Show AGAINST TIPPING Paris Wait rs Raise tho Cry A BasLe Bas-Le Pourboire Down with tips was the cry at a meeting held last night In a room of tho Labor Exchange It was not ns might have been supposed a gathering of hotol habitues and frequenters of cafes On tho contrary the battle cry A ban 1 lo pourboire has been raised by thoso who receive tho tips The meeting num bered some 2000 wafers from the biggest big-gest cafes of Paris who had knocked off work for the evening to protest against the pourboire Eloquent garcons ono after the other addressed the assembly and vehemently denounced tho tip system temThe The new campaign got up by the wall era of Paris docs not wholly arise from a sudden nt of nolfsacrificlng vlrtud on their part The fact Is that tho lip iiystcm Is I far from being an entirely entre profitable one for them When a customer cus-tomer utter paying 3d for a half pInt of beer leaves Id the c lomary percentage percent-age for the waiter It Is 1 mistake to imagine that the Jailer pocycla tho coin lie goes off to drop It Inlo a special money box Tho later Is emptied of Its contents l at closing time or at regular Intervals Originally tho entire proceeds of the tips used to bo shored by the wallers who were also Hnlarled Nowadays the owners of cafes not Only pay no wages to their garcons but draw a percentage of tho money received by tho later In pourbolrcs A customer who iunpo8c that ho cTici a penny to the waiter Is In rcallti Bestowing on him a gratuity of a halfpenny and paying not three pence but threepencehalfpenny for his small beer Moreover the waiters are required to advance to the cafe keener the latlero share or the tips at the beginning be-ginning of every days work Whether or not the amount of gratulllca received reaches the esllmalcd total the fixed Rum paid to the owner for expenses that being the term employed remains In any ciif hlH property Paris waiters nre now up In arms against lhll system One garcon more enterprising than hh fojlowp started tho movement He had tue Idea of bringing an acton rlnst his former employer to recover sums paid as ox ppnacu to tho latter and rather to his own surprise won his cap < This sol all tin1 Purls waiters to thinking Hence the mass mooiinc The 2000 garcons unanimously decided to bring similar notions against their employers Further Fur-ther they determined lo have printed quantities o tiny Icaflotn pelting forth the drawbacks of the Up system In a few dayn one of Ihese papers will bo handed to each customer with every drink ha orders Parisians generally will certainly not b opposed to the PuuprcMslon of the nourbolre I In not very likely however that customer custom-er will gain In the bong run Tho chorees are that If rnfc tips are abolished abol-ished Iho hock will simply be dour d-our Instead of throe prnre and us Is plainly tho cane In the evolution or things Parisian the new regime will 0 Identi cal the same aa the old under another n i S r Ih I v s s |