The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-27

"steaI," which originated some years ago
when it was announced that fees" and
tips" 10 walters and servants were abol-
ished. But woe to the traveller VINO neg
. lects to ''tee" and Tip" everybody from
head porter TO boots and 50 the bonI-
faces get one and six per day from each
guest on false pretences.
Ii the wayfarer or sojourner in this ON
MUM Qdtherum of nationalities takes
departments" in the neighborhood OF Re
gent street, he will pay three and half
guineas per week for parlOr or bedroom,
which includes attendance and breakfast,
if he is a ''permanency, l. e., stops a
month. If bachelor and you can afford
chambers, you will have TO pay from $50
TO $50 year for a sitting-roOm, bedroom,
bath and sleeping room, which you must
furnish yourself, or from to gulneas
per week for furnished chambers.
Furnished houses and flats are by the
week-monthly in advance, and range
from to 80 guineas per week. Those at
gulneas are in questionable back streets,
IN the suburbs, very poorly furnished, ana
you must supply linen, cutlery and plate,
which you can hire at reasonable rates.
If you try boarding houses, or so-called
private hotels you will wish you hadn't.
The British clearinghouse mistress
double discounts" the American genius
for extortion and skimping. The univer-
sal practice of clearinghouse people, of
landlords, estate agents, is to insist upon,
and exact, if they can, guineas. 1t is SO
many guineas per week, term or year. By
insisting upon payment in coin which
does not exist outside museums and coin
collectors cabinets, they hope to get p
shillings instead of 20. 1t is also a prac-
tice of the small shopkeepers and trades
people TO ask for guineas instead of
pounds. As rule, if you insist upon CIV
inc opiv q nnl1Dd Won will the arfipi o
you need at that price.
When We remember that in greater Lon
dom. e.-inCludlng all the suburbs, there
are nearly 10000 people 10 be housed
and fed We cease 10 wonder that living ex-
penses are comparatively great. Except
ing bacon, but a small part of the table
supplies are of English production. The
great bulk of the TODD consumed 10y the
mighty aggregation of "all kinds and
DESCRIPTIONS" of people is imported. Meat
comes largely from America and New
Zealand; Hour from wheat brought from
India, Russia, the United States and Can
ada: eggs and butter from Brittany, Den
mark, Sweden and Norway. fruits and
vegetables from France, Spain and POrtu-
gal. Even the native fisheries cannot sup
PLY the demand tor iiSh the wear around.
The trade in household supplies is di-
vided into tishmOngers and poulterers,
green-grocers, butchers, bakers, grocers,
OdlrNmen ana cneHSeinO0gerS. From YOUR
fshmon@er you buy fish and ice. and
sometimes poultry and game. The green
grocer supplies YOU with vegetables. fruits,
flowers and house plants; the baker bread
and flour for pastry; the butcher fresh
meats only. From the Cheesemonger Won
get eggs, bacon, butter and cheese, and
sometimes poultry and geese.
Wines and liquors are good and cheap.
Of course. in Madeira, port and sherry,th
London stocks are the finest in the world
\ on can get fine quality of old port for
SLIP per bottle, and very fair sherry at
that price. \ like quality of MADEIRA
costs a little less. For s. per bottle Won
viii get prime very old port. The claret is
OF a lair quality, especially the cheap table
wine, which rctails for two shiliings a
bottle. The English are champagne drink
ers and the best in the world can tie had
At Nerry's YOU can get Romano Chateau
between q Burgundy and Chateau. heayv
bo lied claret, that will make your hair
cur" for $250 a bottle. Very is a Ral-
gran, who made a fortune IN Coleman
street l.. C., ana now keeps restaurant
on Regent street for occupations sake
keyser, OF the Royal hotel. B,ackfriars
and Cafe Royal, Regent street, is also n
belgian. lie also runs the Empire tbe9tar
on the old Aihambra order His wife huvs
the wine and looks after the cost. of which
there Is no small share-his sworn iocn,na
last year being 81, 900, or $4,000
a. VI. GIBSON,