Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-04-04

EXPERIENCES IN THE CITY

Young man, resident of country.
samlef, town, or smaller city, please
give he your attention for few mo-
ments while ] detail some of the cx-
Perlences of one who, like yourself,
perhaps, had for long time harborcd
the Idea that the best place to develop
his particular faculty for business, and
TO achieve that position in lfe, which
he felt by natural right belong ged to
him, was New York city; and let me
say right here | am not writing this
article to make good story, but shall
stick exactly TO the truth in every par
ticnlar; and if such simple relation of
my own true story will serve to deter
any young man from taking the step
which might result i'll rl icing him in
circumstances equally bad, if not ex-
acuy the same as mine are, | shall
leel-s was about to say-fully paid
tor the trouble of this writing, and
ulder ordinary circumstances that
would be true but just now am in
cl'ned to think that the hope, destined
quite likely to disappointment of re-
cclving some remuneration of n more
material kind has quite rs much to do
with the motive that prompts this
article, us has the wish to do good TO
others.
In the spring of this year, after quite
a number of applications and neeo-
tlatlons by a business man, who took
some interest in me, and who OCCASION
ally visited New York, ] was at last.
through his influence, provided with
situation as sort of m mln-of-all-work
IN Wholesale provision store, at a
stlary OF IS per week, which |. have
since found was very liberal for new
man, who knew nothing of the busi-
ness.
Arrived in the city. 1 found that
board IN a respectable place would cost
about SIX or seven dollars per week.
ana lnasmuch ns that included only
two meals a day, on the ground Of
economy l concluded to do as yery
many other young men are doing. that
IS, hire furnished room, and take nv
meas at restaurant but it is a
lonely, Joyless manner of existence, and
pity any poor human being who has
any social element IN his nature. who
Is OBJ 4d to live so. l paid So so per
week Tor my room, and thought with
the remaining IS so / could get along
very well, and perhaps lay aside a
dollar or two week towards buying
clothing when needed, but l soon
found that one unfortunate enough
to possess as good an appetite as +,
could easily expend 81 every day at
even the cheapest eating saloon in the
city, and not be extravagant in the mat
ter either; and that the half-dollar a
day, which | had calculated for the pur-
pose, could hive on but very unsatis-
lactoll'y; so at The end of the first
weeF, after pay ing room, board, wash
ing ind ftw little incidental ex-
penscS, founl l Lal spent IS 50.
lnls, OF co,us', would not do, So |
gave up my room, and took one at
@'.'o' Which WAS much more gloc my
ana cheef ess than the ether, which
was ad en- ugh in that respect. GER
fanny, Tor It must be rememt cred that
good, plainly furnished royms, in a
ftspec able location, with nothing
eiaho ha'e IN their appointments, cost
ITO IA ~ to US week, so high is the
pf1cf "i L, al est tc and consequently
rent In this gleat ci y. So You
can Imagine what mine was: enough TO
say that 1t was mp many stairs, aud the
bed~t al was hort and narrow. the
led cl"the, few and thin. | hen ,ook
table oarI ab II p'a'e kept by Ger
man, Htar my p ace OF lu e :, at 81
pel week bit the fol 4 was cooked in