Show I Costs Cotts ot 1500 in Tips to Cross the Sea SeaScale Scale of Attendants At Averages This Ts Much on the Great Gret Ocean Oce Ler SCHEDULE OF TIPS FOR OCEAN OCIA VOYAGERS Table steward per person peron Room steward per person peran 23 2 2 Bath steward family J 10 steward tamly Deck steward family Assistant deck steward family 10 Boots Bot family taly 20 Stewardess Smoke room steward per person peron 20 Library steward New York Telegraph With Wih the present prent agitation for and against tipping considerable Inter Interest Interest est st is being manifested whether ocean travelers will wi now try tr to do away with the habit h at sea From F 1 m the time when the first frt Pullman Pulma car was wa hitched hl hed to an express train tin Thomas Thoma the porter por er has ha been getting 25 cents in good coin of ot the realm relm as his sti sU stipend pond pend under the unwritten law of rail railroad ri railroad road roa tipping In the same manner have the various aboard an ocean ocen liner been getting their stipends regularly at the end of ot the voyage ever since transatlantic travel as assumed assumed respectable proportions No history tells that there were stewards stewardson on board boar the Mayflower o 0 it I is safe to presume the ocean tip tp habit did not obtain until after the Puritan fathers landed in New England Today the transatlantic traveler never reckons the cost cost of ot his jaunt without adding about 15 each way for tor tips on on the ocean voyage alone When the word went out today that the various steamship companies were battling over cabin rates and had slashed them from 10 to 15 many an anold a anold old ocean oce passenger murmured The company will wi pay the tips now for tor a while anyway There Ther is a regular r scale of tips for fora a meeting of interested employee nor was wa there tere ever a definite defnie understand understanding ing how much of ot a tip each on a steamship was to receive Some the different attaches of at a transatlantic transatlantic lantic steamship No one ever ar arranged arranged ranged this ti scale scle There never was wa body started the arrangement at some somo sometime sometime time or other oter Nobody knows kows who and ad nobody n body knows kows when If I he could be found he might suffer The ocean tip tp has come to be adopted on the steamships of various lines without apparently any pre concerted movement For instance custom has decided for many years year now that the table steward on an ocean ocea liner shall receive 25 at the end of ot the voyage from fm each eh passenger ger at his table Likewise has the German Geran steamship table steward re received r received tho the German equivalent 10 marks mark and the French line lne table I steward his 12 francs On the English ships the table stewards get geta a half hal pound note each from their passengers passenger With Wih apparently an eye to Just how much each did for the pas passenger passenger passenger in order to earn ear the tip tp the theman theman theman man who started the ocean tip Up system system tem tern decided that while the table steward should get the deck steward should get et only 1 boots 2 the bathroom steward 1 and again the tho stewardess from tram to 5 according to the number of ot women in the party and how much attention was wa given P The table steward and room rom stew steward steward ard ad on an a English French Holland American and ad German Gera liner get Holad 25 from tr m each passenger The bath stew V wards tip tp of or 1 is for tor the whole fain fam fa f fly Iy of ot the passengers who gives the tip tp The deck stewards Jl 1 Is lI also for tor the family tamly not per person peron Tho The assistant deck steward gets his 1 also for looking after atter the family while boots gets get 2 for polishing the shoes of ot either eiter the lone passenger or of ot a family The table steward room steward and tho the library steward who get from tm 50 cents to 1 according to the te use a passenger makes maes of at the library pool their receipts on practically an even basis bais It I Is share shae and ad share shar alike alko with wih them them The Te deck steward is not in this pool arrangement and so BO he ho pockets his hi dollar or as a is many times Ures the te case case the 2 that he re receives r receives A man traveling alono alone or with wih a wife who never novel needs atten attention aten attention tion ton from the stewardess does not tip tp her Neither does the te passenger who never novel reads a book tip tp the libra library ry r steward A woman passenger do doe does s snot not tip tp the smoking room rom steward unless she fhe is a a foreigner and ad has ha the habit of visiting tho the smoking room room as is often otten the case on the te big German Gran liners where nothing is thought of at a woman puffing a cigarette over a cup cupat of at coffee From Fm the smoking room the smoke room steward gets from Jl 1 to t 2 according to the amount of at waiting that he does A passenger who Is particularly fond of ot his hi bath and is particular about it I and whom the tho bath room steward goes gos out of his way wy to please often oten gives the bath steward more than the lone dollar doUar rile r o deck steward greets geet the passenger passenger ger on the morning moring of ot arrival arival and while he says nothing about a tip tp in inso Inso Inso so many words murmurs politely Deck steward sir That is the signal sigal for the tho passenger and ad he Quickly puts his hand in hs pocket and extracts either an American coin cin or a French cola cob cobor coLor or a a German Gran coin or a Dutch coin but always at least leat of the tho value of ot 1 sometimes two He is greeted the same samo way by the table steward tho the bath steward and ad boots On the German steamships tho band gets get from each family Since inauguration of ot orchestras on the French line Une White Star line Une and Cunard line lne these string musicians get about the same amount as the tho brass blowers on the Gorman German Geran boats But the tipping of the fine fn orchestras has not yet been definitely settled About 15 covers the average In tips on each voyage for the head of ofa ofa ofa a family tamly of ot two persons of ot ordinary health heath and who are not in on every variety of ot amusement aboard The head of ot a family of ot four tour adults can cn safely double this estimate for he lie will wi have to pay 20 to the table steward and room steward alone The single man ma or single woman pas passenger passenger passenger can get away with about 10 expense But 10 is the least leat with wih which the lone man or woman can observe the transAtlantic tipping system |