The New York herald., 1850-05-18

rIi AMERICAN %. TIE EUROPEAN rLAl

TIE AMERICAN ~. TIE EUROPEAN PLAN.
AuSG4 ths wants Of great city like this are hotels
and stopping places hotel was formerly understood
10 Be residence to which could resort, and find
all the comforts Of home He had his room his bed,
and his regular meals consisting Of every luxury and
delcscy Of the season. He made his arrangements
with the landlord at stipulated price per week. per
diem and both parties performed their contract and
were satisfied This the good old American plan
Of hotel keeping which has existed in the city from its
commencement to the present day, when have
specimens OF this class, the Astor the Clinton, the
American, the Irving, and the Union Place hotels
within few years another class of hotels has sprung
up among us; aud the proprietors seem TO be making
fortunes; and there is why Aey should not
do so in the os incredible short space of time And
Of all the fair and fattering which nerprsng
and ingenious have concoced to victimze the in
nocent aud unsuspecting traveller permanent resi-
dent, there Is nothing compare with hotel kept
upon 'the European plan" How people be imposed
upon by them. passes our comprehension, and won.
der they find customer The rise and progress
OF one Of these hotels the European plan" may be
of service to the uniniated Mr. Anybody hires single
house or two houses and untes them one, at rent
Of fifteen hundred two thousand dollars He has the
remodelled, and made just large enough to hold
very small bed, washstand, and little table.
few dozen Of miserable little lamps, bar with bad
nquor, porter ana bootblack, ana half dozen cham
bermads, comprise all the stock in trade, and the
sources of revenue eighty to hundred and
twenty Of these dminutive These he rents to
any who will take thom and for night, which
is fifty cents for week, which is three dollars If
the room is double the size Of the bed then price of
four five dollars per week. We viii suppose the
boarder upon the European plan requires food. He
goes out TO get it, at the nearest place and at the cheap
est II he goes to Sweeney's or Gunters and orders
sxpenny plate he cannot get along at less than three
dollars to three dollars and ly cents per week which,
added to the cost Of his wrctched ROOM Is six dollars
and fifty cents for which he could get excellent
room in q first rate private boarding house. II
Is a drunkard, and don't require much food, of
these places may then be more economical, for he
has n sort Of place TO stick his head in. In
some Of these upper houses on the European plan,
they will furnish you with breakfast and tea for
which you pay three shillings meal, about SIS
o week more. Your dinners at respectable place will
average SO cents eaeh So So which is Sl2 without
extras without comfort and for this any
person go to the best hstel in New York, perma
nently and have every comfort and luxury But in
the hotel on the European plan" should the poor
victim fall sick may heaven have mercy his soul,
for his body and physical condition past praying for
The following would bc very fair sample Of his bill
for week -
Mr.. Poor DEvL, Ds.. To SiIAs ssquEErE-IHr-PocKEr.