The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-05-28

in-we want II for FIRE b or; it is portion Of
the lungs Of this city; and any member OF the
Common Council who would vote TO wipe out
any green spot from the city map should be out
lawed, cent to the penitentiary, or rowed 20 far
up Salt River that he never could get down
again
Hotels, and the Hotel system In New York.
The queetion-whetAer the city hotel-keepsrs
ought or ought not to raise the price of board to
So q day-which is not yet decided, leads to a
variety Of other inquiries in reference to the sys-
tenn pursued by the first class hotels of this city.
Half dollar day additional viii make some
difference to the travelling public; is 1t absolute.
ly necessary that it should be exacted? Cannot
the hotel keepers attack the evil which troubles
them at the other ends Can they not try to re-
trench their own instead of increasing their Gus
TONER'S expenses
We have no hesitation in saying, in the first
place. that the style Of living offered to the pub
Lie at the great notes.-the Astor, the Clarendon,
the st. Nicholas, the Everett the Union Place.
the Brevoort &c.-is far more costly than 1t
ought or need to be. There is more gaudy and ex
pensive furniture in the drawing rooms than. any
ono living cares for. No brewing room in the
house Of lady of good taste contains such arti-
Giles offurniture at such absurd prices as crowd
the ladies' salons of the St Nicholas and its COM
peers This extravaganza achieves no useful
purpose, while it adds materially to the annual
sum which the receipts from the house must make
good. Suppose the owners of the first class ho-
tells were to decide to buy no more gaudy furni-
ture, no more glazing brocatel2es, no more rose
wood sbsurdities; would they not go some way
toward enabling themselves to keep boarders at
So so per day!
Again, the style of eating at such great houses
as the Everett, the st. Nicholas, the Clarendon,
&C., is quite unnecessarily expensive and waste
full. Just as the guest from the country avoids
the yellow brocatel couch to seek seat on q
plain old fashioned hair bottomed chair, so nine
Nn-twentieths of the inmates of our hotels are
certain to dine day after day on roast beef OF
roast mutton, though there be a bill of fare as
long as ones arm covered with the names Of
French delicacies- Three or four gourmands may
be seen passing liquorishly from one foreign dish
to another and for these three or four an exqui-
site dinner for twenty must be prepared Again,
none Of the great hotels can tell beforehand how
many guests they will have at dinner; there may
be two hundred or there may be three; and
therefore as all the guests must dine together,
and ii would be impossible to turn away guest
dinnerless, q dinner must be prepared for the
larger number. Should the actual supply of
vnortbs orprox;,ato moro ~ioaoIv IN thu orr, olIor
the overplus of food is lost. IL there no way of
caulking this leaks
Two leading Notes.-The Astor House and the
Brevoort-have seemingly discovered middle
system-in the shape Of restaurant d prir
fire. In the old room which was once
known as the Aston Exchange, the proprietors
Of the Aston House have established restaurant
where man may dine at any price from $40 to
so cents per head. A rational man who feeds
wholesomely and likes clean cloth, good bread,
and civil attendance, can make an admirable
dinner there for forty to fifty cents; while the
carte appears to offer facilities for pretty extern
sive expenditure, If that be an object. A SINH
lar arrangement has been made at the Brevoort
House; indeed, we believe there is no table dho,e
there at all. Delmonico, in his old house on the
Bowling Green, pursued similar plan, 10 The
great satisfaction Of his guests: you could live
there at any price from 81 so to s25 q day.
On the continent of Europe, most Of the no
tells combine the table dh0e with the restaurant.
At certain boar in the day there Is public
dinner at public table, where You are fed by
walters who bring the dishes round, one by one;
for this s'fixed sum-from three to eight francs
-is charged; but you cannot dine at this table
unless you give notice in the morning, 20 as to
enable the cook to prepare enough and not too
much food for their guests. Besides this table
d'ho,e, there is an eating house, where you may
dine at any hour in the day, for any price you
please.
This example Ia worthy OF imitation. We re-
commend the prop-ictors of the st. Nicholas, The
Everett, the Clarendon, the Union Place. &C., 10
try il: to follow in the. wake Of the Astor House.
and Brevoort, and adopt a tariff for their rooms,
and another for their table d'hote, while provid-
ing the guests with a restaurant besides. BY
this means, rich man who goes to their house
will be enabled 10 spend his $40 q day; while q
poor man may live at 81 70 without disgrace.
We do not spprehend any decline in the cost
of commodities Of any kind until the present
cxorbiiant expansion has collapsed. But 80 far
as the hotels are concerned, We can see very
clearly that before they increase their rates once
more, they ought to try the merit of discrimi-
mating scale of prices, and Of the European sys-
TEN of feeding.
PRErARE FOR ruK PEsrIisScE.--The hot
weather and dirty streets. combihed with the
anarchy brought upon the city by Albany legis-
lation Of Thurlow Weed and his coufrcres, should
warn our citizens to prepare for the coming Of