Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-04-15
sOU g1IERN HOTELS.
How they EbOuId be Constructed and
Conducted.

From the Houston Telegraph
One Of the Important improvements
necessary in the Southern States is, the
establishment Of hrstclass hotels in the
principal cities, good and comfortable ho-
tells IN the larger towns, and clean, cool,
Weu-kept inns in the villages and large
country places where travellers are in the
habit OF stopping. The deficiency of the
Southern States in these absolutely neces-
sary blessings Of civilized life in the past,
has been astonishing The wretched
lodging, the horrid beds, the miserable
eating, and the various other discomforts
TO which travellers have, time out of
mind, been subjected, are notorious. And
there Is, there has been, no valid excuse
Tor II, Hotels and inns have always been
profitable when well kept. Ii is not true
that q new country should necessarily
nave poor and mean accommodations
for travellers, 1t is refreshing even now
70 read IN English history, fiction and
poetry, OF the plain, clean, COSY inns Of
the olaen time in that countrv where
travellers could s0jOurn and enjoy them
selves in the most delightful manner.
The essential things are, good coustruc-
ton in the house; plenty Of room; good
ventilation, absolutely necessary in the
South; invariable and invineible clean
Illness OF offices, parlOrs, dining-rooms,
bedrooms, kitchens and private retiring
places good, clean, well aired and con-
stantly attended beds; neat. polite. in
dustricCs and reliable servants and in
order to this, they must be white the
best the market affords in the wav of
fare and this cooked in the hiohesr sfvle
Of the art. IL IS just as easv to Keen q
hotei IA thls way as in the wretched
manner in which too many of them are
kspt-lust as II is as easy To lean a
horse IN good condition as in Door con
dition
We are satisfied that the black servants
VIII have to be dispensed with alto
geJhefi ana white ones employed in their
stead, If We wish well conducted hotels
Inc blacks are cOnstitutionally careless,
lazy and filthy, and now that thev are
free they win become more so More
over, they have yet to learn, by hard ex-
perience, that servants have aIUavs,
existed, white as well as black, and al
ways VIII exist. Black walters seorn To
consider themselves in the light of SER
wants, white ones DO not. Every hotel
keeper who intends 10 follow the business
permanently, and none others should
keep hotel, should Immediately provide
himself with white cooks steward, porter
and walters, even If he has to send Ia
Europe to contract for them.
It's not necessary, in this country. as
yet, TO employ female walters at hotels
There is plenty Of more suitable enaplov.
meat Tor women. Therefore, taste and
deceney should no longer be outraged
by the employment as walters of the
black and yellow strumpets who now
lfisunt about hotels, displaying the re-
wards Of their vices upon their persons.
to the demoralization Of the Young OF
both sexes, and attracting the unprinci-
pied and the dissolute as q swarm of
blow-fies 20 a putrefying carcass. Loose
eOiOred females about hotel are always
bad indication Of the taste and motives
Of the employer.
Moreover, Ia these days Of swarming
adventures, female as well as male, more
care should be taken to discriminate be-
tween respectable ladies who sojourn at
hotels, and women Of questionable prin-
clples and conduct, who seek hotel life