The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-03-23
IyLD TAVERN CHARGES
Cost Of Living al q Turnpike I'm
Near New York In 19G6.
LOW PRICES THE RULE THEN

TAc Regular Tariff For Dinner Was
- Cent?, .na Wedding Breakfast ]
Fer Six, Wis:: Twelve Quarts % Oats
on ;;1o SIDE. Cos: Juss S;.69.
GuarGcI rs carefully as any Of the /
guests jewels shat lie beside ii in the |
big safe OF great and =littcrinS |
broadway hotel IN Ncw YORK city and /
treasured by the proprietor more til2n
its weight IN gold is IN old caShbooE,
-he entries run from March 70 De +
ccz7ber, 1SiG. They record in quaint. |:
descriptive phrases The com'aSS ard /
soirSs OF tic travellers who stopped ii
4 wayS!Lc I'M on 7 turnpike road less
than 100 miles from New YORK This
tavern was kept by tie Broadway ho- |
tel p-oprietor's grandfather The build
Ing Of tic railroad. the passing OF the
stacccoach and the changes Of more
than llalf : century have obiitcratcd
this once fai:loi:S Old i'm 2tS0uth Du--
ham, and now ail that remains Of it IS
tbs ancicu; book, which served not
Gn!y rs = record OF cash received. bui
took the p!>;ce Of the modern hotel
register
The prices charged by this inakccp-
cr of long ago are rs far removed
from those cxactcd today rs this "A
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- :. -, ~, -o~,,,o- n-icn
80 S;a-,o-Z 20 r.-,S hut ere;:
49,. -, - - ,,,--, hnan ..cur, 20 r-e-
- ,,a..o,o-. ror ;,staoca. there IS
~ o,,-,. 80 .,C,nlv nr,Idicr from a.
49, .,,o,i<, o,a ,od~;,~ -
o.,t,,. :. :, hr;.,r
80. ,.-"..;-a - ,Sn ;,d;,.;d,,,r traveller
oeee- i,'l''' -. MI. .T,,,a,..
.'.'u y ~ - -, -. 49,. s,,,.
-ts 80: - -, - r-a.so g c.n,s"
|t. !r, .o.- .,.nn. . F,,. Jr,v;nc = horse
80 -. ~. -, r,.,:.I, wn,,Id occopot FOR
AZ" -, 80, 80 sno.i,nr man who
80 -; -; .S ..raIIow with tired
.,... 80 ,oIc;,r cna breakfast
- so.. on,ta
-. -ar, d,-s +torc c,-nc along,
.o.s,;,. 80 .n;s ,ncicnt register. .
..c-.:,... ..Ceoo' -. 10 Invariably
o-.'. :. -. -,- food ard TINT
80 49, ~, ~, occo os,ons there
va" io' i.. 800 <o- a,s:r-
. 80 - ~ -. ~ T',c-o vcra no the
VS." s:,- - .or-;,c this +,-u-
/ - -. o.,-,,-r go h,,r =
,,,a,ao;-+ pm ..,,o. nnr.,rs and vaais,es. it
9t-- -. O. ..I,,,- G charts
80 - rol~fr.- ,nG breakfast, he
80 0,cc in awhile \
sG,.i.h-;r. ,ro,,Id come along.
49, ~ ~ "ra-r Viz, tnrec ladies and
oSt,d-e., Tho h.d six dinners.
49,. ,"o .ta.. sal. 49,, NV fo- +ic horses. the
..,.,nois fo,. .,,c do-- and tnc "seSar"
-, nov - &c vos charged. There
~ ~. ,,.o,f6;-n breakfast az this
o,.,;,+ -orc-, TOO L is set DOVE as
,..~aES;Hr p,5r,iff-s sister. C dinners.
80 ao-a-+< ,,r cots s1Go"
paa~>,n ..v-c,, west" bv wagon IL
.,,osn lIo-s rror, the thicE!y settled
a,s,- 70 cool, ,.,c;r fortunes. Sone did
,o+ ,;.,a Win, trey expected and came
boc,. ,coin One such group, en- "en-
icraa, family returning cast-sevea OF
thcn"-sDcnrz 81 ct the i'm Three
cents. worth Of candy" IS 4 frequent
er,rv Probably the candy peddier
from Albany" paid Eor his food AID
lodging il sweets. There are but two
entries Of s.nyth;ng stronger than lem
o.,adc srd those are fer becr-four
ouar.s fo- . cents. Oysters were
cb,,, tco for six plates OF them in
c-cocn,, the contents OF the tavern
,,cc,o,.s ,norc: box by just 10 ceGts.
:. ar,op- the 1ou.acyers along this
-r-nnike road waosc. passage IS record
al n t,.ts acc ycl!owcd volume IS "O!d
Pa-ticG,ar" Doubtless he was some
rr,,yv old codser who kicked about
cv,-rfbiac and whose goinGs the inn
,,nc,,cr sr2cti as much as possible. TiiCn
tl,orr ras the ..Wh!stling Man" the
~c,trr ~, Nfan, the .Dtspcpt::c Man"
"a ho1 ro,r- orarts OF tca) ard the
..TTo, L.,n" who ate . piece OF pie
o,5 ,,.c7od ROSTERS with the ho;e!
,.,.o-. n+ho- travellers along the
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