The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-08-30

IsteI 10 tue COuTt OF 81. James; .. -. skinner,
Esq, Assistant Postmaster General, under Har-
I,son, and Philip Greeley, Jr, Esq, Collector of
Boston. Adieu. BR
SARATOGA, August rs, 1919,
Close of the Season--Lettr Wr,tas and Je,cs-Ser-
rants at Hotels.
We have yet considerable quantity of human
beings lingering in this region; but the pnks of
fashion and folly-the very cream of the gay
world-have gone, or are going soon. The season
has not been generally prosperous, although the
United States Hotel has run away with the lions
share. 1t has been ascertained, believe, that the
Rev. Rufus Griswold, the waddling author, wrote
the letters from this place, blowing up Marvin's
hotel and your correspondent, and putting the
wandering pianist with the dirty tongue. The lat
ter genius, afterwards, got German Jew, by the
name of Burckard, the brother-in-law of an Irish
Vocalist Voc to wrte The abusive card costing proba-
Great doings at this Saratoga this summer They
say one fashionable lady lost 81 600 gambling
Others had their bosoms stripped very low the night
OF the fancy ball; and at fefe chanipetre they had
at the Lake, day or two after, and which they
say cost many hundreds of dollars, masters, dri-
vers, &C., all suiced the champagne, until the only
wonder was, that many necks, legs, NC, were not
Sroken getting home.
You may well be called the great reformer. You
are doing more towards correcting evils, great and
small, than several scores of your lazy, lubberly,
dignified contemporaries. You have done much in
the greater matters, and rejoice you have got
hold of some Of the smaller, but not unimportant
ones. This bribery of servants at hotels you have
at last come down upon, and many are the souls
which will say amen 10 your anathemas of the
system am an " old stager in travelling, and
have been in foreign parts, too, and have, like most
other wayfaring men, paid this tariff to boots,
chambermaid, waiter, porter, NC, but with
hundred thousand others who have done the same,
have never why / should be paying boots
chambermaid ~ CO, IN this country, where the
landlord has already paid them. In NO part of the
world do servants receive better. wages /; why,
then, should they be authorized to levy another
compensation on all who come within their reach,
or make The fecusant suffer neglect insult, the
the penalty In some of our fashionable hotels,
which could mention, one of these harpies
tuay has sign-board hung over his abdomen,
which is printed in gilt letters Remember the
Boots" In another, which has perhaps had the
largest, longest, and most profitable custom of al
most any of our hotels, the guest must run the
gauntlet through double file of expectan waters,
after paying his bill at the Office before he makes
his exit at The door. And what's worse, the land
lords know all about thIs-they see II with their
own eyes. Ii these landlords have not sufficiently
compensated their servants for their labors shame
and selrespect should prevent their allowing these
stinted blrelings from retrieving the injury done
them by beeeng, or extorung money from their
guests; and il they have paid them, then in the
name Of all decency, why should they permit such
Gnnoyances 10 be practiced?
Even In Enelbhu, as you pIOOdOly KNOW, MI
Bennett, at the best regulated hotels, servants
fees are now reckoned at SO much, and charged
in the bill and on the railways, no servant
IS allowed TO receive a Donation, on penalty oil
instant dismission. The company pay him, and
that is enough.
To persons living in our large cities, and taking
trip, phefheps, once wear to some watering
place, this tax n small matter, as 10 pccuuiary
value; but TO gentleman from the South or West,
who brings his family and spends the summer, II
becomes a heavy item. These, too, are not all
wealthy planters, who can well afford il. Some
are driven away by an unhealthy climate, some
ore seeking, in more invigorating atmosphere,
the restoration Of some valued member OF the fa-
mlly, and lond parent is sometimes taking his
daughters, 'Just turned OUT TO see the world, and
for many of these, such trip requires great eco
nomy and sacrifice from almost necessary comforts
Why then should the tax be rendered more one
rous by this unjust and unnecessary lmposltlonl
This thing has been greatly complained Of and #
you will lay II down hard on the hotel keepers, until
They, provide the remedy, you will have abundant
thanks.
,8Jropos. In good old times, whom You paid
hackman hall. dollar to carry yourself and trunk
fTcm your hotel to the steamboat, he would put
our trunk on the boat; he drives 10 the wharf,
takes the trunk off and leaves II, whilst another
porter must carry il on the boat, who must be paid
a quarter or a shilling, and then of the waters
accotts you with his card, and asks If you wish
your baggage taken care Of o, shame-all these
at our great hotels, &c, where the traveller ~ TO
have everything arranged TO make him comforta-
bic. il these serving man are not paid enough,
then let the rates be changed accordingly, but for
mtrcy's sake let us have done with these nui-
sances. 1RAVRllER.