Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-10-04
THE SUMMER HOTEL.
Some of It's Adyantages-HOW the
Gucsfs Consider Each Others Com.
fOrt-A True Story.

fOrt-A True Story.
Mr. W. c. Prime writes to the New York
Journal Of Commerce:
Summer hotels are in general built cheaply
The floors and partitions are thin. noise or
voice is heard through both. Travellers rarely
think of this. If everyone had in mind the idea
that there are great many other people in the
house with him, whose comfort and enjoyment
Is worth considering, hotels would be more
quiet places. 1t is astonishing how much noise
people make In hotels who would never
think Of doing 1t in private houses. Per-
sons arriving at late hour go up to their
rooms laughing, talking. vOciferating along the
halls. waking up hundred sleeping guests and
receiving maedictiOns from all the rooms
People whose habit it is to rise early In the
morning raise such a row in the process of
dressing as to drive sleep out of every room In
their neghbOrhood. There was man in the
room over my head at hotel where recently
passed few days. who was afflicted with
chronic trouble in getting on his boots every
morning He stamped on the floor about fifty
times with the right boot and then about as
often with the left boot. and when the Job was
satisfactorily accomplished walked about his
room with heavy triumphant tread that
shook the ceiling. At the same hotel | made a
note of the events of night. My room was at
the end of a long hall. and all the rooms had
ventilatOrs over the doors. and all these were
open / was writing letters at IL O'clock when
train arrived and two persons. gentleman
and his wife, We're shown to room opposite to
mine. They talked loudly TO the belAb0y giving
him all sorts of orders. and after he had gone the
gentleman opened his door and shouted to the
boy, who had gone down to the other end of the
Passase. TO bring some water. and explained that
ne didn't want 1t hot. but iUkewarn. and repeated
The order and the explanations. and doubtless
reused out of sleep all the men, women and
children in thirty or forty rooms. Then fol-
lowed slam of his door, and then a conyersa-
tion and difference of opinion between himself
and wife. which was audible every word of it.
to most of the people he had awakened out of
their sleep When that room became quiet and
people were possibly asleep again. came roaring
down all the passages of the hotel loud laugh
ing talking and some profanity. from number
OF men who had been in the billiard room and
were now breaking up their party. They went
up the grand stairway two or three stories
shouting as they went. and woke the whole
hotel on every floor.
1t was after midnight when a party Of ladies
and gentlemen who had been out sailing by
moonlight came In, in the best of spirits and
as tney went along the halls made the house
ring with their voices that were very sweet and
would have been very musical under other cir
cumstanceS. Two of the ladies babe the others
good night and received a hearty goodnight
with abundant pleasant wishes for sleep i'm
English and German. and came down the
passage talking about something which had
happened and expressing confideutially to each
other their opinion of some of the gentlemen.
This confidence was bestowed on some dozens
Of persons besides myself
1t was about two o'clock when | settled N.Y.
Sell TO sleep. and L had been asleep about five
minutes when two gentlemen were shown into
the room next to mine. They had been attend
ing a consultation between representatives of
some railroads. and it had been a stormy time
No one had succeeded in getting the advantage
Of any one else. l heard all about it. / made
. noise myself to show them that they were
talking for public benefit. They would not take
the hint. and was compelled to hear not only
what the sharp fellows of the other roads had
tried and failed to get, but also what my neigh
bOrs themselves intended to have and lust how
they intended to get it. Several other people
heard the same. No one In that part of the
house could help hearing It, When you talk
secrets at night In a summer hotel. built Of
wood, remember to whisper.
Toward morning. departing guests. by a very
early train. reused the house at 5 o'clock 1t is
perfectly easy to get up, dress and get out OF a
hotel without making noise. Few people
think OF doing it. At 6 o'clock came a very
common hotel nuisance. A mother who likes
to sleep quietly has her children up and dressed
and sends them out to play in hail. while she
goes out to sleep again. 1t was the fourth
morning the nurse had brought those children
down to my end Of the hall and this time | re-
Quested her to take those children down some
other hall and wake up some one else She
went. / am aware of the inconsistency Of my
COnuuct, out Wnen you cannot aDate q nuisance
there Is a certain fairness in compelling other
members of the community to relieve you of a
share of 1t. 1t was AT o'clock that the man
with the boots began his customary morning
contest and by eight o'clock the whole hotel
Was awake and noisy.
When 1t is remembered how many of the
guests in summer hotels are invalids, and very
weary citizens. seeking few days of rest and
refreshment, and that in large hotels these dis
furbing Incidents are not exceptional but con-
slant, every night, the subject Is Of grave i'm
portance- 1t is a result Of thougntiessness. not
OF rudeness or ill-hreeding The most refined
and cultivated people forget that they are tor
The time members OF a community i'm which each
Is so far dependent on the others for comfort
That at least he or she should not be made I'M
comfortable BY them. Young persons full OF
HE and fun and enjoyment of the gay hotel life
and its surroundings are most apt to forget
now greatly they may disturb others by their
loIlity In parts of hotel where quiet and still
oess ought to be preserved.
=, The hotel proprietors are not without FAINT In
mis- respect Be.l-bOys in summer hotel should
wear soft slippers, and not go rushing down
stairs and along passages in heavy-soied shoes
Or boots Porters should not throw down trunks
on the floors Of rooms with thunderous sound
especially in the night time. II boys answering