Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-12-04


ranifying through regions rich 10 every
thing and thickly peopled; it has immense
warehouses filled with every variety of
merchandise to be sold by Wholesale and
retail; it has in every kind of business,
vocation and profession, all the. elements
of q city; sad Is capable of presenting at
fractions to visitors, whether they come
for pleasure or business. There is one
great need. however, and that is proper
and sufficient hotel accommodations. The
magnificent structure on the corner of
Church and Cherry streets, scarcely sur
passed in any city on the continent,
will, in a few months at furthest, Re ready
for occupation; and we are gratified to
learn that its owner, to whom the
city is indebted for lis erection, is likely
to receive from our public spirited citizens,
liberal aid in its furnishing and equipment.
This will supply long needed want, and
feature of city always appreciated by
men OF enterprise. The luxurious per-
sonal comfort of a complete and finely
ordered hotel makes favorable impression
upon the sojourner in a city while one
condemned 10 Indifferent accommodation
leaves city with very different impress
sion. We all have a care wherewithal we
are treated in the matter of sleeping and
eating, especially when absent from home /:
and from the effect of these seemingly
small things in the vast numbers who are
continually going to and FRO, important
results ensue, A fine hotel is like a we'll
10 thirsty land 10 traveller, and he has
nothing but pleasant recollections of the
place and the people. Nashville may
felicitate itself that shortly in the future,
it will have one which will be alike a
source of pride and profit.
They will, however, lack one other fea-
ture of this kind, and TO make a sugges.
tion thereto, is the object ofthis paragraph.
A hotel of the style of the Maxwell House
is compelled to charge rates which, to quite
large class of worthy people, seem and
are really extrayagant; and in converse.
zion few days since with one of our lead
ing business men, an idea was thrown out
which it would be well to act upon. 1t is
that the merchants and others interested
in the welfare Of the city, should form an
association under compact TO pay twenty
five dollars each per year to rent some one
Of our present hotel buildings, put it il
complete repair and equipment, and en-
gage a competent landlord under the slip
ulstion that the daily charges shall not ex
coed two dollars and half. Two hundred
persons combined for such purpose could
furnish FIVE thousand dollars sum suf
! iicient to charter under lease of five year
the proper building. The'party in charge
should be obligated 10 keep good, clearly
orderly, reputable house from it
as far as practicable, all questionable char
scters of either sex-and 10 maintain il il
every respecta3 hotelat which persons ant
| families who are not able or who DO not
care to undergo the expense of frst-clas:
hotel, could always obtain desirable &C.
commodations. The old Merchants Hotel
of Philadelphia, well known to many o.
our citizens, was such an establishment as
we have described. The moderate rate
suggested would not only induce persons
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visit the city, but detain them longer than
many are now disposed 10 remain on &C.
count of the charges which are compelled
to be made The amount of traffic which
a successful working out of this idea would
bring to the city, would more than recon-
pence the outlsy for rent by those who
may engage in it, and would be public
benefit. Can we not have such home and
in connection with the Maxwell, suit every
variety Of taste and every length of purse
10 our hotel facilities? The suggestion is
worthy Of consideration.