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not men who devote large sums 10 de.
bauchery, or anything Of that sort, but IL
Is 70 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,fifth the money II coats 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
Pario or London as long as the location Is
Is we'll Defined"
III should say so, said the spendthrift.
MY cousin and have an apartment in
the Metropolitan Opera House Building,
and 1t lets us in for ten thousand wear
without an effort. Rents, atte ndauce.
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 plac
We had a 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 IL would be
rather cunning scheme TO stick
some sort of Q gaudy pin at the point
where. the silk crossed before 1t was
spread over the ends Of the picture. 1t
will give 1t tone, and Ill match you TO see
who buys the pin | matched him, and
the next day he bought IL. This morning
! got bill from I'iffany's for S206 for q
hat pin made out Of a cluster OF moon
stones. | knew had not bought q hat
pin Of the kind mentioned, and I asked
the servant about II. He took me 10 the
front room and showed me the hat pin
nesting snugly in the yellow silk banner
over the piano. Somebody will snare 1t
else that Is in the lat, and We viii know
nothing about it till the end of the year,
when we take account OF stock" "
WHY THE MONEY GOES.
when man Gomez 10 spending hun.
dred thousand year." said the broker
after moments silence. ''he will make
more or less Of q splurge In New York.
There are literally thousands Of mon ID
tooaop who spend stS. TIA; sum ma sud nobody
they have three OF four country places, .
shooting. house. play high, and spend for
tunes on their stables. Men like James
Gordon Bennett, Lloyd Phoenix, Jay Gould.
Wash. Connor, Commodore Gerry. or any
of a dozen other big yschtmen, blow in =
couple hundred thousand year, and no.
body Is any the wiser. Take little item
Of expense Of my own last year. I am q
member Of the Larchmont Yacht Ciub.
and very fond OF sailing. did not feel
like spending $40 900 or 930,0O0 q year .
on steam yacht--the expense OF good
steam yacht is easily 800 day while she
is in commission--so ! bought little for
ty.foot sailing yacht. She was = stout
little boat. and she looked like cockle-
shell beside the big crack yachts In tho
harbor. She was nicely fitted mp, and +.
could accommodate four men comfortably,
besides q sailing master, a cook and
cabin boy. She cost, think, about 96 600
by the time got through fitting her up to
my liking. though the purchase money
was something like $4,000. l paid the
sailing master $40 month, the COOK $40
and the boy SIG. This was trife over
$50 q week expense, and | thought that
would about let me out. | kept her in
commission four months, spent about two
days a 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. I sold her for $1,000
cash at the end of the season. That little
item os my personal Expense cost me
$1,000. My stable and my brief yachting
experiences this year alone will foot up
nearly $4,000 before buy q cup of
coffee or purchase rag with which to
clothe my back BLAKELY HALL.