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yenient spot where the sea brcezes may be enjoyed is Coney Island; at the betterhotels there il man and his wife pay for board from S775 per week upward. A little farther out on Long Island board by the sea shore costs for two persons from $50 per week up. This is for small room; bigger ones and suites are in propor- ton. Long Branch and the Jersey shore resorts are two hours from the city and nearly as expensive.
 Inland, and more than an hour and a half from the city, prices drop with q dull thud, but this is of no use to the man who must be early at his desk. There are any number of places where q woman and her children may live all summer at reasonable expense, but none of these places are near. None of them is the slightest use to a man who does not want to send his family away from him,
 The geographical shape of the long narrow city has much to do with this fault. You cannot leave New York in more than three directions by rail. This fact is worth money to the keepers of summer hotels near by. Everything is done for the rich man, nothing for the man of moderate means; his money is not wanted, ap- parently. It costs a certain sum per week to be fed and lodged; it costs meanwhile another and much big ger sum to keep cool.
 Yet if one has the money, it is true, as is so often claimed, that New York is itself almost a summer resort. You can do business so easily and swiftly in a highly-erowded business section where everybody you need to see is within half mile of everybody else, and then whisl1 away in half an hour to the very shore of the sea and be as cool and comfortable as possible. But this is only for the man with money. The poor man goes to the seashore, but does not sleep there; he returns late at night to his steaming tenement,with it's almost unbelievable heat, it's stihing air, its stenches. New York is a good place to earn money, but a bad place to live.
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Ridge, or at the splendid place of the New York A. C. on Travers' island. Every athletic club in New York of any size is practically compelled to main tain a country as well as a city club house. The membership is not at all exclusive. The New York has more than 5000 members.
 The country clubs of a slightly diff ferent tcharacter-thoseo of Westchester, Glen Cove, Staten Island, where there are several-make a speciality of rent ing summer quarters to bachelors.
 These are some of the things young man is obliged to think of before he gets married in New York. One of these things he must make up his mind to if he is not rich:
 1. Live in the suburbs.
 2. Stay in the city all summer and roast, his wife with him.
 3. Stay in the city, "baching i" in his dismantled house, while his wife is in the country,
 4. Pay for summer board more than any not rich can afford.
 5. Pay S7o0 or more for the rent of a cottage for three or four months.
 It's diseouraging dilemma. Mar riage is complicated affair in New York.
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wine of the best vintage. The dining room itself opens on to the alley. In if one finds none of the luxurious fur nishings of the modern cafe. The dishes are of many varieties, from tin plate to one of heavy earthenware. The cups in which coffee are served are all of an eighth of an inch in thickness; the spoons are tin or German silver; the knives and forks have either iron OF bone handles; the tables have plain pine tops; stools and benches are used to sit upon, and everything else is in keeping with these things. Four small rooms afford small degree of privacy if it is desired, but the usual guest pre- fers to sit at the one long table in the large room. In the corner of this room is a grate fire at which colored man roasts potatoes for you while you wait, and the same man serves as the single waiter the establishment employs.
 But the dinners that are served in this place are not in keeping with the furnishings. Everything is of the best that money can buy, and many Chi eago millionaire needs must thank this little back-door restaurant for the case of gout with which he suffers. Around the long table may be found such men as Phil Armour, Hutchinson, Mitchell, and many others of the financial stars , of Chicago.
 This little place owes it's popularity to Gen. Phil. Sheridan. He it was who discovered it and made it great during the days when he was in command of the department of the Missouri, with headquarters in Chicago, and to-day a portrait of Gen. Sheridan is the only decorative feature to be found within it's walls.
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Famous HostcFlest street l0 Luc Dollo holding millionaires with all unlimited number of dollars 10 spend on each meal. if he chooses 10 do so.
 Chicago is too young city to have hostelries with a worldwide rePQta- ton, as some of the older cities of the east and many of the cities of Europe have, but it has many that have local reputation, and some at which famous men have been regular customers.
 The tramp with five cents to spend seeks the place where he can get the most for his money. The millionaire with many dollars seeks the place where he can get either the choicest va riety of food, the best service, the most acceptable company, or all of them com bfned. The millionaire has by far the hardest task to satisfy his wants.
 There are many so-called restaurants in Chicago which cater to the tramp class. At any of these places it is re markable the amount of eatable pro visions one can buy for nickel. Not long ago l met on the streets man whom l had known when be was of the salt of the earth Opium had ruined him, and when I saw him last he be seeched me to buy him meal. offered him a quarter, but he declined to take it. Instead he wished me to deposit it to his credit at restaurant he knew of, and by doing so I would provide him with five meals instead of one. Guri- ositv led me to the restaurant to see what could be bought for five cents, and was surprised at the quantity The 25 cents which l deposited for him se- cured an abundance of meat-stewed- potatoes, bread and coffee for five meals. None of it of the best, and yet all of it of such a quality as to be eat able.
 And the man who sold it owned his own home kept carriage and pair and employed coachman. He had made his money out of.fye-eent meals.
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law that he may some day more intel ligently take his fathers place in the direction of a railroad system of near ly 1000 miles and many other proper ties. The recent leasing of the Bos- ton & Albany by the New York Central makes it the greatest railroad line in the world. Some day Alfred Wander bilt will be it's controlling spirit. The law business of the road will be "hired by the year" as it is now, and Mir. Van derbilt will probably have some over sight of that department.
 Lawyers tell me that their business is going to the dogs rapidly; that it is not sharing the general prosperity.
 In this way criminal litigation, which once engaged the services of Webster. Choate and Lincoln, is now, in this region at least, mo- nopolized by such shysters that repu- table lawyer cannot afford to meddle with it. Corporation lawyers are men with "pull," either stockholders or their relatives. Conyeyancing, title searching and the like are In the hands of the title guarantee companies. What is left?
 However, most of the lawyers some how manage to wear pretty decent clothes and pay their rent.
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s''"'s pork and beans. 1t does @ thriving business and has made it's proprietor many dollar, and vet deals in but little else beside this stable commodity. While it has made it's rep utation on the quality of it's beans, it is also famous for it's coffee.
 On Madison street is a restaurant that attracts trade by means of signs made by its walters. So far as any words that are ever spoken by the empoyes, ltmlghtquite as well be conducted by so many deaf and dumb persons. In or Gerlng the walters have a sign for every article on the menu card, and it is by means of these signs that the culinary department Is communicated with.
 One of the popular classes of the small restaurants are the little French cafes. In most of them q table d'hote dinner is served at a cost of 30 cents. and with 1t one gets bottle of wine. not of the best, but still it is wine. This class of restaurant is patronized larpe- ty by the professional classes, and es- Fecially the artists To them it savers of Paris, the home of art. Many of +ba wealthy business men of the city pa+- ronize these little French cafes also in preference to the more elaborate res taurants at their clubs.
 And then last but by no means least are the free lunches served by the Aa- looms. 1t is remarkable the number of patrons they secure and the variety they offer for the price of a glass of beer.
 WRIGHT 4. PATTERSON.
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C0URTSHIP IN GERMANY.
If the Young NInn's Calls Are Ere quent He Is Asked to Declare
 His Intentions.

When a girl has arrived al what Is considered marriageable age in Ger many her parents invite young men 10 the house. Two or three are invited at the same time, so that the attention may not seem too pointed But no young man is ever invited to the house until after he has called at least once, and thus signified his wish 10 have SO cial intercourse with the family. If he call several times in too close success sion it is taken for granted that he has intentions, and he may be ques- toned concerning them. Generally an engagement is made public as soon as the arrangements can be made. This is done by means of newspapers and formal announcements on cards. The man supplies plain gold band ring for each. This is worn during the en- gagement on the ring finger of the left hand. From this time the contracting parties are bride and bridegroom Among conservative people even the af- fianeed couple is scarcely allowed to be alone, chaperon being provided when aver the young people go out. A be- trothal may last several years, until the bridegroom can become settled in life, but ill most cases the marriage soon takes place. Just before the mar rfage the banns are published in the church, either on two successive Sun- days, or. if the time be short, twice on the same day. In the latter case q mo- tice is posted in q public place notifying all concerned of the wish of the couple to marry.-Charlotte Bird, in Ladies' Home Journal
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c O Il Il tr clubs. These do not ap- peal so much to the poor man as to the un g bachelor with a fair in come; he can, if he has friends and is of a cluba ble dis position, live all S Il m m c r, Il o t cheaply, b u t at moderate expense, in the big club house of the Cres- rent X c at Bay
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The surgeon,s Renson.

In one of the military camps estab- lished in an eastern state during the beginning of the late Spanish-Ameri- can war the various headquarters tents were erected before the troops arrived. So when the surgeon in chief of the second body of troops to arrive repaired 10 the tent which had been assigned to him as his headquarters he found it in possession of the official surgeon of the regiment. which was already estab- hshed in the camp. Surprised at his pertinacity in refusing to vacate the premises, an appeal was taken to higher authority and the preempting surgeon was ou-ted. During the process of nov ing u reason for hesitance became manif' when the retiring official lift ed from hiding place beneath the floor q case of champagne and several boxes of fine cigars, which the charitably-in- elined soldiers who were looking on de- cided were intended for their use in yase they became ill.-Chicago Even- ing News.
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of their plates and Check.
 an acknowledgement of their wants. Ey- erybody helped themselves to plate, cup, knives and forks, napkins and drinkables, and as a climax to the noon- day meal they helped themselves to a check at the cashiers desk and paid not always what the menu on the wall said their dinner was worth, but what they pleased.
 The proprietors of this class of res taurants claimed at first that all the public needed was a chance to be trust cd; that every man would prove his honesty if given the chance. For a time they maintained this claim, some even going so far as 10 say that many people paid for even more than they ate in their efforts to be honest, which was probably true. But in time the pro- prietors found that while possibly few would pay five cents more than they should, according to the published prices, the many ate quarters worth and paid ten cents.
 1t took some time to convince the proprietors of this class of restaurant that the people of Chicago were not as honest as they are in other places, for they maintained that the plan had worked we'll elsewhere. Possibly it did, but not in Chicago, and to-day the last of this class of restaurant has given way to another much of the same class, but in which an employe selects the checks one is to pay.
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been recent 0cca- sions when less than 400 paying vi S i t ors h ave passed the turn stiles of the Polo grounds. T h i s comes at the same tim e when tre- mendous attend ance is reported in Chicago and other cities.
 Most of the New
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York "rooters" have transferred their psychic energy to the account of the Brooklyn team, which may partially account for it's good work. If it were not for the arrangement of dividing the gate money in other cities, the New York club could not exist. Concerning which a tale occurs to me.
 Once when Charities Commissioner John ". Keller was president of the New York Press club an alleged news paper man from out of town came to him seeking loan. 1t was refused.
 But l must live somhow" cried the poor fellow.
 Keller, who is six feet two inches tall, an ex-Yale oarsman and fine Tam many orator, looked the man over slowly and carefully, and then dr.,wled: T don't see the necessity"
 It's that way with the New York Baseball club. OWEN bANGDoN.
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made possible the changing of the poli- tics of great daily paper on the eve of an important campaign when a change was necessary for the good of the party the paper was to represent. In fact it has made millionaire of at least one man who started in the pie
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because so many wealth. ng men wh 0 are asha m e q | o do nothing study law as a decent pre-
 ense of a profes- sion.
 Young Alfred Gwynne Wander bHt, for instance, son and heir of Cornelius Wander bilt, who has just graduated om Yale, ill h. doubtedly stu q Y
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some kind. T h e larger ones are not nearly so interest," ing as many of the little ones.
 0nWest Madison street a little room n O t m ore than eight feet wide contains a reqtau- rant that is fa- nous all over the West side for its
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just started off up- on a four-Weeks' outing. They are to be with friends, and n a t u a l y W nt { O hold tn ir e Il q II D." They were reckon ing the cost of the outing the other evening. and made a Il estimate O f over S1,20o, includ- ing clothes, which
 for the " o m a n cost some $350, and
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sorts where city men may live in summer, coming in to daily toll, as New York. The suburbanite with his bundles of gar den seeds g e t s along well enough, but the man who merely wants to keep cool during the summer has to pay for the privi- lege.
 Tba u1pcf nDf7-
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truly Americ a n.
 This great de- mand for pie has made several men
 rich. Of one man at least it has made a million aire. The profits on pie has bougbt t newspapers and more, it has run them when they
 could not r u n themsely Q s. l t has figured prom inently in nation al politics. for il
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go. It did not orig mate there, b u | certain portions of h e p o p Il lation took kindly to it Il ertlleless. It was the cafetera in it's e rH Q $ { forms.
 In the center of the room was the c co=u mt CT fro m which all custom CTS W ere served upon presentation
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rs-EasaS.g s. 3 WHERE CHICAGO DIMES
 run rv HAS NO F4roUr aoSTELRES BUT DflERg MAY BE HE soP FROM FIVE CENTS 10 FIFTY DOLLARS OR MORE
business with nothing but a supply ot

business with nothing but a supply o+ energy and a ready wit.
 Of all the restaurants of Cbicago there are probably none where so good an opportunity is afforded to study an classes of human nature as in the bakery lunch rooms. How many neo- pie all of this class of restaurants feed in one day would be hard to estimate It must be close to 100000. A few days ago the manager of one of the largest of them told me that he had sold TOD blueberry pies alone during the noon hour. But then blueberry pie is a fa- vorite with the Chicago public.
 The sale of TOO of one kind of pies does not mean that four times that number of people ate that particular. kind of pie, for it is not an uncommon thing for one person to eat two or even more pieces of pie at one meal at a bakery lunch.
 In these lunch rooms at the noon hour one finds the customers lined up two, three and even four deep, waiting for each stool at the counters. Lucky indeed does the man feel who per chance finds some man at the counter eating pie and woe be to that man if he dares take the second piece. He is pretty sure to have his feelings hurt by the man behind him who consid- CTS such an act an infringement on the public's rights,
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lest men, is a lit- tie restaurant at which many a millionaire dimes nearly every day.
 To reach this dinfn TO o m where eongregate men whose names are known from ocean to ocean it is necessary to pass through a long storer o m filled with casks
 a
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are not at all extravagant. '-Of course we cant afford it." my friends wife said, with sigh, but we don't do this every year." This is true. sSnno orNspnNnKSNfzna Na sEfz.v e<
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American Water Consumption.

In his treatise on sewerage Mir. Fol. well shows that in most cases the Amer ican sewage is far more diluted than the sewage running in the drains of the large towns of England. Only three American cities have water eonsump- ton of under 5 gallons per head, whilst II cities consume over 100 gallons per head from 112 to 199 gallons Ho shows, too. that the consumption IS steadily rising from 10 to 100 per cent. every ten years. Hence the quantity of sewage is steadily increasing and also becoming more diluted.-Chicago Frib- ane.
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no city ID Amer
 ica whereIthenum- Der and variety of tn e restaurants and cafes are so great as in the business district of the wes Q Il metropolis. There are restaurants for all classes and conditionsof man kind, from t he tramp with five c n s Il 2 h a s begged on t Il e
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Alfred Vanderbilt, Lawyer.

Perhaps the pressure is greater iD the law than in any other profession
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The Country Club.

This state of affairs is responsible for much of the popuIaritY of the
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Pie Is AIways Popnlar.

Chicago has face for pie. In that respect. at least, it's inhabitants are
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The Expenses of Life.

I have q friend who is married but has no children. He and his wife have
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Win LocnI Fame.

It would be hard to enumerate the many restaurants with specialties of
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ChfcaRo,a Honesty Tesfet.

Two or three years ago an innovation in the line of restaurants struck Ghica-
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It is doubtful if any city in the world is so badly provided with nearby re
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why She Thougfat So.

Lena-Fred must be in love with you?
 Edith-Why do you think so? Lena-He asked me fl didn't thinlg you were pretty.-Puck.
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There are restaurants in Chicago without number. There is probably
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The Decadence of Baseball.
 Nobody goes to see a baseball game In New York nowadays. There have
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Where MilIionaires Din.

On Madison street, not far from the offices of many of Chieago's wealth-
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1899-03-11
Finnigan's Ball

Murray and Mack and their
large and brilliant company pre-
sented Finnigan's Ball at the op-
era house last night to large
audience of representative citi-
zens, who were kept IN a continu-
Gus laugh throughout the even
ing.
Murray and Mack, both in act
ing and makeup, were immense,
and their support was good.
There is no plot to Finnigan's $
Ball, just an outline, that IS
filled in with one of the most in
tensely ridiculous and amusing
plays.
The specialties IN song and
dance were very fine. Several Of
the girls possessed fine forms,
pretty faces, and their dancing
was above the average.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1899-03-11
New Millinery

A new supply of spring milli-
merry just received. Ladies, misses
and children's hats in every style
and variety at reasonable prices.
Flowers, ribbons, yelling, ETC., In
large assortment, and the finest
line of infants and children's bon
nets to be found at the greatest
reduction in prices. Call at the
store opposite Liddon's stable.
The finest goods at the lowest
prices. Yours respectfully,
MRS. l.. II. TOMPEINS,
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1899-03-11
Glenn in Rip Van Wrinkle

At Marion Opera House Mon
day night the weA-known actor,
Mr.. Samuel w. Glenn, who is
seveney-one years of age and the
original creator of Dutch parts in
this country and who has a repu-
tation as splendid comedian
will appear in Rip Van Winkle
with supporting company of
merit. The Savannah Morning
News Of February %, says of the
performance. there:
"Mr. Samuel w. Glenn was
seen at the rtheater yesterday in
Rip Van Winkle. The perform
ance last night was a meritorious
one and deserved a better audi
ence. The Interpretation which
Mr.. Glenn gave of Irving's fa-
nous character was natural, re-
fined and in every way excellent
conception of the role. His enun-
ciation-llke that of most of the
actors of the old school to which
Mr.. Glenn belongs-was perfect,
and his movements were grace
full.
"Mr. VIM. II. Bokee, who ap-
peared as Derrick Won Slauss,
gave a splendid, vlriIe portrayal.
The other characters were fairly
well taken. Julia and Josie
Rooney, two bright little children,
as Hendrick and Lorena, were
delightfully."- charming. They
sang q pretty little song and
danced gracefully"
Admission 25, 35 and SO cents.
Seats on sale at Jacob Israel's.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1899-03-11
From A Lover

A lovers most etfectual weapon
is candy-pure, wholesome candy
sent regularly to the adorcd
one. All women love candv-it' S
symbolic of their nature-''swect-
ness itself" But don't risk your
happiness by getting it at any
place but at G.. H. DANES.
There may be other candy as
good as his, but there you can't
be sure of it, and here you can.
He also keeps the finest stock OF
the most delicious and freshest
fruits an the city.