Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-05-02
COST OF LIVING ABROAD.
Interesting Contrast Between Prices I'm
London and In America.

JUSI Uf IlN iNU ADhVAUs
Interesting Contrast Between Prices I'm
London and I'm America.
A London letter to the Philadelphia
Press says. There is no city in which
you can get more for a siXpence or less
for a guinea than in London. This
was what Richard Rush. the American
diplomatic representative to England,
said away back in the twenties. These
word. are as true to-day as they were
when the shreWd, obSeryant American
gave utterance to them. Bread to-day
is cheaper in Lonlon than in New
York. Vienna Berlin or Brussels. You
can get a suit of clothes made to meas
ure from real Scotch Tweed for SO,
/ fashionably cut and well finished.
Hundreds of tailors will be glad to take
your measure and furnish well-titting
suit Of common, but still fair materia
for $40. / can buy ready made shoes
for $3.50 every bit as good as | can pur-
chase in New York for s., while for
that sum can get as good pair OF
hand sewn understandings as | wish
to wear 4 good silk hat may be
bought for 3d. and derby of the latest
fashion for trile over 81. Shirts and
underwear are less than two-thirds the
price asked for them in New y ork, and
the gloves / wear cost me Is cents
pair. and have never yet found them
70 split or tear. Ladies attire is pro-
portionately cheap. Houses and rooms
" may be had within two and one-hait
Il miles of the city, with gardens four
9 times as large as the area the residence
III stands on, for a rental Of $3.50 to 500
e per annum; return fare by rail to the
O. city costing from to s cents, daily.
Gu Vegetables are about half the price
ay they are in the states Butter is Eve
lat cents a pound cheaper, and meat only is a
cit -. aon,,..oa;t, Not roar,x, so much
: aesrer tnongh as is generally supposed
ho+ Yesterday bought leg of excelen
,ai mutton for 20 cents per pound, and 70
10 prime joints of beef the butchers ar
i, asking a cents per pound Then
IL again, fish is ridiculously cheap.
w. read in an Exeter paper that herring
~ were sold in that town one day las
.- week at the rate Of twenty-four for
~. cents and that Sprats were retailed at
cents per quart.
But Mr.. Rush was as right about tn
purchasing power of the guinea as h
- was in his estimate of the liberal equiv
90 alent obtanable for the nimble sixpenc,
.aa In the west end of London the most e,
b+ tortionate prices are asked by the trade,
VI men. Fifteen dollars for a pair {
10 trousers and $35 for a coat and vest ar
;, by no means exceptional prices, an
no there are plenty of knights of the shear
Iv who would charge 500 for a suit ofeven
n ing dress that one could readily mattel
p at city tailor's for $55. know sever
81 "l ShlPs that are glad to array Gus
? toners in all the glory of"clawhammer'
q coat, low cut vest and pants en- suite fol
i Sl5. London boarding houses are an
W aDomlnation and snare. One can gel
Il infinitely better accommodation and
,o food in Philadelphia, Baltimore or Bos.
ton Tor $5 per week than can be nro,
cured in London for double the money
Il Railway travelling, too, is much more
eXpensiyein England than in America.
= Even the third-class is, think, quite
as expensive as the uniform fare
= charged in the states, and to make a
- journey of a few hundred miles in a
. hrst-class carriage will costaat least so
= per cent more than in covering a like
distance of ground in thestate journey
ing In luxurious ease in a Pullman car.