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Show Hotel Owners of Rome Bear Title Of Tourist 'Sharks' ROME, June 17 (By the A.SSO 1 ted Press I Seeking the money of ' tourist in Home; t.he municipality, bethought itself of collecting from himl a tax of 10 per cent of his hotel bill. jsimply for the privilege of sojourning in the city. But there was violent op-I j position from the public in gfnor:.l j ,and hotel keepers 111 particular wl;h 'the customary references to the killing, I of the goose that Isys the golden egg.! and the proposal for the time being, I at any rate, has been shelved. I Already a tourist In Borne pays a (tax, based on his hotel bill of 10 perl cent for service, supposed to be in 'lilac of tips, and a luxury tax of from 'seven per cent to 12 per cent. The 'new tax would hae made a third enforced en-forced contribution. Ten per cent In the bill in.-tead of j tips does not work out very well The tourlBt avers he has to tip anyway to ei good service, and the servants say .they clo not by anv means receive their I share of the considerable sum prodUC-j ed by this levy. The hotels of Rome, close.l during , the war, are reopening, but proprietors are complaining of excessive costs. They declare th.it before the war they leoukl feed servant for 3;. cents a day. and thai now they must pay; I three dollars fpr the same food. All 1 IthLs mav be true, nevertheless those, Jwho provide food and drink for thei 'public in Horn. ;how Hiking evidences evi-dences of prosperity and are generally 1 referred to as "sharks." r.' |