New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-26
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artP iofWnr1 III tnr Socidi transtornhuon winch
so many bliDdly revile but are impotent to arrest
or avert, we have given il a careful examination
with view to a sugg. stive description.
This Hotel extends three hundred feet on Broad
WY and two hundred on Prnce-st., is built Of
brown stone, six stories high, but three-fourths
OF the first story is surrendered to stores, leaving
only seventy-hve feet in the center for a spacious
office, baggage.room, &C., with two reception
rooms fer guests lone Of them for ladies) who
have just arrived and are waiting for rooms to be
assigned to them. The house has FIVE entrances,
two Of them for ladies and their attendants, two
for servants besides the main entran:e from
Broadway. Ii has three dining rooms besides the
servsnts'-that for ladies' being calculated to seat
two hundred and fifty persons, amid every app-
ance for the satisfaction Of the palate. The third
dining room is for children and nurses. The Pub
lie Parlors are near these, supplied with every
fitting auxiliary to comfort and elegance. The
private suites OF rooms on this floor include paror'
one, two or more bedrooms, bath, dressing.
room, store-room. &C., and are superb in all
their appointments, as they we'll may be,
since the most eligible are charged from
s75 to 500 per suite per week, and are eagerly
taken up at those rates. Thence to the upper
most story the rooms diminish in size and ex-
ptDse, those in the sixth story being let at 81 per
week. The price of board is uniformly 81 per
week, and ofboard an, lodging to transient guests
who do not require extra accommodations is 50
per day. One dazzling suite of rooms is fitted up
bridal parties. The furniture is all of solid
oak, thoroughly polished; the beds are all Spring
nd Hair Mattresses all the suites and some of
he single chambers have private baths, store
oons closets, &C., while the cheaper single
rooms have wardrobes, Croton water, &c., with
baths, closets, &c, Immediately at hand. TIE
house is lighted by gas and heated by steam
throughout, though any guest may have coal
FIRE in his own room if he sees ft-the steam heat
being dliiused through the halls. Ample provision
made for Ventilation everywhere. The Ch,n-
deliers and Brackets are of new patterns, some OF
them of a darker bronze which seems an improve
ment the bedizened lacquer-work generally in
vogue. One wing of the house is devoted to Fam
lies and Ladies; the other to bachelors or gentle
tlemen transiently in town. No lady need see or
be seen by half a dozen persons out of her owa
set in the course of winter unless she chooses
to be.
The numbered rooms are 353 of which perhaps
100 are Parlors and $50 Bed-R Doms though many
are both. The house is calculated to entertain
in perfection about five hundred guest though
one thousand, including servants might be COM
fortabiy lodged under its roof In the basement
are the general store rooms, receiving rooms for
provisions, &c. fall bought at wholesale after
careful scrutiny as to quality. &c bakery. iaun-
dry, ice-room, kitchen, &C., with two boilers OF
twenty. five horse power each, and eam.engino
which works the mangle, turns the spits, forces
water INTO the reservoirs at the top of the house,
and will doubtless saw the wood and chura the
buttsr whenever there are any of these Jobs to
do. The Range is the poorest feature Of the
establishment, wasting in stewng out the COOKS
eyes good deal of heat which ought to be
saved for cooking the food. 1t may be- that there
are no better in our City; if so, we should send
persons TO Paris to learn how to construct ranges
properly. 1t is a gross barbarism to cook the
kitchen-mads when only the victuals are to be-
eaten.
Here, too, amid cor genial gloom, are the grog.
gerry and smoking room, for smoking is not allowed
TO make hideous the Office, halls, reading room,
&c. The GROCERY looks afraid Of daylight aud
ashamed Of ITSELF tas it we'll may,) and is evidently
ready to bolt at the first appearance of the ex-
pected Maine Law. Heaven grant that it may
not have long to wait
The Metropolitan will be opened to the public
on Wednesday, Sept. LIST, and already great por-
ton of its rooms engaged though its books
have been open but day OF two. Some idea of
IT'S extent and thoroug hness Of appointment may
be gathered from the facts that its Glass alone
cost $8 600, and it's Plumbing over 5000. liz is
great Hotel; but it suggests hotels still larger
and better. Its steam-engin inc takesup baggage at
the entrance and deposits it quickly and carefully
on the third, fourth or any higher floor; but the
guests must tug themselves up the stairways,
which is absurd and transitional. IN the next
Hotels they will step into car on their own floor,
and glide quietly to the dining room or the street
door. The metropolitan flies it's journals from
every State in the Union the next advance will
give its guests Telegraphic dispatches from every
point of interest, sent in manifold to each guest
who chooses to order and pay for them. Every
step ahead indicates and makes plain the step
that is to follow.
When, . when, will some capitalist build Ho-
tel for the Poor The needy miserable wretches
who now cover among filth and vermin exposure |
10 the elements, and the seeds of pestilencs, in
Cross and Little Water streets, are pay ing enough
for lodgings to secure them pure air. cleanliness.
adequate space and every thing essential to com.
tort # houses were built with due regard to their
wants and the best of satisfying them.
How long must truth 50 obvious need TO be dinned
INTO the public ear before it shall be acted upon2
JOLLY GRELN.-S. w. writes TO state
that he paid IS to certain DR.. &. w. Roback of
this City for advice by conuration which would
enable him to draw generous prize in a lottery,
and WAS sold. of cnnrse. He eends Ia Ill the