, 1888-12-27


not men who devote large sums 10 de-
bauchery, or anything OF that sort, but 10
Is TO be remembered that every travelled
man agrees in the fact that New York is
the most expensive city in the world. I
can live In Paris, London or Vienna for
one'ifth the money II costs me In New
York. The reason 10 that the formation of
the Island makes II necessary TO live in a
certain locality, and the rents OF this To-
cality are enormous. 1t doesn't make the
slightest difference where man lives In
Paris or London as long as the location is
respectable. but in New York the section
is we'll Defined"
MI sh,,u should say say 20, said the spendthrift.
the Metropolitan Opera House Building,
and 1t lets US In for ten thousand a year
without An effort, Rents, attendance,
breakfast. personal service, and such
things, are not Of SO much account as the
cost OF keeping up such place. My
cousin Is the kind Of an ass who is fond OF
pictures, bronzes, and bits of bric.a.brac.
Take this AS an instance Of the money IL
costs for furnishing and decorating piac
We had bit Of yellow silk draped over
picture that hung over the piano. The
silk was draped up toward the nail and il
struck my cousin that it would be
rather cunning scheme to stick
some sort Of q gaudy pin at the point
where the silk crossed before IL was
spread over the ends OF the picture. 1T
will give IL tone, and III match you to see
who buys the pin.' matched him, aud
the next day he bought IL. This morning
] got bill from Tiffany's for 8206 for
hat pin made out of a cluster of moon.
stones: ! knew | had not bought q hat
pin OF the kind mentioned. and asked
the servant about IL. He took me iu the
front room and showed me the hat pin
nestling snugly in the yellow silk banner
over the piano. Somebody will snare it
In a week or two, as they have everything
else that is In the Hat, and we will know
nothing about II till the end Of the year,
when we take account Of stock"
WHY THE MONEY eoKs.
when man come. to spending hun.
after moment . silence. "he will make
more or less Of . splurge ip New York.
There are literally thousands Of men ID
London who spend that sum and nobody
knows anything about IL. That 10 because
they have three OF four country places, y
shooting. play high, and spend for :
tunes Oh their stables. Men like James
Gordon Bennett, Lloyd Phoenix, Jay Gould. !,
Wash Connor, Commodore Gerry. or any
of q dozen other big yschtmen, blow In
couple hundred thousand . year, and mo-
body is any the wiser. Take little item
of expense Of my own last year. I AM
member Of the Larchmont Yacht Club.
and very fond OF sailing did not feel
like spending go, 600 or $50, 900 q year
on steam yacht--the expense OF good
steam yacht is easily 800 day while she
is in commissioning bought little for
ty-foot sailing yacht. She was stout
little boat. and she looked like cockle-
shell beside the big crack yachts in the
| could accommodate four men comfortably,
besides q sailing master, q cook and q
cabin boy. She cost, think. about $6. 900
by the time got through fitting her up TO
my liking. though the purchase money
was something like $1,000. paid the
sailing master $40 month, the cook $40
and the boy SIG. This was trine over
$50 week expense, and thought that
| would about let me out. kept her in
commission four months. spent about two
days week on her cruising up and down
the Sound with my friends, and at the end
of four months found had spent Just
$1,000. Yet was not yachtsman in any
sense of the word. sold her for $1,000
cash at the end Of the season. That little
item o. my personal expense cost me
"a 900. Ny stable and my brief yachting
experiences this year alone will foot up
nearly 10000 before buy cup OF
coffee or purchase ara9 with which TO
clothe my back BLAKELY HALL.