The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-01

|E MONTGOMERY AID NEEDS $50, ,0O0AY YEAR n. R. THOMAS CANNOT LIVE CON- EoRTABLy ON LESS.
 When Mas Moresiai CsnBst Provide
 HerFeIf With CIefkes under e1Bo,-
 0oo . xenrs Plea ef Man Used I
 10 LivinE Like ,Muisimil- 5 fNS lionaire for Third of
 susn "a Enapressiye.
 New York world. s
 In telling hts creditors that he can- not live in comfortable style in New York on less thsn $50 900 a year. E. R Thomas is stating a fact as well known to. hundreds of New Workers as 1t Is to Hundreds of thousands of laboring men fhatithey cannot bring up a family on texs than Sis ae week
 And Thcnaas' estimate of $5o.0c0 year does not include anything ex- cept what most men in his position re- gard as snecesary expenses. He al ready has a palatias mansion in town, country place. and automobiles of all Types regarded as essential. All that he was hguripg on was maintain- ing what he now owns--nothing in the way of purchases was provided for sx- cept what any of his associates would regard as an extremely modest esti- mate Tor clothes
 Mir. Thomas did not itemize what he regards, as his necessary expenses. considering the position, he wishes te keep up. or drop out of the running with the men he has been associat- ing with. but t Is not. difficult to see <4t EsA uao nd stiii not be accused, of extravagance by hundreds of other men, who. like him. self. have been, spending si5o.0oo \ year and upward
 Accessories s400oa.
 Several men who hardly count dol- lars. to say nothing of pennies, to whom the following estimate of ex- penses was shown yesterday, agreed that 1t Is modest and substantially acc eurate;
 Maintaining town house. ..... .$20, 900 Keeping up country place. .... 10000 Entertaining friends .......... 5000 Clothes for wife and self. 1000 Maintaining automobiles ....... z.5o0 Month at Palm Beach,. 2,000 Dues at three clubs. .... ........ 1000 Cost of opera box.......''...... 500
 Total ...... ....$46.OVO
 This estimate is short of the esti- mated ,ss0,0o0 by such small margin that the remaining $4,000 would be lit- tie enough to cover such extra expenses as would arise from day to day, for man living as Mr. Thomas and hun dreds of others men are living in New York. tl
 Men whose opinions were asked as to what man really needs to keep up "front" in New York, following MT. Thomas estimate of his necessities. '. on-. general lines, but were naturally averss to being quoted as to their per- sonal expenditures.
 Cannot KeeD Hills Down.
 One of, them. whose name figures frequently in the newspapers in inter- views on matters of national import ance. said:
 establishment and its apDurtenances which MT. Thomas is called upon to maintain occupy relatively the same po- sitiouras the modest home for which man reared In more humble ctrcum- stances must provide. It is as neces- sary for him to have Ia box at the op- era. a retinue of servants. automobiles. and to entertain his. friends In return for their entertainments, to which he and his wife are invited, as 1t is for the laboring~ man to have three square meals 8 day. if he is to keep up the strength which Is necessary to his work.
 aTbey say that everything Is rela- tive. and 1t Is as certainly true in the case of nillionaire forced to eur. tail his expenditures As in the case or the hurnblest workingman.
 Miss AEorosami'a GOwns. Miss -Morosini, daughter of New York banker, for instance. has pup iiC1y, announced that she spends xl50,- 600 a year. for gowns alone. That, or course. is equaled only by the most ex- traxagant Of. the wealthy set, who nave set a new pace in expenditures put the lowest estimate that can pc maoS | for anybody who expects to be well | dressed. as society views dressing, Is I 5000 a year.
 1 ...IJnder a reduced schedule of house. l hold expenses imposed upon him. MT :. I Thomas will undertake to cover all of l his living expenses by the expenoiIure of a third of what Miss Morosini spenas I for one item alone. and he will nnd It 1 no easy matter to come out even at the and. ,of the wear. Take his servants. for Instance. As people live nowadays: | there must be valet for the man or T the house, maid for each of the wo- men In the household, butler cheI liar a mans friends cannot be invited tc a dinner not.as we'll cooked, regard- lSss of the cost of out-o1-seasoh oeh- | eacies as they are accustomed to-a footman. Iaundresses. and their assist ants. There are scores of houses m New York which are manned by not Il less than a dozen high-priced servants and I know of a good many where there cannot be less than twenty per- sons waiting, in one way or another
 on a family or two or three Z. "An estimate of -$20,00O year Tor , maintaining a house in town, even though 1t is not occupied more than four months year, is very moderate } and: that does not include. anything either for rent or interest on the cost of the house.
 Need of Country Place. Nobody lives in town nowadays ex' cept. during. what is known as the season. and it has become quite as necessary to have a palce in the coun-
 try as 2 house in the city.
 And as for. the dreary months oi carly spring. 1t has become as much necessity for mar in the social swim
 to go South. if he cannot go abroad
 as 1t Is for the really poor man to take
 his family to Coney Island two or three z times Q season.
 , There are casions-too many O. f them nowadays-when entertainment : at home. the outlet little dinners whici , used to be regarded. as the highest com
 plfrnent. are hardly tolerated. when