The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1893-05-13
| OF the world by the Worlds fair officials that
strangers would not be robbed during their stay

OF the world by the Worlds fair officials that
strangers would not be robbed during their stay
In the city.
slight rise in prices might have been ex.
Pected, as rents and provisions are somewhat
higher, but not even in aggravated cases does
!nlS rise exceed 10 per cent. while the board
iinghouse IN keepers show no hesitation whatever
they formerly did
investigation bears out all that the Chicago
newspaper alleges. A couple of hours spent
III TOUR OF several fashionable boarding.
mousse districts showed that the extortionate
ioeas are general Houses where the usual
raCes are Slo to &14 week for hoard and
room expect to charge from $50 to $40 week
ior the same accommodations. The private
room renting houses not hotels. entertain a
sinllar impression of the harvest before them.
room which month ago brought from s15 to
a,oo u month rent is now expected to Weld from
eoo 10 S6o. One room-renter who came up here
from Missouri, and who formerly kept hotel
In one OF the river towns is authority for the
statement That there is a general understand
Ing In his fraternity that rooms shall not 60 for
less than ~ night for one person. or for So q
hlgnt when two occupy it, This applies to back
rooms. 1t is the minimum rate The better
class OF rooms is held az tcorrespondngly higher
prices What was a $50 room month ago is
now a S75 room. suite of three rooms, only
talrly furnished, which rented at $40 is now
held at Sl5O
A canvass Of one district on the North side
ialieo TO show good boarding house where
,ooa ana shelter could Re contracted for at
lcss IMAM $40 q week. Among The West side
Eoardln2 houses the same condition prevails
oh inc South side, which is more convenient
lor reaching the fair, the advances are still
more. North side and West side boarding
house keepers have doubled on charges The
South side keepers have trebled
WIN such showing the intending visitor
Will understand why it is we'll to beware of
the boarding house. These extortionate
prices, however, can not last. They give a
pao impression. But no one need be imposed
upon py them 1t will not be necessary to
pay them unless one foolshly enters into a
contract at such terms before coming or makes
no oennlte arrangement after coming. The
Doarolng-house rates will drop with rush be
lore June. There is too much hotel room to
spare. No combination to maintain the pres-
ent figures is possible.
AS Ior the restaurants of Chicago they beat
Che world. They were not started to swindle
the unwary. They were here before the Worlds
Ialr was thought of. They will 20 on when the
worlds fair is over. They feed 100000 Chi
cago people daily and they can care for
2ooo0o strangers in addition without
overtax1ng their table or kitchen capacity In
the close relations of these restaurants to the
ohlcaso public lies the assurance of safety to
taurants have undergone little change in view
OF the Worlds fair patronage. There could
not nave been much change without mighty
KICK from the home custom. Those who OBJ
serve closely think the steaks are little thin
ner and that the arc of the pie has become an
eighth instead of a sixth of a circle. But in
the main the Chicago restaurant goes on striv-
ing to please just as If there was no Worlds
fair.
The visitor will find that while Chicago res
taurants average high somc are better than
others. What is noticeable is the fact that the
highest degree Of cleanliness and the best of
cooking often goes withrthe more moderate
prices. Brightness, mirrors. clean linen and
whole crockery are thrown in with very
modest bill.
Having located tis room and arrived at
thorough understanding with his landlord the
Worlds fair visitor can try different res
taurant for every meal. 1t will be possible to
i've comfortable in Chicago during the fair on
u day. The frugal visitor may make this 81
gay. The careless one. who doesn't count the
quarters, may find lodging and meals running
up to 81 and IS q day.
All OF this applies without distinction of SEX
chicago Is the one city whose restaurants cater
consplcuously to the custom of ladies' Rooms
or tables are reserved tor ladies" in the Chi
cago restaurant invariably. Even the dairy
lunch room on every block where the be-
tfouSed sex percheS on q stool has it's row of
tables and more painstaking service for the
other sex
There is just one pitfall in this restauraunt
programme up to to-day. When hunger over
lakes visitor on the fair grounds he is in dan
ger. 1t Is possible, If the visitor knows the
places, to get in at one door and come out of
another. giving up only l0c for n cup of coffee
the same for glass of milk, ditto for sand
wich or three small doughnuts. But the dan
ger lies in striking the White Horse Inn, or
some other of the fancifully named restau-
rants which are run under concessions"
That means percentage of profits to some
frother-in-law of the Worlds fair manage
ment. Roast beef was 30c q week ago in one
OF the restaurants on the grounds. 1t was SOC
on Saturday. 1t reached SOC on Monday, and
victim said he could see through it, Think
OF Americans paying 25c for half of u quarter of
pie! Rice pudding 30 Crackers and a crumb
! OF cheese 35c! Boston man who paid 4Oc for
dish Of baked beans said he counted them
and would make affidavit that there were only
eleven beans in the lot The commission has
promised to overhaul these restaurants Until
there is reform let .he visitor pull up his belt
another notch and save his appetite until he is