Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-01-09
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An American writes to Philadelphia from
Pafi8Ae follows. oA' galsI1 '.pIh s''i'DV
An immense number Of Americans are ex-
pected nextspring, and hotel and restaurant
keepers antIciapte rich hpickings. Andper-
haps few words of advice to such Of your
readers as intend to come may not be out
of place In this connection: If the party Is
a single man, and has no disposition to be
unnecessarily heeced, he had better, on his
arrival, give his banker an order to
find him a sleeping.room, in convenient
part Of the city. say within three or four
squares of the Hotel du Louvre. or the |
Grand Hotel, or OF the lower end of the |
Boulevard des Italiens. At this time filrn-
ished rooms can be obtained In these locali-
ties at Tow rates--some OF them, Of small
size, being procurable for twelve francs a
month, including attendance. tits all folly !
for r4mAnH to put qp at either one of the
hotels. at cost for rooms Of from five to
forty francs day, and to dine at the table
Thote for three or four times the price that |
would be charged him for a good meal at q
respectable restaurant. But it's not the
thihk, exactly, to patr0uize the restaurants
on the BouleVards, for they are gotten up
il grand style. and someof them are said
to. pay 200OO0 francs year rent, eonse-
quently their charges are high. and one
doesn't get any better dinner for & or 10 |
francs at the Restaurant Fov or Maison |
Doree than he could get at Kingsley,s, In |
your city, for half the money.
"a short distance, however, from either of
TIE Boulevards, In any given direction are |
numerous restaurants that set very good |
tables at reasonable prices-say fifteen to |
twenty cents for breakfast, and twenty |
FIVE cents to q half dollar for dinner. A |
dinner In almost Any OF these places for
quarter OF dollar consists Of dish of
soup, half q pint of moderately good clar-
ct. two plates Of meat, one plate of vegeta-
bles, and about halt pound Of fiFstFate
bread. Dessert and coffee would cost ten
cents extra . A--'
Twas il, Paris nearly six weeks before 1
learned how TO get cheap breakfast or
dinner but was finally posted by good |
Samaritan in the shape ofa New. Yorker, who |
was frank enough to say to me, one day, |
upon learning that had paid away seven |
francs and o half fora dinner at the Trois |
Freres that / was, bigger fool than he
had kiveime credit for being. He furthert
that they usually cost him q franc each, al
though occasionally he was extravagant
enough 20 pay franc and halt At his
request dined with him next day, at a
smal but neatly kept restaurant, lnl thel
Faubpurg Montmarte, and the price for
both dinners was three francs and twenty
five centimes-sixty five cents. There was
rs much. ON the table as we felt like eating,
and the cooking was done to turn. Since
then have eaten at-thes same place, at an
averake daily expense of about forty.fiye
cents, exclusive OF ten cents for the inevit- \
able emp Of black coffee and cognac in the
early mornings beverage which every /
PaFisian and nearly every sojourner in
Paris appear 70 consider the next thing TO 1
the undiscoyered elixir Of life. .as'.a laa