The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-02-12

aAu one hnlIes fork and spoon is made
to do for each person, for there are six
OF each. There is an ample supply of
napery, bath room linen and towels,
bedding and the like, supplied with
each apartment Altogether the
charges in all apartments are reason
able, considering the materials and
service supplied, and travellers MAJ be
comfortably housed in Los Angeles at
rates ranging from $50 to 5000 a
month, depending upon the inclina-
lions, the service, the location and 9th
er things that go to fix charges. Ride
out on any car line in the city and YOU
VIII see apartment houses by the doz-
ems and scores, of every conceivable
name, style and condition.
The cost of living during a three or
four months soiourn need mo- be
great. Prices are not greatly differ
ent from those in the northwest. Meats
are high, choice steaks n chops in
particular. Butter of the first grade
is 80 cents a pound. Eggs, strictly
fresh, 30 cents q dozen If you carry
them home S5 cents If you have them
delivered. Choice bacon 35 cents a
pound, sliced. Sugar, coffee and other
staples r the same in price as
generally through the country. Squads
are 80 to 40 cents each. Spring
chickens, so cents each. Bread is S
and 10 cetns a loaf, depending upon
the size, but is far inferior to the
northwestern article. 1t is made of
soft wheat, or a mixture of soft and
hard wheat, with the soft forming the
greater part of the mixture. There's
nothing like hard spring wheat for
bread m~aking-as you will discover
when you don't get it.
II you so down with you list and
your small change into one of the
markets, of which there are scores Of
the "open-faced" kind, which have no
fronts save a steel framework like the
part of your desk telephone,
which they pull across the front at
night and paddock, you will see how
the tourist traffic has affected the bust
ness of selling. People buy in little
"dabs'-enough for a meal or two
and the home people have got the in
lection, the anne as the tourists or
travellers. You want, say, some ripe
olives, so you get 5 or 10 cents worth
In a little paper pail; you get two
heads of splendid lettuce, crisp and
delicious, for another 5 cents: three
French rolls take another s cents: a
mead OF celery is a nickel or a dime.
depending on the market; radishes are
. cents a bunch, or three for 10: Crane
fruit, rather juiceless and not equal
to the Florida, 10 cents each, or three
for a quarter; table raisins, Is cents a
package, holding about two pounds:
fresh nsh, 20 cents a pound for sand
dads, their choicest small fish, oval
IN shape and not as big as your palm,
for the edible part: sole, 20 cents a
pound; rock bass, 10; striped bass. 20:
and other fish in about the same scale
or prices all fish ready for the pan
and Just out of the water. But the
fish from these waters has not the
flavor Of the east coast fish and does
not at all compare in delicacy with
the shad, blue Ash, mackeral and other
Atlantic coast fish.
When YOU get into fresh and smoked
meats prices rise. Smoked tongue,
sliced for the table, is so cents a
pound; boiled ham, sliced, 40 cents;
Chicken tamales, ready to drop into
the pot, two for a quarter; beef ta-
males, two for Is cents; prime por-
terhouse, so to IS cents; and Cali
fornia has a very good lobster that
sells in the markets for 20 cents a
pound, just as it comes from the water.
Its flavor is good and it resembles the
eastern lobstert except that it has not
the immense claws of its eastern
brother. / have suggested that claws
are not so necessary to existence here.
as they are on the east coast where
competition is keen. There are no
crabs here of the delicious soft shell
variety they have on the east coast.
They serve a mussel steamed in the
cafes, but 1t is no especially D
tizing. The fish and sea foods are a
distinct disappointment, if one ex-
poets the quality and variety of the
other coast.
a good deal his crept into this let
Ter about eating and the price OF
FOODS, but IL you should figure on COM
Ing out here for a winter you would
have to eat and the prices Of edibles
are alw y a matter of interest in
these stirring times of a high cost Of
living. So | will go on and say that
cream is SO cents a quart, milk 10
cents a quart; Ice about the same price
as at home; oranges IS cents a dozen;
lemons 90; spring water, bottled, 10
cents a gallon or Ave gallons for 40
cents. Prices in the cafes are about
he same as al st. Paul, Minneapolis
or Chicago, In the 1cafeteria"-or
bacteria" as the i%rreyerent cali them
the multitudes of tourists are o n
tent to wait upon themselves and get
a very fair grade of meal at a very
reasonable price. I don't fancy them
myself, but they serve a good purpose
and fill a long felt want-and many
hungry stomachs. And ii you want to
see o important a function eating is.
YOU have only to note the thousands
Of places of all sorts and kinds where
meals are served on short notice. long
notice or no notice at all. / think
YOU could stay in Los Angeles four
months, eat every course Of q seven
course dinner every day in q different
cafe, resta urant, cafeteria or eating
house, ard never repeat.
No. %Q ----
The climate is ~undeniably delight
fui as a winter climate. For three
weeks the thermometer has ranged
from so to 10 in the day time. Al day
or two Of the time it has crept up as
high as 80. During the middle OF the
day the sun shines warmly and an
overcoat would be burdensome. But
about 4 o'clock when the sun begins
70 drop behind the mountains, the air
cools rapidly, and at 8 o'clock q TOP