Hutchinson gazette., 1900-08-02
PRODUCERS AND PARASITES,
These Produce by sweat aud Bood While
Those Waste tho Pr0duct 10
niOtOua Living,

Counting permanent and transient
guests, II IN reckOned that the first
class hotels In New York take cnre Of
about 10000 persons day, The nver-
nge cost of entertainment, ns esti-
mated by three expert hotel men, Is
SO,9j day, At the Mills hotels
there are two Of them-the cost of
living, including room aud board, IN
6j cents day, These cheap fare
houses are magnificent structures,
One cost million dollars and tie
other u half million, They are kept
scrupulously clean The beds ure
spotlcss and thoroughly comfortable,
The food Is wholesome aud well pre-
pnrcd, The dinners, which cost 10
cents, nrc served In courses, aud cuch
guest receives more than he can cut,
The $4,000 frst-cuss hotel patrons,
who now cSpend Sll2,i00 u day, could
live NJ hotels Hike the Mills houses
for S32OOO a day, That Is TO soy the
difference hctwcGn S3l2,5OO and S32,-
COO Is expended for luNmN pure and
simple, and not for anything that Is
reilly needed for the comfort Of the
guests
The hotels in the United States are
the most costly aud splendid cstnh.
lismcnts Of the kind IN the world,
The more magnificent they are made
the more profitable they are, The
Wnldorf-Astora, which cost Sl2,O00,-
600, Is great money-mnlcr, II is
filled all the time summer aud vim
ter--though II accommodates $500
guests, and has 40 public rooms, In
this hotel aud in others In New York
the payment Of STi 10 500 n day for
rooms, exclusive OF meals, Is not az all
uncommon,
The cost Of the furniture alone in
the WnldoM-AstOrln was Sl000,00O.
4 New York millionaire, who occu-
pies n suite Of rooms at the Waldorf
ASTORIA, the transient cost of which
is $500 q day, Is said TO live in greater
splcndor than any monarch in Eu-
rope,
\ Even the structures devoted TO
trade aud commerce in this country
are pnlOtNl in their appointments,
They are richly ornumented with
carvings Of brass and marble and are
furnished at lavish cost, The
broker lolls in mahogany chairs and
scatters cigar ashes over rugs that
cost more than newer Of wood aud
Il drawer Of water could earn in al
year.
The desire for all Of these things Is
growing and It's qualification IL be-
coming more general, What will II
lead 10 aud what will be the end Of IL
all? The American schoolboy stlll de-
claims courugeously about the cner'
waiting and corrupting effect of luN-
ury on the ancient Romans, whose
pronigNcy was really poor and sim
pie as compared with the indulgence
OF modern millionnrcs. An occusion-
al note Of warning, pointing TO danger
ahead, Is heard from the rostrum and
the stump, but these udmonitiOus nre
taken as needless signals Of alarm
from radical agitators.
The nation is yet too young md
strong, II has not gotten far enough
away from It's wholesome beginnings, |
TO show. the demorNillng effects Of
eXtrayugant living, but Is there, in
fnct, any reason for the hope or the
belief that the rage for luyury, which
is growing in the United States Of
America, will Il unchecked, have any |
other termination here than that
which has come TO pass in all other
lands where II became passion?-
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