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

the town, where TO move in the rec
IS TO amuse ones self. A good room
in this neighborhood ought 90 be had
for 81 a day, II taken by the month.
The.e rooms would be in the uope.
floors of great apartment houses-no.
hotels. "A specula,or or the owner OF
he house or a struggling widow lels
hem. AS a rule uhe concierge ex.
poets to do the service and furnish the
morning coffee. Then | would "ea
around" never at the fixed-priced es-
.abli hments, whose food somehow
makes one Ill. ! hope indeed. to eat
al through the exposition at an aver
ge Of less than IrIAes a Lea. 20,
cents). Unhappily, there is no free
lunch in the French capital, and no
me should come counting on 1t. Elk
cept at the SIR Richard Wallace foun-
tains 1t is impossible TO have even a
drink of wa,er gratis. Light lulch.
s0n,errs Called cren5r.es) are cheap.
lICugi too inirequent.
But There are Extras.
And thus, were man to live by breat
I.ole. there would be ease, freeuom
and good ra.ions for SO a day again,
md not in a hotel this time. Helas
-Id cab fares, the afternoon aperitif.
he afternoon game OF Il. p, Or ga a. o..
washing. exposition tickets. side shows
nd The evenings entertainment. a.
these are as truly expenses as board
and lodging, and che VISITOR forced ~
.,-nom.Ze on them Is in an unhappy
plight. The cheapest evening recrsa
len. Stating on the terrace of boule-
ward bra:ser.e behind a half pint of
Munich beer, while the great varie-
gated crowd sweeps by hAe m. gL.y
river, will cost anywhere from 10 cents
up.
The cab controversy is now at its
hottest point The protests of the cab
Dies themselves are in the hands OF NJ
VALDEZ X Rousseau, who now, as in the
CreusOt controversy, will act with inn
Partially. IL remains to be seen wheth-
n the great companies will consent be-
iOrehand not TO charge the men exOr-
Jltlnt rates during the exposition. II
hey resist. a serious strike may be eX
pectcd. At present the COcher is GER
,ainly badly used, for with the aver
lges' or IS francs a day 10 pay before
they touch a penny of their own the
temptation TO eXtOrton Is great. III
he companies raise their averages to
= francs a day, as they did in 1889,
alb fares will come high for strangers.
Within the Grounds.
The entrance tickets to the show IT.
self will be hawked around the streets
for 10 cents a piece, as theyswere in
1889 Already an immense number of
these tickets" as they call them, are
in peoples hands, as coupons attached
the exposition bOns. on which so
many millions were raised for the first
,XreIse. People bought the bOns for
the lottery attachment. True. the side
shows will be expensive: but in 0en-
nral. the expense will be found N Paris
lot the exhibition q ouLds. The thea
.ers. in particular, are going TO be ex-
plotted pitilessly. At the present mo-
ment the whole fraternity of managers,
on the point of bankruptcy, has united
20 make an appeal to the great public
Ne1rt Their special grievance being
the 10 per cent tax on gross receipts
levied in favor of the poor OF Paris,
they propose calling public attention
10 this inequality Of taxation by adding
legibly. the 10 per cent to the price OF
each ticket. Let the public pay the
tax awhile" the managers say. There
are men among us who have paid TO-
10000 francs out to the poor, and who
are poor themselves after ten years OF
management" Another theatrical nui
sance sought TO be abolished for the
| exhibition, this time by certain enter
prising papers, is the systematic ticket
speculation winked at by each manage
ment. One source of these curbstOne
ticket sellers stock in trade Is the right
of the playwright to twelve tickets
nightly The author sells them to the
spectators. When the opera populaire
offered the societe to pay cash ms cad
/ Of issuing these twelve tickets nightly
they were refused on the, ground that
money owing to playwright may be
seized by creditors. but not tickets
which are personal privilege. The
real evil is in the practice Of the man
agement TO stand in" with the big
spectators, all of whom make for
tunes. Beware of the theaters.
On $40 Day.
I In this way I would set down an
/ imaginary days extraordinary expense
| for the ordinary exhibition visitor:
Starting out early in the morning he
would surely walk to the grounds
Entrance. 20 cents. One side show be
fore lunch, so cents. Refreshments, 2;
cents: printed matter catalogues
eel, 25 cents. Deception with respect
| to the price OF lunch. 80 cents more
\ than we have calculated. He Is still In
the grounds. Two side shows in the
afternoon, $3.50. Refreshments 81
cents. Representation IN the grounds
20 cents. Warned by his overchargeC
lunch. he will be careful at dinner, and
run over our calculations, say, only 81
cents. Coffee and liqueur at a boule
ward establishment (anything to resO
20 cents. Music hall promenoir. 81
Tobacco during the day, 30 cents
Gloss OF something NJ NIGHT 25 cents
Home Tin cab. because too tired Z