, 1876-04-15
PHILADELPHIA,
How the "Clty Of Brotherly Love" II
Preparing to Take In tho
Stranger.
Centennial Rates At Hotels, Boarding and
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. In.
crease on Present Prices.

Special CIrYes3,ondeHtt of TA4 Chitaou Tribune.
PHILADELPHIA, April 12.-Snce tho Press
{dMly mud neekly) horo denounced = TRIBUNE
correspondent for htatlrg baso, paio facts TO-
gar1fng hoto! and other charRoe have tskon
tho pains to Wait moro than City boarding.
hollses and lloloa within Ton b1oca OF tlis Pres
oft1co. In ordor to got
ACTUAL FIGURES.
nm talking now Of suol, clearinghouse 10
the editors Of the l'ress would choose, and not
Of those throo ninuloa' walk from this o1lcc,h
probably located or Bptucs, Pine, or South, be-
low Third.
The result Of my aesrch. Is, thai, In such
boarlinR.houses as mention. and who advsr.
tisa this Way: "Nicely- furnished rooms, heat.
gas. and bath, Mt moderate ratos," not = room
eau bs bad Aitor May /. for loss than 312 10 4l3
per wook. II you want room roto tbs orner
makes the condition That, sftor that tlase ron
WY ta, 70 tho yseaa You ca"
Pooplo Who loom herA can Ect t&blo-boartl for
45. Ct, and elD PEI weok.
Al four Of the seconsi-rAto hotels, now paper
The door, an English porter engaged, aud
arc placarded titus:
On ND af;si .y Soarc:. .,ii
tss'. hsvc 70 % ny ~ nes !, ~s.s. . or racAse
A clean raise OF 81 per week on "grnb"
bought after all the regular customers at market
nr0 served.
Five And sixdolars NOT ia, uif, bo the price
~ tlres.olass, near the grounds, tho Globe for
instance -boatd will be straight IS. Aud 1t
would bo dear at Is coutB, consldoring Tho risk.
It ts actually criminal to build such honse Tor
tary Pine kindllng.wood, plastered On tllo
outside. Putty, paint, aud plaster hfdo
all t1efcets. During tho recent hard tn!ns. half
tho daub On sho outside wae washed OF. and ths
i,eys Pres; will ieny this. Psrhnps tic Irfss
will douy that. few mouths since, It ondeavorcd
to get dcfua! figures frnnf oil hotoikeepots as to
charges, and fatteA A--1neanlug, OF cou1ae, that
those gentlemen would
CHARGE WHATEVER THEY gAw FIT.
Why not toll Tia tsath7 Charges will be msdo
Just rs great as the pooplo viii submit to aud
sLay: i ia said thai, or,ug to tho stsnginoas OF
a9 GS"ss ss ss1se fese esy = ns fail H.
gro tor a city lilo thss: what viii
T. be when hundreds Of thousands aro
sd5ed a to- to ia populsitoa' And; gu! Sorse,
almost always follow throat and luug-discascs+
such rs arc now prevailing Half tho city is OH
the cough. and tho othoE half arc swathod in
red flannel.
Between tho charger, tho want Of wntor. and
m eptdcmlc Of aotue sort, the visitor Wi1l havo
TOUGH TINE or IT.
This city Ia full OF antiquarians and tlloy arc
all 10 q furore,-hayfng found out Just uoW--ns
tho Now York Herald announces from advance
shoets Of tho AncrtcdH Monh,v-that thoy hhys
boen worshiping at tho wrong shrine for AftY
years. It i,na boon supposed Until nov that
Jefferson wrote tho Declaration OF 1ndopendouco
at tho corner Of soyonth and Market ssrcota
Old, muBty rocsrda hzvo knocked thu place into
d cooked hat and taken tho satls out of Longaw
l. Co., who lad tittctl up tho "Old Cornor" for
1 inspection this summer. jefferson wrote tho
! paper long years before thero was any house on
tho cornor. Tho lncontrovortiblo proof OF tbls
Ia not wanting. TIoLxr MAny,