Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-04-19
EXPENSES OF A SWELL.
What Some Men in New York City
Spend or Themselves.


Spend or Themselves.
A recent conversation in one Of the
New York clubs raised the interest
ing question: How much can a man
spend in year?
OF course there is practically no
limit to the amount of money that can
be disposed of in the course Of 10
months if one sets out with that delib-
crate intention. But, narrowing the
field of expenditure to include only
what may be called living expenses,
how much can person who sur
rounds himself with all available COM
fort and luxury pay out for food, lodg-
ings, clothing and the incidentals
that naturally accompany such
mode of life? The estimates CT the
men who started the discussion, and
who are all at least. moderately
wealthy, varied greatly, running from
$4,000 to 100000. At first thought
it will seem incredible that man can
spend what ordinary persons consid-
er comfortable fortune on himself
in the course Of single year, but a
little investigation proves that it IS
not by any means beyond the bounds
Of reason.
To begin with, one Of the New York
hotels has ''bachelor suite" Of apart
ments for which it charges $50 per
day. That is at the rate Of $4,000 a
year. But of course this price is fixed
for transient guests, and a man who
lived the year round at the hotel could
probably secure equal accommoda-
tons for little more than half this
sum. Counting his living apartments
at $25 per day, then, We have the neat.
sum of $9,125 per year, which would
build very comfortable house IN
most parts of the country.
The next largest item is that for
eating. Like Nikola Tesla, our fas-H
tidious young man may, if he wishes,
spend SIS per day for his dinner at
Delmonico's without Overlooking his
stomach, but probably $40 per day
will suffice for all expenses in this
line. This foots up an additional
$1,000. In such surroundings man
could scarcely getalong with less than
three full suits of clothes each month,
which will aggregate $4,000. Silken.
underwear, linen and suficient.as-
sortment of the latest styles in gloves
and ties will add $1,000. He cannot
consistently spend less than $3.50 at
his hatter's and $500 on his boot
maker. Of course he cannot get on.
without a valet and one intelligent
and ornamental enough for his needs
will cost $1,000.
A single man is not required to
keep carriage, but carriage fees will
form heavy item of expense. Then
there are innumerable little things
connected with the fitting of his
apartments and his personal comfort
which are not enumerated above, but
which together will add $500 to the
total footing.
Here, then, we have our man at the
end of the year with an expenditure
account amounting to the respectable
total of more than $4,000. It will
be observed that all Of this has been
spent on himself. # he chooses to
entertain his friends at dinner occa-
sionally, to patronize the theaters and
the florists, to keep horse for riding
in the park, to 60 to fashionable SUM
mer and winter resorts, he may dou-
BILE or triple this outlay without exer-
ton. He can do all this quietly, I'M
ostentatiously and without coming
to be considered society man." In
fact, he is doing it, several Of him,
in New York at the present time. IN.
Y. Herald.