New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-22
ABOUT TOWN IN LONDON.
HOTELS. MANNERS. AND EMIGRATION TO
AMERICA.

Cross supplies this want but II
table dh6te, and gives good dinner nc charge of
81 49, out in all other respects 1t regular English
hotel What the American traveller wants IA a hotel
with xed prices, where he knows Just what II IA going
cost him to live In English hotel you are charged
so much day for your ROOM much day for attend
ance and every want is extra Some OF the bills are
headed Gratuties not expected" giving the idea that
the charge attendance really that expense
which s simply deusi,n and fraud. and they know
It. and it is only part OF the system OF fleeing the
eller They Ray the servants little nothing; in fact
the porers and dningroOm walters pay bonus for the
privilege of serving. You first charged for their
services which sy Is not paid 10 them and then you
left TO pay them besides SO the service charge
clear profit Let any about leaving an English
hotel take the printed notice literally and undertake
of without feeling the servants aud the unmistak
able expressed only the but tho
proprietors However quiet you be about your de-
parture will find the chambermaid lowering around
your door, and you go down every servant In the
house rises up like Banq,os ghost before You They
up any that would satisfy Amer
lean servants. II you have been . suesSa couple OF
weeks the chambermad expects ten shings, the head
porter ten, the walter the boots Ave. and then
your departure the second porter he deposits your
luggage on the cab fingers his shngs So after
paying for all this in your bill you cannot out of
house under a cost OF two pounds So Let
lean come here open aood hotel conduct II the
double system charge whatever Is necessary 20 all
these expenses and have lperecty understood that
such charge a there Is to pay and his house will be
full every day OF the year. There disgusted Amer
leans enough in London to al three such hotels.
II is the wonder OF all Americans here that somebody
does not undertake thu enterprise. II would add
greatly to the comfort of the American traveller to have
some good American hotel TO go to- We get so disgust
ngly tired Of English dishes English coffee miser-
able English pies and cold cherries rooms. bedroom
in an English hotel Is the coolest most dismal dingy
affair found The CRATES do not hold hatful or
coal and II you order IL hour TO hnde for
they take away blower for fear shoc put on,
or never have any, for never saw one The crates do
not and cannot your room. There Is no and
your single candle is Just sufficient to make all this
cheeressness visible You can't sit in your ,m-too
cold; can't read-too dark aud you only go down
the cofee-room, dingy gloomy AFFAIR as cold as tho
other rooms and filed with smoke OF vIanous
and Of whlskey punches There may bs reahiny
room You 20 there and find &c entirely monopoli led ny
ladies' who, havag other public TO flo IN
there. AMI after vain attempts to find COMFORT
able corner you go of to bed In your cod cherries
chambers la sef-deience One signs for the cheerful
fire OF we-furnished gentlenans parior or bedroom
with bright gsseE; the comforts in other words Of
an American hotel.
great change Is easily percepble IN the and
feeling OF the English people toward Americans
great deal Of the old-time prejudice has given way.
Englishmen have travelled much more in America than
formerly. The time when Americans were looked
upon uncOuth In manner. inqustve and slightly de-
fcient morals business And to admit TO
fnmily circle the footing OF sOciabity
cepuon the rule. But all this barrier of stiffness and
exclnsivencss the part OF the Engshmsn TO
thing OF the past. No reasonable man Of good social
standing can complain o; any want of cordially and
hospitality In fact the entente e0rdia!e to DO
firmly established and London. gloomy and DIS
NAL TO the stranger, has become really delightful old
place. and where gentleman properly suthent-
Gated can find pleasant friends and warm welcome 10
the domestic circle. Ana every day the friendly feeling
and closer intercourse extending ard cementng tho
OF friendship and good-feowship. This Ia ss it
should be. aud it Is gratifying to every rsht-mndod
American to see the bonds OF friendship siren gbenng
day by day.
1t is the particularly that you the Brit
shers adopting American and ideas He takes
to draw-poker" aud poois like native and by de-
grees wrinkle or two to his profit in the
and customs of tho great Yankee nation II ia not only
toward Americans and foreigners generally that British
blue blood is warming but TO their people.
longer considered mira Dig for members OF titled fam
lies TO dabble in trade. In the banks and business
houses OF London many Of the younger OF tho
,riso racy. and know OF the of Duke wearing
ed shirt and herilng his cattle down in Texas. Even
Royalty itself has u in The trade. II Is easy
enough to reach social footing with the aristocracy.
But there lie unLendng uncon auerabe class OF Her
fajestys subjects that declines be concated. and
most Enthusiastically rowns all attempts 20 make bin
vine and dined by his master treated with unoeremo-
ous cOrdalty, but that great parsonage ooude
cenIs He frOwns on all attempts at familiarity and
outsiders that the duty OF supporting the dignity the
ouse the family and the country devolves upon him.
whatever HIS master do. he viii abate ioa
his holiness He persists considering you an ont
e barbarian unworthy OF being admitted TO the slight
~ de gree OF intimacy. The day may come when no
nay reent and unbend, but it Is not in the future
dignihed and unbending the turnkey s he has
Teak point. Try him with shilling. and rDut ever
mapped up fly quicker than he viii take It. In that
ray you need fear TO Offend bat yet you
upon that circumstance and attempt TO be IA
liar with him. he will soon give you a taste of bis
ual!ty and bring you to a realizing OF your own
ttleness. He will take your money but preserve his
Sclusveness and dignity.
One reads OF floods home and OF the great destruc
OF property interest" This country has had
4 more than qliantun sWG OF rain Take q trip by
nj In whatever direction You WILL the country
ilf under water. Acres and have from
et standing and this too when the farmer hoped ere
IFS TO have had his crops In. The whole country
lturned with water. where II does stand
that 1t must be months before the ground will do to
ough and then lt will be too late for crops mature
may be in error but it certainly does look If England
III lie forced rely America this year for the stan
life. Farming in this country Is very unsatisfactory
lsness under the most favorable circumstances, pay
as ii does, barely per cent par annum on the in
sstment. No wonder the population of the Old World
turning Its eyes longingly TO the rich lands OF the
II West. Even the capitalist begins TO wonder why he
ouh not invest his funds IN good American lands
nd they going TO do It-h fact are doing TO an
Itent people little imagine. The great talk In eolee-
nns in public and private OF the United States tt
ritisher just beginning to become fairy awake 70
America offers suca Inducements 10 eapiai -
; own country again offer.
Business men will tell you they are making no money
at is the old heavy East India merchants me mer ,
ami princes Trade VITA the E. Indies may Ia TACT
sot doy as utterly ruined and re Is no hope or I'M
ovement until the merchant knows what sllvers
orih in London The salvation OF all this vast rade
mon, A, upon "A bk metallic convention and the settle.
mi ON some fixed this great question now Vf
oh vital importance 10 the world.
,neaking OF emigration what greatly needed by TINS
rntry Is a trust worthy pamphlet giving statistics Q,