HOTEL PORTER’S TIPS
HOW TO MAKE MONEY A “Sunday Chronicle” representative found the hall porter of a big hotel in the West End of London in an unusually confidential mood. Though he is only 44, he is retiring. For the last eight years, he said, he had been making £3OOO a year by tips and investments.
“In tips alone,” he said, “I have made on an average something like £l5OO a year. I have also been very lucky in .backing horses which have been recommended to me by gentlemen who come to the hotel.” Three years ago he was given a Stock Exchange tip by a famous financier. He acted his advice, and became the richer by £3OOO. “I have Bought a house :in the country, and I am going to get a little car,” the porter said. “Then I am going to enjoy life for a while. Perhaps, later on, I may open a small hotel of my own, if I feel that time is weighing heavily on my hands.” The porter added that it is by no means unusual for hlotel porters in the West End to make £lOOO a year in tips.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 March 1931, Page 8
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