Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-03-15

ITS RECENT oPENIro-REPoRrs AND CON.
| MENTs BIZ THE PRESS.

IN TINS CITY, nave reports more or lese
elaborate.
The Philadelphia Iaquir1 speaks Of the
affair as "a sumptuous banquet to which
was gathered an assemblage, composed oil
Delaware's foremost citizens, representing
every profession, trade and calling, legis.
lators, judges, capitalists, manufacturers
Journalists and merchants, and many
prominent men from abroad" or the
house itself 1t says; ''lts appointments are
all of the finest order, and equal TO those
of the Continental and Fifth Avenue
hotels. The house throughout Ia finished
In a superior manner, and, taken alto.
gether, Is an honor TO the CITY,"
The Philadelphia Press speaks of the
house as Ga grand hotel comparing fay.
orably with the nnest In Phlladelphis."
Coleman, In the Philadelphia Lsd0sr,
improves the occasion to give the eighty
thousand subscribers of that paper a
description Of Wilmington, and les Indus
tries and public buildings. He gives an
elaborate and accurate description of the
building, which he calls "a splendid
hotel, :" and declares It's CENTRE arrange
ments will compare fayorably with any OF
the tirst-elass hotels In any Of our large
eities."
Tho Philadelphia Telegraph has a most
pleasant and appreeiatiye notice which
want of space alone prevents US from
Ieprinting ehlire. 1t opens as follows.
"Philadelphla's sister city of Whining
ton is taking vigorous stridts In metro
politan direction. The improvements In
stituted here within very few years rem
der 1t almost impossible to recognize In
the busy, bustling town Of to-day the quiet
neighborhood that was once content TO be
merely the centre of rural region and
with no aspirations towards national sig
nifcanee. The present generation of VIII
mingtonians have changed all that they
have made their city known and honored
everywhere. A stranger TO these parts Is apt
10 consider Wilmington very large and
pOpulous city. He gets that idea from the
great range and extent Of her Industries,
which keep her in one way or other 60
constantly before the public. Wilmington
is not large, considered in relation to pop
ulation alone, but she has more manufac-
turing, by many times, than any place OF
the same size In the country more than
most places of three or four times the
size; hence her very honorable and dis
tinctlve position"
II then refers to the fact that our lack
of hotel facilities has driven many visit.
Philadelphia, going up aud down daily.
This made Wilmington determine to have
a irst-class hotel of her own. "The
Clayton House," il continues, "is first
class establishment, In no wise differing,
except in some notifications of size, from
the leading hotels of the great cities. Its
arrangement, appointments-iis general
spirit, in short is the same as that of the
Fifth Avenue iu New York, the Cont
MENTAL in Philadelphia, or the Parker
House., in Boston-and this, be II remem-
bered, In community Of scarcely 40, 200
people. Such scheme required pluck
perhaps not discoverable anywhere out OF
these states, but even after gentlemen
We're ionnd veuturesome enough to put
their money into the enterprise, 1t IL
| doubtful If landlord could have been
found sufficiently plucky to take the lease
| Without some safeguard. The giving OF
such guarantee was the finishing stroke
Of good sense shown by the Wilmington
business men. A fund was raised TO en-
sure the lessee from loss for a term o.
years then the rent was placed SO low a,
to return but small interest on tn,
money invested and after that there wa,
no trouble in getting an energetic land
lord. The proprietors of this house d.
notiexpect to see their money Immediately
they will lose nothing now, but they lool
for their profits to the future. In thu
meantime they have done the one thinl
needfsl 10 make Wilmington pleasan
place OF resort"
1t also speaks most pleasantly of tn,
banquet, concluding its notice US follows
First and last the speakers expressed
natural and proper pride In the new en-
terprise, and predicted the brightest thing
of It's future As marking the progressly
spirit OF the time II Is Il matter of real con
sequence, and will doubtless excite re
marx all over the country. When Wor
eester, Mass, with $4,000 population
built her 'Bsy State House riyalllpg III
old Revere of Boston, then the leadlnl
New England hotel, the travelling publ
wondered WILMINGTON has beatei
Worcester and all other cities of its class.
1t is proper that we should add that thi
pleasant Article is from the pen of Geo
W: Allen, Esq, one of the editors of III
Telegraph
The Norristown Herald has an equall
pleasant and appreclative notice, from In
pen OF It's associate editor John II. Wi
? liams, Esq. II opens by saying: "If
clty's success is not ettainable until sh
has provided hrst-class hotel for the az
eommodaton of the travelling public, the
from this date the rapid prosperity q
p Wilmington should be assured"
OF its proprietor II says; "Col. II. v
sawyer, The lessee, has the reputation {
knowing how to keep hotel, having ha
charge o. the Ocean House, at Cape Ma,
for the last seven years. He ia genil
and accommodating gentleman-a primo
OF good iell0ws-and will make hosts 0
, friends. During the war he was famou
, for his charges, but in the management
hotels his "eharges have not been I
ternhc-not calculated to make a guei
. retreat"
e 1t gives a lengthy and quite accural
5 description of the other public building
I and leading industries Of our city, an
5 also notices our newspapers.
The Reading Eagle declares the Clayto
b House ''a grand hotel, comparing iayo
A ably with the finest in any city,"
The Philadelphia Press of Saturday ha
a much fuller notice of the opening ban
t. quet at the Clayton House than appenre
, IN It's issue of Friday. OF the hotel
says The Wilmingtonians are vel
. proud Of their hotel, and well they may b
? There are few towns of thirty thousaI
, Inhabitants that have had the courage
= go into SO great an enterprise as thl
Indeed, though fairly well acquaint,
. with these ''institutions' through Ii
Union, the writer remembers no place bl
. Springfield, Illinois, that with the suu
q number Of Inhabitants would care to cor
I pete with this"
4 OF the banquet 1t says "The address,
a were far above the average OF those y
hear on similar occasions IN the practice
+ common sense of the speaker, the INTEL
n gent use OF language, aud tue general "
/. ana humor OF many Of those who partiC
4 pated, showing that a total abstinen,
. from intoxicating drinks, as prevailed {
a TINS occasion, does not necessarily imply
!, deficiency in brilliant intellectual y,
: bodily enjoyment Tina a.
a dresses were chiefly confined to giving n
2 account oil the rise and progress of Wi
!, mingtoD and Wilmington manufacture
\ eliminating so far ia the CLAYTON Hous
# But they do not propose to stop here. Ne
y Castle is to be absorbed, aud probab
Philadelphia also in time. SO the eptbi
siasm of some of the speakers dreame
of course there was no lac
= oil modesty in the Wilmingtonians' EST
e mate oil their ability to do. A man wi
mas thrlven, and Ia strong by his own III
< AIDED exerlions, feels naturally a lit
u vain oil MS own power, and it was pethal
d psrdonable when an allusion nsws al
k then was made rs to Wilmington possib
n becoming rival TO the ''big village aho,
y the Horseshoe" hut Philadelphia rath
It takes pride In the growth Of her lit
|. sister, all aiding to swell the commercl
=, greatness of the Delaware river towns.o
l. The ,Breahvatsr Lghl, published
Il Lewes, Del, says;
h The Hotel is second to no other in Ii
e United States; it's location is beautifu
z ana being large and commodous, rich
# and substantially furnished, and suppl