Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-08-17
BRICKNER HAS A BILL.
The House to Have His Ideas on the
Silver Question

Washington, Aug. 11.-Messrs. Brick
ner and Barwig, as the two senior
members Of the Wisconsin delegation,
attended the silver conference at Secre-
tary Carlisle's house last night
Mr.. Briclner, who was early in his
seat in the house, was well pleased
with the work of the conference and
confident of good and speedy results.
He has taken upon himself good deal
of work in connection with the silver
issue and had gone so far as to pre-
pare a bill Of his own. Exactly what
the features are he refuses to divu1ge
at present and this morning expressed
some doubts of its ever being intro
duced.
If there is a chance, however, he will
show the house that he has some ideas
on the question.
Congressman Somers last night re
ceived the petition Of the Milwaukee
Merchants association asking for the
repeal Of the Sherman law. It is a
very bulky affair and came by express.
He will present it, he says, at the earli-
est and most favorable opportunity.
PRICES OF LIVING IN CHICAGO.
1t may interest intending visitors
to the fair to know, says the Chicag go
correspondent Of the New York Re
corder, that the colony of hotel-keep-
ers about the grounds-they run into
hundreds-are knitting each other in a
way which must bring joy to the visit
or with a lean pocket-book. A firm of
! tourist agents, which built a big hotel
end retained boarding houses enough
to handle with ease 5000 guests per
! day during July, had just nine arriv-
ale in one day. Their time was princi-
pally taken by boarding house people
who begged to have tourists sent them
for so cents per diem. An acquain-
lance of mine spent a month at a
worlds fair hotel and paid So a day
for his room. He told the landlord
he was going to hunt up cheaper lodg-
ings. The proprietor suggested that
there was no need Of his leaving the
house, and the result was he secured
the identical accommoda tons for 81
per day. He could have had them fol
so cents a day if he had the nerve
to demand it. This is an instance OF
the general situation at the temporary
hotels There has been a similar droI
in restaurant rates, though the cut is
mot so radical. The prices at restau
irantS just outside the grounds are low
er than at those in the business dis
trict and are about one-half of wha
they are in the downtown district o.
New York. For instance. table d'hott
dinner, comprising soup, fish. roast, pc
tatoes and one other vegetable desser
and coffee or substitute beverage, costs
% or 80 cents. The cooking, food an(
service are fairly good. Everythin:
is clean. There is little or no crowd
ing.
Just over the fence, inside tn,
grounds, robbery is still rampant
thol gh not nearly so bad as it was il
My and June. But a person need tax
only one meal inside the grounds, an,
he can avoid that by carrying a lur
: cheon. 1t has become really good fOrn
to do so. There is a conspicuor-; pre-
ponderance of luncheon boxes unde
e the arms of the better-dreSSed people
q " lille those whose appearance indicate
j that they ought to carry luncheo
q more than otherwise patronize th
restaurants. 1t is strictly possible fo
S people to see the fair in comfort fC
So per day. The fixed charges fe