The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-05-12

house keepers have doubled on charges. The
South side keepers have trebled.
With such showing the intending visitor
will understand why il is well TO beware OF
the boarding house. These extortionate
prices however, can not last They give
bad impression. But no one need be imposed
upon by them. 1t will not be necessary to
pay them unless one fooIishly enters into
contract at such terms before coming or makes
no definite arrangement after coming. The
clearinghouse rates will drop with rush be-
fore June There is too much hotel room TO
spare. No combination to maintain the pres
ent figures is possible.
AS for the restaurants of Chicago they beat
the world They were not started to swfndle
the unwary. They were here before the Worlds
fair was thought of. They will go on when the
Worlds fair is over. They feed $4,000 Chi
cage people daily and they can care for
$4,000 strangers in addition without
oyertaxing their table or kitchen capacity. In
the close relations OF these restaurants to the
Chicago public lies the assurance OF safety TO
the stranger. Charges at the established res
taurants have undergone little change in view
OF the Worlds fair patronage There could
not have been much change without mighty
kick from the home custom Those who OBJ
serve closely think the steaks little thin
ner and that the of the pie has become an
eighth instead of o sixth of 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 some are better than
others. What is noticeable is the fact that the
highest degree of cleanliness and the best of
cooking often goes with the more moderate
prices. Brightness, mirrors. clean linen and
whole erockery are thrown in with very
modest bill.
Having located his 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
live comfortable in Chicago during the fair on
50 day. The frugal visitor may make this 81
day. The careless one. who doesn't count the
quarters may find lodging and meals running
up to "a and S. a day.
All OF this applies without distinction Of sex.
Chicago is the one city whose restaurants cater
conspicuously 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-
trouscd sex perches on a stool has its row of
tables and more painstaking service for the
other sex.
There is just one pitfall in this restaurant
programme up to to-day. When hunger over
takes visitor on the fair grounds he is in dam
ger. 1t is possible, IL the visitor knows the
places, to get in at one door and come out of
another giving up only l0c for cup OF coffee,
the same for glass of milk, ditto for sand
witch 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
trsther-in-law of the Worlds fair manage
ment. Roast beef was 30c week ago in one
OF the restaurants on the grounds 1t was SOC
on Saturday. 1t reached SOC on Monday, and
a victim said he could see through it. Think
Of Americans paying 25c for half of a quarter of
piel Rice pudding so! Crackers and a crumb
of cheese 35c! A Boston man who paid 40c for
a n beans q
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 the visitor pull up his belt
another notch and save his appetite until he is
without the gates. w. b. S.