Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-05-16
Cost of Living in Europe.


As an unusually large number Of Americans are
intending to visit Europe this summer, the N. York
Post has published an interesting statement Of the
cost of living in the principal European cities from
which we compile the following information:
For continuous railway travel, IS day is q fair
allowance. e.
The hotels in London are excessively dear, and
unprovided with Injuries. ii
Paris il the city of all others most resorted to by
strangers. II contains on an average 5000 hotels
and furnished houses, capable of affording accom-
mediation for "a, 600 guests and restaurateurs and
cafes in like profusion At the hotels, bedrooms
can be procured at from forty cents to one dollar
per day. and sitting apartments at from one to two
dollars. Guests are left free TO dine In their own
apartments, at the table dhots, or elsewhere. Din
ner at the table dhote costs from eighty cents to
one dollar and quarter.
A very customary practice for those who intend
to remain some time in Paris ia to take furnished
apartments, which can be had in any part Of the
city, and at any price Nothing is more common
than residents, well as strangers to dine at the
restaurateurs, the principal Of which are fitted up
In style Of great luxury, and With the best taste
At the more celebrated, as the Tros Freres Pro-
venceaux, Velour and Very, the meals are served
a la carte, but there are others of an excellent
quality to be found in many parts Of Paris, where
an excellent dinner, including cheap but popular
wne may be had for forty cents The cafes OF Paris
are generally resorted to for breakfast in the morn
ing, or coffee, chocolate, tea, Eaur and iiqttars
In the evening The chief of these are the Cafe
Piermont, Cafe Cardinal, Cafe T0rt0ni and Cafe de
Foy, which are deliberately decorated, and kept
with scrupulous neatness. To all In which the
sign "esfaminetn does not indicate that smoking
ia allowed, ladies freely enter.
In other places in France, as general rule, the
best hotels charge forty cents day for sleeping
apartment, twenty-five for breakfast, and forty to
fifty for dinner. The French railways, AZ, indeed,
almost all the continental railways, charge three
cents per mile for the rstcass cars two cents for
the second; and one cent for the third.
Belgium, which lies on the way of tourists from
England up the Rhine, attracts an immense num-
Der Of visters and is well supplied with hotels.
The more noted Brussels hotels charge from thirty
to fifty cents for each sleeping apartment, from
sixty to eighty cents for sittingroom twenty cts.
for breakfast, and sixty cents for dinner, or less
than one dollar and half per day. It is said that
upwards Of one hundred American families have
spent the past winter in Dresden. The Victoria
Hotel, very celebrated house, il kept here, by
Mr. Dremel, who has also charge of the Grand Ho-
tel Du Louvre of Paris, and where the summer
and winter rates correspond very nearly with those
OF the Brussels hotels.
At Caprini's Hotel, one Of the best in Florence,
every reasonable comfort, including an excellent
table Thote dinner, may be had for one dollar per
day. Apartments, of several rooms, may be hired
in the winter season at Florence for from twenty
to forty dollars per month, and for half this price
in the summer. A very good breakfast at res
taurant, eleven cents; and an equally good dinner
at the same place, thirty cents Families
who live in furnished lodgings may bargain for
their meals with public cook for an incredibly
low price, not exceeding two dollars per day for
meals, including two or three courses OF meat
and pastry for several persons. The surrounding
villas are to be let at very cheap rate, and SER
wants, horses, and amusements can be procured
for one-haf less than in the more northern parts
of Europe aas
In Rome, except during holy week, when we
have known eight dollars to be paid for an indier
ent sleeping apartment for single night Naples,
Turin, and Genoa, the rates Of living, although not
quite so reasonable as in Florence are yet but lit
tie more expensive, and in the smaller Italian
towns off tho great high road of travel, some of
which are charming spots subsistence 10 still more
reasonable. ~
As general rule, the more fashionable seaside
and watering-places of Europe are better conduct
ed and more economical than those of the same
character in the United States. Among the former,
Dieppe on the coast Of France, and about one hun
bred and twenty-five miles from Paris, occupies the
first place, and bears the same relation to other
seaside places there which Newport docs here.
For better accommodations than are taken by most
visters at seaside places the charge at Dicppe
is fortycents for bedroom, thirty for breakfast,
and sixty for dinner at the fa6le-dhote, or about
nine dollars per week.
At Spa, Baden Baden, Weisbaden, and Aix-la-
Chapelle the same accommodations at the most
fashionable houses could not exceed ten dollars
per week, and might be made to fall one or two
dollars below this sum. All Of these places Of sum
mer resort, which are thronged during the season
with the most delightful society, possess the add
tiona advantage Of leaving their guests free 70 live
Ia carte, at the restaurant or ct private tablesn
their own apartment, as they sse It.