The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-02

Ell at p. m. The beds are camp cots.
There are no mosquitoes in this land.
An armed guard will warn off .tramps.
And at many suburban restaurants the
bOarders will find ample facility to
supplement the food. The manage
ment hopes to do il all for s. a day.
Are you committed 10 this figure?" 1
asked. NO, not committed was the
answer.
Surely YOU are certain to get three
meals day when your contract calls
for full board: but the great inconve-
nience is where will you be at lunch
time? Where at dinner time, too. for
tnat? The picture of 300 British wom-
en- footing it to Meudon from the ex-
position grounds is not reassuring. a
young man who mas come over from
Philadelphia TO make pictures of the
show is living with a French family. in
the Latin quarter, at seven francs
(Sl.iOD a day. everything included ex-
cept fire and light. Il think it Is too
much" he had the innocence to tell
Us, considering that / am so often
away from lunch"
On Seven Francs.
Why. man. we answered. seven
francs a day in Paris is the cheapest
board we ever heard of for foreigners.
Count il up yourself The cheapest
habitable roOm-and poor one az
! that-wili cosr you 30 francs month,
with fifteen francs for service, making
| iOrty-fOur cents a day. Your morning
! coffee viii always cost you II cents a
| day for coffee rolls and butter. You
can have lunch in a Duval for 40 cents,
/ 81 you choose carefully. There are fix
! cd-priCe restaurants, fairly good ones.
IN the Latin quarter for 30 cents. Let
us say 30 cents. Your dinner viii be
at least 80 cents. Now even this adds
Iup S1.3O a day, with no place TO sit of
7 evenings. or course, nobody with
money in his pocket ever managed to
/ keep his meals in Paris restaurants
! down TO 30 and 80 cents apiece. Hun
ger interyenes. And now add at least
20 per cent to this Sl.30 for the exposi-
I ton rise. and YOU will find you cannot
possible five around for less than ST.
60 a day"
The plan usually adopted by the
| great agencies for handling their pro-
,Yilci3l French visitors gives to them
a choice OF two regimes-0) Room.
morning coffee and dinner. with the
riTh. 20 tuy their own lunch where
tley End tAemseives: o. personally
conducted guide-arOuEd. which has in
t'resying features.
Hotel Prices.
a sleeping car company" having
built whole street Of hotels near the
TrOcade-o makes thl-e prices for one
person: One week Cseven days and
six nights, s32; two weeks, s62; three
weeks, 1913; and four weeks, 1924. For
this they give local transport in Paris
TO and from the railway station, full
board and lodging (uhree meals with
wine), fourteen entrance tickets (week-
ly) TO the exposition, one days car
riage trip (we6kly) around Paris with
guide, discount tickets (as many as
? you please, l fancy for buying in sew
eral Of the big SHOPS like the Bon
Marche and the Louvre and an acci-
dent insurance policy to the limit of
$1,000, good during the entire stay in
Paris. Both this feature and the
transport TO and from the station have
their value In 1889 the cabbies grew
} 50 insOlent that the eXtortion of 81
fares was not uncommon. AS for pos
b sible accidents, one has only TO con-
b suit the map Of the exposition grounds.
2 In the long. narrow strips along the
: river there are opportunities for panic
= Crushes unexampled, as they say.
The project of the sleeping car COM
- pdny' is valuable as a standard for
- comparison. Appealing almost ex-
s cIusively to provincial French visitors,
its great hotels being built expressly
: for the exhibition trade, it's prices may
, be taken to stand for first-class upper
, middle-clas.s recommendations, new
: furniture. good beds. conventional rail-
, way dining car meals and mechanical
. ~ honest dealings These hotels Of
fer full board and lodging, light and
I service for $3.50 day. or S2.iO without
e lunch. For rooms alone they want
81 20 a day, light and service included.
= After the minute French fashion,
every possible combination provided
for. two adults occupying the same
room. three adults occupying the same
room, one adult and one child, two
children, two adults and one child.
and so on till the mind grows weary,
each with its small reduction From
all this It would appear that the single
visitor may count on getting fairly
high-class accommodations, equiva-
lent to the ordinary EurOp'ln pen
sion. for 50 a day, and this in hotel
form.