Tips at Memorial Abolished.

At the opening of Memorial Hall for breakfast at 7.15 o'clock this morning, cards will be distributed calling attention to the abolishment of the tipping system and to the responsibility which attaches to every member of the association to prevent the return of this custom which has been a continual source of annoyance to the management for many years.

In accordance with a resolution passed last June by the Director of the Association, the salaries of the waiters in the hall have been increased, and the waiters have been hired with the express agreement that no fees shall be expected, or received. Christmas presents are not to be regarded as tips.

Ten cents per week, the former customary tip, has been added to the price of the board to make this increase in salaries. Each waiter, before engaging to work at the hall this year, was given a printed slip reading as follows:

"The Directors of the Dining Association believe that fair wages, agreed to in advance, and sure to be paid, with no tips, are more just than low wages, with unequal, and uncertain tips. Therefore tipping will not be continued.

"If you are not willing to work without tips at these wages, do not take service with the hall.

"If you engage to work at the hall, you agree to give good and active service in return for these wages. You accept these wages as fair and satisfactory without any tips, and you agree not to receive any tips whatever. We except and depend upon you to keep your word.

"If any man takes a tip, he breaks his word, and he will be discharged."

The menu cards will contain the earnest request not to put temptation in the way of waiters by offering tips.