The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-23

There will be. as there always is, a
choice of three modes of living in the
French capital. One Will be in hotels,
of course. One will be zen pension" or
in boarding houses. The third will be in
''chambres meubiees,' or furnished
rooms, taking meals outside. The Par
| isian hotel varies as widely in its price
as does the New York hotels. In the
grand new Palace hotel, which has re-
Gently been erected on the Champs
Elysee. and is the most beautiful hos
telry in the world. rates now range
from $50 TO SO per room per day. This,
/ of course. does not include meals. The
! cost Of meals at the Palace is about 81
for breakfast. S1.50 for luncheon and 81
I for dinner on the other hand. there
! are scores of pleasant little hotels scat
! tered throughout Paris where one can
secure comfortable rooms for from so
/ cents to Sl.50 a day. The Partisan
breakfast consists of coffee and rolls
only and by the economical person can
be secured for 80 cents. The second
breakfast or deiunes. can be purchased
by the same person for from 30 cents
TO - cents. Dinner in moderate priced
restaurants ranges from 40 cents to 81.
In French boarding houses one can
make rates by the day as well as by
the week. In one which l know of,
where the rooms are pleasant, the at
tendance good and the table all that
can be desired, the rates run from Sl.60
d day up to about So a day. The diff
ference 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
il. There are very few pensions in
Paris which are provided with eieVa
tors, although most of them are from
five to seven stories high. Furnished
rooms in respectable neighborhoodS,
with good attendance ard candles, can
be hired as low as francs a day. and
from that price the visiting American
can go as much higher as he pleases.
These are the prices of the ordinary
season. Add TO them 10 per cent and
you will have an idea of about what
will be charged during the exposition
year. Some of the more important
Partisan hotels have already rented
every room they have for the entire
period of the exposition. This is true
of the Palace hotel. of which L have
already spoken. of the Hotel du Rhin "a
hosiery into which one cannot gain ad-
mittance without strong letters of in
troduction). and others. American and
English people have already begun to
make arrangements. In at least one
pension nearly every room has been
of for the exposition year. An
enterprise which is under
way was devised by an American ar
fist. 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 avail |
able only to working artists and writ
ers.
With these figures at hand it will not !
be difficult To form an estimate of about 1
what the lowest cost of a comfortable |
trip to the Paris exposition and MAIN !
tenance while here will cost. Take the |
lowest first cabin figures-$50 each way /
that gives 500 for steamer tickets. to /
which must be added $50 for tins and |
expenses on the steamer. making in all |
sl20 for transportation over and back |
on a ten-day boat. In Paris, as | have /
already explained, about the cheapest |
way of living respectfully would be in |
4 furnished room. taking meals outside.
In this way IL francs a day. or about |
81. so can be made to cover the cost of
Tickets to the exposition
will cost francs. or 81 each.
Beautiful Decorations.
And no matter how many of US come
over here. we are likely to be pref
y comfortable. Paris. gay and beau
tiful al its worst. Will be at it's best
and Will be gayer and more beautiful
han ever. The exposition will neither
begin nor end with the exposition
grounds This will to a large extent
Dc due to the fact that, unlike our
Worlds fair at Chicago. the grounds
# the great Paris show are located al