The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-13
Cost of Living i'm Germany.
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune writes

to that paper from Munich
I have been living here since the latter part OF
October, in company with my W1te and Drother-ln,
law. We are stopping at trst-olass hotel, ana
occury four large front rooms- consisting OF TWO
parlors and two bedchampers. Iney are on @ tno
second floor fronting on o fine street, and very
well furnished The parlors are even carpeted-an
unusual thing in Germany. For the four rooms
we pay just one dollar and forty cents day. me
same accommodation At leading Amer1cSn an 1Esss res
we are charged no more than two dollars, and Tor
lights ninety cents per week. For breakfast (tea,
coffee OF chocolate, with heefsteak or 1ed nsn OF
anything we may order) we average a sWenty.ntxe at.
cents each; for dinner Of six courses forty Genus
and for tea twenty cents each. Washing ls cnaIgeo
at the rate Of about thirty cents dozen. Inc
total expenses for all three do not average more
than ten Horns, or four dollars DAY, OF one nun
dred and twenty dollars month. am convinced
that the same entertainment would not have peen
furnished by frst-class American hotels for Iess
than six hundred dollars month.
In the summer months tie rates are somewhat
higher, but still much less than in this country.
The writer adds:
The cost of housekeeping at Munich appears
almost incredibly low to one aeegssomed m to oAe A%e
ton live in hired apartments, according to the
universal European custom. Whole floors, con-
tanning the very finest suites Of rooms (ten to
twelve), can be rented, unfurnished, for from Sa0o
to $3.50 q year; but $3.50 year is already, high
price, more than which very few families pay;
Exclusive Of rent good sized families meet al
their current household expenses with one hun
dred and twenty-five aorins, or $50 month, en-
joying for this small sum all the 'dehcacies OF the
season" the year round. A household that COSTS
$1,000 year is already considered an expensive
one Good cooks and chambermalds can be hao
for $40 to $50 year.
For calf-skin Eastern-made dress boots 1 have
paid s., and Tor pair of patent feathers SS;5O
The best merchant tailor in the city will make the
finest beaver overcoat for $19 and the finest broad
cloth suit for s24. My wife was asked but 81 tor
| thebest custom-made CATERS. The other day she
paid the bill Of q fashionable dressmaker Tor
making four dresses, and mending and altering
several others. The charge for everything was
about thirty horins, or S12. She wears @ winter
cloak costing SO, which could not have been bought
for S35 in the United States. Very good kid gloves,
manufactured here, can be had for Is cents pair.
Amusements Of every description can be enjoyed
at equally moderate rates, At the Royal Opera
House and Theatre, the orchestra and stock sing
ers and actors Of which not inferior to those of
any other institutions of the kind in Germany, the
average admission for frst-class performances Of
operas and dramas is seventy cents for the former
and fifty cents for the lotter. -
Stuttgart prices are even lower than those OF
Munich. At Frankfort t-on-the-M Main and some
watering places in the neighborhood Of that city
they are higher. Arausements are dearer at Dres-
den Prices in the north German cities range from
ten to twenty-five per cent. higher. The maxi
mum of expense is to be found at the seaports,
Hamburg, Lubec and Bremen. a.0s-..t