The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-11-15

WHAT 1T COSTS YOUNG MEN TO
LIVE ~ THE BUSY METROPOLIS
"..t the Start the Gain Is Zoo SLOW
and Later It H Too Fast'-Ihe
Table d'Hote System
Club Expenses
New York Herald


light occupations in small town, ambitious +
to wrest,e for the sDoils Ct commerce cnt +
The golten fruits o. trade, without the +
s.:.sl.tast knowledge Of how to live on small /
paw The first lesson l had to learn 'V@s /.
how to speni- how to make malt salary
put food in nay mouth, clothes on my back !!
and a roof over M. Strange as il may
seem, some never learn the lesson, ani 60
back ds.racei through debt, broken
through disappointment AMI use by rea-
son OF thsir city experience.
But how can it he expected that q YER
cant youth will know how to sp3GI, now ID
manager asked the reporter.
1T Is not to be expected. boy coming
to this city with a few dollars must learn
how to get what he wants az the least posi-
BIZ cost. He must be 81 5wn. THIS knoWi-
eelce Will be more beneficial than place.
Fe must know that every penny saved IS q
pcuny ma .e. See all our rich men. Many
Of them seIpt under the counters IN the
store and had only bread AMI lnllk tor
breakfast See A I. Stewart, EiWtn Nor
gan. john Jacob Aston, Pierre L2rillard,
Isaac T. Sherman, Jay Gould, Commodore
Vanderbilt Why, those men matched their
stoinachs and their backs against tao pen
MES in their pockets, and the pennies Won,
for they saved them.
IN THE BEGINNING.
with the very poor it IS ca sc OF d9pE--
walton. Poverty is poverty. a young man
should upon getting the iron foot O. pow
erty off his mock, and when he : III f9c3lp0
Of n fair salary, sly $500 II s. 30 year,
look about to sec how he caa make as oaia-
tions that will prove ultimately beneficial to
him. He must then spend more liDera'iy.
but still in accordance with his means,
Keeping cautiously q reserve CT acclIent
fund for the evil day that IS sure to como
upoa him unexpectedly. This Is where
: :. in
Is too slow; later it is too fast Ii q word,
it is how to spend, for how to spend means
Row to live | Relieve in so much FOR ne
cassitie., SO much for pleasures, so much as
a reserve against accident 1t makes no
matter whether it Is the young clerk on
500 a year or the opuient bon1holdar on
$50 0O0 year" The banker spoke with
emphasis What he had said was the result
Of his zen experiences and observations.
The reporter, to test the theory advanced,
made a tour of the town, AMI he found that
On a salary of $500 4 year n young man
with perseverance, might not only i've
but lay up portion OF his pay. Of board
ing houses there il no end, the prices largely
depending upon the situations &ni the
class OF people living in them. \
young man sharing his room with
fair accommodations for 81 p3T week, AMI,
il tie sole occupant, for -. There are
many SIN al rooms on the upper floors OF
boarding hoG.es in excellent locations winch
ere rental to single men, with board, Tor >
aud SIC per week While many young men,
wishing to know exactly what their expenses
will come to at the enl of the wesE, Adopt
this system of living, there are others wAo
prefer to have a room and get their maal5 IN
restaurants. Ro 2ms can be secured without
meals for 81 ana $ per was!1-
TAELE DHOTE.
Tic table u'lote system has grown t.
great dimsasions il this city during JA3
past ton years. TGera WIS a time when
dinners at tixel prices were only = uo hal
ct tie hotels, but now they arr 10 b' found
on the principal avenues anI on the size
streets with prices varying from 81 cent
to $3.50 SDh.e of these establishments
Give their regular customers dinners a1i
breakfast for 81 per week. II 1t vera II i
that the establishments employed cooks,
both economical and ssiil-al, IL would be
indeed mystery how ahey couit set Iofofa
their guests two meals day for les than
81 .1ii particularly 50 WHOM both dinner
an! breakfast are bountiful ana paiara BILE
1t is estimated that no less than 5.9JJ men
daily dine i'll these places during tie Winte.
season The great city clubs have yerJ
generally adopted the system of pCovi lin
their members with dinners a fixed prices
/, Is not to be supposed that men III eas1
L st3EceS Will SuIler themselves ~ Il
On the same careful plan which marked
their Enauciecing III the early days o1 small
nav AMI the sight of the great tuIilns
throughout the city which are known Il
bacaeio. apartlasHt houses carries coAFlI
ton to the senses that the days OF their tea
ants deprivation are over. Inquiry OF tn
ianitor in charge will show that young mel
pay for two rooms rentals varying iron
500 t. $4,000 Often these rooms cOnsis
r and n Ia /
room. with q bath room attached-th
prices bong graded in accord ance with til
facilities, attendance, modern improve
r.lsuts AMI attractions furnished. The apart
meat-for by such name the two room
are known and leasel-is most in deman
when the rent asked for it IS less than So
year
THE BATTLE OF EXISTENCE
a Young man living III a small apartmen
does not infrequently occupy it il commo
with a friend. This materially dlmlnI-ha
ths cost, so that after all the rooms on.
equal tue expense of a small chamber al Il
top of fout-story boarding-house, where u
kindly elevator runs to relieve the SIS
10 ger of the arduous duty Ct climbing Ion
~ his of stair Such young men general
ION 4 club and tho annual dues are fr
qneat.y Iess than tie money saved, pr
v.1et tLey hal ordered the same article {
fool il d restaurant Of any pretaItsons
TIE associations made at a club youu
men tinl n5t only agreeable, bat useIul III
general way wheu they lunch oGt the
own small ventures Oh the swelling tides
commerce. But still the outlay OF money
IS. ea-.use, n3trs extensive than tae sen il
purse .an we'll stand without fear OF beIr
w-dly derlete.. Frequently tie sum tot
q exp II Is runs much III this fashio
apartments $t0J; breakfast AMI dinne
500; Quo cues, $50; clothin~. S2J5. a.
SUNDAY small expen- es for nacessaries a.
anu ement swell the fisures to tls roua
sum 81 ) 500
To the young from the country a.
10 the city lad alike the conviction sos
comes that hall the battle OF existence j
ponds upon the ability OF the young econ
mist to control his expenses IN accorian