Smyrna times., 1858-04-29
Communicated.
The Delaware House.

The Delaware House.
No public improvement in our town has eve
created more lively interest than the projec
, tlon and completion of this new and elegan
Hotel. From its first inception by the enter
prising and spirited protector and owner, up tC
the day of opening the house for accommoda-
ting guests, we believe the interest manifested
by the townspeople has never cease. Indeed
during the past few years, no sort of public ira
provements have more interested the travelling
community and pleasure seekers, than a COM
modious, well-furnished and well-kept Hotel,
where, after a whole day or nights travel
fatlgued, sleepy and hungry,-one may sojourn
for time with comfort and ease, to rest his
weared limbs and administer to the inner wants
ofman. In short, first class Hotel nova days
is just as Indispensable, for the accommodation
of the public and Improvement and growth of a
town or city, as our churches, school houses,
manufactures and machine shops. Out west,
the first building usually erected, in locating a
new town or city, is good, commodious Hotel,
where visitors may be well taken care of; and
1t not unfrequently is the case the impression
the stranger receives from the management and
keeping of the Hotel, induces him to locate
there and engage in one sort of business or
other, thus adding to the population and gene
raj improvement of the town.
In no State more than our own has the want
of good, well-furnished and well-conducted
Hotels been felt, and the complaints from stran-
gers and business men visiting US have been
almost universal. 1t is with pleasure, there
fore, we announce the opening in our town of
the largest and most handsomely furnished hotel
in the State" The Delaware House."
This house has been built and arranged with
considerable care and expense by our enterpris-
ing and pubic-spirited townsman, DR.. S. M.
Fiser, who has spared no effort to make it what
it should be--a strictly first rate house and
whether he has succeeded in his effects we have
no doubt the travelling public will rightly Judge.
Gilbert Leonard, Esq, the lessee, is a gen.
teman of experience in the business from Phila-
delphia, and has exhibited as much taste as
modes'y in furnishing and decorating the whole
entirely with new and handsome furniture
every room being handsomely carpeted and
furnished with one of those delightful and
sleep-relreshing Jenny Lind bedsteads, together
with feather bed and mattress, the choice of
which is left to each guest. The ladies' paror
is handsomely carpeted and furnished, with two
very handsome mirrors suspended over the
mantles, together with luxurious sofas, chairs,
ETC., etc. His Table will be supplied with the
best our market can afford,-but not alone as
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occasion requires In Short it is MIR. Leonard's
desire 10 furnish his table with the best of every-
thing in season, regardless of trouble or ex-
pense. His Bar-which is kept at the earnest
wish of our legislators, as public necessity
will be well supplied with the choicest brands;
where special pleaders may argue their CASE
but we learn no intemperale indulgence will be
allowed, either in the use of language or ardent
spirit, as is to frequently the case in our halls
of Legislation as well as most bar-rooms.
One feature in the arrangements of this house
we have omitted to notice, which deserves spe-
cial attention, and which most ladies will ap-
preciate. MIR. Leonard has wisely fitted up q
number of his largest rooms for the accommo-
datlOn of families, with or without young chill
dren, and has them SO arranged that all the
conveniences and comfort may be had without
the trouble or anxiety usually attending persons
with such 1" little responsibilities away from
home.
The delaware House " was fully opened
Monday, for the accommodation of families not
wishing the trouble and expense of housekeep-
ing, single gentlemen and the travelling public
generally, and we have no doubt the gentle
manly and courteous proprietor will endeavor
TO please as we'll as feed all who may sojourn
under his roof.