The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-22

No city in the world CAD boast finer hotels than
those Of New York, and probably nowhere else
Is the business of hotel keeping more remuoe-
rative. Americans are travelling people, and
this mt tropolis is the Mecca where all the cara
GINS Of travel concentrate. Hence we must
Gave our caravansaries, numerous aud we'll ap-
pointed, and we have them. Just at present,
too, all the hosels from the monster ST. Nicholas,
Metropolitan, Aston and New York hotels, on
Broadway, down to the smallest French aud
Spanish hotels in the side streets, are packed full
OF guests to OVERLOOKING. Ordinarily the tall
trade" sets in and fills the hotels about
Abe last of August OF first Of September, but
this year the bo,els began to be crowded three
or four weeks ago, greatly to the qualification
of the landlords, and the rush of guests is now
described as altogether unprecedented since the
first year OF the Crystal Palace excitement
The st. Nicholas, capable of accommodate
ing eight hundred or thousand guests
was full three weeks ago, and the apart
nents are now engaged days in advance.
TIE Metropolitan is in similar state Of pros
perity, having ut present between four aud five
hundred guests, aud having turned away for
want of room, during the past four weeks as
many more The Lafarge bouse, lately enlarged,
has had, during the past fortnight, three hun.
drsd guests, on an average, which is at least fifty
mere than ever before at this season. The New
York Hotel is in like state of repletion, having
at present about Eve hundred guests. Hereto
fore the proprietor has considered the months of
July and August bis du'lest season, but this
year be Is astonisbed at finding his hotel crowded.
And 60 all the down town Notes.-The Brand
re,b House, Lovejoy's, French's, the Howard, the
Pacific, Tammany, ct ID genus omne, tell the same
sto,y-more guests than they know what to do
With, though they do their best, and hundreds
are turned away daily for want of room.
A large proportion of the guests--in some
csses as many as threefourths-hail from the
Southern States, Cuba and South America
Many are strictly pleasure seekers, who have
been, OF are going, to the watering places and
other summer resorts; aud macy more are mer.
chants and traders who have come to make their
fall purchases of goods. Some of these, who
come from Southern cities, and stop at the first
class hotels combine pleasure with business,
O few weeks at Newport or Saratoga The up
town hotels, like the Everett House, Union
Place, Clarendon, &c. will all be In plethoric
state as soon as the chill days of autumn shall
begin to drive people away from the watering
places. AT present, although fuller than usual
at this season, they are not crowded, as the
traders do not generally go SO far above the bust
ness marts The new mammoth hotel, just erect
ed ut the junction Of Broadway and Fifth avenue,
is advertised to open this week, in good season
for the retlrn OF our citizens from the watering
places, and prosperous season is anticipated.
The general opinion among hotel keepers is
that the present rush will continue at least until
snow flies; tost the Southern traders will be sue
ceeded by the Wes'ern-many of whom, indeed,
have already arrived-so that business will con-
tiDue to be brink perhaps until October or
later.
The merchants and importers are as much
taken aback by this sudden rush, and the conse-
quent increased activity Of trade, as the hotel
keepers The Southern trade is now fairly set
in, aud will soon reach its height In past
years business has thriven mainly in the fall and
spring, while the long days of July and the shor
days OF Jasuary have been reckoned as dies non
in which clerks might count upon long furloughs
and sport their tee clothes and city airs in the
fresh air of the country But within q few year
past all this has been gradually changing, unit
now the fall trade and the spring trade are &c
nearly run together that It is hard to tell where
one ends and the other begins. The facilities O
communication and transportation have become
80 great that the country merchant often make,
two or three trips to The metropolis where he die
one formerly, and buys his goods as be has occa
sion for them Yet there is marked ebb ant
flow Of the tide, aud all the Myns indicate com
ing term Of unusual prosperity In all branches o
business; for the Interviewing of interests 10 GU
social system is such that one branch Of busiues
canpot flourish without iupartipg prosperity b
oilers, and vice versa. For example, II the hotel