Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1891 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

When a sensible young man, who bad given a dinner to three of his friends in a private room of a fashionable resfiaurant, received a bill for the repast amounting to a hundred dollars, ho paid it, says the New York Sun, with the remark that he did not belong to that order of young snobs that enjoyed being cheated, and should take good care to go elsewhere for his banquets iu the future. Speaking of the matter to some of his friends later, the young man said :' ‘‘Although that restaurant is firstclass in its equipment, and serves its patrons in the most perfect style, yet it is not for that reason it is a favorite with the very swell young men of the town. Cadley and his friends haunt the place because they are charged enormous prices there for what they are served. Theie is actually a large element'of rich and vulgar men in New York of the Cadley stamp, and if they are not allowed to pay absurdly high prices for things, they imagine they are getting second-class goods. Y’ou will hear a young dude boast of how he pays $1 apiece for his cigars, and $2 for a bit of duck. But it is in those private dinners that the swell snob revels. He goes and gives an order for a dinner for four, six, or eight people, as the case may be. observes carelessly to the manager that of course he is to have carte blanche in getting up the repast in handsome style, and thinks no more about it. The dinner is delicious, you raav be sure, aud all the guests are delighted. Now. if the restaurant-keeper were to hand in an anywhere near reasonable bill the snob would rather doubt the quality of that dimer; so it is necessary to charge him three or four times what it is really worth. He is offensively rich, and be pays the excessive bill with a great deal of pride. He has disposed of S2OO or S3OO in one meal, and that is his idea of splendid living. These are the men that fix the prices at the ultra-fashionable restauiants, and if a chap comes along who isn’t made of money, but might afford to be just a little bit cheated, he is barred from doing the elegant in a modest way because there are any number of snobs ready to engage the rooms at a much higher rate of robbery.”