The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1859-10-17
Hs1sI ILT.

Tho multiplication Of large hotels In our cities
shows, Of q use, that We are tho greatest poo
pie for travelling, In proportion TO our numberr,
in the world. But II also suggcsts the question
whether, after all, some improvements car not
be msde In the arrangements Of thom for tho
comforts Of large classos Of the guests. Twenty
years ago tho a stor house was the wonder Of the
United States, and suggested that large hotels,
from being more generally known, would pick
up the custom. And 30, whle England has
b~en building mammoth steamships-Hoatin
hotsls-wc have been putting up mammoth ho-
tells upon land. The stock in them does not nav
very we'll and steadily, except In q few casss,
but cert ainly costa the guests enormously, and
often without half tho comfort which might DO
secured at a third Of the cost.
A bookseller comes once or twice year TO buy
books or attend trade sale, Q country merchant
to buy goods, lawyer to compromise soms suit,
or clergyman to attend tho anniversaries. At
ho.ae those mon live comfortably. and plainly,
In clean rooms, With few and simple wants.
Tbey want TO get through with their business
and return The glare and the glitter, and the
company are nothing TO them. They are blaze
to all that, aud have got better frisae and more
truly respectable at home than thoss who dash
IL the hardest and make tbs greatest show In
those gildcd drawing rooms. And they have to
pay all the expense " the costly furniture which
IN used up or neods TO be renovated In six months,
or which, thumb soilod and dirty, Is put up I
story higher into their apartments, TO make way
for some, hing more gorgeous In fresh grsen and
gold In the a No. ! rooms where young gen.
tlemsn and his wife or mis- tress are splitting cham
pagne and ios creams.
Simple, quiet, clean comfort, good ventilla-
tion fresh linen, and plain neatncss, arc all the
large class Of business men seek and care for,
they hate the sevonth story, or room so small
they cannot ask In Q friend. They want not
luxurious deserts or hch food, but they want q
choice and quiet seat, not to be crowded and
not TO b hurried. But 10 80 through the five
courses Of fashionable dinner, and have to wait
varieties Of meat, then pies and .puddings and
then fruits-whAt has all this to do with them
They do not choose to submit their time to such
waste at home, except twice year ut tho
Thanksgiving dinner, or some great occasion,
why should thsy do It among Stranger Yet
Thousands do, and pay for Il all too simply be-
cause they want to be where thcy can be sure Of
having clean sheets, and COED sized room, and
not be confined to tho choice between tough becf-
steak, and ham and eggs Warmed over.
The business man wants respectahlity, and
that ho must and will have, but he does not
want to trust to hotels TO form his associates or
friends. he has his own circle at homo or his
letters introducing him in the city, and from
which he gets the benefits u his real character
formet and known for twenty years. He wishes
10 bc able w ask friend to dtns with him, to
cultivate friendship or finish up business
is naturally and wisely superceding the oil plan
Of one long and enormous board. But . far
pTea'er improv would be tho moro general
Introduction ot rooms Of different prices, and .
fair charge being made for the food furnished to
each guest.
Uf course thsro arc thoss TO whom hotel life
Is the everything In tho world. Who enjoy the
parade and the glitter, the dresses and the COM
pany immensely. tome who love tue bar
room or the champagne. Fast young men like
young lASF, who must dash II at any coat, and
Withouf being ka0cn to spend A. they do. For
the rest Of mankind, the hotel Is not . place
to ispe a. though Of the yreatost possible value
for sojourner with family or without. Even
for q few weeks, tho well conducted boarding
house has its advantages over the hotel foi
most. 70 live among strangers too long Is moi
| good. But to go among such for tho enjoy
ments Of life, shows but poor taste. To fancy
It's fashion and its style top Of everything, Il
pernicious. In such . life, mon walk In = false
and unnatural position. They arc not at homo,
not themselves, not half the timo ft for busi-
ness. Indeed, many arc led away, cheated, cor
rupted and destroyed by not going 10 . hotel
where they can be aud live just as they wonld
Al home, without othor pretensions or tho an
Ioyances Of strange customs and wAys.-Pha.
Ledger.