New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-10-19
THE ST. JAMgs HoraI..

Ii VIC wished TO select one distinctive trait of
American nationality as sufficiently descriptive to
indicate the people referred 10, we should say
they are the people that build hotels.'' They
are the people, par excellence, that build hotels
and keep hotels, for in no country, even in en-
lghtened Europe, are such magnificent and whole
sale operations in board and lodging carried on as
are transacted by the millionaire Boniface Of
America, whose thousand guests . take their
ease in mine inn,n beneath the single roof Of his
vast and palaee-like house or entertainment their
number in no manner dgconcertng tile compre-
hensive and methodical arrangements which direct
the affairs Of the great emporium of wholesale and
retail trade in cooked yictuals and sleeping ac-
commodations.
Huge and costly as are tho boasted hotels of
New York, they can bear no comparison, in rela.
ton to the size of the city in which they are to
those OF New Orleans. One would think that,
with our splendid and commodions City Hotel the
ST. Charles and the ST. Louis, and host of lesser
establishments, this city was sufficiently provided
with the means of supplying entertainment to
strangers But far from it, and the fact indicates
what a great metropolitan center Of commerce New
Orleans Is such hordes thus Hooking to her portals
ID pursuit Of pleasure or business, or converting
all parts of the country and world, by thousand
means Of conveyance. For two or three seasons
past these visiting myriads increasing immensely
every year, have proved too numerous to be COM
fortabiy taken care of, and the enlarged demand
for hotel accommodations has suggested to capital
certain aud remunerative investment. The CITY
Hotel was enlarged at great expense, but tue pop
ularity which it had attained under the admirable
80 e.
tractad more visitors than could be received.
10th to turn the public from their doors, these
gentlemen encouraged the erection of a new spa
cous and splenddly arranged hotel building, which
for nearly year past has been approaching its
now proxmate perfection under the supervision of
the weilknown and very accomplished architect,
Mr.. Reynolds, that enterprisng capitalist A. b.
James, Esq being the proprietor. 1t occupies the
site OF the old Arcade Hotel one Of the most CON
yenient and every way desirable locations to be
found in the city, being in the very business center
in clearly, comparatively quiet aud highly i'm.
proved neighhoThood, adjacent, too, to all the
places of public amusement. TO these advantages
Of situation the new St, James Hotel adds The Is.
seniial merits OF being one OF the best designed
and constructed ediiiees ever erected, combining
elegance Of flush with convenience Of arrange
ment, all the acknowledgements and apartments
of the building being designed with ali the care for
the comfort and ease Of occupants which could be
/ dictated BY Judgment and intelligence and much
experience.
The s.. James fronts on that wide and pleasant
avenue of commerce. Magazine street, within three
squares oil the river, two squares Of st. Charles
ana about the distance from Canal street. the
gra1d boulevard OF che city Through the build.