The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-01


within the district above referred to. Two Of
che dry goods houses, for Example do bust
ness OF nearly $4,000 5000 year each. The
hotel In which write this letter, the Palmer
House, is by far the finest have ever seen
and have experimental with many hotels :
I'm many cities, In many countries. Major
Sir Rose Lambert Price, Bart, f. II. q. g., an
English gentleman, who lately wrote bool,
Of travels In America says that the Palmer
House is ''the finest, best conducted and most
comfortable he ever saw in America. IL the
gentleman had included the hotels Of Europe
and the rest Of the world iii the comparison
he would have been more strictly accurate
There Is .s e
NO HOTEL IN EUROPE
comparable In any respect with the Palmer
House except in size. The Grand Hotel and
the Hotel du Louvre in Paris, and some Of the
great London hotels may be as large, but, In
every other attribute, they are vastly info
rlor. The French hotels are elegantly fur
nished, but never swept, and their table
dhotes are simply execrable, especially the
table fdhote of the Grand Hotel In Paris,
which Is infamous. The great Swiss hotels,
such as those of Geneva, Luzerne and Inter
lacken. are models Of elegance and clean
Illness, but they are deficient as TO attend
ance, and their menhs are exiguous to the
point Of attention read the other day d
magazine article called
'sIx HOTELS"
the half dozen described by the writer be-
ing mostly Swiss. He says that such accom-
mediation Ms cost him about two dollars u day
at one Of these places would have cost
twenty dollars day In IN American hotel
Now this is simply nonsense and will be SO
considered by every well informed and I'M
preiudiced traveller. ! assert that such ac-
Communications as the Palmer House gives for
three dollars day cannot be got at any ErI-
ropean hotel at any price, and that the near
est approach to 1t would cost at least five dol
lars day, and that the accommodation for
which the Palmer House charges five dollars
a dhy--that Is to say, stting-room, bath
room and bedroom, with full board,
Is NOT TO BE FOUND,
even In approximation, in any hotel in
Europe. In some there are gorgeous dining
Saloons but no parlors or drawing-roorns, no
elegant Offices, reading-rooms and billiard
rooms--in fact, conspicuous absence Of
those appurtenances which constitute the
charm OF first-class American hotels. On the
other hand there Is not q single desirable
feature OF hotels and hotel-living that Is not
to be found at the Palmer, The rooms are
rented with or without board, md for those
who prefer the so-called European plan"
there liz a restaurant which, 1 may say is q
perfect
MODEL OF ELEGANCE
and taste. In addition to these advantages,
the building Is absolutely and entirely fire.
proof, which is point to be considered by
travellers, to whom the memory Of the South
ern Hotel catastrophe Is q chronic vision OF
horror and fountain of alarm.
THE BUSINESS or CHICAGO
in provision packing and export In grain and
in lumber, is expressed by figures of such
magnitude that they dwarf the statistics of
almost all other places. They have been Of
ten published and it is not necessary to re-
capitulate them here. A few days ago friend
Of mine-he ID In the lumber business In
Montreal, where he had some dealings with q
lumber merchant of that place. In the course
OF conversation the Canadian boosted OF Mon
treal as the greatest lumber market in tho
world. He admitted that Chicago did some
thing In that way, but, as heaexpressed It,
t'not q flea bite to Montreal" the trade Of
which place he asserted TO be six hundred
millions feet year. -
HE WAS AsTONIsHED
TO learn that the lumber trade OF Chicago just
doubles those figures. The gentleman have
referred to is Mr.. George Farnsworth, presi-
dent Of the "Oconto Company" "a company
consisting Of himself and three partners.
They own timber lands on Green Bay, two
hundred and seventy-iive miles from Chicago
They have saw mills on the bank and cut and
ship annually $4,000, 900 feet Of lumbcr--all of
it white pine. In this amount little more
than one-fourth Is called refuse" and to
utilize this they have established q box fac
tory, which uses 100000 of so-called refuse
lumber year went over the factory day
or two ago and was very much Interested in
what saw there. Passing by great heap of
box pieces Mr.. Farnsworth remarked CAL
chose are
GOING TO NEW ORLEANS.
tt seems absurd, doesn't it, TO send here for
such things when there Is a practically mex
haustiblc supply of timber as well or better
suited for the purpose within sight of New
Orleans" To which was compelled TO agree
Mr.. Farnsworth has a curious machine for
mailing boxes together, and another for nail
ing barrels, by simply rolling wide strips of
wood, Of the proper thickness, twice around
an iron cylinder, the heads being put in after
wards. There is
ABSOLUTELY NO REASON.
except lack of enterprise and energy, why
this industry should not flourish in New Or
leans as 1t does in Chicago. Mr. Farnsworth
tells me that his lumber Is shipped to the
East and to Europe, The facilities possessed
by New Orleans seaport city-for exports
OF this kind, arc vastly superior to those pos
sessed by Chicago, whilst the material is at
our DOORS d. DA 2.
PARAsoLs, EmBRerDERIEs, ETo.--Yessrs. Pepin
Broussard prcptietors of the white building, 1853
Canal street, have just received and will open on
Monday another invoice Of beautiful parasols,
embroideries and fans. all these goods were
u..I o., NJ, T.. a