New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-17

Tux CoxTISENrAL--P hiladelphid's Neir Hotel
Let New Workers say what they will, Philadel-
phians are progressive people. How can they
help III with their more than half million Of in
hahitantss Possessing many advantages over New
York (say in plenty OF land room, while we have
only sea room1 they are determined not to be be-
midland in I1xnries, while they are In advance OF
us In many positive comforts. Arrays clean, neat,
fair, and blooming as one of its own charming
Quakeresses, Philadelphia has wanted only metro
politan hotel to give it metropolitan rank. And
BY this. we don't mean mere marble pile, great
only in the vastness Of its bar and dining-rooms,
and wonderfully small In its provision of home
comforts, and in the supply of delicate and refined
home necessities; but we mean as good q substi-
tuts for an elegant home as it IS possible for hotel
to be- Philadelphia of course, has had hotels ever
since Benjamin Franklin bought and ate the penny
roll for his breakfast in its Streets because he could
not afford to stop at one but OF late years they
have been notorionsly insufficient in number.
Many liberal Philadelphia merchants, who were
conscious of their citys deficiency in this respect,
united together, and selecting the finest site in the
city The corner Of Ninth and Chestnut streets
the result was: First, the erection Of what ID adj
mitted TO be one Of the most complete hotel struc
lures in the world, at an expense Of eight hundred
thousand dollars the building covering an acre of
ground, and being interiorly covered by five acres
Of carpet! Second, the expenditure of ever two
hundred thousand dollars in rich and appropriate
furniture.
What an effect monof dollars produce
In architecture and elegance, we have no room to-
staircase, the unique upper corridors, from which
ladies', unobseryed, may watch the throng below;
the draperied drawing-rooms, and noble dining
halls, lighted up with the beauty and brillancy of
a fairy palace, (rather than d democratic hotel in
which every one can be a millionaire for two dol
lars and half day. are uneaualled in this coun-
try. And then, in the magnificent private rooms,
we have velvet to walk upon instead of worn and
dusty ingfains; hot and cold water to the touch,
instead Of cracked pitcher; CRATE, set in mar
BILE, In place Of the rusty stove; and IT we must 60
up stairs Ito use an Hbernianisn), we don't do it
at ALL but are lifted from the bottom Of the house
t. the ten By steam, as gently and safely AZ
nurse raisxs d child from the cradle. but, potent
as dollars are, and especially million Of them put
together they could nothave accomplished this with
out the direction of consummate experience and
taste; the Philadelphia merchants very wisely
cured Mfr. Paran already the proprietor of
the Revere and fremont Houses, in Boston; the
Fifth Avenue in New York. and the Battle and Point
men there are who can keep a hotel, the COM
plants OF travellers and repeated failures in the
business, abundantlg show. The administrative
ability that ii always munifcent but never waste
fui-that knows how to do all right things at the
fright time and in the right wayz-s as rare in q
hotel proprietor as in a general. The magnificent
Continental Is Col. Stevens last and best under
taking, and, in charge Of Mr.. James 4. Stevens,
under whose personal direction the establishment
eassful. Az Philadelphia Is noted for its superior
healtlfuness, the beautiful drives about its sub
urbss the hospitality Of is inhabitants, its magni
cent stores, its variety Of amusemenls and now for
Its luxurious hotel, it will become one OF the most
popular RENDEZVOUS for tourists, especially from
the South and Southwest, that can be found in the
1 United States. New York Homo Journal May 8.