New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-11
AN IMPORTANT MATTER.

The Fifth Avenue Hotel has opened it's ample
doors to the wsy-worn and weary traveller. For
his comfort, sOlacement ard recuperation, cellars
have been stocked with the choicest vintages, the
land and the sea have yielded their treasures the
upholsterer has done his work, and the cook and
tapster stand ready to do theirs Everything about
the establishment is gorgeous fAry-llke, and en-
chanting and one might anticipate within those
gilded walls one long and undisturbed scene of
reve or of quiet but perfectly satisfactory enjoy
ment. Alas! there is q Divinity that disposes, in
spite of human propositions The "gentlenany
proprietors of the Fifth Avenue Hotel are
already in trouble. A newspaper Of this City haS-
ing discovered, or having pretended to discover,
that the servants Of the establishment are not
white Irishmen but black Americans, has raised an
alarm, and gone into spasms of indignation. This
is highly credit.be to the public spirit of that
sheet. Its labor, We suppose, is labor Of love,
and its struggles are perfectly disntercsted. For
it does not appear that this gentleman whose
feelings are 40 much hurt, is habitant Of
the Hotel although if he were, he would
of course have right to express his
emotions in his own Newspaper or out of it. We
would do him no Injustice, however and it barely
possible that he may occasionally take shilling
drink at the bar of this house. BE this as it may
BE, be may protest if not for himself at least for
Others The inferiority of the negro race to the
Irish in the difficult and alimportant srt, Of boos-
backing, contributing, cOrk-draxiug and plate
changing, was long ago fully established The negro
is, of course, bad servant. That is why they are,
in their meniL capacity, so much dsliked 10 the
Southern States Now, this is really q seriou,
matter We will imagine that the caterer has done
his noble and difficult work, and has done it well.
We will further suppose that the ingenious and
scientific cook has e1erted himself in bis own divine
department and that Providence has smiled upon
his exertions-that there has not been single
failure from the soup to the pies and that feast
worthy of Lucullus, or Of Sam Rogers, has been
prepared for the expectant stomachs of the fastdi-
Gus inmates of the Fifth Avenue Hotel The
gong sounds. The feeders rush b their
places The critical moment has arrived. Now,
indeed, the work of the Man of Spits is over
now the work Of the waiter begins. And VIVA.
responsible, difficult, and engrossing work it is.
How much confusion will there be, how much
disappointment and general botheraton unless that
work is well done A hungry gentleman calls for
a mutton outlet with piqusnt sauce, and, through
the culpable ignorance of the servant, receives
maccaroni with Psrmessn cheese All is over !.
All is lost The dinner is spoiled; the appetite
of the diner is destroyed, end there is moth
ing before him but Ugolinos fate-or, at
least, starvation Ia Damoe!es, in the midst
Of plenty. Others are gorgng themselves,
while be is faintng with hunger In his dire
distress, he trusted to negro, and behold the
result Nor is this all Should he survive the
famine, BY purchasing apple at the nearest STALL
what moral certainty can he have that his boots
will not be badly BACKED the next morning. There
are men to whom an in-polished boot would be
fatal; and who would faint at the slightest indics-
ton Of the hesternal mud And need We further
refer to the delicate matter of coat brushing The
Newspaper to which We have alluded, very nice in
these engrossing affairs, shrinks from con6ding
their conduct 10 black men, and 10 fully of the
opinion that life, even in the Fifth Avenue Hotel
can have no charms unless Irishmen are employed
in the business For which, Of course, every gen.
uine son of the Emerald Isle will be duly grateful
ard will be filed with rapture at thus being told