red-hatted

Updated: May 9, 2025

Then you pay the cabman two dollars to carry you to the station, and fee him. Arriving at the station, he hands you over to a red-hatted porter, who carries your baggage for a fee. He puts you in charge of the railroad porter, who is feed at the rate of about fifty cents per diem. The American submits to this robbery without a murmur; yet he is sagacious, prudent.

- As A Chinaman Saw Us: Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home