The foregoing list is not offered as a complete roster of those who regularly or occasionally receive tips. Nearly every one can think of additions, and at Christmas the list is extended to include money gifts to policemen, delivery men and numerous others.
THE TIP-TAKING CLASSES
At the last Census, in 1910, there were 38,167,336 persons in the United States, out of a total population of ninety-odd millions, who were engaged in gainful occupations, that is, who worked for specified wages or salaries. Of this number, 3,772,174 persons were engaged in domestic or personal service, or practically ten per cent. of the industrial population.
This means that in round numbers 4,000,000 Americans of both sexes and all ages were engaged in the lines of work specified in the foregoing list, with certain additions as mentioned. These are the citizens who profit by the tipping practice.
Since 1910 the growth in population to one hundred millions, and the steadily widening spread of the tipping practice will increase the beneficiaries of tipping to 5,000,000. An idea of the relative distribution of the total may be obtained from the statistics of fifty leading cities. The numbers represent the tip-taking classes in each city.
In all other cities, towns and hamlets there are proportionate quotas to bring the grand total to 5,000,000. Any estimate of the daily tipping tribute for the whole country necessarily is only an approximation, but $600,000 is a conservative figure. At this rate the annual tribute is around $220,000,000.
IN NEW YORK ALONE
Taking New York with its 400,000 persons who profit from tipping, the leading classes of beneficiaries are as follows:
| Barbers | 20,000 |
| Bartenders | 12,000 |
| Bellboys | 2,500 |
| Bootblacks | 3,500 |
| Chauffeurs | 12,000 |
| Janitors | 25,000 |
| Manicurists | 4,500 |
| Messengers | 1,500 |
| Porters | 15,000 |
| Waiters | 35,000 |