At first they said nothing but 'lots--lots--up town--down town--twenty-five feet front--dollar,
dollar,
dollar.' La!
House-hunting in the other end of town ceased, and on Pine Street, between Fifth and Fourth, and in immediate proximity to the great Southern Pacific railroad yards, Billy and Saxon rented a neat cottage of four small rooms for ten
dollars a month.
That was Thursday; and all the rest of the week the killing gang at Brown's worked at full pressure, and Jurgis cleared a
dollar seventy- five every day.
James Grant was a journeymen carpenter who did not always pay his bills and who owed Maria three
dollars.
In Paris you pay twelve
dollars a dozen for Jouvin's best kid gloves; gloves of about as good quality sell here at three or four
dollars a dozen.
"How on earth do you expect me to meet a draft of two hundred and seventy-five
dollars without a
dollar in the treasury, and with a debt of thirty thousand
dollars staring us in the face?" "Vail's salary is small enough," he continued in a second letter, "but as to where it is coming from I am not so clear.
I had given one of our creditors a promise that upon a certain day he should be paid four hundred
dollars. On the morning of that day we did not have a
dollar.
A placard near by announced that they had been reduced in price from two
dollars and fifty cents to one
dollar and ninety-eight cents; and a young girl who stood behind the counter asked her if she wished to examine their line of silk hosiery.
Wingrave at that time was the possessor of six thousand shares in the Royal Hardwell Copper Mine, which had cost him, on an average, two
dollars twenty-five.
You go around looking for to dig out ten million
dollars with a second-hand spade you call buy for sixty-eight cents."
When I entered the university, I borrowed forty
dollars from him, without interest, without security, without buying a drink.
In his possession was some two hundred
dollars in gold-dust, which Daylight immediately borrowed.
