The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-19
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Monster Hotels i'm New York and
Their Distinctive Features
New York News Compiled
by Tramp.
rFrom Our special Correspondeut.


some common bond of interest
or sympathy. The causes that
lead to this is either nationality,
politics or business. The Brevort
hotel. on Fifth Avenue, near Wash
ington square, is the resort of the
''Swells" and "nobS" of an effete Euro
pean aristocracy, while the old st.
Julian, now the Commercial, on
Washington Place. near Broadway,
formerly enjoyed the cream of the
travel from Spain to South America.
As it's name indicates, it is now bid
ding for different trade, though l
believe it does not advertise for it
outside of city papers, aS does the
Grand Union hotel, acreSS the street
from the grand union depot, and the
Hotel Dain, on Fifteenth street, near
Union square. These two hotels are
well patronized by commercial men.
The Hoffman House on Broad
way above Madison square, is the
trysting place of brokers and well-to-
do spectators, and is selected by
many army and navy officers wherein
to give dinners to friends. The Albe-
marie, hard by, enjoys a liberal trade
from distinguished foreigners, am
bassadors and diplomatists. Bern
hardt and Langtry roasted" at the
Albemarle. The Morton house,
Union Square hotel and Everett
house, all on Union Square, are fire.
quented by actors and actresses. The
principal part of the patronage of the
st. James is that OF sporting men,
while the Sturtevant house is crowd
ed with people engaged i'll mining
or the manufacture of mining
machinery. The lofty Buckingham
is honored by royalty guests from
Dom Pedro. of Brazil, to King Kala-
kua, of the Sandwich Islands. This
house is also the resort of brides and
glooms. All high-toned brides COM
ing to New York should manage 10
get the joy OF her honeymoon to take
| her and the Saratoga accompaniment
to the Buckingham. The grand old
Windsor scoops in the bulls and bears
of Wall street, and is a fayorite with
high-hying society people of the Bos-
ton, Providence and Albany brand.
The white walls of the prominentFif fifth
| Avenue hotel, on Madison Square, shell
tiers the upper tendum great American
politician of all shades of political
conviction. There you will meet a
regiment of men wearing high hats,
long black coats and red noses, the
fellows who smoke % cent cigars and
indulge literally in French bottled
goodS-the kind the Sifters like
Nearly all who put up at the New
| York hotel are southernerS. This
house, during the war, was considered
a "hot-bed of secession" and it came
near being mobbed. At the New
York may be seen the long-haired
broad-brimmed planter of the
cotton and sugar plantation
band; and also the ole
"mammy," the Indispensable travel.
ing companion of southern family
Everything about this house be.
tokens Dixie, the land of cinnamon
seed and sandy bottom, hurrah
hurrah!" etc. The Grand Central
Metropolitan, st. Dennis, st. Stephens
st. Nicholas, Astor house, Earls no
tel, the Cosmopolitan and others, al
well patronized, do not seem to have
any prominent distinctive features
but they are just as good and popular
as though they did. The New York
and all those mentioned after it, are
located below Twelfth street. When
it comes to second and third class
hotels, New York has about q score
of them.
NEW YOEK NEWS.
The old Fulton market, torn down
last summer, was built in 1921.
The Barnum show now exhibiting
at Madison Square garden is doing al
immense business. The exhibition
fee is fifty cents, or one-half what is
charged in Texas.
The failures for the first three
months of the year as compared with
the corresponding period il 1881 and
1882 make formidable showing
They were 3,1S9 against 2,146 last yea
and 1886 in 1881.
1t is estimated that there are 40,
600 women and girls in New York
who support themselves. 1t is also
estimated that 100000 people leave
the city and cross the ferries every
night and return every morning.
| A widow lady recently attended {
dancers in the ballet she recognized
her daughter, who mysteriously dis
appeared from home several months
previously. The girl went home witt
her mother.
| DOCICoUCI - plOul VI lIS ttoIIOlO
mer, and DR.. Lewis Swift, who ha!
just received the La Lande prize OF
the Paris academy of science, is the
lion of the day. He is acknowledged
by the Partisan savant5 to be the mos
eminent astronomer of the year.
The Stewart wholesale building
corner Broadway and Chamber:
street, is being changed and converted
into stores and offices. Two stories
are being added to it. Fifty year.
ago a colored peoples graveyard, sur
rounded by rail fence, occupied it.
site.
Mr.. Jay Gould has returned, ant
says Wall street is the only blue par
of the country he has lately passe(
! through. Everywhere else in the
country the outlook is promising
! Mr.. Gould, while not desiring to Sc
| up as prophet, ventures the opinion
| that business will pick up in shor
time, for he says the country is in {;
better condition than it was veal
ago.
4 New Workers are tired of winter
and long for a sight of budding
ispring and a kindly promise of com
ling warmth. The weak. the frail, tn,
old; the people whose blood is thiI
and vitality low; who suffer from
neuralgia, rheumatism, weak lung
and other ills-all these and man,
more, long for the season that is lag
ging on the road. AS vet we hav,
had but three or four spring-lik,
days.
/ MIR. Beecher is earnest in his desir
for the regulation of the liquor traffic
and made an earnest speech in advo
cacy of it, at the meeting in Brooklyn
last night, called to discuss the tenn
perance question. This is something
that will not down. and that canno
be kept out of sight, try as timid poll
ticians may. 1t is growing ever!
day, and appeals more strongly to tn
moral sense than slavery-for it il
something that comes home directl,
to all. Mr.. Beecher'S speech WA
strong and forcible and will have
good effect.
The Thirteen Club of this city, now
something more than year old, ha!
given occasion for much comment con
corning the superstitions attaching tt
that peculiar number. Every ont
knows, or should know, that the bad
reputation of thirteen at table cam,
from the important and solemn even
which is called the Last Supper, wheI
Judas was exposed as the traitor
But in none of the many articles re
Gently published about the fata
fifteen do we remember to have
seen any alluSion TO tn,
well-known fact that Their,
| were thirteen American colonies II