Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-06-23
The Genial Colonel Expatiates A
Length Upon the Luxury Of
Living.
Gives Pointers to the Stranger As
to How a True Bohemian Lives
and Eats.
And Winds Up With Some Newsy
References Regarding the
Fair.
Worlds Fair Doinps.


JACKSON PARK, CHICAGO, June 49,
At the New England Clam Bake res.
taurant, at the White Horse Inn, at the
Terminal Station restaurant and at
many of the foreign establishments,
where the novelty is the principal at
traction, the prices are excessive, but at
the regular restaurants in the exhibit
buildings the prices are not unreason-
able, the service is fair and the food is
good. At most of the state buildings
provision has been made for lunches
from baskets, and that is becoming a
popular feature. Others bring cakes or
sandwiches and buy cocoa, coffee or tea
at the advertising stands at 5 cents per
cup and have a lunch for a nickel fit for
a king. At the restaurants the lowest
price is 10 cents but real cream is
furnished. Down town restaurants,
where the principal meals will be taken,
the price is but S cents. Last evening
at a Madison street restaurant I called
for a salmon steak for one, griddle cakes
for one and coffee for two. Bread and
butter and pickles aud other things
necessary to a good square meal, includ-
ing fried potatoes went with the order
for fish. There was more than enough
for myself and companion, and the fish
was as nice as it could have been in any
restaurant on the coast and the bill was
but SO cents. The same would have
been true had I ordered a steak or roast
as to the cost, s~uficiency and quality.
Suggestions are unnecessary to those
who travel where it is necessary to be
economical, but to others a pointer may
be of value. I stopped at the leading
hotel in San Francisco and at Los
Angeles and on the same floor with a
North Dakota banker and his wife. My
accommodations were in every respect
as good and respectable as theirs. Ny
meals we're all that could be desired by
a healthy, active person, and my bills
we're 50 per day for n and his 81 per
day for two. I called for a dollar room
and took my meals at the restaurant,
and he his on the American plan. As
comfortable a room as one could desire.
who is intent on business, can be had
even at the Palmer house in ordinary
times for 81 per day and meals for
three can be had at the restaurants, by
combining the orders, for less than the
price of n meal at the hotels. A
gentleman alone can get a steak, coffee,
fried potatoes, bread and butter, sauce
or pie at many of the restaurants for
from Is to Is cents and some of these
are entirely suitable for ladies'. The oh.
lection to them is, especially the 15-cent
places, that they are intended for work.
ing people, and there is an entire alb.
sence of the ornamental. There is no
silver or flowers, but an abundance of
good, we'll cooked wholesome food. The
table linen also becomes soiled though
changed before each meal. One gentle.
man told me that he paid $16o per month
rent, furnished the best plain food that
the market afforded, and made a nice
thing at Is cents per meal, because he
fed 1900 per day.
Those who take their meals at thaso
places 60 away perfectly satisfied and do
not suffer from indigestion. BY taking
advantage Of them the expense Of visit
ing the fair is materially reduced and
money can be saved for entertainments
which would otherwise have to be de-
MED, or souvenirs can be INDUCED
which would otherwise be impossible.
People eat and drink too much anywav.
None need fear the cholera or other
Sickness if they will eat the plain and
wholesome food to be found at these
cheaper restaurants instead of stuffinQ
themselves at the hotel tables or at
every ice cream and soda stand they
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