The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1850-06-11
Burnet House Expenses.

alluded III terms Of eulogy 90 the Burnei
House at Cincinnati. and Notwithstanding
almost eyery paper in the country has contain
ed statements relative &c this splendid hotel,
the largest and finest perhaps in the world,
yet we feel that the possession OF certain
statistics relative 10 the house. may enable us
TO give arothcr article of interest 10 our read
ers Rut few have an idea OF the expense
attendant upon keeping large hotel or how
enormous must be the revenue OF such an
establishment 10 make the enterprise source
of profit to the keeper. Assuming this TO be
a fact from our own past Ignorance of such |
matters-and bythe-way, we do net al
acays Judge Of other persons ignorance by our
own on general suhjects-a statement of
few items of expense in connection with he
Burnet House, may not prove unwecome
At this establishment there employed
one hundred and sixty five servants whose
aggregate wages amount to about $4,000 per
month, or $4,000 per annum. This does
not include several clerks and others attach
ed upon salaries, to the c0ncrTn. The gas
| bill Of the house amounts to about $3.50 per
month"; or $1,000 per year. OF the amount
Dl the water bill we are not advised, or OF il
thousand other avenues of expense. But to
show that there is some destruction Of things
eatable and drinkable at the Burnet House,
we may add few items without entering
even INFO gener,liies At this hotel there
are consumed 260 gallons of milk per day =
If every boarder were ii calf, and every lum-
e. 10 rvot,I,
seem rather impossible, yet still SOFT is. The
cost of this milk Is about So per gay, or over
l 100000 per nnnum!
Butter is another item Of some interest
or this article there is consumed about 500
pounds per week, which placing it AT the low
average OF twelve and one half cts per ponnd
would amount 10 500 per week. or $500
per year. Que would suppose the Burnet
House was situated in Grease instead of
America. But without wishing TO nlsinuate
there is anything ''rotten in Denmark" we
change the subject to eggs. OF the barn
yard commodity, the Burnett House daily CON
sumes 100 Dozen or SO, 500 dozen Il year
the cost of which the reader may calculate
at his leisure, as we don't intend to do it for
him.
But when the theme changes to meats
: AMI this is always a more popular theme
; with us than dews, flowers and Zrphyrs-
? there is just as ample room for wouderment
= in the terrible destruction OF flesh at this house
q as there must be amPlr storage in the bowels
n Of ITS boarders. You can scarcely ask for
any kind OF popular fish, fowl or beast, liable
r TO be sacrificed upon the aller OF human aP-
= petite, but what can be found OH the Burnet
House bull Of fare. Yet dispensing with
, lusons to any of the fancifuls, and cohfning
our remarks TO the prominent subsianiais,
. there are daily consumed on an av, rage at the
tables OF this hotel. 400 pounds Beet, 10 do.
Mutton, 100 do. PhIpp's Hams, AMI 16 bar
J. rels FL ur per week. As an item of husl-
+ ness, we may state since the commencement
J of the strawberry season they have consum-
z ed on an average 100 quarts per day. These
e cost at first, one dollar quart!
d In the vegetable line, the house is Of
course Supplied With the earliest and hest oil
- everything. But it is needless to enumerntt
n further. The above items give some idea o
the enormous expenses attached to il large
d hotel. From the time the Burnet House
Is opened. it has sea ed at its table OF an ave
n rage every meal, $50 persons. Enormous
5 as are its expenses, the Burnet House so la
. as we can learn, is doing an excellent husi
e ness, and promises to handsomely reimburse
J. the proprietors. 1t must always comman,
IL "A tremendous custom so long rs it is wei
2 kept, fer now there is not single objection
l. able feature about the establishment, nor
e. deficiency in one convenience. That III,
rs Burnet House will get large share o
al Evansville custom, we know from the rulo
I'd gr,s of nearly half dozrn oil our fellow
citizens whom we met there us guests
ie Mr. Coleman one of the proprietors, ",
+ said, has lived at Evansville, and is know
IL and respected by the citizens of this place.
er L@The bodies of Carlisle. who committee
ly suicide on Saturday night last and of hi
Us wife, whom he murdered just before shoolia.
h, himself were inferred yesterday. HIS neigh
IS, boorhood was of course much excited at III,
~ double tragedy. 1t originated in liquor am
= jealousy.
al HThat few mouths residence at Er
ansvle has indeed made it feel to us as on
. home, may be surmised from the fact, thu.
no although enjoying our late visit 10 our oil,
~, home, relatives and friends, we got most hear
- tily home-sick ere our return. And ate