The St. Johns herald., 1892-09-01
EXPENSIVE OUTINGS.
How Pleasure Seekers Are Bled
 at the Resorts.
What It Costs the "Bloodsv to Tarry for a Brief Season at the Seaside Daylight Robbers and Dry
 Land Pirates.

What do you think it costs to be a
 swell at fashionable summer resort, anyway? says the Philadelphia In
 quirer. What do you think of forty dol. lars day? The statistics are interest ing. Take Newport for instance. At a good hotel you pay: One room, four dollars day; one double room, one per son in the room, eight dollars; two con- meeting rooms for one person, where four could be accommodated, sixteen dollars a day. All-season guests get a substantial reduction from a transient per diem. Regulars or all-season so- journers are packed away in the little cells at eighteen to forty dollars per per week. This without extras, which run up quite formidably at the end of the week. Extras include baths, the meals sent to the rooms, and boots. It is estimated that ten dollars a week would be small sum for the victim of the tip-hunter to get rid of once the word was passed that sucker had come to town. The minute a man arrives he is brushed fifty times a day if he will but submit to such assaults; he Is whacked, twisted and dusted un- til he begins to feel that if he has his socks left on him at nightfau and doesn't have to send for a barrel to walk to the hotel in he will be lucky man. It costs ten cents for pitcher of ice water, three to seven cents ad- vance on the regular price of every newspaper, twenty-five cents to the waiter-or a badly served dinner the next day-twenty-ive cents for bottle of beer, and so on. ad museum.
 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 bottle of wine, taken solus, breaks the heart of five dollar bill; a lunch for self and two fair friends makes twenty dollars vanish into thin air. But the cottagers are the ones who make the money fly. Some of them are known to spend one hundred dollars a week on fruits alone. They simply throw money away, and it costs them not less than from five to ten thousand dollarsa season to stop there. Most of them board their horses as well as their coachman and footman. The young blood can spend great deal He pays anywhere from one to three hundred dollars for SUD- per for six or eight friends, and If he gives dinner to a choice selection of belles he throws in another one hun dred dollars on flowers and hand painted menu cards. A quiet corner in the Casino tower and the fizzing of champagne lower his exchequer fifty to seventy-fve dollars in an evening and make his boon companions happy. He eats 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 Jud- son and back, clears the dust from the twelve parched throats while 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 friend who has dropped in port for day. He pays four dollars 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 seventy-fve cents ana every time he orders drink he is mulcted by the waiter, who ingeniously arranges the change so that dime or a quarter sticks in the center of the tray, and what man who wants the world to be- heve that he is blooded will fish for that coin? The Casino walters make good days pay each out of tips worked in that way.
 The story comes from Cape May of a man who paid one hundred and ninety dollars for himself and family for three days. It isn't every man who can af- ford to pay sixty dollars per day for the necessaries of life. Up in the Catsl1ills is another place where the "hloods" spend money, But you can live here for a few dollars day if you want to. The result of these inquiries is that there is no limit to the price one can pay for a summer outing, but it is not likely that the man who spends fifty dollars a day gets any more enjoyment than the man who spends three dollars.