The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-04-06


TO America and Departure 10
Paris. ., 900
NEW YORK, March 80, 1878.
EDITOR CHEF:
Mrs. Alexander T. Stewart requests the
pleasure of your company at the opening OF
the Womens Hotel, on Tuesday evening,
April 2nd, 1873. From to 10 O'Clock
So runs the formula by which New
York is invited to assist at the inaug-
uration of what was once supposed to
be the Stewart Home for Friendless
Girls. / had occasion to speak of
this disinterested benefaction about
two weeks ago, and the late revela-
tions OF the present week have con-
firmed my impressions with regard to
this gigantic sham. Whatever the
original intention was, it appears to
have been abandoned, and now it is
simply known as the Women's Hotel
"a much more appropriate title than
the one originally selected, for at least
it has the merit of honesty. 1t has
the true Stewart ring about it. 1t
warns all corners that whoever sup
pose that benevolence had anything
to do with its construction are en-
tirely and egregiously mistaken !;
it tells them, in plain language, that
the ducats must be paid in advance,
and that temporary bankruptcy will
be considered just ground for sum-
mary and immediate expulsion. No
boarder will find shelter beneath its
roof unless she has satisfactory in
dorsements, and her father or brother,
if they wish to SEQ her in private,
must take her to the little church
around the corner. Woe betide her
if she gets out of work, no matter
even if she can muster the eight OF
nine dollars that will be needed to
pay her board in advance, and should
sickness supervene even for a single
week we might expect to see the
poor house ambulance carrying her
to the benevolent protection of Belle
yue. IF an unfortunate mother should
arrive in New York with her family,
unless she has 81 certificate of moral
character herself and the birth certiti
cate of every one of her children, she
is not an eligible boarder; and the
youngest of her children must not be
under twelve years of age. Applica-
tions for rooms must be respectfully
indorsed, and made several days in
advance. Shade of Elias Howe, on
whose magnificent curly wig and in
comprehensive breeches | have
looked with such awe and admiration,
what have you done to be treated
with such contemptuous disrespeet in
Stewards Women's Hotel7-no sew
ing machines in any of the rooms,
saws rule number seven The char
acter of the rules which these aristo~
cratic managers have laid down for
the government of this latest Stewart
speculation, is quite worthy of the
power which excluded from the Grand
Hotel at Saratoga the representative
man of an opposing faith. Judge
Hilton has right to do as he likes
with his own, aud to regulate his own
household according to his whims
/ and fancies. Whether he or Mrs. A.
T. Stewart is the power is a matter
of little consequence, but to q casual
observer it would seem that the life
of negro on a Southern plantation
would be glorious freedom alongside
of the slavery of the so-called Wo-
mems Hotel. The hotel itself may be
a paradise, but before its magnificent
portal stands an angel with a flaming
sword guarding it forever against the
miserable children of wrechedness,
suffering and want.
Two of the boldest robberies of the
season have distinguished the ealen-
dar of the week which is past. An
old gentlemen was attacked by rob
Der at midday in one of onr most
public thoroughfares and relieved of
$50, 900 in bonds, and the cashier of
the Planet Mills in Brooklyn, accom-
panied by another man, was knocked
down at three o'clock in the afternoon
and robbed of $3500. The man who
lost the bonds got them all back with
in an hour, and the perpetrators ol
the second robbery have all been ap-
pretended, but the money is not to
he found
| Alderman Shannon. who broke the