The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-11-18
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EDITOR ARGUS, DSur SF.-Wiil you al
low me, through your paper, to make few
remarks in answer to an article in the Daily
Union Of Saturday the 18th also of Tues
day, the 18th, in which there are five plain
fa'sehoois: First, that our hotel accommo.
datious are VIGOROUSLY inferior and limited ;
Second, that very few travellers stop here
unless they must, preferring to 20 to Dayen-
port for their meals and lodgings even when
their business is in Rock Island. The man
who makes this statement states that which
is so false that it amounts to lie, and the
only excuse for the Littlestick editor, for
making this false statement, is that he is
not posted about the amount Of bushes s
done in the hotels Of Rock Island. And
how can he, when he can't afford to board at
one Of them, but is compelled to board around
at the saloons aud lodge in some garnet, SO
that he can live within his means? II
never visits hotel until he gets completely
starved out,and then he will dodge IN aud get
II square meal, and then dodge out again,
never offering to pay cent for it.
Again, the FiddIestick editor says he has
seen but one man who has found fault with
his article of Saturday morning last, urging
the necessity of a new hotel, and that man
is j. S. Hutchins. am pretty intimate
with him, and know he has found no fault
with any one for urging the necessity of a new
hotel in Rock Island. Any man having sense
and deceucy could urge the necessity ola new
hotel in Rock Island without vIlityng the
hotels we have, and trying in every way to
influence the travelling public to shun Rock
Island by saving that we have poor hotels.
The fact is the hotel accommodate ans in
Rock Island are full up to the demands OF
the city, both in size and quality, and are
doing better business than any OF the ho-
| tells west of Chicago. This is an every day
! remark from travellers.
This Littestick editor says the proprietor
| of the Rodman House refuses to pay his bill
| think it is pretty well established in Rock
Island, and elsewhere, that the proprietor Of
the Rodmau House pays his bills-eyery
dollar he agrees to- and promptly too. The
reason l did not pay Fiddlesticks bill was a
good one. The Littlestick editor, probably
thinking it would be the last bill he would
have chance to present to me, charged me
ten dollars more for publishing my advertise
ment than he agreed to.
KS regards the assertion Of the LittIesticA
editor, that the majority of the business mer
of Rock Issnd think as he does, viz tha
there are no decent hotels in their city where
travellers can be accommodated, but tina
they have to 90 to Davenport for these &C
| commodations-if there are any such, the
are like the Littlestick editor of the Union
who would never look into their hotels Il
home, if they thought it would cos, them {
cent. Enquire out these grumbIers aud yol
! will find they never spent dollar in thei
lives in their hotels, at home. For one,
can say care nothing for the gable Q
| such, whoever they may be. | furnish til,
money to run my house, and shall keep 1t a
| see fit. am satisfied with my custom j
is good aud daily increasing, and have the
assurance, every day. that my guests ar
pleased with their accommodations. don
deny that there are some who find fault wit
the Rodman House. ] don't expect to pleas
everybody. The hotel hasn't been built vel
that pleased everybody. The Rodman ha
had upwards of thirteen thousand diGeren
people to deal with since it was opened
year and half ago. Show me man, il
any kind Of business, in Rock Islaad or else
where, who has had half that number Of pei
sons to deal with and has never found on
who complained. think it very poor pol
cy for an editor or any other citizen TO slar
der the hotels they have. It is lust tn
course to pursue to discourage any man fror
investing his money in hotel
J. S. HUTcHNs.
Rock Island, Nov. II, 1868.