Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-05-17
FREMONT. sANpUsKY COUNTY. MAY u ISL -.
London Living,

As the present season will see ten times
the number of Americans in London that
were ever there before, at the same time, the
following extracts from letter to the New
York Commercial Advertiser. will be read
with interest. e II
There can be no doubt that to stranger
London life is almost always expensive, and
especially to an American. If any one asks
why to an American more than to French.
man, Italian or Prussan, ] can only say, that
while each of the latter expect to live in Lon
don. and every where else according to the
habits of life of his class, an American has no
class except the very highest, knows no su-
perior not evenin the highest Duke Of Eng
land, and feels that he isas good. and means
to live as well as any lord in the land. And
yet the poorof London live for almost nothing
and that great class just above the poor, the
mechanic, the mediocre artist the shopman,
the seamstress. the ten thousand working men
whose supper every evening is chance, even
at monday, that would craze Yankee, live
for less sum than seems credible.
The eating houses vary, in fact, from tie
highest and most sumptuous style-of living TO
the very lowest say the eating houses, be-
cause in the American sense of the word, ho-7
tells or taverns there are none. There may
be table d'hote in some houses in London, !
think have heard it said that there is one of
some note, but have seen none, and in nine
ty-nne cases out of hundred, the stranger
putting up in England must take care of him
self; that is, he must eat. drink, go to bed. get
up, just at whatever time suits him, and at his
own special order.
OF renowned hotels-in the English sense
| perhaps Morley's is the most famous. It
is palace in superstructure, size, condition
and appointments. The charges here for
rooms are from four to twelve shillings ster-
ling per day, the table bills from q crown to
two guineas, just as one is disposed 10 indulge
his taste for good eating To this add two
shillings day for servants, that ever recur-
ring and carelessly aunowing expense in
England, and you may soon incur a bill fit for
nabob. .
| Next below Morley's is class of hotels OF
which The Queen opposite the General Post
Office, is fair representative. Here is one
house, where, after you have paid for your
dinner, breakfast or supper, the waiter does
not stand looking you in the face, and while
you wonder if the change was not made cor
rect, or something you had ordered bad been
forgotten, or what can be the matter respect
fully bows and says .Rembember the waiter,
sir!' And yet it makes but little difference.
for upon settling when you leave, two shil-
llings day isitemed in the bill under the head
Of Servants staid here four days, and my
bill amounted to two pounds SIX ST. so, and
yet never ordered a dessert or drank spirits,
wine Or porter.
! Below this class are the ALBERT the AL
bany,' and the Sum- a fair specimen of a
hundred others. In them you find every
thing neat, orderly and quiet, paying one shil-
ling and sixpence for your bed, living fairly,
without wine or dessert, for about one shilling
a meal, and, if you can bide close quarters,
sleeping quietly. Then come other grades
whose whereabouts l have not been anxious
to learn, Until you get down to the penny a
slice shops at the door of one of which GER
tainlY say hundred beggars waiting to be
served in turn from the smoking pudding.
Along through the streets that open on the
Strand, and indeed in every part of the city,
are TO be found good boarding houses where
they will charge you from two to three guineas
a week, expecting always slight gratuity to
servants. Perhaps there are good boarding
houses where aless price is charged, but these
were the usual terms given in answer to my
enquiries. 1t is said that board is higher this
season, that the expected influx of strangers
has made il so, and that it will be higher yet
as the season advances. think this very
probable, for my observation of London and
London folks, has not led me to suspect here
any exception TO the general law of demand
and supply governing prices s-.-4 5z...,
| I found another, and better and cheaper
mode of life, and my experience may be worth
something There were four persons in our
party, all of US expected to spend the summer
4 in London. In the search for lodgings, final
| ly found quiet house in the west end of the
city. some eight minutes walk from Hyde
Park, where a parlor on the second floor and
three bed rooms could be obtained for six
months, at the rate of two pounds ten shil-
lings per week. These l secured. They were
! furnished and were to include attendance,
meaning servant. Two ponnds more week
gave us, for our party. breakfast at nine
O'Clock in the morning and tea at eight O'Clock
in the evening. Occupied all the day in busi.
ness. each makes his deiemper where he pleas
es, at a general or average cost, as find upon
inquiry, of one shilling and sixpence. To this
add laundress. fuel, which will be but a tenn.
porary item, lights. DC. say two shillings each
per week, and our individual expenses will moi
be far from one pound fifteen shillings, OIL
$3.50 per week.
1t is said that board out of the city, along
the line of the railroad, may be obtained still
cheaper than this. But suspect that with
the fare of riding. added to the other expenses
and especially that carriage fare which comes
when luckless errand has left you a minute
behind the starting time, the sum total would
not fall below the city expenses of board.
JENNY LIND AND LITTLE JIMMv-Mr. Han.
nington, who is attached to the Jenny Lind