The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-05-30
LETTER FROM PARIS.

business like appearance. 1t is true
that many exhibits are yet unfinish-
ed, even in the French Division,
which strange to say, was more be-
hind hand than many of the foreign
sections; but the efforts of Mr..
Krautz, the French Commissioned
General, aided by the representative
Commissioners from abroad, are be-
ginning to tell, and, upon the whole,
the Exhibition is more advanced to
wards completion than its sister of
1857, the Vienna Exhibition of 1873,
or our own great Centennial Show of
two years ago, were nine days after
their respective openings.
As l shall remain here until its
close in November, / will have plen-
ty of time and opportunities 10 en-
ter into details, and shall improve
the present occasion to some generel
information that will be of advan-
tage to Americans who contemplate
visiting the exhibition. This | am
prompted to do from the fact that
since l commenced writing for your
Journal, l am almost daily in receipt
of letters from America ASKING my
advice in sundry matters, making
inquiries about the cost of living,
and a hundred other questions, some
of which are puzzling in their nature;
and hence l cannot but believe, that
a few words on the subject will be
apropos.
To begin with then, all depends,
first, upon how much money you can
afford to spend in a given time, and
second, upon your individual lasts
and preferences. If you belong to
that favored class to whom "money
is no object" then you go at once to
the Hotel Bristal, Hotel Meurice, the
Windsor, or the Splendid Hotel, at
either of which places (chiefy fire.
quented by the British aristocracy
and American nabobs) you will find
an excellent cuisine, and all the COM
forts that money can procure, at
charges varying from fifteen to fifty
dollars per day, according to the To-
cation of your room, or suite of rooms.
But what l recommend houseless
wanderers to do, is to put their ma
tive yearning to appear excessively
respectable aside for the time being,
and do what suits them personally.
They ought to avoid the haunts of
those of their countrymen here, land
theirEame is legion who would rath-
err be out of the world than out of the
fashion, and yet are not too proud to
wrangle fearfully over bills, incon-
siderably ran up. Those who can
not speak French will do well to en-
gage a fdcre at the railroad station,
AID drive at once to an English Hotel
or Boarding House Of which there
are many. l have tried, among 9TH
ers, the Austin Hotel, opposite the
clearing court of st. Lazare station
in the Rue d Amsterdam kept by
an Englishman by the name of Fax,
a good fellow and o recommend
it as both good and reasonable. He
has a fixed printed price-list, accord
ing to which board and lodging, in.
Guiding attendance, light, and al
that kind of "extras," may be had
for twelve francs and fifty centimes
t(or about two dollars and a half) pei
day. Other equally good and rea
sonable hotels are the Hotel du Ba.
Rhin, in the Boulevard, De Grenelle
the hotel St: Roman and the Hotel!
de Richemont and du Helder, in thu
avenue Du Helder, not far from th,
exhibition grounds; but the cuisin,
: here is exclusively French. But ever
at the comparatively cheap place
foreigners should not remain long
but secure a furnished room, or gar
: mas, which can be had for fifteei
francs, or three dollars a week, in
Guiding a cup of coffee and hot frencI
: roll in the morning, and then tax
his meals wherever he happens t
, be-. In entering a restaurant or cafe
: however, he should be careful wha
he asks for, as some things are inol
2 dinately high as compared with 9th
!. ers. The best places to eat a chea
but good lunch or supper are the sc
called charcutters or station restaul
ants, where prices are fixed, habit
honest, and the food excellent
Bayonne ham, gruy'ere cheese, bee
. tongue, veal, and fried frogs, may b
had here, with bread and butter, 8
less than half the price charged b
s the regular french restaurants on tn
9 %boulevards. These places are frt
quented chiefly by students, artists
and 6terateurs, who congregate her
o after the play is over at ParisiesDnes
many of whom are i~mpecunuous an
8 Indulge only to the extent of a tan
Q tine, which is a kind of sandwic
composed of bread and some kind c
not i~mpalatable stuff, spread on
{ like butter, the chief ingredient q
1 which is calves liver. A tratine COS
$ only fifteen confines II cents !, an
n two of these make a pretty good mea
but to ask for a tartine is q confe.
sion of poverty, to a certain exten
The youth less mindful of expens
! eats fraius f~ourres, brittle crisp roll
with goose liver and traf1es within
They are sure to be excellent, ant
O cost fifteen confines a piece, 9TH
same as the tartines), but it take
about thirty orforty ofthese to max
a meal, as there is only a sma
" mouthful in each.
h At*the cafes, a book of good bee:
(equal to the ordinary glasses) cos
u forty centines (eight cents) and
advise those not accustomed TO tn
French vin ordinance to try whit
wine, which should be taken in ws
r tern the beginning, at least. Tn
stranger, economical of time an
S money, who breakfasts or lunches 9
any of the charcutiers near the plac
e Vendome can procure an eXceller
e glass of wine in the Bodega ON tn
o oornar Of the Ruas Riyoli and castic