Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1914 — BIG SPENDERS ARE SCARCE [ARTICLE]

BIG SPENDERS ARE SCARCE

New York Hotel Man Bays Patrons of i/ the Present Day Are Much More Economical.

“Hotels and restaurants are expecting something more than usual from society this winter," said one hotelman, who is as well up on the restaurant situation as anybody in New York. “It is believed that fashionable people will do little entertaining in their homes. It will be cheaper and easier to invite their friends to a restaurant, where they may have dancing after the dinner. “As a matter of fact, the day of the lavish Bpender is gone, so far as New York is concerned. We shall never see again the era that ended nine or ten years ago. Those were the days when men from Chicago or Pittsburgh vied with each other in the extravagance of their entertainments. It was nothing for a dinner to cost $25 a cover. Now a days, the average is about $4.50. “The change in spending habits has forced the hotels to employ cost accountants. The manager of every modern house is now able to know, when a mutton chop is placed on the table, just how much of each item of the hotel’s expanses that chop has to carry.”