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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13068, 7 May 1913, Page 7

What is probably the most munificent tip ever bestowed has been received by Mr E. T. D. Hodges, ' manager of the traffic department of the Waldorf hotel, m New York. The donor is a rich steel manufacturer of Pittsburg, who (a New York correspondent says) sent a cheque of £5000 to be banked as a trust fund for Mr Hodges', baby girl Josephine. Mr Hodges stated that for tAvelve or fourteen years he had looked after the Pittsburger's baggage when he was m New York, bought his steamship tickets, and looked after his mail. In all this time. Mr Hodges said, he had never accepted a gratuity of any kind from the Pittsburg man. "Well, I'll get you some tame," the rich man once remarked. "A year ago, when I told him that I had married," Mr Hodges continued, "he said to me : 'Well, I guess I'll have v ,to fix up the heir to the throne.' I thought h© was merely joking, and laughed with him. The other day, when he camo m, I told him that I was a father, and that my daughter's name was Josephine. The Pittsburger asked if he might sco the child. He camo up to our home, and seemed very much pleased with, the youngster. A few days ago I received "his cliequt for £5000."