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Show HIGH LIVING. From Thi Account One Needs a Bnl- I loon to Reneh Prices In a- j Daimon Cafe. j "You might suppose," said a man who was in the Klondike last summer, -that with the improved facilities of travel ! and freight transportation to the Klon- t dike country prices of commodities J there would become just a iiitle more j nearly normal, but I have in my posses- sion a bill of fare I got- at Healy's ho- I tel and cafe in Dawson in September last, and here are some of the prices that one must pay for eatables. The hotel is a wooden .structure, chiefly I logs, and the conveniences are not al- i together modern, and a good many of them are lacking, but. the rate per day is If one eats at the cafe a ii '.,, here's nliat he uavs: Sirloin steak and onions. $:t.0l; porterhouse j plain. $3.30; with mushrooms, $4 .CO; i tenderloin plain, $2.50; with mush- j rooms. $S.5J; Chateau Uriant (spelled j that way). $4.00; with onions. $::.5o; j Hamburg steak, $1.50; English mutton j chop (one). $2.00: (two). $3.75: bread- ! ed. S2.73: corn beef hash, $1.50; lamb, chops, plain, $2.30; pork chops, sauce pUpiant, S3.23: liver and bacon, $1.75; plain. $1.30; ham and eggs. $2.50; bacon ba-con and eggs, $2.50; fried tripe, $1.50; pigs' feet, $1.50; fried in butter. $2.00; kidney, fried, boiled, or saute. $1.50; with mushrooms, $1.75; fried eggs (two), $2.00; scrambled, poached or i on toast, $2.00; with oysters, $2.50; plain omelet. $2.00; ham, oyster, jelly omelet, or with onions, $2.50; Spanish Span-ish or rum omelet, $3.00; souffle, $3.50; Welsh rabbit, $2.50: golden buck, $3.0O, and so on. with pie at a dollar a slice, and pudding adollar a smell, and cigars 50 cents for the cheapest, and champagne cham-pagne $15 a pint, and beer a dollar a split, and all drinks 50 cents each. As 1 said, it does seem that at this late date living would become a little cheaper cheap-er but p?ople who have anything to sell want the earth for it. and the hap less consumer must pay tne price ii s" without. The only consolation ts that 1 it will be as bad or worse at Cape Nome this summer, though that will probably prob-ably tumble quicker because it is so much more accessible than the Klondike." Klon-dike." . |