Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-22

The second breakfast or dejunee can be
purchased for from fifty cents to seventy
i've cents Dinner in moderate-priced res
taGrants ranges from seventy-five cents to
81 In French boarding houses one
make rates by the day as well as by the
week In one which L know of, where the
rooms are pleasant, the attendance good
and the table all that can be desired, the
rates run from $1G0 day up to about So
Gay The difference in rates depends not
So much on the quality of the room which
one secures as on the number of flights OF
stairs one must climb before reaching it.
There are very few pensions in Paris which
are provided with elevators, although most
of them are from five to seven stories high.
Furnished rooms in respectable neighbor-
hoods, with good attendance and candles,
can be hired as low as three francs q day,
and from that price the visiting American
can so as much higher as he pleases.
Already Engaged.
These are the prices of the ordinary sea-
son. Add to them 10 per cent and you Will
have an idea of about what will be char~ad
during the exposition year. Some of the
more important Partisan hotels have al
ready rented every room they have for the
entire period of the exposition. This is true
OF the Palace Hotel of which | have al
ready spoken; of the Hotel Du Rhn "a hos
terry into which one cannot gain admit
tance without strong letters of introduce
tom, and others. American and English
people have already begun to make ar
engagements. In at least one pension nearly
every room has been disposed of for he
exposition year. An interesting enterprise
winch Is under way was devised by an
American artist He is arranging to charter
entire one of the small Partisan hotels for
the whole exposition season, and the low
rates which Will result will be available
only 10 working artists and writer's
With these hgures d hand it will not be
dlIIcult 10 form an estimate of about what
the lowest cost of a comfortable trip to the
and .i,,rr, 81
here will cost. Take the lowest first cabin
hSures-$JO each way-that gives 500 for
steamer tickets, to which must be added
so for tips and expenses on the steamer
making in all $12u for TRANSPORTATION over
ana Lack on a Ien-day boat. In Paris as
nave ALREADY explained, about the cheapest
way OF lVlng respectfully would be in a
furnished room, taking meals outside In
ms way eleven francs day or about
SOD can be made TO cover the cost of
maintenance. Tickets to the exposition
VIII cost five francs, or 81 each
And no matter how many of us come over
mere We are all likely to be pretty COM
Portable Paris, gay and beautiful at its
worst VIII be at Its best and will be gayer
ana more beautiful than ever. The exposi-
ton will neither begin nor end with the
exposition grounds. This will TO a large ex-
tent be due to the fact that unlike our
VOLTS fair at Chicago, the grounds of the
S iea. fdils sho" are located almost il the
heart of the most beautiful part of the
city. The same French government which
VIII call out 1900 men to protect the pres
ideht When he goes to the races will not
hesitate TO appropriate large sums for the
decoration of the city outside of the expo-
sltlCn grounds. l had talk with an artist
VINO was present with at the queens
jubilee in London in 1897. The English
street decorations along the route of the
parade were then said to have been the
most beautiful and expensive the world
lad ever seen. This artist, who is now en-
gagged in preparing some of the designs for
the French decorations, tells me that there
VIII be thirty miles of streets more beauti-
1ulIy decorated than any were in London
and that the decorations will not be for a
day, but planned to remain III good condi-
ton for the entire summer. The Champs
ElylSees, for Instance, from which the main
entrance to the grounds will Open will be
thanked by decorated columns, some sculp-
tured, some covered with bunting and some
decorated with cut flowers, which will be
renewed daily.
1t had been originally planned to erect a
series of overhanging decorations along
this avenue from the Place de la Concord to
the Arch de Triomphe, bat this scheme was
rejected because it would have interfered
with the magnificent vistas which now
make the Champs Elysees the most beauti-
full avenue in the world. The Boulevard des
ltaliens will be lined with elaborate deco
rdtions AMI all the squares and innumer-
able circles in Paris Will show their bunt-
ing and put on their gala dress At night
beautiful designs and colored lights will
take the place of the varicOlored flags and
Paris will become a literal fairyland
Americas Fine Building.
Out on the Avenue Rapp are the splen-
did offices of the American commissioner