Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-28

where. I will give you some OF the
items. Let us start with the oysters.
half dozen raw cost 30 cents, which
equals about So a quart or $50 q gallon.
Little neck clans cost the same. Do you
want a ren. h? You can have slice of
smoked salmon or a bit of herring for
40 cents. or a dozen olives will cost you
a quarter. Soups are filling, but not
satisfying. A cup of consomme costs
- cents. Scotch broth W tn barley costs
20, and green turtle is higher
As to the fish. that is one of the cheap
th-nga on the menu. a piece of broled
bass costs 30 cents. broiled bluefish the
same and a portion of live lobster b-oiled
is S1.25. Entrees are dear. / can buy q
guinea hen almost anywhere in Virginia
for half a dollar. but q piece of the fowl
cut from the breast costs S1.25. and a
half OF spring chicken just the same
When you come to order special dishes
the prices go up. For a spring duckling
the charge is So. roast chicken So aud
il you want a Philadelphia capon the
price is high. 1t will take forty minutes
TO cook four-dollar capon. and you NAV
know you are paying just 10 cents Ior
each minute YOU wait. You can get u
whole spring turkey for the same sum
! have just received an offer of cents
a pound for some hogs on my farm IN
Virginia. On these bills OF fare Virginia
ham costs TO cents for two slices. Two
lamb chops, each as big around as a dol
lar, are served for 40 cents
object also 10 the prices Of the vegeta-
bIes and fruits. | know that apples are
scarce this year and that the prices are
high. But nevertheless p cents is too
much for single baked apple which out
SIDE the hotels on the fruit stand could
be bought for nickel. Set aside ) cents
Tor the cream and the cooking, and the
hotel gets - cents for the ar;ple alone
Its apples are bought by the barrel and
at the low estimate of 800 apples 10 the
barrel makes me pay, at the rate of $40
d barrel. This is right high for apples.
III Is the same with potatoes. During
TINS whole trip l have had to pay 20
cents and upward tor one or two baked
IN me skin, which must be at the rate
oi something like $50 per bushel Spin
aeh Is sold at about the same rate. and
NINA beans and caulifower bring 81
cents Tor good double handful
IS 10 new corn in season, the hotels
nave been selling that at about 10
cents an ear The average barrel of
lieid corn will hold GOO ears of twice
the size OF the green stuff that comes
10 the table. At thousand ears to the
parrel, they are now getting about a
hundred dollars a barrel for their corn
ana still II is said there is no money
III farming!
II used to be that the price for ice
cream was 10 or 10 cents dish
at almost any hotel. Now you pay
80 cents for each portion and the
same is true of water ice favored with
lemon orange, or raspberry The fancy
kinds cost more. and if you are so ex-
travagant as to desire a portion of char
iotte russo, as big as you can buy al
most anywhere in a confectionery store
for a nickel. the charge at the hotel will
be 40 cents. A slice of apple pie
costs 20 cents, deep-dish peach pie
costs 70. and a cup custard often costs
you a quarter per person.
The rates in the dining cars on the
railroads are almost as high. I have
the bills of fare from which | ordered
my meals in the past few days. They
come from the leading railroads Of the
and i pick out few items at
random.
Two lamb chops. e. cents: scrambled