The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-02
SOME LEADING EDITORIALS.


Making Hay While the sun SHINES
FL Paso Herald.
II the statements Of the Paris eorre-
spondent Of the New York Tribune are
true. the people OF the French metrop-
lis are going TO hold up visitors to the
exposition Just about as boldly as any city
in the world has ever done.
The private pension and hotel keepers,
amateur spectators and room renters
have, it is claimed. established scales OF
prices far in advance OF those regularly
charged, and persons Of almost every sociai
grade. from the small shopkeepera who has
two or three bedrooms to spare to the lady
OF society who Is at home" for teas. re-
ceptions and "musicales," are turning
their apartments and houses into specu-
latiye undertakings for money making
The hotels and pensions, which are suf-
ficient to meet the requirements OF the
ordinary season. will be totally made
quate for the demand during the exposi-
ton They have. therefore, 1t seems, de-
termined to make the most OF the oppor-
tunity The high-clas hotels in the Rue
de la PAX, the Place Vendome and the
Champs Elysees. which ordinarily charge
81 day for two meals day and lodging
in a small room, high up. will, the cor
respondent says. advance this price when
the crowds come to $S a day and upward
Hotels on the boulevards, Avenue de la
Opera, Avenue Freidlond and similar posi-
lions, which ordinarily ask "a a day and
upward, charge s. day aud upward after
/ May l. Iii other quarters. farther away
| from the exposition and from the amuse-
| ment and fashionable centers, where ordi-
nary prices range from $3.50 to 81 a day
! for full pension, prices are to be advanced
| to SO upward.
| "a much wider cnoice exists in family
/ pensions or boarding houses, on account
OF the private enterprise already alluded
to- says the correspondent; nevertheless,
| prices generally reach almost the same
dearness The normal cost OF living In
good pensions and quarters naturally or
cupied by the average visitor who Is not
wealthy is from about ST $3.50 day
upward for room and board At one well
| known house IN fashionable quarter,
where this has been the ruling price all
| the year round the present charge Is Ia
daily until May I. after which it viii be
raised to 25f (S5)-that is to say more
than triple the normal cost This may
| be taken as the general price and Increase
in all the best pensions. No reduction Is
made for two or three in family or -
double bedded rooms
These statements. the Tribune CORE
spondent says. may be relied upon. as they
are the result OF personal investigation.
When asked to account for such a great
advance in their tariffs. the reasons uni
versally given were that the season was
short that It lasts but six months, and
comes only once In ten years, and they
must "make hay while the sun shines"
There is still time COR Americans to re-
consider their contemplated visit to Paris
and keep away from the city OF greed and
extortlon until It's charges are revised
and moderated. The question OF the cost
OF living will be an important problem
with many. 1t will. In fact, be the prlnci-
pal item Of expense Of stay of any con
siderable length, exceeding even the cos
of transportation to and from Paris.
Intending American visitors alone-for
their numbers will be great enough to give
strength to their protests-have It In their
power to make the greedy Freuchmen
come down in their prices; either that oil
initiate the course OF that quaint char
acter the man who refused to go ah9ari
the Ark when Captain Noah was about tC
push on Go on with your old craft;
faint going to be much OF a shower, no
howl"