The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-19
ExrRAvAGANCE OF THE R1OH.
What It Costs to Have a Bang-Up Time
at Summer Resorts.

What It Costs to Have Bang-Up Time
at Summer Resorts.
A writer in the New York World has
something interesting to say about the cost
of living at the leading summer resorts.
This is what he says;
Bills!
Whew!
What do you think it costs to be
'swel" at a fashionable summer resort,
anyway?
What do you think of $40 dayl
Well, just read some of these figures COL
lected by the New York World, and you
will find out how the Four Hundred revel
in luxury. The statistics are interesting.
Take Newport, for instance. At a good
hotel you pay:
One room. "a day one double room,
one person in the room, IS; two connecting
rooms for one person, where four could be
accommodated, go a day. All season
guests get substantial reduction from the
transient per diem. Regulars, or all season
sojourners, are packed away in the little
cells at from SlS to $40 week. This,
without extras, which run up quite formid
ably at the end Of the week. Extras include
baths, the meals sent to rooms and boots.
IL is intlmated that $40 week would be
small sum for victim Of the tip-hunters to
get rid of once the word was passed that q
sucker had come to town. The minute
man arrives he is brushed fifty times day,
if he will but submit to sucn assaults; he is
whGcked swished and busted until he be-
gins to fee! that if he has his socks left on
him at nightfall and doesn't have to send
for barrel to walk to the hotel in he will
be lucky man. 1t costs 10 cents for q
pitcher of ice water, 3 to z cents adj
vance on the regular price of every news
paper % cents TO the waiter-Or a badly
served dinner the next days cents for a
bottle of beer, and so on I'D nGUseum.
Should the visitor go to the Casino and take
lunch, then he has fallen in with the Phil
istines. There are the daylight robbers for
you, there the pirates on dry land. An
ordinary lunch, with q bottle of wine, taken
solus, breaks the heart of s. bill; lunch
for self and two fair friends makes $50 van
ish into thin air.
TEN THOUSAND A SEASON.
But the cottagers are the ones who make
the money fly. Some of them are known
to spend 500 q week on fruits alone. They
simply throw money away, and it costs
them not less than from $1,000 to $1,000 a
season to stop here Most of them board
their horses, as we'll as their coachman and
footman. The young blood can spend a
great deal. He pays anywhere from 300
TO $500 to Jsegar for supper for six or eight
friends, ard if he gives q dinner to choice
selection of bellies he throws in another 500
on flowers and hand-paiuted menu cards. A
quiet corner in the Casino tower and the
fixing of champagne lower his exchequer
$50 to SIS in an evening and make his boon
companions happy He drops into Billing
tons and eats broiled live Holsters, washed
down with fizz and is out say $50. He
hires the big blackboard, seating twelve
| friends, has ride to Point Judith and back,
| clears the dust from the twelve parched
throats while lunch is being prepared,
| and finds another 500 gone to the dogs.
| Yachting he doesn't indulge in, for
| there are no yachts to be had here unless
It's that of friend who has dropped in port
| for the day. He pays "a bottle for wine
40 cents for mint julep, 80 cents for a cock
tail and 25 cents for small bottle of larger,
| Brandy and soda stands him in for 70 cents
/ and every time he orders q drink he il
| mulcted by the waiter, who ingeniously ar
ranges the change so that a dime or G
quarter sticks in the center of the tray, anC
what man who wants the world to believe
that he is blooded will fish for that coin
The Casino walters make good days pay
each out of "tiDs" worked in that way.
IN NEW JERSEY.
The story comes from Cape May OF mar
who paid $3.50 for himself aud family fol
three days. 1t isn't every man who car
afford to pay $50 per day for the necessarie
| of life.
| Atlantic City seems to be the cheapest o.
oil the summer resorts for either the best Of
moderately good accommodations. For {
refreshing extreme take Bar Harbor.
WHERE IT COSTS TO LIVE.
There are cottagers there among thos
who live handsomely and entertain Target,
| whose expenses run up all the way from
| $3.50 to 900 per season. There ar
others again, and these comprise the create
number, whose living expenses are KEEP
| we'll within from $1,000 to $4,000; ant
more than one could be named, and thes
among the old, conservative, moneyed an
aristocratIc families Of Boston and NeE
| York, whose simmer expenses all footeS
would hardly run over 1000.
Up on the Catskills is another place wher