Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-06-20

LET US ENTERTAIN OUR VISITORS!
A charter was obtained at the last session |
of the Legislature for the incorporation OF |
Hotel Company, in this city. Its capital
was unlimited under $4,000 and the pow
ers granted were ample. 1t now offers to
any cnterprising party, DESTROYS either of
making money, or adding to the material
prosperity of the city, or both, the necessary
to entering upon the work.
Whatever may be the accommodations al
ready offered the public by the enterprising
and public spirited hotel-keepers of the city
who, with one exception, refuse to haze |
their list Of arrivals published in the
daily paper There is no question what
ever that the business of this city suffers
great disadvantage and loss from the lack of
a first-class place of public entertainment.
Many of our large establishments are daily
visited by business men from other parts of
the country, who must remain over night,or
longer. These gentlemen do not desire TO
sit at so large table, in so large hall, OF
so large building, as the Continental, or
the Fifth Avenue, but they do desire that
the comforts, attendance, entertainment,
and general surroundings, should be similar
and equally as good. These, it is needless
to say, the business people of Wilmington,
have not yet provided for them. They are
dissatisfied, if not Disguised, with the lack of
that hospitality and generous liberallty in
securing their comfort which hundreds of
smaller towns and cities have carefully and
thoughtfully provided. We could direct the
| reader TO hotels in many towns of Pennsyl-
yania, not one-lialf the size of Wilmington,
where the entertainment falls little if any
short of the style and solid substantially of
| the best in the great cities. As examples of
| these, fully within our knowledge, Easton,
Bethlehem, and Allentown may be men
toned. Wilkesbarre and Williamsport have
magnificent hotels, upon the largest scale,
while those of Bethlehem have long been
celebrated.
/ Now, gentlemen Of Wilmington's bust
ness interests carriage manufacturers
leather manufacturers, ship builders, irol
founders, rolling mill men, car wheel max
ers, house furnishcrs, agricultural dealers
book sellers, wool and cotton manufactur
ers, Everybody who has now, and the hun
dreds more who ought to have, customer
] from outside the city limits you are vital
: interested in this matter, as well as ever
u citizen who holds an inch of real estate, an
y hopes to see it increase in value. You ca
i do nothing which will benefit you more tina
u to provide for the thorough entertainer
of every traveller who comes to Wilmin,
q ton.
o That such an enterprise aOiU pay, we fu
ly believe. Why not? This is large cit,
| 1t has the most important railway system
the Atlantic coast passing through it,
:. Another road of rapidly increasing impoi
= ance ends here. Another, to terminate he
? also, is being rapidly built. We have
:, beautiful city, delightful at all seasons
y the year. famous for romantic surrounding
's unsurpassed and scarcely equaled for healt
= fulness, supplied with the luxuries of lal
and water more fully and cheaply than al
= other location in the country. Why shou
- a first-class hotel, here, not pay?
Gentlemen, whom we have already a
dressed, wake up! Don't turn over
he another nap. The MONDAY slumbers
" life may be sweet, but they are not prof
, n | able