New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-04
THE GREAT EXHIBITION.
HOTEL EXPENSES.

| EIGN Quarter PRICES ADVANCED - HOTELS
| CROWDED.
| lFRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENT THE TRIBUSE.l
! PARIS, April 19.-Whether the Exposition be
ready or not on the 1st of May the visitor to Paris
! will find one thing ready and waiting for him, and
! that is his hotel. Never was he more eagerly ex-
! pected, never warmer welcome than he will re-
ceiye, never was greater price set on his coming
The peculiar hospitality which Paris is Justly famed
for, and which.she exercises in the most lavish and
splendid manner, at her guests expense, will reach
/ its climax during this Summer. We all know what
| Dr. johnson said about the welcome an
| inn gives You. One would rather like
/ to know what the old gentleman would
say if he paid visit in these days to the city which
Victor Hugo is fond OF oXtoDg for It's generosity
20 the stranger. Ii said in 1867 the year of the
last French Exposition. that the prices of all the
neces 'arcs of life were doubled, and have never
since been reduced. If the SANG process is TO be
| repeated every ten years, 10 wonder that EXposi-
tiOns popular with theParsIan tradcspcopie and
hOtel-keepers. distinction must be made between
the two as ! will explain by and by. Let us take
the hotckecpcr FIRST as it il with him aud his ideas
OF hospitality that the traveller first comes in con-
tact.
The hotels shall speak of are exclusively those
Of what may be called the foreign quartcr-ihc
quarter which modern French wit said he thought
ought 90 be reclaimed by the native; suggesting
that it would pay an cntrrpri>ng Partisan 60 open
a French shop, say the Bouicvards or in the Rue
lee Ia Pax aud put an inscription in the window:
lei on pqrIc frIc1i," They ar, the hotels 10
which uine-tenths OF the Americans habiualiy 90,
and VIII go this Summer more than ever. They are
situated for the most part the Rae dc Ryoli, the
Bou!cvar@s, and the streets which lie between those
great thoIougharcs Some OF the a"s and one 'i the
worst Of them may he found Iu the i'ue de Ia iaiA
the most brilliant street in Paris They begin with
the Louvre aud extend noIthwe:tward to
the }iadc,cuc; one or two, indeed, lying far be-
You'd that limit in the more purely American quar-
ter-thc quarter where Americas residents are most
numerous near the Arch of Triumph. more i'm
portant collection exists north OF the HonIevarhs,
but good As some Of them ar" in their way, the
American seldom find, hs way INTO them. Within
Tire boundaries have drawn ar. comprised two
th.gda Of I'll the hotels on the right oauh OF The
Seine which 1Ic .cu,iouti m 'ag b.-t guide books,
even In Bacdr4.:, Iurorp9r1ll the best Of al
/ guide books i'm m',, respects, bUt with notions
aiou' hotels which are sometimes more Icutouic
than American. OF the Hotcl cn the left bank of The
riycrI shall say nothing except that they may by
commended for chclpu.ss Iuuy lie fan out OF the
usual American beat and they deserve 10 Dee treated
hy themselves If at ali, and with reference To the
wants Of PERSONS with slender purse, or cusmopol-
5au tastes. or both. Yet may rr-cr 10 hotel which
SIR. Lowell discovered H. the IN. dr B.guuc. where
Dee sp.at many months coatcn;adly, rejoicing u
purely French cuisine and the society ~ h' chose 10
enicr d. Of good families coming NJ from the PROV
ucps.
The greater part Of these Boulevard hotel,
/ and thor like have always been rock
/ olcl expensive; and they well deserve their rcpu-
tatiou Even in those where rooms are to bc had Of
. comparatively moderate pre-. the cH.f-" Tor
food, table dn6teS excepted. are usually lMuoi'r-
/ ate. Il VIII "a, a rule, cost Won NOR. Oh din" " 70
carte and dine b1nlF DID your h"t' than 10 'Nr I'D
the sam" way and din" wei 10 iHr Gaze Ah-i'I~ "I
/ Nclou'.. II You can stand feeding ai % t'"ir
dh6tc aud don't particularly car. "hl; happen, Z"
/ the coats of your stomach, Won may please your
/ landlord and economic at the same time.
But then in many of the best hotels no such
institution exists. Strictly, am not 80 much con-
ccruel with the ordinary aid OF tie hotels - with
the special tIriI they have constructed iur thc LN-
posi- ion period. There my, Low,vcr, hc Americans
who have never been 20 Paris 'hpugh the prevailing
idea ir Europe is TO the contrary and who may hLc
to know IN q general way what hotel lilc 10 Paris
costs tho., who cannot or viii not pas strict
attention to economy Aiy acquaintance with PAN,
hotels, may explain, 81 derived nom pretty ifr-
qrcit visits during The las: twelve y.as, and NY
talent for economy Is not fear greater than thc
average.
Tie American. coming from a great country and
the country Oi great hotels, ~ extremely apt L. seek
oui the biggest inn he can iad both IN London and
Paris; IA which, let me tell mm most respectfully
ne SHOWS less than h.s wou'ci shr'"d"c,s Ia
small town, III largest inn l7 probably the best: u'
in large city II /, rota bad tui" 10 choose E"fcl
OF ycry moderate sine In London thc mammoth
tavern suffer, from want of organization M Paris
from being organized too much. Everybody la.