Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-09-17
NEW YORK HOTELS.

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New York has become distinguished for the matni.
ude and splendor Of its hotels as Washington for the
magnfcence Of its public edifces The number Of those
immense establishments would amaze any one who WAS
Of the Of thousands Of strangers who daily
pour into that vast emporium, all wanting accommods-
ton in bed and board We have been struck with the an
nexed Of Of the principal of those hotel pa
aces (the Metropolitan which find in New York pa
per, and of which public report speaks in the highest
terms 1t three years in the or constructions
at cost of FIVE hundred thousand dollars
The METROPOLITAN HoTEL.-The rise, progress, and
partial results Of the system recently introduced upon
which the large hotels Of this city have been conducted
are illustrated In the of the Metropolitan HOTEL
under the management of the Messrs. Leland. After
more than two years occupied in the construction of that
immense edihce opened to the travelling public on
the hrst day OF September 1852 1t was finished and
furnished with degree Of magnicencc which,
up to that time had never been attempted in any city in
the world and has not been surpassed since From the
first hour OF its opening the house has literally been
crowded with guests and the enterprise its pIopretors
has been richly rewarded The arrivals and departures
have averaged more than thousand per week and
such has been the desire to temporary hab
taton at the Metropolitan that frequently more than ono
hundred cots have been spread for weeks succession
The public parlors reception rooms, reading rooms bath
rooms and in fact every available spot has beenn requ
stion for sleeping places To make for this rush
Of travellers the proprieors have leased two largo houses
in their immediate vicinity for the accommodation Of
their employees and they have also been compelled to pro-
gular boarders The Metropolitan Hotel proper will COM
fortaby accommodate six hundred and it has had from
the start than that number within it's walls Three
hundred persons are employed in different capacities
about the establishment averaging empoye to every
two ysters Experience has proved that any thing short
OF this prevents proper and prompt administration Of
internal and external affairs. The wages of employees
range from two shings five dollars per day This will
give pretty good idea of the expenditures under this
head alone The laundry of the house probably the
most complete and extensive Of any in the worlds four
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fifteen minutes suffice to wash dry ron and deliver linen
for occupants Of the house.
There is continual round of Teasing from morning
till night or rather from morning till morning again.
The first breakfast table spread at five o'clock in the
morning, and until o'clock the next morning the
different meals served ut every hour of the day and
night the travellers arriving departing supply the
inner man with every luxury the market affords the FREE
quen arrival and departure of trains and steamers makes
this Indispensable The consumption of solids and liquids
at this establishment during the year ending September
l, 1858, shows that the proprietors must have had
small army to provide for 1t also shows that they
have given them all the Injuries well the necessa-
ries OF life. The commssary department Of the Metro
poltan avery important Among the leading
ticles of consumption we notice
Beef AIS, 900 lbs lamb and mutton $500 head veal
$50 head; fish and lobster, 10000 lbs oysters and
clans, 626O00 poultry and game, III 900 head ham
and pork, 81 900 bs; butter and cheese, $4,000 lbs
eggs 10000; milk and cream 204 900 quarts -four and
corn neal $500 bbis; fruits and vegetables, value
$4,000; brandy and other liquors. 6822 gallons cham
payne, Il, l6O bottles sherry, Madeira &c., % 912
bottles claret and white Wines IT, 942 bottles This is
independent of malt liquors. cordals, cooling vines &c.
The beef consumed last year in this house required
drove of thousand head to supply When consid-
er that this number required for hotel in this
city, form pretty good idea Of the immense herds
it must require to supply such population New York
contains. This, undoubtedly will astonish the Vegeta-
ran Society, and perhaps provide effective argu-
ments in favor Of cabbage heads and od-saugh The
enumeration of these items although comprising but
small portion of the articles consumed shows that the
annual expenditures be immense and that large re-
ceipts necessary to furnish such an
outlay This luxury and extravaganza be support
ed without great cost and the guests who pay bills with
alarming totals must not suppose for that il
all goes into the proprieors pockets.
The gross cash receipts of the Metropolitan Hotel
for the year ending September 1858, $500000,
of which about twenty per cent profits This is
of wear and tear, which is by
small item particularly with such splendid and expensive
furniture and appointments The cost of heating the
house ana gas consumed during the year.
Croton water rent 81 900. Six stages and twenty
ages are constantly employed in transporting
to and from the hotel During the year several public
dinners were given at this house. the last Of which wag
the Crystal Palace banquet Two splendid balls were III
ven one by the propretors and by the guests be-
sides this hop has been given Wednesday evening Of
each week throughout the dancing 1t requires
men with talents of ordinary character and pockets
Oh no ordinary depth to put into operation and carry out
successfully such an immense establishment. and we are
glad to learn that the Messrs Leland in every particu
ar, have realized their most sancuine anticnations
Their house literally the Metropolitan of the mctropo-
is The Crystal Palace and other attractions in New
ork have drawn thousands of strangers the CITY, and
Ill the hotels both great and small have been crowded
md the proprietors have been coming money.
RELIEF FOR THE BLIND.