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waiter and cabin boy, all expect to share in the distribution of your 

 coin, and if you can manage to leave the vessel for less than twenty 

 shillings in addition to your fare you are fortunate indeed. In 

 fact, so far is this reprehensible ])ractice carried, that we were told 

 on fairly good authority some of the stewards ship on board ocean 

 vessels for the nominal wage of $15.00 per month, others for 

 nothing except the privilege of preying in this manner upon the 

 passengers. Upon crossing the landing stage at L^iverpool you are 

 spotted for a stranger The street arab and lounger are persistent 

 in proffering their services for which you do not ask, and for which 

 the}' expect from the universal penny to sixpence. If you demur, 

 they insist doggedly upon the receipt of the peiniy, apparently be- 

 cause tliey have paid you that nuich attention. After getting your 

 "luggage" (iiot baggage) to the "left luggage room" at the 

 railway station^ and want to enjoy a half hour in the city before 

 train time — you must not expect to get trunks checked upon 

 strength of your railway ticket (as here) and have no further care 

 on that score, but you deposit your luggage, pay the fee asked, 

 take a receipt, and when you return for your property a porter 

 stands ready to carry it to the luggage van of the train upon which 

 you are to continue your journey, for which he expects and gets 

 the "nimble sixpence." When your destination is reached 

 another porter carries your belongings to the carriage, tram or bus, 

 and as you have never seen this porter before his sixpence comes 

 out of your pocket quite readily, and it is astonishing how noise- 

 lessly and undemonstratively it glides into his. 



Thus, early in your visit, you become imbued with the idea 

 that a small amount of service in this country demands liberal 

 compensation, that the Railway Co. is responsible for nothing 

 more than to pick 570U up at one place and set you down in 

 another, irrespective of luggage which you have personally to .see 

 is aboard the train by which you travel, or you may find yourself 

 in one place and your change of raiment in another. 



We cannot pretend to enumerate all the inconveniences and 

 petty annoyances to the traveler resulting from the tipping system, 

 but some of the demands struck us as being very queer if not 



