Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1914 — High Cost of Living. Cuts Down Porter’s Tips [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

High Cost of Living. Cuts Down Porter’s Tips

CHICAGO. —Manet, Reese is going on the trail of the absent tip. Mance wields a whisk broom ana a blacking brush as a porter in a barber shop. He says that the anti-tipping crusade has gained such strength that it is almost

next to impossible for him to support his family. At least this is the expla nation he gave when arraigned -before Municipal Judge Uhlir in the court of domestic relations on a charge of failure to support his .wife, Mattie, and his two-year-old son, Clarence. "This porterlng business “isn't what, is used to be, judge,” he said. “Everybody has joined this anti-tjpping crusade. Tije customers hold on to their

dimes tighter than they used to because the high cost of living has crowded the barber shop porter clean off the map. Tt porteringis a legitimate business then it should erttail more wages. If it isn’t a business, then L haven't been working.” ”1 guess that’s the trouble with you,” said the court. "You haven't been working. You're too lazy to earn the >9 a week you say is your wages.” “You can't work, judge, unless you’ve got a customer to work. The customers nowadays grab their hats and coat and get out of the shop before you whisk the broom within, a yard of them. You know they don’t tip any more, judge, because you don’t do it yourself.” ,”You are wrong.” replied Judge Uhlir. "I always tip the porter when h< bruaheama properly. This is the third time you've been up before me lor fail uro to support your wife. I’ll give you one more chance to pay your wife | a week or out to the bridewell you go.”