AMERICAN HOTEL CHARGES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 984, 27 April 1911, Page 4

AMERICAN HOTEL CHARGES.

The New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph gives a very instructive extract from a speech made in the American Senate. Senator M‘Cumber, as an example of the high cost of living in the United States, incidentally gave an expense account of a trip to New York, using the products of farms instead of dollars, as follows: — ONE DAY IN NEW YORK. Cab to hotel, six bushels of oats. Tip to driver, fifteen cabbages. Tip to elevator boy, two dozen eggs. Tip to bell-boy, one and a-half bushels of barley. Breakfast, quarter ton of hay. Tip to waiter, two bushels of potatoes. Luncheon, one sheep. Tip to waiter, one and a-half bushels of carrots. Dinner, four bushels of rye. Tip to waiter, one bushel of onions. Room, half a car of turnips. In the same connection the same correspondent tells us that several eminent preachers, writing in the New York World, all practically agree that ,£2500 a year for a preacher “ is not better than the ,£IOOO a year which Dr Jowett is now receiving at Birmingham.”