Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1849-08-30
Neupori, r. l., Aug. 2lth.

/ Abuse is not argument--at least among ra-
tiona people, nor is denial, however dogma
tic, the smallest approach to disproof Allow
me TO say that the tone which you have
thought it decent to adopt in noticing my COM
munication to The Mirror, is much better adap.
ted TO the columns Of The New York Herald
or Ned Buntine', Own than to those Of q
respectable little paper Ike yours.
Il Ii is utterly ide and dishCnes, to attemp. to
raise false issue by the use Of such vulgar
slang as upstairs, clique 'hippaht feel
the world was made for lhcm,' we don't
care who the writer is (you did care for
him, it seems, enough to devote the larger
part of two columns TO him) and the like,
which is very well ad captandum ruigus, but
so Far as il has anything TO do with the main
question, is most accurately expressed in val
ue by The Oriental formula Brsh it is moth
ing" spoke Of general discomfort, general
wan, of accommodation, general coinp'aint.-
Are you 50 hopelessly stupid as to suppose
that al the boarders at the Ocean House are
perfectly content, because they do not all write
letters to the papers
Il have no doubt that Mr.. Weaver's con-
duet as a man and a citizen Of Newport has
been such as TO win the esteem and conh'
dence Of his fcllow-townsmen, and that he
was an ornament 10 the profession which he
followed before turning his attention TO his
present business understand that one Of
the gentlemen connected with him has filled
high office in the church. But all this has
nothing TO do with the point at issue. re-
peat my assertion that the Ocean House for a
hotel Of as class, is badly kept, and ] should
not be afraid to wager fifty cents against the
yearly receipts v your paper large bets
can't make, not icing millionaire, with all
reference to Col Fuller that were poll OF
the boarders taken tomorrow, that assertion
would be confirmed by nine ,enths vote
These complaints are nothing new. They
have been going on for at least three success
! i've summers. have heard them while oc-
! cupying a house in the town have heard
them at New York at Niagara, at / know
no, how many places. The very nurses and
Il servants-not exactly the ella ss Of persons
who expect all nature to bend to their bidding,
ENJOY democratic equality Of short-commons
with their employers, and go moaning abou,
like SO many Oliver Twists, vainly asking fol
more.
| The whole point of tho Mirrors remarks
! and yours is that expect at crowded hoeI
! the comforts of home. That would be green
of me indeed. Blu, had you taken The troub
| le to read my observations before proceeding
to Blingsgate them, you could not have help
ed ,neing that ! judged The Ocean House
! throughout by The star dard Of othsr hotels
4 What is there unreasonable in that : The
/ Ocean House Processes to be The hotel OF New
port. Very well, compare it with The Ho'
tells of similar places the u Iited States a
Saratoga, the Cataract at Niagara, the Pavil
ion at Rockaway. went to the last men.
toned place with two changes Of linen in q
diminutve carpet-bag, and asked the office
clerk TO put me anywhere he could for three
! days' During those three days | wanted iol
\ nothing, and had time TO learn that every one
! in the house was as well satisfied as myself
i IL there are more people at the Ocean
;. House than a, the Pavilion, as Col. Fuller
| ms to hint, that makes The case so much III,
1 roy,e for Me later. 1t is an axiom in bus
| mess that when public establishment IS start
Il ed by competent persons on d proper scale
The more custom it gets, the better J: can DC
| made.
" Ah"but says the Col. "if you don't like
| the Hotel why don't you go'" Why, indeed:
As if there could be any greater nuisance
than for a man who is just settled in place
with bag and baggage wife, children and ser
wants, than to /" pull up sakes," again and
shift his quarters for week or ten days
Rather than to do that, one may submit to a
| great deal of inconvenience, but it does not
| follow that he must submit in silence, neither
Sill, One OF THE SUFFERERS.
H We have received the above polished COM
\ nunica,ion from "Onc Of the Sufferers" as
he styles himself, who published windy let
ter in the New York Mirror, few days since,
which we copied and replied to, in just such
tore and sp rit as it deserved. The author
Of the above communication is Mr.. Charles
Astor Brisied, Of New York, grandson of
the late John Jacob Astor. As the editor of
a public Journal, We republished his letter
from the Mirror, in regard to the Ocean House,
aud accompanied it by cur own remarks !;
not that we deemed it worthy Of republica-
lion a: prize essgy, or choice sTecimen OF
Anglo Saxon lilerature,--but simply to cor
rect its missta,ements, and to deny lis charg-
es and we consider our DENIAL of the charg-
es as entitled to quite as much weight, as Mr.
Charles Astor Brisied's assertion of them, al
though he thinks that denial, however dog
matte is not the smallest approach 10 dis
proof As thi, young man has thought prop.
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