The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-15

keeper. The latter shook his head.
Were too high for you." he said
after an appraising glance at the new
stranger in New York. I'VE charge
six week" Horace agreed. He
found a boarding house which took
him in for $3.50 a week. When he
grew tired of the fare there he. in
company with the other boarders, in
duiged in tho weekly dissipation Of
meal in a sixpenny dining SALOON in
Beekman street. There a repast OF
several courses might be had for the
sum of 12h cents. Though not elabo-
rately served It was first class food.
A dollar in the markets of 1881 went
a long way. at would" recorded
Abram C. Dayton in his Last Days Of
Knickerbocker Life in New York."
buy three times the amount Of food
and pleasure as now. in 1871"
Four years wrought a startling
change. Prices went upward like sky
rockets and New York housekeepers
howled Us loudly as ever they are
bowling to-day. Panic conditions
ruled tho land. Would not these en-
tries from Homes Diary for days in
1896 and 1887 do in spirit for the diary
Of a New Yorker OF 1919?
Living In New York Is exorbitantly
dear, and 1t falls pretty hard on per-
sons like me who live upon their in
come, and harder still upon that large
and respectable class whose support
u derived from fixed salaries. Market
Ing of all kinds. with the exception
Of apples and potatoes. Is higher than
ever knew it, The sweat of the
brow Of New York all runs into the
pockets of the farmers. I paid to-day
IN cents pound for hay. three times
the ordinary price. laid in a winter
stock of 400 to 500 pounds OF butter
at . shillings and 4 pence (2s cents).
In the long course Of my thirty-four
years housekeeping I never buttered
my bread at so extravagant a rate.
There are many persons In New York
as good as myself who must be con
tent TO eat dry bread this winter. OF
at least spread the children's slices
confoundedly thin. -.
The market was higher this morn.
ing than / have ever known It. Beef
25 cents; mutton and veal, Is to II
cents; small turkeys, $3.50.
Markets continue extravaganza
high. The farmers Cor rather the
market speculators) tell us that It 1,
owing to the scarcity OF Corn; but tn,
shad. the cheapness of which makes
them In ordinary seasons q great re
source TO the poor. are not to b,
bought under 75 cents and 81. Is THU
owing to the scarcity Of corn, or ar,
the fish afraid to come into our water
lest they be caught in the vortex O
Wall Street? .Brooms, the price O
which time out Of mind has been q
cents, are now sold at half a dollar
but corn is scare. Poor New York."
History Repeats Itself.
"Poor New York;" was the cry 1
1887. "Poor New York." had been tn
, cry just twenty years earlier. TIL
winter OF 1917 was a very hard win
! ter. The best beef went to 12h cent
, a pound, pork and veal to 10 cent?
, mutton to cents. large turkeys I
n.5s. fresh butter to 33 cents, an
/. potatoes tos66 cents a barrel. Poo
! New York!
II that trite old. saying about hi.
, tory repeating itself stu continues
/ hold good the housewife and the SUI
: lrort of the family should find cruml
= of comfort In the story of one hundre
: years ago. The last forty months
? the second decade OF the nineteeni
: century were as trying in proportio
TO the average income as the Just