The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1876-11-01
Living In London and New York

Rents sucn - arr common ia New
York. says Louis J Jennings. ia let
ter from London To the New York
World, al 81 200 to g.. OO0 u ysar, would
here suffice To hire 1apsioi IN the
most fashionable parts of town, and the
class that can afford to pay $500 or
$500 year for house is exceedingly
limited | should myself. speaking
from personal experience and after
careful inquiry among my friends. put
down Tor rent snd taxes IN good To-
eality. ti6o year, For this YOU may
obtain u house in almost any direction
north or south, east or west-such a
YOU have To pay even now from Z 300
Ia 81 .suO year for IN New York not
including taxes. Here the tenant pays
the taXes-in New York the landlord
docs 81 that the comparison eau pe
made with entire accuracy. And IL
must bc remembered that / have taken
the diminished New York ren,-no;
the price of three or four years age
We now come 10 the servants wages,
which. perhaps. had better give from
two different households we'll known Ia
me The cook in one case gcts els
year 500; ia the other e22 fil0l We
used Ia pay from 45o To 70 n month
in New York for "A cook, aud she WAS
not as good ss f20 "a year cook
would be here Twenty dollars "A month
- ab"ut fi3 - year. currency. as nearly
as ! can calculate II without knowing
the price OF gold At this moment \
waitress or parlor maid. gets about
4 II year, and house maid Clio toell
Your readers know best what wages
they give In their own households for
servants Of the same kind Most Eng-
lish servant, expect in addition 10 their
w-ges. ali allowance at IL 6t "A week
fot Washing sad !. Tor beer-say 40
los year more ~ that taking three
iu-door servants st the wages | esve
gtvrn which are the n,sragc wagv, IN
resp, ctshlc and comfortable ssm,l,s.
III. total c,,st Of them that j. Ia money.
amounts to i6l 10, year. or fjo7 50
in guli coin Per annum.
Clothing. for adalts as we'll as ehi.
dren, IL very much cheaper here than II
II in New York aud children as = rui.
wear common tabrics-cotton PRINT.
and the like, - that their dress ess,
comparatively little Abou; " show"
dresses for ladies say not hung. becaus-
10 my mind the system Of fashionable
dressmsk,ng IL system If the greatest
extortiun. not To use harsher word.
Arbitrary prices arc imposed ana no
woman ever deems that She gets the
salue Il her money. Men are not so
s,ctimlred. simply because they never
would submit TO IT. But even Tor ''fssh
,onahle" dre~-e. the priees are lower
/ by st least one-third, often one halt.
than they are IN New York Boots for
persons al all ages and both sexes are
much cheaper A man can get . very
COOL pair Of boots here for L 5s, a lady
for Ids, and child for from 10 to 1s 6d.
is not know where we'll made pair
If tnen's boots could be got in New
York for o. or o. am taxing good
work here a. the basis for the compari-
son. for one may sec mems boots marked
up in windows at - 6i . pair. or even
less. hu, | should suppose that. like
Moses Primrose speCtscles, they are
/ made to cell. iiot Ia he used
Coal here ~ this moment Is 81 D. =
ton-whs, II 10 IL New York l do not
know
La; rs now GONE Ia provisions Cd,
course, 90 We sil know the prices of
these vary at different seasons. but |
will take th,. weeks rates. and in or
( der that there may le no mistake, I
~ill onpy from the ,rstesm>n's book
now lying before me
Reef Is i pound. and steaks the
he>. Is Sd We used to paw in New
York for preciscly the same de~crip,ioa
ai beef 50 and s. ceu,s = poand respect
ively. 4. for qaslity. | contend sha.
New York teef Is better than that
which we gej here, b0, there are '~c
AIner,cAns IN my household. and they
10th respectively pronoancs the oppo-
site opinion There icing, therefore.
two to one. suppose must he wrong
A. 20 mutton. there csn b. u disputr
far i, Is decidedly better here. The
yssr is /. p,und tes lex oF saddle
for leS ot nation we Escd ~ I ay :
ceutsa poune M New York Matt. n.
tAeyeforv seems % bc little cheap
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