Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1878-06-20
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Our New York Letter.

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Hilton and the Fair Sex-'Che
Police Parade.
New YORK, June 7, 1878.
To the Editor Of the Observer:
After brief and somewhat
inglorious existence of two
months, Stewards mammoth
Women's Hotel is no more.
The place has been losing $500
a day from its commencement,
besides the interest onnearly ST.
100000, and it has beenthought
time to stop such an appalling
leak in the Stewards estate.
Of course the failure of such a
gigantic experiment would have
been in itself an occurrence of
considerable Importance, but e.
ven that by itself would never
have raised such a breeze as
has followed this fiasco; for
Judge Hilton, the Mephisto-
pheles of the Stewart property,
as he is sometimes regarded,
gave out in closing the estab-
lishment that he had to do it be-
cause women wouldn't live
where men couldn't come. That
settled it. The restrictions and
high prices of the hotel while in
operation had rendered the
Judge quite unpopular, and now
arose a shrek from the sister
hood, some echo of which must, |
think, have already reached your
readers ears. The fair sex, or
that section thereof to whom
this enterprise particularly ar
peaIed, rose up as one woman and
Indignantly repelled this base
accusation. They want the So
ciety of men! They care any
thing about silk hats and NOUS
taches! The idea of insinnat-.
ing such a thing! They must
vindicate their freedom from
such a weakness or die in the
attempt. So they issue a call
for a mass meeting, and packed
the big hall of Cooper Union to
suffocation. They made speech-
es and sung songs and read
scathing resolutions and poet
ry, and called the unfortunate
millionaire all the names in the
dictionary, and finally circulated
for signatures, pledge not to
buv a dollars worth of dry
goods of such a monster for the
next five years. Then they
stopped and painted for breath
fully expecting, | suppose, that
Judge Hilton would pull up
stakes and fly the country by
next train.
Instead of this, he has gone
burliedIy to work made, some
alterations in the big building,
put in such masculine conven-
fences as a bar, billiard room,
barber shop, &C., and rechris-
!. tening the place the spark Az
cnue Hotel will shortly open
it to the public as CONNER
cial hotel. Time will now tell
how wise move has been made
in this change. 1t certainly
cannot be worse pecunlarlIy
than the first months have been
1t would seem as though this
experiment settled the question
!, of cheap exclusive hotel ac-
commodations for working wo.
men. The friends Of the idea
however, claim the contrary
They claim that Judge Hiltor
has always been opposed to the
scheme and has dOEe all h'
could under the circumstances
to ensure its failure. While
this is probably not true it cal
hardly be doubted that had h'
given it his hearty support i
would not have so entirely "liz
zled" as in this instance.
E The annual parade of th
New York police force too
place this week and was rcall.
! a good deal of a display. The.
= turned out 1900 strong and i
: drill, uniform and general ap
pearance were above the aver
age of many a crack regiment
: This annual parade is not onl
;, an interesting sight to the pull
!, lie, but | thi:ik is a very health
- spectacle to present occasional
olly before the eyes Of the thou
!" : sands of roughs, burglars an
6 communists that infest the city
: Such a body as this would max
{, short work of any ordinar
y riot.
= =. Apropos of the recent atrC
:, eious attempt to murder En-
" = peror William Of Germany,
4 may be interesting to kno
: 80 something of the frequency Q
> attempts at regicide. With
thirty years, the number OF sue
7 attempts, successful and unsu,
ID cessful, has been twentY-eIgl
At including the assassination {
as President Lincoln. In one cas-
III that of Napoleon III, the a
" tacks on his life were no le
than five in number, notWlt
standing which he died peac
av fully in his bed after all.