The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1872-10-12
Notes Of TrarsL

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Times very much peFplexsl by ihs
un'el qucstioa. and hot unsellom ~
"ht,n iu Hnd done ior. For w.
t'auw. IN New Orleans. the y.
\ Charlie assumes 70 be- pr ersegeur>
."iic hdci, ia I.eai.ville the "Galt"
iu Cincinnati the ''Birnrit. and IN
New York the ''Grani Cen,ral."
when IN point Of ise;, except NJ n
The "t'ult, none of them nre sipc-
rior, and rs for the "Gnnd Central
4 deliberately concluded whcro there
that II might be more appropriately
styled "Grani Fizze, or a "Grand
Ilumbug' than anything else. The
/ City or 81. Jane, IN New Orleans.
/ | regard as. superior to The y:
Charles, and while the Cali is
magnificent establishment and al
mirably c1ndu;te1 by Col. johnson,
slill, a man Of reasonable desires can
fare Just % comfortably as lie wishes
at the National, on the corner OF
/ Fourth and Main, find rs gentle.
manly hosts 10 Messrs. Hat cher g.
Ball as he can find anywhere, and
save two dollars per day-ior the
charge there il only two dollars aud
halt. The fact Is, hotel charges
have become an imposition. | well
remember when paid two dollars
aud n half at the Astor lIouse when
it was the hotel Of New York, and
considered that high. Now you are
required to pay nearly double that
at what are called "iirst~class' ho.
tells, and why? Simply because peo-
pie submit to it, and nothing else,
for provisions are no higher now
than they were when the Aslor and
other lirst-class houses charged two
dollars and half per day The fact
is the hotels seem to bcthc orly class
of the business community that have
not found out the war IL ended, and
prices have dropped back TO a peace
basis.
The st. Nicholas and tho New
York are beyond doubt the best ho-
els in New York city, and they como
as near giving mau a quid pro quo
for his four dollars and o halt as a
hotel can, but they don't do II, and
simply because they can't. 1t is
morally impossible. Ono dollar and
n half, or at most two, will pay for
all man consumes and for servants
attention, and hence two>thirds Of
tho charge ia clear profit, while at
the Grand Central the actual ex~
pense is still less, and the net profit
still greater to the proprielors, which
may be owing to the exalted honor
occasionally conferred on the guests
by being spoken. to or noticed by
one or more OF the "grand' dignita-
RIGS who play kings and princes in
"thc Office" The building Is hand
some in front, bnt II wont bear in
speetion, and to my notion is into.
rior in every respect to both its pro-
decessors, ''The Southern" and "The
Lafarge.' guess Two said enough
about hotels.
In my last article ] spoke Of New
York as place to trade. As a
wholesale mart 1t has perhaps no
superior, il an oquaI, in the world,
but great complaint is being all over
the country at the delay in the ship
mcnt 81 goods. The merchant. de-
vote day and night to selling, but ~
a general rule after you have pur-
chased your bill they take their own
time to pack it up, and If 1t Is ship.
ped in a week after you made the
purchase you may consider yourself
, lucky. In Philadelphia it is differ
I ent. You purchase one day and
+. your goods are shipped the next.
, New York had better mind, Or slc
will lose trade, and largely, too, on
this very ground. Two firms Will
: whom had dealings in New York
are not only free from the charge o
: tardiness, but / found them to bs
. prompt, careful and reliable IN al
9 respects and in every particular
one is that OF Warren, Ward 4 Co.
!. furniture dealers, corner Of Spring
and Crosby, aud the other Is thu
4 large carpet house OF Shep- arr
Knapp, 1888 and 185 Sixth Avennc
4 These houses it affords me pcculia
. pleasure to recommend to the pub
4 lie, and Mr.. Stowell 10 the former
/. aud the Messrs. Knapp and MI
;, Henderson in the latter, will b
t found ready, willing and accommo
q dating in every respect, while th
goods they offer you cannot be snr
i passed in New York or elsewhers
The carpet house mnst particular
b invite attention to, and AZ It ID BIZ
3 few blocks from Broadway, an
4 ensiiy reached, every one visitinI
b New York and desiring goods IN thu
|. line, whether merchants or other
d by wholesale or retail, viii do we
a to visit the great carpet house Of til