 | Literature - 1888 - 892 pages
...may take any seat not previously occupied." As to "tips "the companies were particularly severe. " No gratuity, under any circumstances, is allowed to be taken by any servant of the company." " Soldiers en route " were charged under a special agreement. It is well known that in these early... | |
 | Sir George Newnes, Herbert Greenhough Smith - England - 1904 - 866 pages
...nowadays, when the tips of railway porters show a tendency to expand instead of diminish, is this: "No gratuity, under any circumstances, is allowed to be taken by any servant of the company. How incomprehensible to us nowadays, when not even Mr. Beit, Mr. Astor, or Mr. Carnegie owns his own... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1888 - 708 pages
...take any seat not previously occupied.' As to ' tips ' the companies were particularly severe. ' No gratuity, under any circumstances, is allowed to be taken by any servant of the company.' ' Soldiers en route ' were charged under a special agreement. It is well known that in these early... | |
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No gratuity, under any circumstances, is allowed to be taken by any servant of the company. 