Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-06-20
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The Jews and Hotel Keep
ers In the East.
A SARCASTIC LETTER FROM stlIa-
MAN TO HILTON.
Popular Opinion in Favor
Of the Jews.
UNITED STATES BONDS PAYABLE IN
OofD ONLY.
General Grants First Letter from
Europe.
HE DESCRIBES HIS RECEPTION
IN ENGLAND.
lsrrcrAL DurArcHrs 70 rur ooLp HnL
DAILY Naval

New YonK. June 19.-Follswing IL the
full text Of Sellgman's letter to Hilton.
care Of Messrs. A. T. Stewart 4 Co., New
York:
Dear Judge: My family have for many
years ~patronized ths Union Hotel at Sara
toga, but were informed yesterday by your
manager that orders from headquartsrs
are 10 exclude all Jewish families from the
list Of guests this season, alleging o. Urea
son that there existed prejudice among
Americans against tho people OF that per-
s~uasien which had injured the Union TO
that extent last season that headquarters
proposed To roast them out. viz: To tell
them all. without exception. that all rooms
except tho garrett chambers wcro engaged.
| Now, permit me. dear Judge, In your own
interest AMI the interests Of the Btewarts'
valuable cstate--the lions share Of which
you seem to have acquired-to say that
yon are adding 10 the many serious mis-
takes you have committed since yon inner
| tied that estate. by refusing admittance 10
the Union Hotel TO . large class Of per-
sons. regardless Of thoir respectability.
wealth and proper bearing. merely to pam
der TO vulgar prejudice, under . mistaken
notion that by 80 doing you will oil tho
house with other na~tionalities. You will
find yourself mistaken. You arc nc judge
Of American character. The civilized
| world Is beginning 10 be more liberal In
matters OF faith, or creed, or birth. than
| you believe or would bAvo them. They
despise intolerance. low cunning aud
vulgariiy, and will not ~patronize those
who seek TO mako money by pandering
10 tho preJudices Of tho vulgar. j re-
greet your running tho Union at o loss.
l regret that you are making no Roadway
In your Wholesale departments Ia New
York and Chicago. and that even the
Ninth-street retail store. 80 popular and
prosperous under tho management OF the
late Stewart. has lost It's best patrons.
Little reflection must show 10 you that tho
grlovoun falling OF In yonr business IL
mol duo TO patronage, not duo 10 any
nationality. but the want OF patronage OF
all, and that you. dear Judge. are not big
enough to keep . hotel. or broad enough
In your business views 10 run . dry goods
store. Yon have tried competition with
experienced and popular houses In the
manufacture OF carpets, Of woolens, OF
silks, and Of scores of articles Of minor
importance, and you havo succeeded In
none, and you never will. I respectfully
volunteer the advioe--for which I charge
yon nothing. although you charged mo
once $4,000 for advice which was worth
nothing-that II you want 10 save the rest
Of this once valuable estate ~ Stewart
you will advertise q large auction 10 sell
your merchandise and your hotels To the
highest bidder. and no matter Mt what sac
rihce you get rid Of them you will como
or better than by holding 10 things which
you cannot intelligcntly manage. Trust
ing yon will avail yourself u this friendly
anil disinterested advice. I remain, dear
Judge, yours. very truly.
JOSEPH SELIoMAS.
Den. Grant's Iint Letter Home.
PHILADELPHIA. June 2i.--The following
letter will he Of general interest:
Losdo~. .jnns 9-My Dear Mr.. Childs /:
After an unusually stormy pafsage for any
season Of tho year. and continuous sea-
sickness generally among tho passengers
after tho second day out, We resdked Liver
pool Monday afternoon. May 18th. Jessie
aud | proved 20 DO among tho few sailors.
Neither Of us felt . momsnt's uneaziness
during tho voyage. I had proposed TO
leave Liverpool imm, diately ON my Ar.
rival and proceed to London. wherc ] know
our Minister hal mado arrangements for .
formal reception and had accepted for mo
. few invitations of courtesy /: but what
was my surprise 10 fed nearly al the ship
ping In port ut Liverpool decorated with
tho Hays OF all n%ationi, and from tho mLn-'
mast Of each tho fias Of the Union most
conspicuous. The docks were lined with