Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-17
WHAT 1T WILL COST
Figuring on the Expense of a Trip to
Paris This Summer.
TEN DOLLARS 4 DAY NONE TOO MUCH
Though One Might Manage to Get
Along on Less.
MARKED RISE IN PRICES
Ten DOLLARS 4 DAY none TOO MUCH
MARKED RISE IN PRICES



with his wife. her sister and two children.
to the Paris exposition of that year. Arriv-
ing at the Care Saint-Lazare at pm. they
lived the next five hours in cabs. Then
they secured two bath rooms in little
hotel off the Boulevard. Next morning Mr..
P and his wife had coffee; the sister and
the children had a meat breakfast, and by
3 pm. they had found rooms. They asked
the proprietor of the two bath rooms for
his bill. Three hundred francs" was his
reply. and 81 can get it, his excuse. Now
/ am going to get that money back this
year, says Mr.. P, who has become
hotel keeper in his turn.
Can you?" 1 asked somewhat skeptical
of the great profits that so many talk of
making.
DO YOU remember that room at the top
of the house you had in 1872" he inquired
gently. Well, 1t has been already engaged
at $40 q day. l put in an extra bed and the
electric light have rented No. u, on the
first floor, for August at 10 francs day.
No "A for 30 francs, and so on all through
the floor. No one will get in the house at
less than So a day, full board and lodging.
Why" continued this enthusiastic one,
when we went TO the La Fond in 1899.
after leaving the two bath rooms we paid
SIS a day for rooms that had been bringing
81 a day before the exposition opened!'
Want Cheap Accommo
Evidently every one is not of his opinion.
because there are persons advertising now
in the gay capital for full board and lodg
ing at IS a week.
'WANTED-For two weeks in July, in
pensions or hotels, Paris suburbs, rooms
with board for $50 American women; about
francs a day. Address y. d.
"a. D." will be lucky if he is not obliged
to build tents yet for his 80 American wo
men This is exactly what a kind of Eng
lish Chautauqua Association is having done
for the accommodation of its members. On
the heights of Meudon. near Bellevue, they
are raising airy little sheds with handsome
corrugated iron roofs. capable of sheltering
any number of English women. They will
come in parties. Employees will lead them
to the river boats from the railway station.
Darling through the water. they will have
first view of the exposition free of cost
from the decks of the swallows of the
Seine" y lunch of ham and eggs and Dun
dee orange marmalade and a glass of milk
will be waiting in the big tent with a view
of the MeudOn vale and the great Babylon
in the distance. Soup. joint. vegetables,
cheese and fruit in season, with a carafon
of red or white wine or a cup of tea, will be
announced at pm The beds are camp
cots. There are no mosquitoes in this land.
An armed guard will warn off tfamps. And
at many suburban restaurants the boarders
Will find ample facility to supplement the
food The management hopes to do 1t all
for 81 a day. Are you committed to this
tigure?' l asked NO, not committed"
was the answer.
Surely you are certain to get three meals
a day when your contract calls for full
board; but the great inconvenience is
where Will you be at lunch time? Where at
dinner time, too. for that? The picture of
800 British women footing 1t to Meudon
from the exposition grounds is not reas-
surfing. A young man who has come over
from Philadelphia to make pictures of the
show is living with French family in the
Latin quarter, at seven francs (S1.4O a day.
everything included except fire and light.
Il think 1t is too much he had the inno-
cence to tell us. considering that | am so
often away from lunch
On Seven Francs.
why. man. We answered, seven francs
day in Paris is the cheapest board we
ever heard of for foreigners. Count 1t up
yourself The cheapest habitable room
and a poor one at that-will cost you so
francs month. with fifteen francs for ser
vice, making forty-four cents a day. Your
morning coffee will always cost you Is
cents a day for coffee, rolls and butter
You can have lunch in Duval for 40 cents
If You choose carefully There are fixed
price restaurants fairly good ones in the
Latin quarter for 81 cents. Let US saw 20
cents Your dinner will be at least 40 cents
Now even this adds up 81 30 a day with no
place to sit OF evenings, OF course. nobody
win money in his pocket ever managed to
keep his meals in Paris restaurants down
10 80 and 40 cents apiece. Hunger inter-
Venes. And now add at least 20 per cent Ia
this $40 for the exposition rise and Won
will find you cannot possibly live aro,ind
for less than S1.6o day"
me piaii usually adopted by the great
agencies for handling their provincial
French visitors gives to them a choice of
two regimes-D Room, morning coffee and
dinner dinner with the right to buy their own
lunch where they find themselves: %, a
personally conducted guide-around which
has interesting features.
Hotel Prices.
a sleeping car company" having built a
whole street of hotels near the Trocadero
makes these prices for one person: One
week (seven days and six nights, $50; two
weeks. SCI: three weeks. S93 and four
weeks Sl24- For this they give local trans
port IN Paris to and from the railway STA
tl0n, full board and lodging three meals
with wine). fourteen entrance tickets
weekly to the exposition, one days car
guide, discount tickets las many as YOU
please fancy for buying in several of The
big shops like the Bon Marche and the
Louvre and an accident insurance policy, to
the limit of S2.oo0, good during the entire
stay in Paris. Both this feature and rho
transport to and from the station have
1heir value In 1883 the cabbies grew so
lnsoIent that the extortion of 81 fares was
not uncommon As for possible accidents,
one mas only to consult the map of the ex-
po94lon grounds. In the long. narrow strips
along the river there are opportunities for
panic brushes, unexampIed as they saw
Inc PROJECT OF the Sleeping car com
phny Is valuable as a standard for cam
ptFlSoh Appea ing almost exclusively m
pF9Nlhc1a! French visitors. its great hotels
being punt expressly for the exhibition
trade. its prices may be taken to stand for
hfst-cIass upper middle-class accommoda-
tions new furniture. good beds. convsn-
nonal railway dining car meals and M
cnanicaily honest dealings. These botaIs
oIter fu.I board and lodging light and sery1
ice Tor S2o day, or 81. 10 without Inncb
For rooms alone they want 81 ~ n a.
light and service included. After tho ~,
mute French fashion. every possible corii
nation Is provided for. two adults occ,,nv-
ing the same room. three adults occunvin,,
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
It's sma reduction. From all this N would
appear that the single visitor may count ON
getting fairly high-class accommodated
equivalent 10 TIE ordinary European non.
sion, for s. a day. and this in hotel form
Where TO Live.
1t goes without saying that the Increase
of prices will be felt most in the expos,t,on
nelghborhood. around the Boulevard and IN
the fashionable quarters Indeed. 4, wo,,,,
be hard to imagine prices shooting I'M IN,
the eastern suburbs or even the eas,s-r
center Now. Is not this a precious ind,ca-
ton Tor the ecouomical1 Srn,S~