The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-10-02

them n pleasant glimpse Of Europe, and pass a
delightful two-months' holiday at springs tha,
require no sailing. and In the presence of the
most delightful scenery. Here he may ENJOY
such social and art advantages Saratoga, with its
crowd Of Hebrew brokers and its brass bands,
loud-blasting, cannot as yet hope to rival. lie
can spend three months upon such tour as this,
and come back somewhat less out Of pocket than
the mnn who goes to Saratoga
Those happy New Workers, therefore, who can
leave their business and live upon their incomes
o. their savings, thrOng to Europe; and many Of
them, finding the foreign life pleasant and COM
paratively inexpensive, remain there for years
and educate their children, or perhaps make
Europe their permanent home
s'why should we not do SOP" said a moder-
ately wealthy American to me but yesterday, q
gentleman returned from Germany to spend o
week upon bdsiness in New York. 81 am a
poor man in New York; even in Paris, one of
the more expensive capitals, the same income
makes me rich. 1 cannot keep my carriage here,
nor live upon Madison Avenue there / am able
to sport q handsome turnout, and to live in the
most desirable part OF the city. Ten thousand
dollars n year in New York mean twenty thou
sand in DRESDEN
" Bot your duties to your country" I urged,
=" are you nothing Of a patriot, that you run
away from your native land3"
"I am patriotic enough he answered, " and
I still love America. But the sentiment is too
costly for me to indulge by returning to my ale
glance. Had I an unlimited income, l would
gladly live in America but / am too poor TO
give up most OF the luxuries and many Of the
comforts which l enjoy in Paris, for the sake of
proving my affection for America. 1 cannot
afford to live in New York. To return would
simply be to sacrifice half of my income. In
deed, it seems to me to be positive waste of
your means, n criminal prodigality, to live in
New York City If you can possibly live IN
Europe. II would have been practically worth
$4,000 year to me had I found this out
sooner; for my income goes at least twice as far
here as it went at home. I wish / were rich
enough to live at home"
And my friend left me to meet the agent from
whom he was to receive house-rents due him.
Like many Of the absentee New Workers, this
gentleman owns a fine furnished house in good
quarter Of the city; year after year he rents it
to a responsible party; and the sum he receives
for it (S5 900 per annum) pays not only his
house rent, but the entire expenses Of his house
in Paris,-th table, the gas and water, the city
taxes, etc., etc. It is not surprising that he,
like hundreds OF Others who sojourn abroad,
finds that he cannot afford to live at home in his
own house.
Murray Hill, Madison and the Fifth Avenue,
and all the fine .eross-streets, abound in houses
which have been for years thus deserted by their
owners, the mere ground-rents paying the entire
expenses Of the proprietor's family in Europe.
The " living question is becoming, indeed,
one of serious importance in this city. Bad gov
combines with habits of wastefulness
and carelessness the part of the private citizen
to make life in New York the most expensive ex-
pertinent of the sort in Christendom. One lead
ing difficulty is that almost every one here is try
ing to live by his wits, while very few willing
10 do downright work. We need half a million
Cinnamon in New York, to do thoroughly and
cheapIy for US the manual labor that is now in
such especial disrepute- Then it might be posi-
BILE for our rich men to afford the luxury of
living in New York. CALANUs.