The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, which abolished tipping in dining cars several years ago as "an imposition on the customer and a practice unworthy of American labor," gave up trying to reform its patrons and help. Waiters, though they got a raise, had proved incapable of purging their features of all hope. And most customers had been plain miserable —uncomfortable if they slipped a clandestine coin under a saucer, more uncomfortable if they didn't. Said the C. & O. sternly: "Too many persons lack the courage to participate in an experiment that breaks with custom."
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