New-York tribune., 1867-08-14


Prom Our Special Correspondent NrwHAvEN, August 1867
roallv have hardly the heart to Degh 'iii9
- ,t,,sical system has received sllocA
- ,rst take days TO recover FROM IL was eNou nlo
Nv one of nv dearest friends, who win INC poSV ~
tations in the world, and with the Knoest ioeii"e
sboued me- last night without the IeoS' noVo "
waning. three leading articles In tnIeo f,. s
oral newspapers devoted exclusively 10 lll'uns i"u'
with the letter wrote you about Con'ii,lI 80
Nv friend had carefully preserved the arucioS ouV
tiDa tbom ont neatly marking them with the names
q tho novvsnoners they came from and the dates'
"a cutting them snugly away in his pocketDook
rntiI he could End an opportunity Oh showing VnoA
70 me. Not happening to meet me IN the street he
did what only o. friend would nave I uVnC e.
pursued Pani 70 -" meal until at last he seized
me lust as i coming out, il ilOni nT
Wwnlnous dining-roOm of this stylish hotel, ana
Sag@ed me off TO the oommodOus readingroom ana
sat and watched me while read tntSe teiTjo gjsS
attacks upon my style ana How else should we ever
know the half of the unpleasant things tI ~ are ssn
about us How else should we nore Satisfaction
friend has in friend, than an enemy mas III ms 4o'
The enemy can only detract, lnslnuate' apuse @ uu
o isuo ~aver know whether he whom he ould inure
GETS the benefit of the intended harm; ms very
sny AN anu oroans siu pr seeing the tears But friend
cannot only have the pleasure OF reaol9 o o. the
of hia frip himself
still greater satisfaction OF reading II 20 he into
himself of seeing the wounds ana Poullns D tbam mn
them; of hearing the groans ana keep.g % few fS min
10 conceTt mitch bv fresh paragraph every loh ,a
ntes. of seeing the tears, and giving the pt pt those
new stroke as the stream sackens III ft sov oyard
nerSnisifes of friendship are friendship DcSo ason
NJ ne Tficnlar case il happened, on TINS occasion,
that the abuse might have been G moro IN O'';'
20 taks--there might have been VIII IN w
70 IoneT nockery1 or even truth. and my flend
regretted over and over that there weiU or re Con
these things and then; agan Sisinter
estedness: he really wished the Republican papers pl
had thought proper to speak hat wouiu haI aatbo%Sb
worth noticing" &c. &c Sull, the aDuse, al'S -,
NV friend was not satisfied with it, has come G4Md
with good deal of bang upon me- aha H.IVo itb the
me this morning for the aDoT S SI in fbe daily habit
of doing IN tlis charming hotel ne got tnu co o ',9
OF me- gTieve 10 confess ana ulu , oC oiS Sb an at
thing TO eat till had balted my NOOK WIN @ an al al
traotive bit of currency. Then strange 70 say, az
though he had been, for half an hour, as M Du ii a.
bat to all my mods, and becks anu WIe3sev 1hiDI
he suddenly came alongside, and pretending 10 tnA
the currency fly he whisked 1t WITH ms so w'pn pnV
thing done i'm my life; and then after sterhiy tskns
me n would have tea or coffee, he Went away , OH
pretense of getting IT, ana nSedr my Dafience and
presently his soiled brother came Oy Win @ ~
eses coffee and spying the currency ggsTentv gaoT I he
did not think the sum sufficient to pay for mix anu
sugar and therefore went away wtnout giNffhR R @ no
Toward noon another soiled waiter, being out for
walk and seeing looking rather pale ana Wasteu,
ID.
sc anvhpdv was waiting on me. said there was not
and tben he went away, like the Others, and dId not
come back 1 had engagement Tor lmmedia!ey
oftar breakfast and on considering for some time
whether this was before or after breakfast, L COh
oluded it must be after and got up ana %S o sSs ~
turn to the good Old-fashOned inns OF our own cOu
try OF if the model has been too long LOST 10 10
revived then would that somebody might see MS
way to fortune and fame in copying the Engllsh mus
as they are to-day, and thus make some eompenlsa.
tion possible for the sacrifice OF home comforts tnat
traveIinU mplies We have good things in plenty IN
America, good things OF our Own cOn,ulHilg illSe @
the world ready TO copy from us 9HS tue ia details
were planned by the devil, and that gentlemanTs rs on
spring superntend the carrying Oh them ar out
splendOr, mock magnlfeence, ana real ulsconh ~
and it not many months before the Ie'1l gets tnt
upuer hand of the make-believe, and dlscomf0r
Teigns supreme. I have nothing now to do with the
Sew-York hotels, of which some are better and some
are worse some are cleaner and some ar5 dFtleT Du
not ono of them that ever went into Is other than
place to get away from as soon as possible But I'm
on the country hotels of which it is a fair sample
/ being neither dirtier nor worse managed thaI
y they put clean sheets on the bed ,1OI
v each occupant some where the last
gentlemans paper collar Is not LETT on the
bureau or in the slopiar; some where there are civil
and attentive walters some where there Is clerk
who answers questions when they are asked him,
and does not spend the greater part of the day with
his back TO those who are talking to HIM Such
places there may be though have never seen them,
nor talked with those who have: But wish they
COmmOner for, 1t is, life IN the hotels Is not
calculated TO improve the manners OF those VINO I'VE
In them whether transienty permanently, and il
certainly does nothing for their comfort The charm
of good English inn is i'll the sense of privacy, al
most of seclusiOn, that one has III H. and IN the
thorough comfort of all he arrangements. do not
say that hotels too large, but they seem too
large. You brought into contact with all the
people that happen TO be staying there and you are
made to feel that you are of the horde whether
you wish it TO be or not Nor does the American way
of having things in cOmmon--rairoad cars, steam
boats. &c.-seem Objectionable as rule; no doubt
the national manners are greatly helped by this Tree
miDglin, in which
ave rub each Others angles down"
But there ought to be a wide latitude of choice
and no one can have enjoyed the quiet and freedom
of intrusion of an English lnn-the George a
Chester say, the Star" at OXtoTd-witbOut wish
ing we might have something answering to them al
homo, as we easily might, if anybody chose to make
money in that way One main fault IN these country
standard. They all ape the management. the ar
rangement, the furnishing, and the decorations Ot
the Fifth-Avenue the st. Nicholas. or the MetrOpO
tan and il NAV easily be imagined what mess they
make of it, Where the city hotel has two OF
anything, the country hotel has one, but that one
is presented to you with as much flourish as If II
they never forget Lady Macbeths remark, the sauce
to meat is ceremony" and they fOndly believe that
with this sauce they can make anything palatable
Their ceremony however is purchasable and transi-
tory IL is weed that npens chiefly at dinner time
and makes great show, but II you chance 70 come
in late train, tired hungry, dusty, and Respondent
you will find welcome asleep on the threshold COM
fort gone a-visiting and ceremony lying quite limp
and sapless in the deserted dining-rOom.
To have done with the hotels tor want to get
away from the subject, and go to the pictures The
clerk at the country hotel, if he be good specimen
of the kind makes up in respects for world of
deficiencies. understand that the one at this hotel
is considered very valuable specimen, and that the
other houses jealous of his possession, and have
made several attemps to kidnap him. They say that
he was once known TO pick his teeth half hour by
the clock. with his back turned to two foreign gen