her story be-
rins TO get interesting when she files suit
for $4,000 against the oppressors. She
had been ousted from her stand in the
cafe du Lac, which, being interpreted,
means Coffee of the Lake"
GETS 50 OUT OF $40,
Kindly gentlemen had bought back
their hats and coats from her at the
check-room for anywhere from 3 to (she
Is pretty) 50 cents, and that brought in
Oh, sometimes as much as thirty or forty
a week. But she never was allowed TO
take more than SO home with her on Sat
urday nights.
Then the brave girl thought: 81 will
even begin to drop sundry dimes and
quarters down under my collar and sweep
them UP off the floor before l go to
bed at night" Her fingers started with
her latest dime toward her high white
collar, but the Trust had been there first
She found that her collar had been made
to ut so tight that the insertion of the
dime almost strangled her.
When she regained her breath with
frightfu contortion cob, there's nothing
Ike that in Atlantic City" said the hotel
men every time this part of the story was
feached) she looked for pockets.
0utwitted again, and whom but by the
Tipping Trust, by cracky! They hadn't
put any pockets in her natty uniform. 1t
was skin-tight uniform, too. designed
to squeeze any thin dime that had slipped
past the collar up and out again into
the pockets of the Trust. So she sued
and said the Trust made about 100000 a
year out of the pretty hat and coat girls
Of Chicago, who have stopped saying
thank you" and just look blank at you.
The La Sale Hotel gets $1,000 year
from the trust for the privilege of letting
It collect the odd change of the patrons,
Mary went ON to say-but all this has
nothing to do with Atlantic City, where
the hotels consider such practices odious,
and never even considered them.
THINGS GET STANDARDIZED.
,slf tips have gone up" in Atlantic CITY
us all the fault of this dance craze.
That's what it boils down to, in the opin-
Ion OF the hotel men. It's not the hotels,
its the cafes. A man goes out for an
eYening's tangoing. He doesn't drink as
much as he used to when there wasn't
any dancing. So each time he orders
round OF drinks (and as he's dancing most
Oh the time there isn't much time TO
drinl). he makes sort of a grand occa-
sion or 1t and tips the man a quarter in
stead of a dime. That's the general
tendency.
VI course, things get standardized.
Mheh you start giving away quarters
s.s hslulous haDlt grows, ana you carry
me vice to the hotels, where the bell
nops hate 1t, but have resigned them
serves to put up with it. Many a time
couple of bellboys can be heard COM
munlng together with signs, after this
iashion; "Bill, do you remember the
sood old days, when they used to give
Us dimes? Great, wasn't It? Such con-
senient change to put in the collection
piate at church, what? Quarters make
sueh bulky pocketful"
Inere are bellboys that could buy you
out and sell you at proht; own their
eFh homes; send themselves through col
lsge, They get SIS to s25 a month from
'ssr employers; the tips do the rest.
pollar tips are not uncommon at the
sayest of the Boardwalk cafes. Walters
snefe get $40 to S25 a month for wages
sae take in from s. to IS a day in tips.
pekeys,' as a substitute for boiled
saIts, are forbidden at the Beaux Arts.
sna the walters have to have clean linen
= ~ lhe time and pay for it. SO they get
: more a month there to pay the diff
tsslshee The walters have to change
a,sa son dinner coats TO full dress at 6