The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-15
[To BE Continued
TEN THOUSAND A YEAR.
All the Luxuries of Life Can Be Had
at an Hotel.

(CopWight.)
NEW York, Sept. II. "Ten
thousand dollars a year will pay
for the board and lodging of any man in
the world, with his wife and her maid, at
the most expensive ho5els In this country
and in Europe" said p. T. Wall, of the
Hoffman house, yesterday, John L. Sulli-
van could not eat any more extravagantly
than that and the President OF the United
States could not get any finer rooms than
can be obtai ed at that price.
ppm not speaking of idiots,n co ltinuel
Mr.. Wall, neither an l. alluding to men
who have more money than brains. am
am talking about sensible man with no
bad habits, who has more money than he
can spend and does not intend to pay for
more.food than, no can cat or more rooms
than he can occupy. There are mel who
spend more money than that but they
throw it away have seen men come into
our cafe and run their eyes down the menu,
hunting for the highest priced dishes, and
order them without regard for their taste.
| have seen men order breakfast that cost
$50 and even $50 plate on especial occa-
sons, but they could not live all year
round at that rate Their bank accounts
might stand it, but their stomachs could
not. AT the old st. Nicholas hotel we
frequently had guests from the country who
gave the waiter the first day carte blanche
to bring about everything there was Oh tho
bill of fare. But we always got even with
those men if they st0pped with us long
enough. I watched don't know how many
cases of that sort, and it was the iuvari
able rule that by the second or third day
the man had TO send for doctor or reduce
his diet materially and he usually spsnt his
fourth day in his room and ate poached
eggs on toast for his breakfast and tea and
toast for his dinner.
The man l am speaking about leads
regular life and looks after his digestion
like sensible being. How do l figure it
out9 This way. He would require a suite
of rooms Let him get the most expensive
in the highest priced hotel in New York.
He would have parlor, three bed rooms,
an additional one for his wife's maid, and a
private bath These rooms would not cost
him more than 500 a week. Let us say he
stops in town from November until May
six months. That makes his town rent
| 81 600.
Now for his food. His breakfast would
cost him about SO. his dinner, with a bottle
of wine, SO aud his luncheon, with wine,
S. That makes SIS a day, The maId'a
table board would be 80 a week. At this
! rate l have given him his choice of the most
costly articles on tho menu. | placed my
average dinner at $40, including bottle OF
wine Even if man TOOK the most expen-
sive wine he could not make his average
dinner cost more than $40. Remember the
man am describing is not drunkard or a
glutton. We have already allowed him 81,
600 for his rooms. His meals would cost
So, 276 more.
THAT accounts for six months of his year.
OF course | have not allowed anything for
the entertainment OF his friends. The cost
4 L.. tI,1r pho$l.
he kept house or lived at a hotel. In one
case however, no would be relieved of all
trouble whatever. He would simply give
his orders and an army OF trained attend
ants would execute them better than he
could possibly arrange it himself, even If
he kept up palace and had princes re-
tinue.
snow let us look at his expenditures dur
ing the remaining half of the year which
he spends out of town. From the statistics
of the travellers exchange obtain the fol-
lowing figures:
"We will suppose that our friend does not
go to Europe during the season, nor does he
own or live at q country place. he contin-
ues to live at the most expensive hotels In
the same way he has done in New York.
He first goes TO Old Point Co rfort, whore
he remains from May until June l. His
suite of rooms and board would cost him
there he goes to Hollywood or Eberon,
New Jersey. Here he stops twenty days at
$50 a day, adding $40 TO expense account
His next abiding place is Rich
fields, Springs, whore he re-
mains until August l. The best rooms
in the best hotel az Rich6eld Springs with
board cost $40, including the board of the
maid, making $500 for the forty days
1.-The month of August is spent at Sara
30 On xuhara the nothing
if not high, and he will find the same rate
of living he has been accustomed 10 will
cos him 500.
stThls takes up the summer. He now
goes down to Newport, where he stops
month at the cost Of $50 day, and he ends
his season of outing at Cransto Is up the
Hudson at like expense, adding $500 more
to his bills and making the entire cost of
the half year 50, 740. That makes $9,6l6.
few hundred dollars less than my Original
estimate.
''Now 1 have only given the itens OF
expense coming under the head of food and
LODGINGS. | havs left out altogeth r his
travelling expenses, and the C st of his
amusements. His cigars, clothe7, yachts,
theatre and opera boxes club dues AMI in
cidental personal expenses will be the ,me
whether he lives in his own house or alta
hotel. We will say, however, that has
his carriage and horses. He can hire these
by the month. The bills, whether in { own,
by the seashore or in the mountains. will
average $500 month, and he is relieved of
all risks and troubles, such as the sickness
or death of his horses and the incomplete 4cy
of his coachnan and hostler. Besides that
he does not have to bear the expense Of
hiring and keeping These additional atten-
dants.
snow let us look briefly at the expenses Of
man who rents large fat or house in
town aud two cottages in the country. His
town house will cost him at least 81, 00)
wear for rent; his Newport ,ttage 1000
moro and his Richdeld place 5000. Tnere
is your $4,000 at once. Now for the other
expenses. He will need a butler, male
cook, assistant, laundress, two lambsr-
maids. coachman, hostler and footman.
Their combined wages will be $500 a month.
The provisions necessary to maintain them
will be $500 month at least, provided be
lives as well as he could do at hotels, and
he must rent stable ct $1,000 year for
his horses. That makes rent 81, 900 aud
wages and food SO 900, a total of 10000.
"Of course this sum can be increased in
definitely. In any event be pays almost
double the sum necessary TO maintain him
Ia style at hotels When you hear of
man and wife spending $4,000 a year at