NO-TIP CAMPAIGN.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1356, 6 February 1912, Page 6

NO-TIP CAMPAIGN.

■ . ———■* • . ■ '•• ■ . ■■ COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' ULTIMATUM. The National No-tip Campaign, launched recently on the Pacific Coast,' is extending like wildfire nil over America, and is greatly helped by tho ultimatum to hotels served by tho Leaguo of Commercial Travellers; as reported in the "Daily Telegraph." '.' "■ Europe- exported tho tip. system to America, and tho soil hero was so ; congenial that it has. developed, to iunexampled proportions. One pays a minimum sd. as.a tip. to the barber, and usually one-fifth of, the .total bill to 'the waiter at a restaurant, the tips to hotel employees, bootblacks, messengers, and', the rest of the numerous fraternity- being equally, extravagant. ■ ' ■ Now the public is arising .in a mass to, protest against what Yankees mil -"graft,"' and they warmly support tho travellers in their organised protest; According-to Judge Petit, in a ease decided nt Chicago, the irationn! legislature should protect people frpm (ho lip system, , jnst us it protects people from pickpockets. H« was deciding a case in which i> big sum was demanded by a' Chicago firm which owns the "tipping privilege" in several big Chicago hotels. This firm secured by contract tho "light" to hat-room mid other.tins, and complained of breach of contract. In New York the privilege to levy blackmail on guests in the hat-room is estimated by the lending Hotels in. somo cases, as high as JCIO.OOO a year, and the employees,, in the hat-room,* usually pomlv-paid, .mo.so vigilantly watched ili.-il .they'hoyox.no chance of minting the gruluitips for themselves, but must surrender them-to their employers.. .......... ■• . • In Chicago the Jmlgo decided infavour of the hotel, saying that the far : mers and owners of hat-room, "and other tip privileges are engaged in ."robbery, and, therefore, in an illegal business.