Show BIG SPENDERS ARE SCARCE new york hotel man saya ot the present day are much more economical hotels and restaurants are ing something more than usual iron society this winter said one hotel man who la as well up on the rant situation as anybody in new york it la believed that fashionable people will do little entertaining ID their homes it will bo cheaper and easier to invite their friends to J restaurant where they may have dano ing after the dinner As a matter of tact the day of lavish spender Is gone so far as new york Is concerned we shall levei see again the era that ended nine 01 ten years ago those were the day when men from chicago or pittsburgh vied with each other in the e gance of their entertainments it wa nothing for a dinner to cost 25 s cover now a days the average ll 11 about 4 60 the change in spending habits bat forced the hotels to employ cost accountants coun tants the manager of even modern house Is now able to know when a mutton chop Is placed on tin table just how much of each item 0 the hotel s expenses that chop has t carry ua tt aa |