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the hotel expected that, but because he ruther liked the idea of walters, porters and bell-boys jumping about as COD: BE - he made his appearance in the lobby... Li the restaurat was crowded he thought dothing of handing the head waiter #10,| just to get him table. He gave the doorman $1 for whistling for his automo- bile, and some weeks his tipping bill went up to $150. He was one of those men far whom the waiters and other employes of the botel look to relieve the ten per cent monctons, if it does become too tedious.
There was a good deal of discussion yesterday regarding the article in the Herald" about an Englishman at the Vanderbilt who wanted to know what a man ought to tip the employes. Hotel managers were of the opinion that tipping should be left entirely to the discretion of the man stopping at the hotel, accord- | „, ing to the actual service he believes hel bas" received.
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The Gazette de Holland boys The second Bill referred to contem. So far as writers are concerned there is plates a European and native conscript hardly anybody better qualified to speak army, though it only goes so far as to than Frank Tosatti, head waiter of the empower the authorities to introduce Rose Rooma of the Waldorf Astoria. these drastic reforms. It is wisely pro Tontti said that if a waiter is Lasured posed to start with European conscription, of receiving a ter per cent tip on the yielding a few thousand men. The idea average he ought to be perfectly satisfied. is, however, to ultimately establish As a matter of fact." said Tosentti, large native" conscript array, a our waiters don't expect any certain unprecedented in the tropical colonies of amount and if one gets ten per cent. on the Powers. I the plan eventustes oD chock he is absolutely satisfied. It the lines adroented by Major van der man ate luncheon and his bill came to Wayden, the General Staf of the 31 he would have to be satisfied with ten Colony, and personally explained by him. cente tip. If this man were with a friend recently to the Queen, it would mean an and their ecmbined check was $2 the addition to the existing forces of an army waiter would smile tor twenty cents. He of 100,000 natives, but such a force would is a philosopher, and he knows that for be capable of almost limitless extension dinner he is likely to have two parties so far as human material goes. Universal in which the checks run to $20 and the service would, ander his scheme, be tip may be more than 33. The trouble introduced in say Java and Madura, under ia that most persons who eat in hotels conditions making it possible to select won't set themselves any fast role for those best fitted for martial service. The tipping. The men who tips lavishly cost involved would be very high, tus it makes it hard for the man who doesn't should not prove too much for the MANILA, Messre Macondray & Some persons give extravagant tips. For resources of the Colony and mustber instauce, I know one man who gives a country. waiter 81.50 for serving him a drink That sort of thing spoils a waiter and does not make for good service. In a way it ia a sort of ostentatious tipping. A good restaurant should provide uniform service, LONDON DIRECTORY, and the lavish tipper is a foe to one."
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No such far reaching measure must be SINGAPORE: Mesars Borneo Co. introduced without the most careful con. sideration of the delicate questions involved, but opinion generally in this country scerns to be coming to regard it as inevitable if the Colony is to be put in s serious state of delauce. Such a step, however, essentially demands the
suggested from ten cents to twenty-five policy and a mere rapid development of for breakfast, the same for luncheon, and both people and country. If a citizen's from forty to fifty cents for two persons obligations are imposed on the native, he at dinner. That, he said, is what a waiter must necessarily be giren a citizen's expects. It depends upon the ordering se
privileges. If the granting of the latter well as the amount of the check. Where be inpedient, it follows that the an elaborate luncheon is served, the imposition of the former is unsafe. waiter is hopeful of receiving thirty to this 650,000 natives who as present enjoy Education must be extended far beyond fifty cente for two persons. This, man
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John J. Geerin, who has charge of the fighting strength lies in modern warfare. bell boys in the McAlpin Hotel, declared The only possible ideal for Holland in the that he would not keep a boy who showed East is the formation of an Indian State, signs of arcing tips. In his opinion ong had prosperous, of which the tipping and the amount of the lacs depend natives themselves are proud, which they upon the alacrity of the servics
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ball boys who escort them to their rooms and how quickly this mounts up during day," said Goerin. In this country
a boy is quick to know the man who does not tip him to do his-work and get back to his post. ***
TPHOLDS TEN FER-CENT=" An sesistant manager of another hotel, who requested that his name should not be paad, id that, the waiters were well antisted with ten per centhol the amount of the check as a tip. Naw and again, he asid, waiter knows that chance will throw some tausally generous parsen his way, and he is shankful for it
Taking than in all, I think," raid assistant manages," that the phine of tipping in this country is far mord vansible then in England or Europe
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