£5,000 Tip.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 24 April 1914, Page 8

£5,000 Tip.

Bell-boys, head porters, and all others who serve and also stand and wTait, will learn with envy of what is probably the largest tip ever received by an hotel employe. The" person who is to receive this gratuity is .Joseplii'ne Hodges, a few weeks old, the daughter of Mr. E. T. D. Hodges, manager of the Waldorf Traffic Department. A trust fund of £5.000 has been established . for' the little girl by a rich steel man of J.'ittsburg, who does not wish his name disclosed.

Mr. Hodges said that for twelve or fourteen years he had looked * after the Pittsburger's luggage when he was in New York, bought his steamship tickets, and looked after his letters. In all this time, Mr. Hodges said, he had never accepted a gratuity of any kind from the

Pittsburg man. "Well; I'll get you some time," the rich man once remarked. "A year ago when I told him that I had married," Mr. Hodges asserted, "he said to me, ' Well, I guess I'll have to fix up the heir to the throne." "I thought he was merely joking, and laughed with him. The other day when he came in I told him that I was a father, and that my daughter's name was Josephine. The Tittsburger asked if he might see the child. He came up to our home and seemed very much pleased with the youngster. A few days ago I received his cheque for £">,OOO, to be put in the bank as a trust fund."