STEWARDESSES' TIPS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 36, 10 February 1906, Page 11

STEWARDESSES' TIPS.

Our Liverpool correspondent tias made inquiries from stewardesses as to the tips siven on steamers by passengers. It appears that some stewardesses on the best liners running between Liverpool and New York make from twenty to thirty pounds per month. The average tip. however, varies from ten shillings to' the modest half crown, although occasionally five pound notes change hands. "It is qnite true as you say," responded one stewardess. "Ladies are not nearly so generous as gentlemen. I worfeed like a slave one trip, night and day, waiting npon and exacting millionaire's wife and children, but they left the ship without giving mc even 'Thank you.' "I knew one stewardess, though, who received twenty-five pounds as a tip from one of the Vaaderbilts, who had his servant standing by him with a satchel of sovereigns, from w.Mch all the stewards and other attendants received something. "The most ge&erons people are military and civil officers homeward bonnd from India. Sometimes a rich gentleman passenger falls in love with a stewardess and marries her, and occasionally ships' captains pick wires from among the stewardeases. "But fortunes from tips are rarely made. aUbootb a comfortable conuwlewy i a frequently secured is thta w*y. M