The Real Rich

Tipping is a formidable institution, and nowhere is it more slavishly and generously served than in Manhattan, where it costs 25-c- minimum to redeem a hat from a hat-chick, vastly more to ensure a second well-served meal from a Cadillac-owning waiter. Last spring the worst suspicions of tipping's intimidated victims--the customers--were confirmed when Hans Paul, headwaiter at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, was sent to prison; over four years, the Government charged, Headwaiter Paul had evaded payment of $67,070 in taxes--all due on tips. Last week another headwaiter--Hans Paul's successor--was in similar trouble. The Internal Revenue Service charged in an indictment that the Waldorf's Arthur Hagedorn, 54, whose salary is $3,000 a year, made at least an additional $30,000 a year in tips, had evaded income taxes of $11,781 in two years. Although few others could, Internal Revenue men had obviously caught the waiter's eye.

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