The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1872-08-17

amr ;notent and thew were helpless. This was
the General practice in all fashionable hotels
Now the occupant of the poorest rooms has 10
nav precisely the same price as he who Dy
favoritism has the best one.
oNE-sIDED MISTAKES.
Hemust also be careful to see, in his bills,
that there be not an extra charge Tor some meal
dating Just anterior to his arrival, or some ON
nibus ride he did not take. Here there is 10 De
for many summers, in this and in other lands,
usually freouenting the best hotels, and OF the
yery many "errors' found in my bills have
observed that they have been invariably IN
favor of the landlord. Ihsve never once iound
the extra half-dollar, or the shilling, or the
franc, or the thaler, or the rouble put down 70
nv credit I draw no inference, but SIMPLY
state the fact as & curious phenomenon IN no.
tel mathematics.
TOURISTS DRIVEN ABROAD.
The growing disfavor which our hotel system
is gaining has driven many of our summer
travellers to Europe. Never before have the out
going steamers been as numerous and as crowd
ed as this season. Experience has proved that
a foreign trip can be made at no greater, and Of
ten at less, expense than o tour among our Ia
vorite watering-places, or even than comforta-
BILE residence at one of them. This tendency 70
visit Europe will increase with increasing iacill-
ties, and as everybody who has been there once
wants to 90 again. the American hotel-keepers
will find they have raised rival which, like
the ghost of Banquo, "will not down."
The European system introduced into some OF
our hotels-that is the system OF only paying
for what you eats a concession to the spirit OF
disaffection in regard to our prevalent MOTEL ar
rangements, but is too often a delusion and
snare. The prices for articles OF food are placed
so high as to be equally an insult to the under
standing and to the pocket. This, too, will be
remeded in time.
The other day asked a summer hotel-keep-
err, of gentlemanly instincts and long expert
ence, his opinion of the points alluded to in
this letter. He acknowledged that European
travel was having, this season, disastrous e.
feet upon the watering place patronage, but
maintained that every season brought out
fresh supply of younger home COMMISSIONING
men just beginning to travel, young bridal
couples, and the nouuedNr riches who would ii
the vacancies. He declared that the high rates
of board were made necessary, chiefly by the
expense of help, by the army of walters who
had to be well paid and who ate so much. He
did not deny that fashionable hotel-keeperss
generally (untl the last season or twoJ had
been making large fortunes, nor did he seem to
deprecate the system of feeling the walters.
THE FEE NUISANCE.
He mentioned an instance of a fashionable
could literally get nothing to eat till they feed
both the head-waiter and the sable attendant
at their particular table, and when they COM
planned at the Office the landlord coolly told
them that he chad nothing to do with the di
ning-room arrangements, which were entirely
in the hands of Mr. Moses" "And whereas Mr..
Moses ?" "Mr Moses All, that is he-the head
waiter there !" This, my informant seemed to
think was, perhaps, carrying the thing little
too far. 1t is but fair to say that Saratoga and
Long Branch are full even this season but there
are special reasons in these cases. The proxi
nifty of Long Branch to New York insures nu-
merous visitors. At Saratoga the waters, the
races and the celebrity of the place in the South
aud among travellers from Europe, account for
the large number of visitors there. To see the
other side of the story visit the Catskill, Sharon,
Niagara, Cape May, West Point, the White
Mountains, Lake George, and other recognized
and really attractive places Of resort. Hotel.
keepers and others interested in the success OF
these places may hide the facts of the case but
the truth is that the elegant hotels at these
points, even at this advanced stage Of the sea-
son, are half empty.
The VICE PREsIDENTs.-No two men, having
reached so high position as to be candidates
for the second Office in the gift of the American
people, could present greater differences than
the two candidates for Vice President Wilson
was born in the lowest depths of poverty, and
wrought out his own advancement by hard,
bitter, grinding toll. Gratz Brown was reared
in comparative affluence, was educated in the
hest school in the state and was laun ched into
life with all of the advantages which wealth
could bestow. After the lapse of years the two
men stand before us. The humble Natick cob
bier is the foremost statesman in the country,
of whom it may be said that his acceptance of
the second place on the ticket is almost con-
descension. He is as modest as he is generous
and noble. In not single action of his life
has he betrayed an unworthy thought or a
mean motive. He is pointed at by his cOun-
trymen as bright and shining example of the
result of our American institutions. The out
cast of fifty years ago is the peer of any man in
tie whole country, in those qualities that eno-
bic and dignity our race.
And now what of his rival? He too, by as
siduous labor, by using all of the arts of trick
cry, stands forth as the candidate for the Sec
ond place on the ticket. The first thing he
does is to shock the sense of the nation by ap-
pearing in state of ntoxication. He visits
his Alma Mater and publicly insults its faculty
by deriding the methods of instruction. And
in all that he does he exhibits the arts of noisy,
empty, shallow demagouge, who has won posi-
ton rather by brazen effrontery than by the
exercise even of the more moderate virtues.
While Henry Wilson would preside over the
Senate with dignity, Gratz Brown would be
perpetually meddlng with the interest of the
nation and endeavoring to so shape its policy
as to confer some advantage upon himself
One of these men is statesman the other is a
ward politician and between them there is no
sort of comparison.