The Alaska citizen., 1913-07-07


draper on 9Th avenue where they
are hardly using tailors at all nova
days who charges s. each for his
neckties.
Sure it's robbery" said this drap-
er. who takes off his PiccadiHy ac,
cent every now and then and sits
around with the boys. but what can
| do? If didn't skin my trade. Id
lose it,"
He's right. too. 1t costs money
70 he in society in New York If a
social aspirant doesn't feel the dol
lars being taken away from him like
porous plaster in December he
knows he isn't making good. Ne
man can pretend to dress we'll in
New York for less than 81 600 Il
year That's official As for the
dressing cost of my lady. that's
whatever the bill runs to. Certain
orators have DECLARED that the We
man of society need not spend more
than $4,000 year to be perfectly
dressed. Mrs. Captain Philip Iydig
is reported to spend $50,0O0 a year
on her clothes alone.
And am not at all eXtravagant.'
she is quoted as saying. But l sim
/ ply cannot get along on less"
The other day Harry Payne Whit
ney, polo captain and society man
decided that he wanted a tennis
court. When the ordinary owner Of
an estate wants tennis court he
calls the gardener.
Mike" he says, handing that Off.
eial a cigar and cringing slightly:
Mike, skim off patch of grass.
want you to make tennis court
Then he buys a net and a fev
balls and bats and calls his duty
done. Whitney's court will be glass
rooted. electric lighted and steam
heated. 1t will cost him $110.000.
Whoever settles the bill for the
polo series will find that 1t totals
! up pretty close to a million and a
half dollars. Half OF that will be
borne by the invaders The Ameri,
cans must make up the balance by
private subscription. 1t is doubtful
/ If the sale of seats will bring in
more than $4,000 If the attendance
at the first two games Is all that
can be asked
In one garage on upper Broad
way said an automobile agent.
there are 200 cars. They represent
total value of s1.000.00o. The only
remarkable thing about it is that
these ears are owned by residents
OF two apartment houses, practically
| speaking"
| Commodore Bourne keeps a force
OF from 200 to 250 men employed
| constantly on his country place on
| Long Island. There are scores=and
more scores-of other places quite
as elaborate and costly as that of
Bourne. The owner OF one OF them
stood upon his down the other day
and gazed at his white yacht as she
rose and fell on the tide
Mighty handsome place. this"
said a week'ender.
Yep said the owner, Tightening
his grip on his cigar He turned
around to look al the house. You
could hardly see 1t for servants
Yep" said the owner signing. The
house is all right But that animal
out there in the stream may break
me-"
On good authority il is stated that
a fair-siZed yacht cannot be properly
year, especially when the owner likes
to entertain or 90 regattaing over
the face of the sea. The fast ferries
may cost whatever the owner wants
TO spend, but are usually much less
expensive, because almost no provi-
sion is made for entertainment
1t is only now and then that an il
luminative item is printed Then
those who hesitate, lip in hand be
tween sinkers and pie for dessert
observe that it is possible to spend
money in sums greater than a dol
la
Goelets built house at Newport
A great deal Of attention was paid
to the fact that they had hand-carv
ed stone animals on the house. But
the real outburst came when the
cost of the Goelet fountain was re
vealed.
"Lucullus outdone." said all those
who remembered the name and had
forgotten what Lucullus did. "Lucul,
lus Outdone. The Goelet fountain is
to cost $65 200.
This week J. ]. Van Allen put up
a $4,000 awning on his house at
Newport. Egyptians worked on it
for three years and no one knows
what the figures that are embroider
ed In It mean. Compare the modest
opulence OF today with the screaming
Vulgarity OF few years ago. The
proletariat went in CONFUSION after
CONFUSION over the Goelet fountain
Sociologists took on like a lot OF