Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-06-12
STRIKE AMONG THE NABOBS BOLT OF
IIL, rRApI IL IIaN HlrEI.

Everybody, or nearly eyerybndy who reads the
newspapers, probably knows by this tins that thsre
has been movement among The hots proprietors, in
This city, advance the price Ut board strangers
from two dollars fity cents day 10 three dollars
Everybody, however, does not know that this mpvs-
nen, at this time, owing more to the high price
of than the high price OF beef. The preense
was that provisions high and the hotels could
not afford 10 fred people for dollars fifty cents
head but the true for the effort lay i'll the fact
that the northern travel and business were over aud
the southern pleasure travel just about 70 commence
Cotton WAS high, planters rich and southerners
prcveroisly liberal; how could there ba q better time
10 put up prices than the PRESENT. True, beef had
risen two cents pound, and g gOrm1ndi'er would
sat half pound day. Here was dead loss of a
cent day. Sugar, too, high, and loss Of at
least one cent more was felt on that item. Flour
aud potatoes little lower, and a cent of the
loss gained these two items; but then butter
and lard, poultry and other 'hxings were high, and
reckoning everything together, IL was evident that
the aggregate cost Of keeping man 81 one OF our
rst class hotels from two To two and half cents
more day than il was last year. To some this was
sufficient for advance in the price Of board
aud so the company" We're called together To form
combination to put up the fare." Several MEETINGS
were he'd and the question: with all its bearings, fully
discussed.
Thoss in favor of Engineering" as the newsboys say,
cit long and eloqusny upon the high price OF beef
but the knowing ones winked and sa,d COTTON
southern travsl-huInbug. The proprieors of the
Metropolitan, the first of the large aud magnificent no
tes 10 this cty-which attracted the attention Of the
world by ills elegant and costly furniture lis spacious
aud cOmmodious and its surnptuous tables look
I'd upon the whole movement as cafch penny affair
aud refused To have anything TO do with II. They
said that they had had experience IN hotel KEEP
ing had beeu in the business more than twenty year,
and although they spent more aud more money every
year, and intended 10 continue TO do so, for the COM
fort and luIures Of their guests, they could make
money and making money at present prices and
would join no combination for tine purpose OF advan.
cling prices.
The truth is, the managers ofhs Metropolitan have
the faculty OF sailing along just the confines Of eI.
| trsvagance without going into it. In other words.
they know exactly how far to CO. aud give their
guests all the comforts and Injuries that hotel can
Afford without the extravaganza that daz7les the eye
but does not please the taste The consequence H.,
their house is always full of the very best class of peo
pile 10 the country, and is beyond question the most
popular, As 1t ID the most comortabs hotel in the city
The fashion Of the Metropolitan Hotel is that of the
first class Of wealthy people IN this city, and not that
Of gamblers, snobs, pOitcians, aud jewel bsdizencd
Spectators, OF which New York is always full. And
this fact the prOprioors as much ~ to any one
thing their great SUCCESS in business They have but
lew unpaid accounts on their books Each ho-
tel hos ito peculiar class ufgue.ts and the metropolitan
was right in refusing to raise the price whilst IT ell
jOyed the patronage OF that class which know as well
how to keep as enjoy lis wealth, and never tries to
make money by "spongng on its landlord"
Southern travellers aud merchants are indebted to
the Metropolitan for the stand its prupretOrs have
taken in their defence and commend it 10 their a.
tenon with mors than ordinary pleasure not only on
this account but because feel assured that who
enjoys it. luxuries and comforts week, through
our influence, will thank for it er York Day