Word: costing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Fifth avenue and Twenty-sixth street, on Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 6.30 P. M. All Harvard men from any quarter, whether members of the club or not, are cordially invited. The price of tickets for the dinner, including wine, is six dollars. The club, as usual, pays the additional cost of the dinner. It is desirable that the committee should promptly receive notice from those intending to be present...
Baltimore has received a gift of $1,000,000 for the establishment of a free public library. The donor is Enoch Pratt, one of the trustees of the Peabody Institute. A building to cost $225,000 and to hold 200,000 volumes is being erected. The city receives the money to use as it chooses, but in return binds itself forever to pay an annuity of $50,000 for the support of this library...
Voted, That in the opinion of the directors the increase in the price of board over that of last year is mainly due to the decrease in the membership of the association, rather than to the increase in the cost of provisions...
Vanderbilt has had two hundred yards of costly silk hangings woven at the celebrated establishment of Cheney Bros., for his new mansion in New York. The hand embroidery on this beautiful material cost nearly four thousand dollars. The silk draperies made by the same concern expressly for him are delicately interwoven with threads of pure gold and cost fifty dollars per yard...
...cost the Union Railway Company $12,000 to keep the track clear since the big snow storm of Saturday...