The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-08
Cos, Living I'm Germany.

A correspondent of the Chicago IRIS
b,,ne vFrites to that paper from Munich:
ST nave been living here since thelat-
ter part OF october, in company with
INV wife and q brother-in-law. We are
stopping at a first-class hotel, and oe-
cupy four large front rooms, consisting
OF two parlors and two bedchamb ers.
They are on the second floor, fronting
a fine street, and very well furnished.
The parlors are even carpeted-an uu-
usual thing in Germany. For the the
four rooms we pay just one dollar and
forty cents day. The same accom-
modations at a leading American hotel
would cost at least d fteen dollars day.
For fires we are charged no more than
two dollars, and for lights ninety cents
per week. For kfast (tea, coffee, or
chocolate, with beefsteak or fried fish,
or anything else we may order, we
average twenty-five cents each; for din
ner, OF six courses, forty cents, and for
tea, twenty cents each. Washing is
charged at the rate of about thirty cents
dozen. The total expenses for all
three do not average more than ten
forms, or four dollars a day, or one
hundred and twenty dollars a month.
am convinced that the same enter
tainment would not have been fur
nished by first-class American hotels
for less than six hundred dollars a
month"
In the summer months the rates are
somewhat higher, but still much less
than in this country. The writer adds:
1.-THE cost of housekeeping in Munich
appears almost incredibly low to one
accustomed to American prices. Nine
teen-twentieths of the population live
IN hired apartments, according to the
universal European custom. Whole
floors, containing the very finest suites
of rooms (ten to twelvelr can be rented,
unfurnished, for from $500 to $3.50 a
year; but $3.50 a year is already high
price, more than which very few fami-
lies pay. Exclusive of rent, good
sized families meet all their current
household expenses with one hundred
and twenty-five florins, or $50 month,
enjoying for this small sum all the del
icRcies of the season the year round.
A household that costs 81 200 year is
already considered an expensive one.
Good cooks and chambermaids can be
had for $40 to $50 year.
"For calfskin easter-made dress
boots have paid 50, and for pair of
patent feathers So 80. The best mer-
chant tailor in the city will make the
finest beaver overcoat for $40, and the
finest broadcloth suit for S2A. My wife
was asked but 81 for the best custom
made CATERS. The other day she paid
the bill of q fashionable dressmaker for
making four dresses and mending and
Altering several others. TheIcharge for
everything was about thirty forms, or
So. She wears a winter cloak costing
80, which could not have been bought
for S35 in the United States. Very good
kid gloves, manufactured here, can be
had for 45 cents pair"
Amusements of every description can
be enjoyed at equally moderate rates.
At the Royal Opera House and Theatre,
the orchestra and stock singers and
actors of which are not inferior to those
of any other institutions of the kind in
Germany, the average admission for
first class performances of operas and
dramas is seventy cents for the former
and fifty cents for the latter.
Stuttgart prices are even lower than
those of Munich. At Frankfort-on-the-
Main and some watering places in the
neighborhood of that city they are
higher. ADJUSTMENTS are dearer at
Dresden. Prices In the north German
cities range from ten to twenty-five per
cent. higher. The maximum of ex-
pense is to be found at the seaports,
Hamburg, Lubec and Bremen.