New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-06

TWENTY-FIVE Of our dollars The host ordered a small
ruckload brought him, and set the example by starting
them across the floor footballs. kicking them mere
and there until tables overturned, CHINA SIndsle'
whole cases OF champagne imported from France spilled
and the evening rendered merry In these cases the
proprietor always gives free rein and smiles with sas
fed air for the Russian pays after his fun IS over and
he would fight if interered with. The bill IN this IN
stance ran TO nearly thirty thousand ruDleS' doh
know the proprietor; but old Tom, the head waiter
who by the way, American negro who has directed
that place for about twenty years. says that there are
probably an average OF fifty bills month"; PAID Tor one
evenings entertainment, that will average seven thou-
sand five hundred rubes each There are two S"agger
resorts in Moscow that said to be really owned by
Princes and conducted in other mems names
There is a hotel in Moscow where Prnce-one oi
the common varieties that exist in Russia, where you
couldn't throw a brick without hitting one-let ms OH
run II was for but season in town, and yet It IS SAID
that when he paid it, it came to nearly forty thousand
dollars And mark YOU, he had not noted, but nal
merely INDUCED in such luXures as vine at hundred
rubleS the bottle cucumbers from Turkey when they
cost a dollar each, strawberries at dollar berry ana
rare fruits specially imported
IN St. Petersburg is the Aquarium. 1t gives perhaps
the best vaudeville show in Europe. 1t often brings
celebrated artists from London to play short engage
mcnt: then sends them back. 1t costs money TO 90
this The patrons must pay. When they are no longer
willing it will close. And it is worth while to pass an
evening there to study that strange, eXtravagant HE
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place in the world, making Paris look Ike CROSSROADS
village out in the quiet farming districts.
\ man comes in with party and takes one OF me
boxes arranged round the entire second balcony tier
With it he takes the lounging room behind the box \
corridor separates them The box is not ike an Amen
car box where they TO arrange the chairs so @
every available foot Of space Is utilized 1t has room ior
a couch, table, and promenade. 1t has curtains ID
front The custom is for someone 10 look out ana secl
the number attractive If it IS open comes the cur
tains If it is not they remain closed In the room basi
OF the box the theater supper IS beng served someone
~ the party plays the grand piano, Others walk ana
lounge about looking at the pictures and treadng e
deep rugs special staff OF walters stand by, ana nave
nothing TO do but serve the occupants OF that box ana
room They are highly drilled and high priced. II you
WISH you may have small orchestra brought IN 10 play
while YOU dine hidden behind potted palms Then You
90 out and see a few more numbers OF the program.
Then YOU go quietly out after paying your bill.
That IS YOU 60 quietly unless you are great American
spcndthrift in which case YOU kick, beef, yowl and
offer lick the proprietor, clean out the place
Firmly they show YOU the list OF expense. And You VIII
paw do not doubt it! Because if you do not they drag
YOU to the station, where the proprietor hands up ms
regular bill of prices and the Judge probably spending
at least night a week there, calmly assures You that
these are the regular ones and that your evening l5
been most modest one. He Is polite to Mr.. American
Spcndthrift because he knows that Mr.. ~ , IS SIMPLY
unsophStiCated.
SO, in the end Mr. A. S. pays his fifty to five hundred
dollars for his evening at the show and thinks he aa5
gone the limit. But what he doesn't know is that per
haps there have been twenty or thirty other bills mat
evening, paid without protest each outnumberlng his.
IN Moscow as well as St. Petersburg, the good
spcndthrift does not want to ride slowly. troha
outfit is becoming expensive nowadays nasmuch as Il
is no longer so common troka ride is a novelty that
costs money. You wonder why, until YOU learn that the
roting horse in the center OF the threehorSe outt IS
a horse that famous American trotter CapA-
BILE of doing his mile, in his old age, in somewhere
about minutes and forty seconds that the runners
hal
and that the three horses alone represent outlay 10
the driver of perhaps thousand fifteen hundred dol
lars. The ride has cost you from twenty to fifty dollars
You want a cab at night. 1t is drawn by horse that
but yesterday raced in that country where trotung
races the BEST and most prolonged, and most pat
oil -, no I'll