Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-08-22
%, 1858.
NEW YORK CITY THE GREAT
WATERING PLACE OF THE
wORLD-HEADQUARTERs AT
THE HOFFMAN HOUSE,

THE HOFFMAN HOUSE.
Without exaggeration, New York city is
undoubtedly the only place In tho world
where are combined all the attractions for
health, pleasure, and fashion, to say nothing
about business, that are to be found at Sara
toga, Newport, Nahant, Atlantic City Cape
Island, the White Mountains, Niagara, or
Lake George.
II you go to the White Mountains you
have to work very hard to climb up huge
piles Of rough rocks, from the submits Of
which you see nothing but vast vacancy, un-
less you glance downward through the deep
blue vista, and then you behold graceful
streams and cascades, which look like silver
serpents as they wind through the gorges and
beautiful valleys and leap over the ragged
rocks; but all these things you find plenti-
fully, naturally and more artistically arranged
at Central Park, in New York-only thirty
minutes drive from the Hoffman House
Upon returning to your hotel at the Mount
aims you are pent up in small boxes called
rooms, have to sit at n crowded, uncomforta-
BILE table TO get your meals, upon which is a
conglomeration Of badly cooked food, with a
poor show to get any of it, for the want of a
sufficient number of walters who are gen.
orally Of the cheapest sort. Not so at the
Hoffman.
nyou go to Niagara you are tilted, in
mean carriage, over bad roads, across the
rickety and doubtful suspension bridge, into
John Bulls dOminiOns, where you are COM
PEELED to confront traitors, who ought to be
hung, and have to pay good American gold
for bad British liquors, and sec nothing but
n tremendous "water fall" and hear moth
ing but "the roar of many waters" while,
if you stay in New York, you can ride much
cheaper, in an elegant carriage, procured at
the Hoffman, over n fine street, to Central
Park, where cataracts, much less noisy, but
more musical and more varied, and not so
huge, fash upon the vision like sweet sur
prises, fOaming and laughing and eliciting
wonder and admiration.
If you go to Saratoga you have to get up
early in the morning and go to the Springs to
get your " Empire - or " Congress " waters.
If you go to tho races or to the Lake you en-
counter nothing but heat and sun, and dis.
cover the " Lake " to be nothing but an un.
beautihed small stagnant pond Whereas,
at the Hoffman House you are supplied, ia
tile building, on draft deliciOusly cold with
all of the different kinds of mineral spring
waters, namely: Congress, Empire, Kisseu
ger, Vichy, Pyrmont, Spa, Marienbad; you
obtain them without the unpleasant accom-
panments of dust and sun.
Ifyou go to "Lake George you witness
pretty scenery and get n ride upon pony
but the scenery is not more picturesque thar
that in and about Central Park, hanked al
it is by the outstretching North and East
rivers, and the valley looking towards ant
embracing High Bridge, opening up its beau
tiful lights and shades, upland slopes, spa
ciOus edidces and vine clad cottages.
If you go to Nahant, Hampton, Rye, At
lantic City or Cape Island, you find the
same salt water to paddle in that floats the
great commerce of New York, and the same
mean, crowded, dirty greasy, servantless
hotels that we have described at the noun
taius, only some of them are worse, especially
at Cape Island. But in New York you can
"snutf the salt sea air" by an excursion
down the bay, down East river, or up North
river, on some one of the numerous palace
steamers which ply in. those waters, and
without fatiguing yourself to death, you re
turn 10 the Hoffman House, where n dinne
awaits you suited to your taste, ana n"t thai
Of the landlord, and where walters are em,