The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-08-10
The COS. ., sa !.,ts seaside

The Cost Of Hubatntng seaside
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Long Branch Letter 10 New York Tlme.. 10
And Just how much !. costa 70 supply
meals 70 the average healthy eater in >
first.class seaside hotel will doubtless be
q surprlse to those who have not taken
the trouble to make themselves familiar
with the matter. The following figures
In regard 10 1t I have from the most
trustworthy source: At breakfast the
ordinary boarder drinks tWo cups Of tea
or coffee, which, with milk and sugar,
actually cost S cents; bread and butter, 8
cent?; broiled chicken, 20 cents; beetsteak,
Is cents; omelette, 10 cents making q
total Of IS cent?. At lunch the. same
boa,der, who is always supposed TO be an
Ordinary one, will eat lchoWder which
cost 8 cents; fab, s cents; bread and butter,
S cents; cold meats, s cents; total Of q
cents.
A. dinner be or she, and am assured
that the women are frequently the most
expensive customers. Iill consume soup
valued at 5.cents; Ssh, s cents; roast
meat, % cents; entrees, 25 cent?; yegeta.
bles, 10 cents; dessert, ice cream, nuts,
&C., 15 cents; or total Of S5 cents. The
light supper served here costs about 8
cents for each person who partakes Of II,
80 that the meals OF the entire day
breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper-ac-
tualiy coats the hotel keepers 81 50.
When Il Ia remembered that this does not
include service, light rent, the cost OF
furniture, OF supplying and waahing "a.
bic and chamber linen and the hundred
and one little odds and ends which must
be furnished, Il will be seen that the hotel
keeper does not make a fortune out Of
the permanent guest" who does him the
honor 10 pay fraction over 81 day for
his board. .iau
AZ I have already intimated, the lady
boarders at q summer hotel expect . great
deal more for their money than do their
husbands and brothers. An incident
which occurred here week or two ago
will illustrate this. A young New York
business man, who cut quite figure In
fashionable society some years since, but
who, like other people, has felt the pinch
Of dull times, came 10 the proprietor oil
one Of the beat hotels here, and, knowing
him we'll, represented his case freely. he
wanted board for himself, wife and child;
did not care much about the slzs OF his
room, bat wanted to be charged the very
lowest price possible. He was given .
very good room, ~ rooms 20 down here,
and contracted 10 pay, for himself, wife
and child, It will be rendered, 1856 week.
For the frat three or four days every
thing went we'll with mine host and his
boarders, but 81 the end Of that time the
head waiter, who had charge Of the
breakfast room, came 10 the Office with as
red face AZ black man could have, and
told the clerk that there was lady ~
breakfast who was very hard. TO please,
and wanted 10 see, the proprietor. The
,host was sent for and found that the COM
planning lady was the wife Of the young
man who wanted board at the cheapest
possible price, and who promised not to
Be particular about the accommodations
which he received In turn. The trouble
with her was that she wanted brook trout
for breakfast and there was nothing but
black fish and 'broiled salmon on the bill
OF fare. Such incidents I am assured are
OF frequent occurrence. They and others
like them 20 10 make up the life OF sea
aide hotelkeepers, very much absned,
yet very good natured set, who, It viii
be seen, like other people, have their
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