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Show St HERMITAGE HOTEL GETS MENTION IN ARTICLE IN INDIANA PAPER 9 9 j The Hermitage hotel in OgUen can- 1a i unii-s In for :i lilt of iili-r.si n i 9f publicity in an article written fur the 9 Indianapolis News, by "Old Timer." W The article Is headed, "High Bcen- " 4 cry and Low Prices ' it followc m Reflecting on the Incidents ot uno jtl of the moBl delightful trip the writ- yrSP er ever foci. the Journej :" the San . Francis nvention and return the H osali bi bjeel of prices begins to j divide attention with the sc Wf'UU Though man can not live by bread v'''':'jLbbH alone, he certainly ctin not live with-' S9 out it. There can be no sound Ideal - 'yEB lani that does not have a basis in I J The Ro ky mountain roun- 9HlH try and (hat to the went of it Is not -'3g a heavily producing section. Com- dtH pared with the rich middle west it is( i I Dl ire great and freights ,& iH ire high These factors must be kept1 3gH in mind by one who would study the 'ffBI subject of comparative prices. HHH On the way west meals were scn- pM ed in the dining car and good ones. RVj at a of SI . for l.r.ikf.il PB and lunch, and 1.60 for dinner., .fiBk Reaching San I'rancisco tbo-H who k tH at at the Fairmont hotel, one of I 1 tho handsomet and finest in tho country, enjoyed dinner complete in .rH every detail from oysters to dessert,! H for which they were taxed only $1.75 Lm dinners which would have rost' lH.-,l prol-aMv " in an Indianapolis In- B tM Club breakfasts and luncheons ,,! j were also served, and at most reason - jHM able prices. I I GENERAL LEVEL LOWER. ',- fSB The women of the party are t-f-VaB thoritles for the statement that prices ) isBTr -hops are considerably bcloWi 'lur' those charged in EndlSnapolis shops Certainly a well-known brand of men's collars can be bought for less , mnncv than In 1 mllanapolls. Hack 1 at ( igden, watermelons were being sold ut 5 cents n pound. People at home would think themselves exceedingly exceed-ingly 'fortunate if they could buy a ten-pound melon for 50 cents At thf Hermitage In Ogden fl most delightful de-lightful hotel, situated i nubs up a beautiful Canyon and a great resort, an excellent trout and chicken dinner din-ner is served at 0 cost of 11.76. A. ' I remember, such dinners without j the trout -cost SL'.'iO In Marion county coun-ty No doubt there are prices that are higher than those at home, and yet this Is by no means certain. Coal, for Instance, and rents may be higher, high-er, though It is hard to see how they could be. Other prices are likely to he controlled, or Influenced, by those charged for food and clothing. It seems fair to conclude that the general gen-eral price level is lower than with us. Excluding the railroad fare, and two nights charge for sleeping car accommodations, ac-commodations, the cost of the trip lusting five days through Yellowstone Yellow-stone park, was $68 This paid for four nights' lodging. fifteen meals and 143 nliles of motoring. The conclusion con-clusion seems to be that the closer you get to the fooil supply, and the more abundant the food the higher must be Ihe price This Is a distinctly- new principle In economics. The suggestion has been made that there i. more in t he middle west than on the coast, and therefore more from which people can be separated. Whether Whe-ther that Is true or not I do not assume to say. It seems to be a' case of charging all that the traffic will bear. But whatever the expiation, expia-tion, the facts are clear. Food costs Ic.ms In the far west than it does in Indiana or else they could not servo a dinner for $1.75 at the Fairmont nnd for $1 7S at the Hermitage TIk men who provide food at these prices arc not philanthropists, on the con-I con-I trarv. thev are monev-makers. KUTl ROl S RECOLLECTIONS. i rh.ips li was 11.1lur.1l that pie is- I ant thoughts of comparatively reas-I reas-I onable prices should minnle with J rapturous recollections of sublime Si enexy, about the time we reached Omaha arid were swiftly h pproachlnj? I a region In which prices were not I reasonable and scenery was. on tho whole, tame While the change from canyon to corn country was plfnssjnt. 1 that from a fairly low to an exoi-Ditantly exoi-Ditantly high coxt of living was not. her the upward movement of prices begin I do not know, nor Is It clear that the mount in proportion propor-tion to the declining altitude In passing through Iowa, a state which looks, .it viewed from lh( oar v in-dow. in-dow. as though it could feed the I world, It was Interesting to speculate whether Its prices were those of 'al-j 'al-j Ifomla and Nevada or those of Indiana. In-diana. All this is, no dOUSjt, dlsJ tresslngiy utilitarian. Yet one mem- ; her of the party those mind l even I more prat th ai than mine asked: "Why don't you plot a curve show-j show-j Ing the trend of prices, and their re- latlon. or want of it. to altitude'.' Per-, Per-, haps the lowest prices will he found 1 at the top of Pikes peak"" Interesting Inter-esting as the suggestion was I refius- 1 ed to adopt It. It Is more In line with the talents f tin late Lewis Carroll, I am now concerned with phenomena. and not with thelr causes. It does occur to me, however, how-ever, thai 'he happy folk whom I have In mind, have found relief without with-out resorting to I'rof. Irvine Fisher's I flexible dollar. I IVDfAN if 17: mn i ir A touch of realism as a finish may serve to lift the mind of tbr reader above, the mere materialities of ex-j ex-j Istence. A few nights ago Dr Mc-CullOGh Mc-CullOGh made a speech, the OCCSLS-I OCCSLS-I Ion being the presentation f an Indian In-dian rUg to the conductors of the I tour, and it was full of Indians j more Indians than those present had ! ever heard of poetry, and the most ! beautiful adjectives It was tumult-, tumult-, UOUSly applauded, and for a time we j all forgot that there was such a thins as food In the world 1 f the Ini-1 Ini-1 ter fact we were painfully reminded I shortly after we reached home No ' one who participated In the presen-' presen-' tatlon of the rug can ever forget ti..,t It was 'woven under water." But neither can we forget that we once had a dinner as gqod as the Waldorf j ever set up for $1 75. and had the I chance 10 buy watermelons for 5 cents I 1 a pound. OLD TIMER I |