Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-05-16
A bill to confirm certain private land claims In the
Territory Of New Mexico.
The House then, at o'clock, adjourned.
from the Men York Home Journal, of May 5h.
THE CONTHNE

PHILADELPHIAs NEw HorEL.--Let New-Yorkers say
what they will Philadephians progressive people ;
how they help it. with their than half million
of inhabitants? Possessing mary advantages over New
York say plenty of land room, while have only
room they determined not TO be behind hand in lux
uries while they in advance Of us in many positive
comforts. Always, clean, neat, fair and blooming
of its own charming Quakeresses, Philadelphia has
wanted only metropolitan hotel to give il metropolitan
rank And by this don't marble pile great
only in the vastness offs bar and dining and
deruy small in its provision of home comforts and in the
supply of delicate and refined home necessities but we
good substitute for elegant home it is pos
sble for hotel to be. Philadelphia of course has had
hotels since Benjamin franklin bought and the
penny roll for his breakfast in its streets because he could
afford stop one but OF late years they have been
VIGOROUSLY insufficient in number Many liberal Phadel-
pha merchants who consc OF their citys decen-
cy in this respect, uned.ogeher, and selected the finest
site in the ctythe corner OF Ninth and Chestnut streets
the result was First the erection of what is admitted
TO be OF the most complete hotel structures in the
world at expense Of eight hundred thousand dollars
the building covering Of ground; and being ne
rorly covered by five of carpet Second the
pendure Of two hundred thousand dollars in rich
and appropriate furniture. What an effect million Of
dollars produce in architecture and elegance, we
have to describe The magnificent entrance,
the grand Staircase the unique upper corridors from
which ladies' unobserved may watcn the hrong below
the drlperied drawng-rooms and noble dinng-halls,
lighted up with the beauty and brilancy OF fairy palace
rather than democratic hotel in which every
be a millionaire for two dollars and half a day are
unequ He'd in this country. And then in the magnii-
cent private rooms have velvet to walk upon, in
stead of and dusty ng:ains hot and cold
the touch instead of a cracked pitcher; CRATE set in
marble, in place of the rusty stove and il must
go stairs ito use Hibernansm,) don't do IL at
all but lifted from the bottom of the house the
top, by steam gently and safely a raises
child from the cradle But potent dollars are and
especially million of them put together they could not
have accomplished this without the direction of cOnsum
mate experience and taste the Philadelphia merchants
very wisely secured Mr. Paran Stevensaready the pro-
prietOr of the Revere and fremont Houses in Boston
the Fifth Avenue in New York and the Battle and Point
Clear Houses in Mobile the lessee How few there
who keep hotel, the complaints Of travellers
and repeated failures in the business abundanty show
The administrative ability that is always muuifcen but
never wasefu-that knows how do all right things at
the right time and in the right WAYS in hotel
proprietor in general The magnificent Continental
is Colonel Stevens last and best undertaking. and in
charge of Mr.. James T. Stevens under whose personal
direction the establishment will remain, promises to be
one of the most successful As Philadelphia is noted
for its superior heahfulness the beautiful drives about
its suburbs the hospitality Of its inhabitants its magn
stores, its variety of amusement aud now for its
luxurious hotel it will become of the most popular
RENDEZVOUS for tourists especially from the South and
Southwest that can be found in the United States.