New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-31


for bed without food coffee. No hotel in the
world does it elsewhere and it is intended rascaty
because no sign announces it. The victim of the
confidence game is shown to bed: no money is ex-
tOrted from him beforehand unless the last train is
gone to the city, when he comes down in the
morning and pays his So, they give him 50 change,
and look like pickpockets caught in the act The
bedroom for which twelve shillings sterling or
fifteen francs is thus assessed upon the unwary and
the weary, is matter of lath covered with piece
of ingram carpet about twelve feet square, and
with little sawmil furniture in it WORTH mattress
included, $40 Six per cent per annum of 365
days. bears 3 interest upon the value of this room,
for which they charge the annual interest every
day AS a room is reckoned one-third of the whole
provision of hotel, Coney Island thus asks SO
day. making it the most expensive while the COM
monest waterng-place in the world. Six dollars
per day, everything included, which is the highest
price at Long Branch is cheaper than diet of fies
CLAIMS and stamped ding. The best regular hotel at
Long Branch charges half dollar less than the
table dhote service per diem of the Coney Island
hotels. 1t is $4 so at the West End, So at tho
Brighton. So wonder if there be not Jews in other
things than sect.
In the City of London the highest price for plain
single room with board in full, as at the Royal
Blackfriars Hotel, is twelve shillings day, tho
same wooden shed charges for a bed on the out
skirts of NewYork. What respectable Englshmen
may think of such exactions we may only guess, but
what would Americans think of the same at Mar
gate or Ramsgate. which the Coney Island re-
sorts of Londoni
UN DER THE SUN.
The evils of American hotels rise from the vicious
system of subletting, by which the barber cigar
seller or newspaper-vendor feels justified in adding
hundred per cent to his prices. No care is taken
that the sub-lessee shall promise to deal respect
ably in kind rate; he is left to his own response
blllty and sense OF audacity, and therefore the
fellow who can cheat and extort the most unblush-
ingy will outbd the genteel vendor and the stalls
around hotels falling into worse hands
every year. the slopshop man, or mock auctioneer
or disguised burglar. They will rule out the best
newspapers for the lower kind which they get at q
bonus and put dyed plaIntain leaves the un
blushing placard of "Reina VIctorias my own i'm
portation only 80 cents" 1t is time the dclusion of
Spanish tobacco done with and some discerning
person raised the sign of Nothing but domestic
made cigars" The price of being shaved on the rail
road steamers the bay is % cents the barber
but yesterday landed from London or Hamburger
where his pay per shave twopence or cents
He says the cost of living here is so much dearer
but suppose it was as dear the increased toll on
shaving what would become of him. The cure for
this extorton is to substitute dressing case for
the American SLOUGH bag and be ones own barber
du c0ydge. How inhosptaby un-Amercan is the
sight of the comb and brush removed from the
-
be compelled to use the BARRIERS comb and pay his
charges!
THE KEEPER.
"Mine host" was once term of meaning when
tavern-keepers not above their trade and the
guest found at the door plain well-fed man. with
honest eyes, who took his baggage or his hand and
| said. snow. come to me if anything goes wrong"
In these days some barkeeper turned great man has
replaced the host, whose ambition is to appear
do nothing and to look naughty and intellectual
as if glorious ancestry kept his impusiveness in
check. Some of these parvenus run four or five
notels and spend most of their time travelling be-
tween them, instead of looking after the personal
comfort of the bird they have caught The word
table d'hote they affecting means the table
of the hosts family Mt which he pr"sdes and
carves, but the average host nowadays is so
ashamed of his guests that he hides his family like
Mexican or Brazilian srandee from the sight of
travellers.
Women have an opening in the hotel business
here as in England. They not hotel SPECTATORS
and are willing to undergo hosts onsibilities
At Brighton, England, which is the largest water
| ing-pace on the globe, with above 100. 900 perma-
nent residents, the chief duties of hotels are per-
formed by women manly. the porter's work ex-
cepted The hotels frequently send the guest ont to
one of the thousands of clean private dwellings
where for from fifteen 10 thirty shillinos a week
room and attendance are furnished. British extor.
tion, so celebrI ted among Americans omits the
eXasperatlng solicitation here, but boldly OK
presses itself IN the tariff. The British hotel system
rapidly lntrudng here is popular with landlords az
means OF greater revenue; in general the same
cook ing is served as at the public table. but with
higher tariffs ON the various dishes. Wine which
Is the matter OF greatest profit to the foreign land
lord, is OF small relative consumption here nroGt
OF about Slo case is made upon champagne
Claret, which costs 40 cents n quart bottle from
the grocer, is charged dollar and upward ut the
hotel table. ~ ''i0
RIVAL RESORTS
Long Branch is still the great seaside citv NJ
New-York. now and in the future It's growth il
sound the rise of other beaches has rather re-
heved 1T OF abuses and testers The railroad SPAN
ming all that coast of New-Jersey from Shark River
to Sandy Hook rapidly carries of the indigestible
elements which land at Long Branch; the fisher
men go to Toms River the exhorters TO Ocean
Grove, the boarders to Ocean and Monmouth
beaches. 1t is n singular and, one would think n
shortEVed usurpation that the sandy commons of
Coney Island, instead of being adapted TO the
pockets and the lodgings OF the poor should adopt
peerage prices and make Long Branch modest
Speculation taking the place of investment is the
principal cause OF these giddy alternations Tho
nrst SOLDERING crash will awaken the
OF Coney Island to the conviction that I'M
manity to the million is better than cruel trbnte
That sand hill was the natural home of tho oon;n
and the humble classes if conliscated from them
1T Will be of prt fit to nobody. More respectahn
looking quarters are needed there at reasono Ilo
prices not above 81 a night. II is the enormous
number of table walters that makes hotel -kccnino
at that point so precarious; they devour when mo-
body pays; whereas lodging rooms neither eat nor
ask salary. | see no reason why bathing houses
snonio not be economized into lodgings, and be
made to pay for both utilities, as on the Pullman
car bed principle, or with wire mattresses LET down
iioin 'io iooi' JOHNNY BOUQUEr.