Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-30

OF families that spend between s2s,-
0o1 and -. COO q year. there are about
a thousand In New York. II would b.
impossible 10 ascertain the exact figures,
hut the above figure Is the result Of con-
siderable research. and b. b. relied on Es
very near experimenting the fact Ia
sior Is IL give acloss figure as 10 the fam
lies spending between $50, 600 and s6o,-
600 year. There are about sixty or
seventy such families our figures
would stand thus: 10000 or 1900 fam
lies that spend $1,000 a year 1000
spend SO, 600 10 $50, 600 year, and 90
OF 20 whom il costs $4,000 a year 10
live.
ON Fifth avenue IL costs SIS, 900 30
live respectfully. In thus sum, we do
not include the rent Of the house, which
would certainly swell the amount 10
S300Ol. A first-class establishment on
Fifth avenue has eleven OF twelve SER
wants man cook, with three female
assistants, scullery maid, etc. a man
that waits ON the table hundress, n
coachman anda footman-the latter may
help waiting on the table, rs his duties
.on the box are not very arduous-a sta
BILE man, two OF three girls for up-stair
work, and, II there are children in the
family, a nurse. The outlay in carriages
and horses alone amounts TO $4,000 q
year.
A poor fellow on salary Of 5000 a
year, for a man is poor in New York
who receives that salary-whO lives in q
nice brown stone front house on a fash
ionable side street. He has to keep, at
the very least, four servants; cook, a
scullery maid, who helps her and may
do at the same time the laundry work,
an upstairs girl, and-if he has chill
dren poor people mostly do have chill
drenl-a nurse. He pays $1,000 rent
for the house, and, after he has paid his
servants, has nothing left to live on.
Nevertheless, il costs him $4,000 TO
live. How can he do it
There are ten hotels, kept on the Eu-
ropean plan, in each of which some 100
persons board. These families pay for
suite of rooms, consisting of parlor
aud bedroom, from S15 TO $50 a day.
This price is paid, no matter whether
the guests stay a week or two years. In
the Grand Hotel there are a few suits
which are higher-S300 a week. But the
average is not so high. You can get two
good-sized rooms at most OF the Euro
pean hotels for $500 per week, or Sl0,-
600 year. In regard TO your meals,
you pay for what you eat. You pay for
peas 50c. I; for a cup of coffee, 50c. An
examination of the restaurant bills in
one of these hotels gave the following
result Average for breakfast lone per-
SOM, SO for dinner, $40 or 81 for
supper, about So or SO. A whole family
can live somewhat cheaper, for some of
the dishes, as for instance beef, an order
for one will bring enough for two. But
on the whole, the result is pretty much
the same. A family of three persons
will, living economically, spend easily
between $50 and $40 a day for their
meals, which would amount in the year
to $4,000. $4,000 for two meals day,
and $4,000 more for two rooms, makes
$4,000 Most of the families boarding
in these hotels keep carriages they
give little dinner parties-evening en-
tertainments they are excused from in
consideration of these good dinners /;
they spend the summer in Europe, or mt
watering places; their girls have the
best masters and most fashionable dress
makers. 1t costs them $4,000 or $780,
600 to exc out their existence.