The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-03
the architecture OF my plays-and a couple
of small auxiliary plots.
For Annie feamans there's the part OF
a widow who has a truck farm over on
Long Island and drives across New York
be let for lees than two or two and a half
times that amount. if they got SO low as

Be let for lees than two or two and a half
times that amount. If they got so low as
that.
Just now the opportunities for renting
/ they ever were before owing to the millions
| Of dollars that are being spent by the heirs
Of the man to whose philanthropy the great
| PRATT Institute is a monument in the erec-
but for the very kind Of people who are
wrestling with the problem OF keeping their
exp, ns. inside Of $40 week or thereabouts:
In many Of thu Sc houses the heat is supplied
during the winter months so that there Is
no cta TO buy. Hot wafer comes from
run from $40 month up to $50.
From this it can be seen that the S3.5O
a-year man in Brooklyn who really cares
about his surroundings has big start 20, on
rent Is disposed OF in about one-seventh OF
his income, and he has, it must be under
stood, a place large enough, comfortable
enough and handsome enough to 90 almost
any Kind Of entertaining outside OF giving
dances or lawn parties.
in Brooklyn are certainly not less than
they are in Manhattan. For instance,
good servants cost az much In one borough
as the other.
Brooklyn who can be secured at wages
Is low as SIP and ia month. but they
are faithful servants they are incompe-
tent ones, and II they are competent they
are extremely apt to disappoint at the very
want a fairly good cook who can be de-
pended on to .emain with you indefinitely,
YOU must pay about the same Tor nor In
Brooklyn as in Manhattan.
Five dollars q week is a good average
salary, and there. is nothing fancy about
the Cooking at that price, either. This,
,,S.b A p,,reo mr. a q wfak. or perhaps less,
brings the cost Of servants to - week,
Of course, all s. 800 men don t have to keep
nurses, but those who don't are the ex-
ception In Brooklyn, where baby Garages
and suboss pl ssidsS ses the 0aoseS Oh
It will surprise come people to Know
that q comparison Of prices Of meats and
groceries In Brooklyn and Manhattan
Shows, that in Brooklyn the housewife no ss,rie
t tSsSa II Manhattan Ian Sun reporter made
DsKsib avenue, Brooklyn. and half dozen
on Columbus avenue, Manhattan.
Porterhouse steak oosts from two to
I'VE cents more pound n brook1yh; I anu
priced. Almost all green vegetables that
are purchased at grocery stores IN Brook
lyn cost q trine more than they do In Man.
haitian.
One advantage some Brooklynites enjoy
in shs ss ses Of eSrs bastsr and
comes from the presence In Brooklyn OF
rood many Long Island farmers, who have
Established regular routes and make prao-
tice OF keeping everything they seil 10"
Cents lower than the grocery store price.
For a family of four, including two chill
dram and two servants, from Sl2 to $lS
4 week ought to keep up reasonably
GOOD table. You cannot have oysters and
SOUP every night on that. but you can
maintain a reasonably good table ana
expense incurred by entertaining, exciu-
Awe OF course, OF wines or liquors. .,
In these days when 81 IS viii buy gallon
~ yery decent California Burgundy and
Sa.so a California Burgundy that 10 good
enough for any person, the wine end OF
entertaining at home ought not to increase
q mans expenses very much, unless ne
proposes to have several knos OF wine
or an expensive Moselle or champagne.
For So a week a mar can keep up GOOD
dinner for his friends. Gas, which IL con-
eiderable item in Brooklyn, ought to average
Is month II he cooks by y. This brings
his total weekly expense up into tho neigh
II he wants TO get along with one servant,
And give dinners without wine he can Keep
II even lower. Economy In the other ex-
penses Of . house will reduce these OK
than any Of these things for . man who V
struggling to keep his expenses within
$500 q year. IL the question OF personal
X Z doubtful II any man who drtnks
much during the day oAn keep out OF debt
md still live well In Brooklyn o. MANHATTAN
on $500 ysar 4 Brooklyn man u tns