The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-13
Hotel Di-Coaforts

In New York are so numerous that the
sole hope persons compelled to stop
there have Of getting rid Of them is to
change their habitation. Time was
whom Landlords deemed il II favor for
travellers to patroni2c them. Now they
seem to regard il as special privilege
to permit any one TO take shelter under
their extensive and expensive roofs.
Resident New Workers have become
accustomed To hotel living, and have
accommodated themselves to il; have,
in word, systematized the incOnyon-
fences so rs To render them compara-
lively endurablc. But strangers, poor
fellows, have most unpleasant cXpcr-
fences. Every day ] pity them, and
marvel ut their exemplary patience,
which Foreigners have brEnn 10 per-
ccive Is ono OF our national virtues.
Unsophisticatcd aliens, they innocent
" suppose, inasmuch rs they pay about
five dollars day for the box of a room
on the sixth floor, that they will at
least he waited on ut the table. They
enter ordinary, and seat themselves
the walters all around them-eXpecting
every momeut their orders will lie ta-
ken. They wait ten, fifteen, twenty
minutes. They then call n waiter, who
disappears and brings s0mething-for
somebody else. They gently remon-
strate, and finally petition TO be served.
At last they lose temper, If they are not
unusually amiable, and excessive ipdis-
nation, and instances of striking from
the shoulder impel the walters to fur
nish them with something 10 eat. By
that time anger has destroyed their
appetite and dcranged their digestion,
so that they leave the table in disgust;
and, some time after, Wien they are
calm and hungry again, they enter n
restaurant and breakfast or dine in
quietude.
One great cause of this trouble is that
walters. in New York, more than any
where else, expect 90 be feed for doing
their duty Though paid by the hotel
proprietOrs, they do not deem it obliga-
tory to serve any ono untfl he reveals
the contents of ilispocket-book. Every
regular guest has his particular
waiter under pay, and it is breach Of
etiquette among the servants TO inter
fere with any other fellows customers.
Hence, the long suffering "guests" are
neglected often through the delicate
and chivalrous sense of what the doInes-
tics deem due to one another.
Though all Of us not only submit 10,
but encourage. this custom IGore or less.
it is nevertheless an imposition which
ought to be discOuntenalced Persons
who travel ought to know bow much
they haze e pay. II four and n half
and FIVE dollars a day viii not meet
their expenses, they should be 50 in
formed at the Office, that they might
regulate their finances accordingly. Ii
is bad enough to be rudeiy treated and
bnllicd by braiulcss and pOmpous
clerks, to be insulted and cheated by
pOrters and bootbiacks; but to be hec-
tOred and hampered At table by walters
because you do not understand the pc
euniary etiquette OF the irritating broth
erhood, is more than even free born and
Americans ought To be call
cd upon to endure. 1
am acquainted with gentlemen that
pay for themselves and families two 10
1--we hundred dollars q week at the !
hotels, who can not get a
plate of soup or crp OF coffee without I.
producing half a dollar entirely free
from the remotest suspicion Of being
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:. The aboye, trom 2. .AeK- -Yark letter to-
the Chicago eRepHtlisas,r is q, truthful |
pportraiture-sfs New, York Hotels. The
accommodations OF the "frst-class7, are
now nothing but splendid .iaisesies for
WHICH the sEtraysgant REises .laid sat
the ofiices are btsfoming incidentals
rather than the. pEinsipai items Of ex-
pense to the traveller. lssLss.s -tFssx J