The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-27
EXPENSIVE OUTINGS.
How Pleasure Seekers Arc Dled
at the Resorts.
What 1t Costs the "Bloods" to Tnrry
for Brief Season Mt tho Seaside
Daylight Robbers and Dry
Land Pirates.

What do you think it costs to be
swell Mt q fashionable summer resort,
anyway? says tho Philadelphia In
quirer. What do you think of forty dol
lars day? The statistics arc interest
ing. Take Newport for instance. Alta
good hotel you pay: Ono room, four
dollars day; one double room, one per-
son in the room, eight dollars; two con.
Meeting rooms for ono person, where
four could be accommodated, sixteen
dollars day. All-season guests get n
substantial reduction from transient
per diem. Regulars or all-season So
journers arc packed away in tho little
cells at eighteen to forty dollars per
per week. This without extras, which
run up quite formidably ut the end of
the week. Extras include baths, the
meals sent to the rooms, and boots It
is estimated that ten dollars q week
would be small sum for the victim of
the tip-hunter to get rid Of once the
word was passed that sucker had
como to town. The minute n man
arrives he is brushed fifty times day
If he will but submit to such assaults;
he is whacked, twisted and busted I'M
til he begins to feel that if he has his
socks left on him ut nightfall and
doesn't have to send for barrel to
walk to the hotel in no will be lucky
man. 1t costs ten cents for pitcher of
leo water, three to seven cents adj
vance on the regular price of every
newspaper, twenty-five cents to the
waiter-or badly served dinner the
next day-twcnty- cents for a bottle
OF beer, and SO on, ad nauscum.
Should a visitor go to the Casino and
take lunch, then he has fallen in with
the Philistines. They are the daylight
robbers for You, and they are the pirates
on dry land. An ordinary lunch with a
bottle of wine. taken solus, breaks the
heart of five dollar bill; lunch for
self and two fair friends makes twenty
dollars vanish into thin cir. But tho
cottagers are the ones who make the
money fly. Some of them arc known to
spend one hundred dollars week on
fruits alone: They simply throw money
away, and it costs them not less than
from five to ten thousand dollars season
to stop there. Most of them board their
horses rs well Us their coachman and
footman. The young olood can spend
n great deal. He pays anywhere from
one to three hundred dollars for n sup
per for six or eight friends, and if he
gives dinner to a choice selection of
belles he throws in another one hun
drcd dollars on flowers and hand
painted menu cards. A quiet corner in
the Casino tower and the fixing of
champagne lower his exchcqucr fifty to
sevcnty-fivc dollars in an evening and
make his boon companions happy. He
cats broiled live Holsters, washed down
with fizz, and is out say fifty dollars.
He hires the big blackboard seating
twelve friends, has ride to Point judi
son and back, clears the dust from the
twelve parched throats while IL lunch is
being prepared and finds another one
hundred dollars gone to the dogs.
Yachting he doesn't indulge in, for
there are no yachts to be had unless it
is that of n friend who has dropped in
port for day. He pays four dollars a
bottle for wine, forty cents for mint
| julep, thirty cents for cocktail and
twenty-five cents for small bottle of
lager. Brandy and soda stands him in
for scvcnty-five cents and every time he
orders drink he is mulcted by tho
waiter, who ingeniously arranges the
change so that n dime or n quarter
sticks in the center of the tray, and
what man who wants the world to be-
licve that he is blooded will fish for that
coin? The Casino walters make n good
days pay each out of tips worked in
that way.
The story comes from Cape May of n
man who paid one hundred and ninety
dollars for himself and family for three
days. 1t isn't every man who can af-
ford to pay sixty dollars per day for the
necessaries of life. Up in the Catslsills
is another place where the "bloods"
spend money. Butyou can live here for
few dollars day if you want to- The
result of these inquiries is that there is
no limit to the price ono can pay for a
summer outing, but it is not likely that
the man who spends fifty dollars day
gets any more enjoyment than the man
who spends three dollars.
| a Week'a Work.