Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-09-16

persons oOaru lneSe IatnlneS pay Tor suite or
rooms, consisting of parlor ana bed rooms, from
Sl5 to $50 day for two or three rooms. This
price is paid, no matter whether the guest stays
a week or two years. In the Grand Hotel there
are few suits which are higher-$300 week.
But the average is not so high. You can get
two good sized rooms in most of the European
hotels for 5000 week, or $l0,0 900 ayear. With
regard to your meals, you pay for what you eat,
You pay for peas, so cents for cup of coffee,
so cents. An examination of one of the restau-
rant bills in one of these hotels gives the follow
ing result: Average for breakfast Zone person,)
$3 for dinner, $40 or $ll for supper, about
S. or Sc whole family can live somewhat
cheaper, for of some of the Dishes as for in
stance of 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 per-
sons will, living economically, spend easily $50
amount in year to over $4,000. $lOO for
meals and $40, 600 for two rooms makes 500, 900.
Most of the families boarding in these hotels
keep carriages they give little dinner-parties-
but evening entertainments they are excused
from by society in consideration of these good
dinners they spend the Summer in Europe or
at some watering places the girls have the
most fashionable dress makers and the best
masters. 1t costs them about $40, 900 or $780,
900 to exc out their existence. They might have
grand brown stone front house for $4,000
year, but then they would be afflicted with a
oetr o. hoe
the hotel, "Why don't you keep houseY' and
you will find that in most cases n woman is at
the bottom of this extravaganza. Either she is
in " delicate health ;" or she cannot get along
with the help" And SO they leave their home
and its privacy and independence to 60 into two
apartments, and to pay for them price with
which you could rent palace. But the society
of the hotel recompenses them. They are hand
some young lords and dashing young bucks of
the Union and the Union League Club coming
there all the time, who are sure to admire them
when they come down to dinner in grand state
and who keep them company if they should get
lonely in the absence of their husbands. 1t is
delightful life to one that likes to do nothing
A woman in I" delicate health will find here
rest from all her household troubles. There are
plenty of good rocking chairs in which they can
recuperate by the delightful motion. The only
burden of theirs is dress. They submit to the
trouble for the sake of evading the others, and
they gladly dress three times day for the COM
pany of admiring young gentlemen and curious
young ladies waiting for their appearance in the
restaurant.
Two of the most eXtravagant of these hotels
have been but recently built, and their number
is still on the increase. 1t is now ten. They
depend more on permanent boarders than on
transient custom, which is absorbed by great
many hotels on the American plan. Only those
people who would not like the best of American
hotels for being too cheap and too democratic,
or Europeans who prefer to live in their accus-
toned style, go to the European hotels, There
they can spend easily $50 a day. We have been
apt in learning the art of luxurious living from
Europeans, and in these European hotels no one
sits down to dinner without his wine. Great
many have a friend to dinner, and then it is the
easiest thing in the world to spend $25 at din
ner. Grand dukes and princes stopping at the
as much but it is for a week or two. Here peo-
pie pay the extravagant prices for years they
make it an everyday matter. Indeed, New
York is the only place where such thing is
known. Neither London nor Paris has such
boarding hotels, although the frst-named dem
ocratic city vies with the splendor of our hotel
aristocracy in its very swely" clubs. In the
Summer the boarders all go away. They go to
Europe, to Newport or Saratoga or their coun-
try seats. OF late it has become more the fash
ion to go to Europe in preference to watering
place. The Herald recently calculated hund-
red million dollars were spent every year by
Americans staying in Europe. This calculation
is extravagant but certain it is that the people
who spend such fabulous sums at home will not
be niggards when they go to rove abroad. In
New York it has become a regular item of the
household, S., 900 for three months trip to Eu-
rope. There are many families here who have
not missed single summer for eight or ten
years, if we except last year.
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