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Show What It Costs to Live in a Hotel. I The lxiiirding house habit seems to be j continually on tho decrease in New York j and new restaurants spring up in every direction, As noon as a new hotel with gorgeous appointments is opened hundreds hun-dreds of the curious in matters gastronomic gastro-nomic go thither to dine. AsHoonasn fatiliionablo ten tory apartment house is opened there ure scores of families eager to pay high rates for its shelter. The hotels this season aro unusually crowded and prices for permanent lodging lodg-ing are enormous. A man of my acquaintance ac-quaintance recently asked the proprietor of a well known hotel on Fifth avenue what would be tho price jxt week to himself and hisi family four persons in all for a moderate sized suite of rooms. The price named was nearly $'J00 a week. That was an old established Iwiuse, however. Tho new ones are charging leas for the purpose of having all apartments occupied before May 1, when new contracts with lodgers will be made. New York .Star. |