St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-14
CHEAP BUT UNSATISFACTORY.
How a Man Can Live ON Twenty-Five
Cents a Day i'm New York,


Cents a Day i'm New York,
Correspondence of the Globe.
New YORK, May 9.-''New York city is
an expensive place in which to live," re-
marked one gentleman to another at the
Fifth Avenue hotel. ''Yes," replied the
gentleman addressed; ''yet it is the only city
of which have any knowledge where ones
expenses can be regulated by the contents
of his pocketbook. Ii you will allow me %
cents day and keep me in good clothes l
CAN manage to get along very comfortably
in this city and be looked upon as a man of
large fortune. This is the way [ would do
it. Suppose I am left on Broadway at 6
o'clock in the morning, well dressed and
with rs cents in my pocket. At once [ will
go to cheap lunch room, get cup of
coffee and roll, for which [ will pay
cents. At noon l will go into some first
class saloon, get class of beer, buy a
five cent cigar, not for the purpose of
smoking it myself, but to be used in my
business thereafter. Twill satisfy the crav
ings of appetite by eating everything in
sight on the lunch counter. During the
evening will visit some frst-class hotel
where [ will meet a friend or make an ac-
quaintance. After some moments spent in
conversation | will ask the party with
whom l have been talking to accept cigar.
OF course he will accept and after smoking,
nine times out of ten, he will invite me to
take drink, which invitation | will accept
and after drinking will proceed to the
lunch counter where l will lay in supply
to last until next day. AS soon as have
eaten my lunch [ will have to plead an en-
gagement, otherwise it might be expected
that should set up the drinks. Then go
to a ten cent lodging house and pay for a
nights lodging with my remaining ten
cents. On the second and succeeding days
[ would go through the same thing except
that would vary the saloon and hotel OF
course this cheap living is predicated upon
the idea that am well dressed, if other
wise my friends will throw Off ON me and it
will be difficult to make acquaintance.
Should a friend signify a desire to call on
me at my room it will not do to say that
have none and that l lodge in a ten-cent
lodging house, but will have to tell him
that [ reside at 7 onkers OF some other sub
urban town, and that stay there on ac-
from the social duties imposed on one in
the city. You see that good clothes are es-
sential. If l were dressed stability l would
be kicked out of any saloon I should enter.
Now, there are thousands of men in New
York city who live this way and are sup
posed to be fine fellows simply because they
wear good clothes and loiter in the lobbies
of first-class hotels.
If the gentleman who smokes the cigar
gave him asks me to take cigar when he
invites me to drink, will accept and use it
the next day. In this way l will save five
cents, and on the following day can be a
little more extravagant in my living. Here
we have an illustration of the power and
influence of good clothes. Man is not
judged by the heart, the seat and home of
all that is good and pure and noble, but by
his exterior adornments, the work Of some
fashionable tailor. G. W. JONES.