The evening world. Newspaper, September 23, 1908, Page 12

Wonders in $18 a Week When Careful Managers Have the Spending of It The Most Interesting Lot of Letters Ever Re- ceived in a Newspaper Office Are These Here Printed, Which Deal with a Problem That Concerns Millions. The avalanche of dally mail in The Evening World's “Paid in Full” contest | @applies the most interesting letters ever published in any newspaper, For the| @ubject of living comfortably on $18 a week {s one that intimately concerns @any thousands of readers, and all persons can write most Interestingly on that which concerns them most closely. While no suggestion is made to the effect that people who can afford to spend more money must limit their expenses to $18 « weok, the letters in this contest prove conclusively that such @ sum Is suf- ficient for @ good living, Joe Brooks, hero of “Paid in Full” was forced to support a wife on $18 a rweek, He thought the sum too smal! and became a thief, The Evening World thas put to Its readers the question: Can @ couple live on that weekly salary, and how? To stimulate interest in the contest, as well as to reward household economy, The Evening World has offered for the best replies the following fifty-five prizes! One cash prize, $25; one cash prize, $10; three cash prizes, $5 eaoh; fifty prizes of as many pairs of $2 seats for the “Paid in Full” performance at Weber's Theatre. Here are a few of the latest letters: Ono Month’s Rent Free. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: For a four-room heated flat the rent is $0 a month (often one month rent free, which would allow $20 yearly to use for EAster clothing). By putting every Saturday $5 for rent away we have every third month the necessary price for gas bills too, as we have four extra Saturdays in a year, Saturday, 18c., mi ale n, Of course, the bill of fare ie oeeiee nek of fare is varied, bu We never exceed the limit, Seven quarts of milk, 56c.; vegatables and fruit. 8; bread, 40c.; all cake made by wife, 30c.; ary groceries, $1.50; total, 6.51; still re: mains, $477; $1 goes in’ bank; $1 for Pleasure, magazines, &c., leaving $2.77 for clothes and shoes, ‘Wife does all her own sewing. MRS. C, E. TU No. 6fi Seventy-fourth reet, Broo yn. Speaks from Experlence, sixth street, New York. “No Necessity for Stealing.” Mo the Editor of The Evening World: tles sugar, butter, coffee, tea, cereals and other little table necessities, they will find it much cheaper, and can pro- vide very well for the table at $6 a THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1903, ——— FIFTY-FIVE PRIZES. For the best letters solving the $18-a-Week living expense prob- lem in “Paid !n Full.” One Cash Prize.. woe $25 locality can be rented for One Cash Prize.. 10} |} month. Here ts fs weekly Rent, $5.60; grocer, $3; bute Three Cash Prizes, Each.. BH] Gehl tna iceonines,’ ts ; 50 Prizes of as many pairs of $2} $2; milk, carfare, i eae laundres: cents; seats for the “Paid {In Full” per- {| church and other 1 formance at Weber's Theatre, Cols Seolkemnaase A Recreate eR eR Re Tm and bank $100 every year, and married life will be one ‘hapj pleasant dream. JOB RUBEL, No. 110 East Ninetleth street. A Saving on Rent. ‘To the Extitor of The Evening World: Mrs, Brooks 1s able to do the plain your and washing of the family, allowing for the | collars and cuffs and shirts of Mr, Brooks to be sent to the laundry. Table expenses tor each day, 60 cents on week days and $140 on Sunday. ‘There will be another saving at the end of the year, as follows: Fifty weeks’ rent money lald aside, $812; rent twelve months at $24, $288. This #24 can be used for the holidays, leaving a bal- ance of $135.20, $6.00 ent of flat ‘ables expel 6.00 Gas (cooking and lighting) ey) Carfare to and from work, 69 Laundry vo... 40 Lunch downtown 120 Incidentals ..... 30 Instalment on furniture Total .. Balance, $. A small sum over expenses fs left which can be used for clothes, tnsur- ance, doctor bills, amusements and a Uttle orfering at Easter, not forgetting the rainy day. P. J, SCHAEFER, No, 2218 Eighth ave, $3 Left Over. To the Diltor of The Evening World: They could live easily by the follow- ing scale: 4-room flat, $12 per month, Table expenses . clothes and a rainy day. VILLIAM J, MATTHEWS, nton street, Brooklyn. One Week's Pay for Rent. In answer to the $18 per week prob- lem, I wish to submit the following table andy wish to state that any man can do likewise and have no necessity for stealing to make both ends meet: Rent, four-room flat in Bronx, $18 per necessary !f he had saved before mar- riage), $1.50; life insurance (this js as good as savings in bank), 70 cents; car- fare to and from office, # cents; lunch, ® cents; laundry, two shirts, three col- Jars and two pairs of cuffs, 30 cents; in- cldentals; 60 cents; clothing $1; doctor, 60 cents; amusements (not necessary week), $1}. tot me i r G. BROSEMANN, JR. . 473 East One Hundred and Thirty- sixth street, Bronx. The Exact Sum. To the EAitor of The Evening World: From Hoboken. To the Editor of The Evening World: The following Is an expense account for two persons to live on for one week: Rent, $2.15; table expenses, $5; ferri- ages, dic.; lunch at work, laundry, Sc.; amusement: ment on furniture, $2; clothe 8 Total, $17.31. No, 12% Park avenue, Hoboken, N. J. A Rhythmic Solution. To the Editor 6¢ The Evi It I was earning $18 per a wife, simple life. Now, Joe's expenses I'll put first, doubled we'll have his and Liz's, She can have some pretty puffs and also Marcelled frizzes Now, for breakfast hubby needs two eggs at per twelve; In“eeven days he'll need fourteen to and cents a week, Three quarts of milk would surely do if he his health does seek A few sandwiches a day with 5 cents whole week long he'll t treat W spend his dough 80 cents would surely sand fruit do for I'm sure that I could do It, leading a} week. Gas at 40 cents will do the cook- ing, also serve for laundry use, The| wife could do the laundry for herself and husband and only send collars and cuffs away, which would amount to 20 cents; carfare, 60 cents; incidentals, 50 cents; lunches at 90 cents; instalmdpt on fur- $1.50 could be put in ab day. Prd PLECKSTEIN No. 118 West One Hundred and Ninth| street, Prepare fo Housekeeping, To the Editor of The Evening World: The best way is to begin right, not with debts. A man can and should save $00 out of his salary the year be- fore he gets married; then marry a young lady who can cook, wash and {ron and sew. Rent a flat for $17, buy $200 worth of good and useful house- hold articles. That leaves $10) cash on To the Biltor of The Evening World: | First, rent should never exceed one| week's income. Next, with the know!-| edge of cooking that good wives speed- {ly acquire, two persons can live finely on $% weekly. I sum up thus: i 3 ;] niture, $150; insurance, 2) cénts; coal, ne ‘ month, 4. table, $5; gas, 50 cents; Lia Pett +2) cents; coal,| Rent, $4. living, %; bank, $1; the-| 5 70 cents, “Total, $17. Soon pear Raat . 8 niture (this 18 not] ag* f atres, &c., 0c; furniture, $1; Su fastalment on fur as'instalment on furniture is pald the| and weekly papers, 4c.; laund: clothes, $2; coal and gas, $1; lunches, | Q0e.; carfare, H0c.; letter paper, postage stamps, 100, Total, $18.00 K. CHONDLBss. No, 88 Monroe avenue, Asbury Park. Save In Advance. To the EXlitor of The Evening World: ‘A young man like Joe Brooks, when engaged should save enough money to buy the furniture and a wholesale sup- ply of groceries, This would give the couple a start. The wite should do her own sewing. Living would cost as fol re’ you can buy bargains whenever offered. You can go - | tres (50-cent seats) gney Taland A couple should encou and to Coney Island, | culty in enjoying life's necessities and| who re: China Clos oak, highly poli feed his little self, And coffee at three cups per day, one- bent glass sides. half a pound should do him A . ctual value $20.00, And that would be 15 cents more to keep ; Me him from getting thin, Special, One-half a loaf of bread a day and 15 $11.9 Golden Oak ogy Rockers, with broad arms and ortable Salle seats, Actual value $5.00, spe- cial $2.85 Mahogany A Dail Menu To the Eaitor of World Two cai 3 eck. MAD e ‘ ry 5 ¥ | Be ase Ys HH iberal C edit a 7 wy ineldenta's $ Junch fon i HVarrange sents made to cuit the? Sideboard of «oj oak, gotlars vat ary s HE Kia ty ; SA: ins f ic nveni-nce of the purchaser.) 3 F2 Tr. t \ av a 7, Res nce teak oe oo| USILUO Wee Opens an Account uyrtes ‘Toewdsy | Pecans beam like design,in golden with glass doors and ished Dresser, $9.85 \ to ea A Few Convincing Values for Your Approval These specials have been picked from our regu'ar stock to let you know how cheap we are selling well made Furniture. Can you find their equal in any other store in New York? Don’t you think that you can save money by buying your household furnishings from us? , ets, Most Liberal shed, 8 TWO DOORS WES seh Pahl $19.75 ve Covered in on atone green, f verona | tapestry or damask, substantially | upholstered, Fin- F , c d iw 16,99 3 You Ca Enamelled B:dstead This Week many pleasures on $18 per week. Mrs | Broc of course, must have some | knowledge of cooking and housekeep ing. She may not be an Ta dress, but could afford to hire the vices of a laundress for that purp: She could also be lib her charity for the poor, A ci heated flat or apa ent In a No, 249 Fifty-first street, Brooklyn, A Bronx Flat. To the Editor of The Evening World: We havo a beautiful flat in the Bronx, four rooms and bath, Here is our ex- pense table: Rent vss ‘ vs $4.00 Table ‘expenses. 6.00] 33 |G ri lars laundered . 3] Cartare ‘8| I 50 ly 1.00 1100 st) Papers . eee seseenereveseeeenses $18.70 Thies leaves $4.30 to put in ihe bank fo rainy day and for clothes. aS MRS, BE, WOLMAR. No. 18% Brook avenue, Bronx. ——— jPOLICEMAN BEATEN UP IN FIGHT ON AN “L” TRAIN. Total .... —1 Women’s Gowns and Hats Tom During Battlh—Three Men Arrested, After being given @ chance to cool off lin the Fourth avenue police station over | night, Lawrence Kelly, of No, 706 Third avenue; James Kennedy, of No. 18 Pearl street, and Frank Stewart, of No. 51 Grand street, were arraigned this morning in the Adams Street Court, charged with taking part in a free-for- 80 | all fight on a Coney Island elevated d Gas... ‘ train. Rent and gas (weekly)... To the Editor of The Evening World: Carfare—morning, evening, y Carey, & B, R. T. policeman, Husband (carfare, lunc! | Experience 1s a good teacher. There-| day Worid, 200 per day, Timothy Cate Aone ad pasate Insurance and docto: fore I am in a position to show the| Laundry, average 1 col was severely be: y pee es Household + Brookses how well they can live on ai 3 shirts per week . According to witnesses Kelly started Laundry and church, fi , N) Lunch, six days t Instalment, $4 month neome of $18 per week and put aske|Instalments . Clothing or incidentals a few dollars for a rainy day. Sundry expenses to” stop At $4.50 a week they can have a com- owns and hats were ae car paar tor| fortable flat, with all improvements,| Total for one welts... Scuttle, At the Thirty Bae Taucu lion, veer Y X'y, Z| Table expenses at $5 a week ts scant| They could hold out the & cents, and | Hone Aghters subdu No. 518 West One Hundred and Forty-| enough, but by buying im large quanti-| put the $3 in bank, to be used for!” iin eee RAIN NEXT WEEK, SURE. |weather Bureau Sends Out Good Newn in Special Message, It's going to rain next week, sure, ac- cording to a special message from the Weathe: Bureau, and all of the Atlantic States are in for a wetting. While New York City has rather en- joyed the protracted dry spell, the upper part of the State, and In fact all New England, has been suffering material account of It. cometric disturbance that Is to rll Is scheauled to begin fall in temperature, ac- TO: cont 1 , 18 due co follow tha general wetting. —_—>——_ STOCKING CASH REGISTER. Restaurateur Schmidt Says Wife | loss to-morrow. A Poured Receipts Into Hoslery. lows: ! | 50: 5 midt, away restau- ; ‘ haga. A good cook can make ood | Rent, $4.60, clothes, $2.50; meat, $2;) Max E. H. Schmidt, Broadway My statement Is as follows: MCrAL whol your food} cog and. butter, $1.0); lunches’ $1: rateur, hea sued Martha, his wife since 30; tabl enses, $5; lunches, holesome and better than most A J Rent, $4.0; table expenses, $5; Bs ; sundries, $1; carfare, 6c; Insurance, Voy 9 yoo, a separation, on the fi, clothing, $2; gas, B0e.; cartare, éte.;| Women who spend twice as much for! 00.; milk, 48c.; laundry, 38¢.; gas, fie.) NOW > : NETVICLINI GE laundry, i0c.; furniture instaiment, $1;] food. Timely repatring will make your | Evening and Sunday World, lc, Total, ground that he has been the v Tncidentals, 60e,; doctor's bill, 7ée.; in [clothes last as long again, Your taun- | $5/Saved, #8, HE CULLUM, i s that Mra surance, 30c.; ice cream, 2c.; amuse-| dry bill will be almost nothing. Can’t| No 12 CHinton street, Newburg, N.Y. | AmO0B Oo Gunmed the contents of prenis, ree COT Sered th se exact figures on food. you use A Weekly Schedule. the cash into her stocking, oy o Ps Wale ‘ nore one wi ‘¢ ve a No, 30 East Third stroet, N.Y. | cash, enw eek than others. You have |p the Editor of The 1 Credit House. 155-157-159 EAST 23°° ST,' T of THIRD AVE.N.Y., t This $30.00 3-Piece Mahogany Frame Parlor Suite, Highly Polished, ® an Buy This $12.00 White And on Sunday the at after like design, richly A their work is through pianos J i re pe nakicby cesthuFeat and polished, has oval For $6 98 RRNA Then Wifes looks ketbook French bevel mirror Ha Se NGS | A and $2.9 i s AAO) (ate) , k she and 3 large deep a ayy Gpatiens a ‘I xO) ; : drawers, Actual value Br f my $14.00, specia \ | i | OPEN SATURDAYS | UNTIL9 P.M. I No Mai: Orders Filled for ‘Spt a | duce. COLLISION KILLS & MAN IN ANIGULANCE Temple Was Unhurt When Car Hit Vehicle, but Shock Was Fatal. By ‘a curfous fate Stephen Temple, thirty-eight years old, of No, 924 Malone | street, West Hoboken, N. J., {8 dead because he intrusted himself to an am- bulance when stricken with an Illness which was In nowise fatal. All his life | he had been in fairly goc alth, While standing at Malone street and | Clinton avenue, West Hoboken, yester- day afternoon he was seized with very tigo and fell to the sidewalk. bulance belonging An am- to Coroner Robert Quality Raincoats at Maker-to-Wearer Prices The efticiency, durability and continued shapeliness of a Raincoat depend upon the character of the maker. For a generation the Good- year Raincoat Co, has stood for character in the building of water- Schlemm, who {s also an undertaker, re- | CS RIL ET ARETE sponded to the call of a policeman, and Temple consented to go to the North a ‘ Hudson — Hospit The ambulance, th Ba hi ns “ driven by William Sehlomm, started for save the So ee fe nstitution at a rapid rate, ¢ ay ; ; ’ fag It Was crossing New feck avenue! PNPANT MORTALITY is something frightful, We oat. hardly realize that at Morgan ta Unton Hill trolley of all the children born in civilized countries, twenty-two per cent, struck the Jensen smote or nearly one-quarter, die before they reach one y thirty-seven THROW EERE IR A fata § percent,, or more than one-third, befare they are five, end one-half before | Was considerab| 1. 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