New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-19
BODYBUILDING.
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Every year the newspapers chronicle the
opening of several new Hotels in this and
other cities-some of them larger and more
commodious, possessing new cOnvenlences,
and more spleRdidly furnished, than any
predecessors. Old-fashioned people gravely
shake their heads, and predict smash-up
among the builders and managers of these
new palaces for every body who can spare
a ten dollar bill-and sometimes their pre-
dictions are realized in one or two instan-
ces, yet the tendency to Hotel-Building is
not arrested nor checked, and new edifices
for general entertainment, copious and ex-
pensive beyond precedent, are annually
planned and m altiplied. When the Aston
House was erected, it was the wonder of
the Country; that was some fifteen years
ago, and already there are many hotels of
the same grade, and several which surpass
it in the extent of accommodations at
forded. In the general excellence and
completeness of those accommodations,
there would seem hardly room for i'm
provement, and yet improvement is made
on one point or another-as, for instance,
in the Clarendon, where each suite of rooms
and many of the single bedrooms have
each its own bath. room and every conven-
fence which follows in the train'of boun-
tiful supply of Croton. Study and exPe-
rience will indicate still further adaptations
to ease and comfort for, despite of croak-
ers and hang backs, the building of Hotels
will 90 on, and those of186O will decidedly
surpass those erected in 1850. 1t is bound
to go on, simply because it is demonstra-
ted, incontrovertible fact that by combining
under one roof the kabitGtiOns Of sererGIhan-
dnd persons and cOnfding to one head the
purreying Of Food, Serriee, 8r. for them
all, an immense Economy is realized, and
Family may be supported for $4,000 per
annum an a style Of comfort and turary
trhieh ,rould cost $4,000 to $4,000 4"
separate households or each.
In this Country, nothing holds out long
against an opportunity for saving. The
class whose incomes are equal to their de-
sires is very small, while the great major
ity, even Of those who enjoy liberal in
comes, would live more sumptuously ifthey
felt that they could well afford it. But
sons and daughters are to be educated,
started in business or portioned in marriage,
and the thrifty head of family whose
property is counted worth one to two hun
bred thousand dollars, finds himself con-
fronted at every turn by demands on his
purse which be is puzzled to meet. We
speak, Of course, of life in cities, where
100000 Is about equal to 100000 in the
country; but the law holds good every
where. Baths, greenhouses, shrubbery,
carriages, paintings, statuary, an ample
library, &c. &C., are generally desired;
but nearly all must inquire Can we real
Nv afford them True, we can obtain
them and pay for them ;.but how will
.our plans of life, our income, our wishes
for our children, be affected therebyl If
I'VE resolve to obtain all these, must we
mot foIego other aims as imperative if not
SO directly conducive to our personal en-
'joymentl'
But here the Hotel principle comes in
view, and the suggestion presents itself
True, you cannot buy and own all you