The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-03-25
sHARnEY Housr. Baron Rouor.

lent 1oleI, Kept ~ our old frlent
Markham, has been doing fair bust
meas the past season. We are quit,
sure it has merited all the success i
has met with. There are few clever
er gentlemen or more obliging land
lords that Capt NJ. He does all il
his power to make his guests comfor
table, and to supply them with all The
Injuries and convenience Of a frs
class hotel and he generally succeeds
Outside Of this city there are few no
tells in the Mississippi Valley that are
equal to the Harvey House and no
where in or out Of the city, can be found
nobIer or more whole-souled land.
lord.---Lous siana Fourth District
Republican.
We consider the foregoing compli-
ment to the proprietor Of the Harvey
House richly merited. We have been
informed by one who has had expert
ence in the premises, and who is capa-
bic Of. judging, that the hotel is an
excellent one, and its proprietor, and
subordinates, anxious to, and capa-
bic Of, serving the public. Were the
location Of the Capitol considered
permanent, there would soon be no
complaint about the lack of hotel &C.
commodations in Baton Rouge. Her
citizens would speedily remedy all de-
ficencies in that espect.-Butletsn.
As the foregoing complimentary
notices appear together in the columns
Of the Bulletin, we republish them, as
we'll merited evidences of the fact, that
some ofour city contemporaries are
willing to give credit anywhere it may
be found justly due. The Legislature.
is not now setting, and we therefore
have the largest liberty to make few
"off.hand remarks" on this matter, 1--WE
would say independent" but the word
has fallen into disuse, if not positive
disrepute.)
The Harvey House, was built in
anticipation Of the removal Of the
Capitol Of the State to this place in
1874. The Convention that framed |
the Constitution of 1915, drew line
about the commercial emporium, and
said in that obsolete document, that
the seat Of government should never
be 1cithiu the limit of go miles Of
New Orleans. This "black line," as
t was called, was the cause of another
Convention to make another Consti-
luton, principally on account Of this
,dious Introduction, of the chief city
# the State. Messrs. Pike 4 Hart.
hen commission merchants, having
'nly common interest in the pros
'erity Of the place, stepped aside from
heir regular business, and withdrew
herefrom, the principal part Of their
'apital, to erect this Ito Baton Rouge
t least, magnificent structure. They
the work under such cir
as would have unnerved
many bold and determined heads,
nth stronger hands.
hey had the ruins of the State House
Donaldsonville to stare them in the +
ICE as a warning to the venturous c
pirit Of interprise-the prediction t
q all hands from our own citizens !
lat the work would involve them to
,ch an extent as to overwhelm them
that the hotel, would be a monu- b
lent Of their commercial death, and v
II into the hands of others under the Y
ammer; and yetthe work progressed y
its present fair proportions. The h
ouse was scarcely finished and placed o
the hands Of that popular landlord, ii
r. L. A. Pratt, (now of the Gait 81
ouse Louisville) before malignity and ~ ~
IVY combined, to wrest the ground on e,
hich the building stands from their ii
lnds. The house was opened and IL