The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1905-03-17

every guest, and some guests may
have half dozen if they wish.
What, then, will it cost the man
who would live like king to enjoy
these more than regal luxuries?
To occupy the royal suite for day
costs one hundreda and twenty-five
dellars. But this is without anything
to eat. Food suitable to be served on
a gold service by retinue of liveried
attendants comes hi gh. For instance,
one portion of turkey costs FIVE dol.
lars; and cantaloup to begin with is
one dollar a portion and the grapes to
end with are one dollar and fifty cents.
Green turtle soup is one dollar and
twenty-five cents portion, and sim
pie little salad two dollars. What
would game cost? It might leave
some change from ten-dollar bill, but
nothing worth talking about. One
small portion of grouse, TOR example,
costs three dollars ond fifty cents.
Does one care fer a cup Of tea? He
can have it and welcome for sixty
cents. Suppose some bucollc longings
come to our friends from the country.
The butler looks dumfounded at first
when he asks for buttermilk, but money
can do anything, and SO be gets glass
at the cost of forty cents. And fees
they are always with him, or rather
they are always going away from him.
The merest page would be insulted by
a fifty-cent piece, though he might be
willing to accept five dollars-on &C.
count.
1t is safe to say that to live like a
king in one of these New York hotels
will cost the one in search of that ex-
perience at least two hundred dollars
a day, and cheap at that.
Times have changed, indeed IN New
York City, and money has changed
them. Less than half century ago
when the Fifth Avenue Hotel was
opened at the ruling rate of five dol
lars day for room and board, the ju-
dicious held their hands in horror.
Men not too old now to flash up TWEEN.
ty stori,s in an express-elevator 10
smoke their cigars on the roof-garden
can we'll remember the excitement
caused by the first passenger-elevator
to crawl up to the fifth story. 1t was
really thrilling experience, as they
recall it, and good long one, loo.
Even twenty years ago it was an
unusual thing to have music with a
hotel dinner, and when the Waldorf
Astoria furnished the first adequate
promenade for hotel guests, women
put en- their finest in order to be fit
tingly arrayed for it.
Before then there was little for WON.
en- to do in hotel except sit around
great barren parlors or secrete them.
selves in their rooms.
These rooms, too, who does not re.
member their discomforts? The es-
sentials were all right enough, Of
course, but no taste was displayed nor
luxury lavished. They were, in fact,
places to sleep in, o: if one remained
awake, to think Of ones latter end.
Only esterday one paid extra for
a CRATE fire in hotel-l o )m; to-day one
sets the degree of the thermometer to
ones mood or state of health. Just
touch the button, and the trained Of
ficials in charge Of the hotels atmos-
phere will do the rest.
The difference, in fact, between this
near past of moderation and this pres
ent Of success is that in those days
th he were m llionaires, and now there
are blllionaires:
As these great fortunes keep ex-
panding, so extravaganza in New
York hotel lite keeps increasing.
There is constant comparison of
good, better, b st, and the best of to-
day may not be more tlan the good of
tomorrow. However, it would seem
as if the limits of capricious luxury
had been reached, unless perchance it
be- ONES possible to annex the re-
sources of the solar system, and pre-
vent the youthful millionaire Fl ON cry
ing for the moon in vain.
At least six New York hotels now
represent lis luxurious living. They
are the Manhattan, the Imperial, the
Holland, the Waldorf Astoria, the
Ho.el As'or and the ST. Regis.
H. i, safe 20 say that man with
m ,n' y to spend aad regal aspirati ons
to satisfy can b.. adequately accom- mo-
dated in any one OF these hotels. The
onY embarrassment le can suffer
from IS the emil 8 rassment Of riches.