The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1884-01-15
A Local and Public Necessity.

That Jackson ia growing town, and !
that It has . bright business future, Is
syideDt-proyided, always, that her peo-
pie avail themselves Of the advantages
which her splendid location and general
surroundings afford. With the public
Institutions Of the State located here,
the Federal and State Courts, the biea-
NAL assembling Of the legislature, and
other occasions for the gathering Of
large bodies at the Capital city, it be-
comes 40 absolute necessity that more
aud better hotel accommodations should
be provided. This great want was
specially apparent last fall, when thous-
ands came to the State Fair, many Of
whom, arriving on the midnight trains,
could find no lodging place, and after q
brio. visit 70 the Fair, returned to tell
their neighbors how poorly they Jared.
Prior to tho assembling Of the Leg.s-
lature, several letters were received at
this Office from members who wished to
bring their ladies', or other members Of
their families, to remain here during the
session, and after tho most diligent in
quiry in their behalf, we had to report
that there was not q hotel or boarding
house in the city prepared 10 furnish
accommodations for ladies' We know
Of at least twenty members Of the Leg
i.laturc who would gladly have members
Of their families here ii homes could be
secured FOR them.
The want Of capacols up town hotel
has suggested to many private families
the propriety Of afjrding board end
lodging to "the stranger that is within
our gates" Most OF them now make it n
matterof busiuess,aud somo find il renum-
oratlye; and by this means more straa-
gers can find food and shelter in Jackson,
in nm emergency, than in any other
place Of It's size within our knowledge.
The hotels and private boarding house
are now quite full, and yet the Masonic
Bodies to meet here next month-num-
boring at least three hundred men-will
all find homes for week. But they
will complain, and very justly, of such
uncertain and insufficient accommOda.
tons, and while they are disposed to
have their annual meetings at Jackson,
as being the most central and accessible,
and leave here during each visit from
three to five thousand dollars for board
and other expenses, these Grand Bodies
may be considered 'on wheels" until am
pie hotel Accommodations are Afforded here,
The erection of frstclass cotton fac
tory would perhaps be the best thing for
Jackson that could now be undertaken.
and either local or outside capital must
be invested in that direction before
long; but next to this, and by many
deemed of greater importance, is the
erection of lirst-clas3 hotel on one OF
several eligible site5 available N Capt.
tai or State strects-the old Bowman
House, Spengler's Square, or the
slaughter House" bt-perhaps others
To build and furnish such a house
would require about soventy-fye thous.
and dollars, The old Bowman House
cost ono hundred thousand dolars~but
it was five stories high unnecessarily
large, we always thought. We suggest
to the entcrprising citizens who organ
lied stock company fast summer for
the purpose Of having a State Fair, that
they organize another for the erection
of frst-class hotel -associatine with
them such Others as may be willing to
join in the enterprise --but the fewer
having control, the better. 1t would b.
to the interest of every business man in
the eastern part of the city to either
subscribe stock or give a small bonus to
insure the erection of this hotel. The
Investment, in the way of trade, will
yield certain return. In a converse.
ton with Mr.. Chris. Hinckle, proprietor
of the Spengler House, on this subject,
he authorized us to say that be
would subscribe one thousand dollars.
He is not able to build such
house as The city needs, and he has been
on the look out for some other location
where his experience Ne public caterer
can be utilized to better advantage. lie
has no accommodations at his hotel for
ladies, and when they do go there, he
takes them to his family residence.
Not long since q gentleman and his wife
came there from the West and he pro.
vided for them, as stated, They remain.
ed long enough to visit the public insti-
tutions, and to make purchases in our
stores to the amount of three hundred
dollars.
We call upon Messrs, 0denesl, L.emly, |
Wolfe, Nirden and such other public |
spirited citizens as will take hold with |
them, to at once organize City Hotel
Company. The Legislature and the
city gave liberal franchises in 1857, to
Mr.. Bowman, as an inducement to the
erection of his hotel, and we have no