Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-12-17


Par In Big citys but These Two
Economical Men Made Their Money Co
Pretty Good. Distance for Time.
A magazine writer, who claimed to
have investigated the subject, recently
stated that there are several hundreds
Of young and old bachelors in this town
who spend all the way from kl0, 600 10
$4,000 year for their personal comfort.
There is a certain delirious excitation
even in reading the details of how these
fortune favored chaps get rid Of the
time and enrich the community. To an
ingenious youth who earns twenty dol
lars a week, for instance, the account Of
how $751; 900 per annum bachelor wards
off ennui and retains his flesh reads like
"A saturnalia
know the effect Of All this on a $50
week man, because / myself belong 10
the SEQ a week class. Twenty dollars
week Is about 81 900 year, and have
had lot OF fun ont Of life for the past
three years on that sum. / know a lot
Of other fellows who do the same thing,
for SEQ week is about the average in
come Of half the neat looking chaps
wearing chrysanthemums pinned to kerr
sey top coats that you run across in the
course of day.
When | came TO this town from farm
in western New York, / thought the
man who offered mo permanent job as
salesman AZ a salary of $l2 week was
widely extravagant. for / had already
learned some scrimping lessons. 1t did
not take me long 10 find out my mistake,
and 80 ! devised a system Of expendi-
lures, and though in five yeares my in
come has increased. as have told you,
have stuck to it ever since Here it is:
i discovered TO my complete satisfac-
ton that "a single man can't get any sort
of nourishment, comfort or repose in
boarding house in New York city for
less than eight dollars a week. Even
the eight dollar variety of New York
board is not in all respects desirable,
and when some dismal experiences had
hammered this knowledge into me | set
about TO find better scheme. In the
same store with me was another young
fellow, who was contributing his colos-
sal intellect and energies for twelve dol
lars week, and we entered into CON
spiracy to shake off forever the land
ladies who We're getting most of cur pay.
We decided TO hire room together
and TO get our meals in pot luck fashion
hustle for our grub on the outside,
as my chum put it, Aftera pretty care
ful search we hit upon large, comfort
able ground floor rear room in the home
of an elderly widow in Harlem, whom
we soon jollied into the belief that we
were the salt of the earth. with the re
suit that she couldn't take too good care
of U.S. We agreed TO pay her FIVE dollars
week for that room, which took $3.50
of my wages When we had stuck up
ON the walls the cabinet photos of all
the girls we knew, and had distributed
the knickknacks which these girls had
given us, the room looked simply inn
mense.
The eating problem was then to be
overcome. After sundry experiences we
adjusted ii ON this basis Breakfast of
rolls and good coffee in little shop
block from where we lived, 10 cents;
luncheon Of sandwich. glass of milk
and piece of pie, in alunchroom near
the store, Is cents; first class entire din
ner. from soup TO French coffee. in
neat little obscure restaurant which we
ran across, 50 cents. Total for days
eating, 65 cents: for the week (of six
working days. $500. On Sunday we
stuck TO the week day programme as far
as breakfast aud luncheon were con-
cerned. and paid fifty cents for good
Sunday dinner. Thus weeks good
substantial food costs me 81. 20, which,
with the $3.50 room rent, amounts to
1920.
II costs me sixty cents week TO ride
to and from my work. Figuring at ten
cents "A week for my Press. seventy cents
is added 10 the $s.20. My smoking is
confined to couple of pipes every even
ing. ANA q ten cent package of tobacco
sees me through the week. Total, eight
dollars.
have permanent arrangement with
a Celtic lady 70 do my washing for fifty
cents a week and have my collars and
cuffs polished at a laundry at weekly
outlay of twenty-five cents. Total. $S.s5.
Once every week invest one dollar
for two balcony seats at first class
theater- -. invariably lay aside
two dollars week for raiment of all
sorts. fixed on this basis: Two dollars
week is $l04 year. have two suits of
clothes every twelve months, each suit
costing me twenty dollars, and can get
natty clothes made 10 order at that fig
ure. don't get new overcoat every
winter, but when do get a good. well
made heavy one for fifteen dollars. Call
il fifty-five dollars. Two pairs of shoes
at four dollars a pair get me through
year, and two hats, also at four dollars
each. are my allowance for the twelve
months. Two pairs of gloves winter,
at one dollar pair, keep my hands
sheltered from the blasts. and eight
fifty cent cravats are enough for the
year This figures up seventy-seven
dollars. aud the remaining twenty-seven
Of my dress allowance of $i04 year are
spent in collars, cuffs, underwear and
so on.
The $4,000 q year bachelor win be
astonished 70 read that am frequently
referred to as man who looks as
though he had Just jumped out of
bandbox.
When have laid aside the two dol
s.rs a week for dress l have lust s.. IS
left for hilarity aud tempestuous plung-
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