The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1900-05-31
A VISIT TO PARIS.
Americans Who Go to the EXPOSE.
tion Will Need Much Cash.
Hotel Rates Raised and Everything
Will Have Fancy Price
Tackled On to Fleece
Visitors.

Ben c. Truman, well known as z
newspaper writer in Chicago, is now il
Paris and in Il recent letter offers
through the Chicago Chronicle, somt
suggestions 20 those contemplating .
ion. lie says:
The hotels have all raised theiI
rates from 10 to 50 per cent. The Grart
hotel j. the leading robber of the gang
Twenty years ago a good room could
be secured there for six francs per day
candles and attendance included: coffee
for two francs, deieuner a la four
chctte, four francs, ana dinner for six
including wine. Ten years ago. durinp
the exposition of 1889. the same room
was seven francs. coffee three francs
dejeuner five francs and dinner seN en-.
including wine. Now however, the
same room Gncandescent lightJ is II
francs. coffee four francs, dejeuner
i've francs and dinner seven. or about
81 per day and all the meals skinny
same thing every day, same old
poulette and chicken salad twice day.
Can YOU Imagine SO prodigious steal
as 80 cents for a cup of abominablc
coffee and a few counted rolls, The
Continental and l. Alliance charg,
about he same. All the other hotels
of account charge about from Is O y
francs per day for full board per month
or per day everything is so much
per day, even if il is by the month or
year.
and then you are compelled to fee
from sin to ten people almost contin-
uallN Elegant pensions, engineered
by widows of distinguished and la
mented army and navy officers. are
higher priced than the high-rate no.
tells. while life al regular pension
means taking chances Of being starved
or frozen to death. Next to The hotels
and pensions as freebooters come the
stores. that have put up their prices
quite 40 per cent.
Hats and shoes are 80 per cent dear
er than in 1889; neckties that range
from - cents to 80 cents in New York.
San Francisco and Los Angeles, range
from three francs go cents) to seven
francs (S1.40) here and this is the
country of silk manufactures, Cot
ton. linen and wooden goods have near
" all advanced from 90 to go per cent
over what they were in 1850. Canes and
umbrellas and such from 90 to 10 per
cent Shirts. handkerchiefs and gloves
seem not TO have advanced so much.
druggists goods have gone diabol-
ically out of all sight of all grades Of
polite robbery. \ prescription that
would cost - cents in San Francisco
is Sl here. An ounce of castor oil is
90 cents, Il pint of witch hazel is 90
cents and an ounce of boraX 40 cents
Candies. fruit, claretS. tobacco. cigars
and cigarettes are he only things that
have not been atrociously advanced
Soap, lead pencils pen. ink and paper
have advanced 100 per cent. Omnibus
rates are six cents as against four cents
some years ago. The only thing cheap
in Paris to-day is the cab. which is still
only 80 cents from any one point TO an
other within the city, for from one 10
three persons, or 10 cents per hour for
same have met score or more ct
Americans who had come here to stay
for several months, bur who are going
back on the North German LLOYD
steamer OF the 18th. All of these 90
home without making purchases. and
none of them will return by the French
line. Really. the foreign feeling
against the hotels and stores here is
intense, and the American and Eng
lish papers of Paris publish complaints
of some kind daily" Truman is an
old traveller and knows what he is talk
ing about. 1t would seem as if the ex-
position were good place to stay
away from