St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-01


which corner OF the circle needed to turn
and then go in directly the opposite direc
ton to reach my destinations The Major
says he does not like Boston, and he has not
voted in eight years, but retains his resi-
denee in st. Paul, where he soon hopes to
return. We came TO a twist in the street
where our courses parted, and by simple
turn of the body were on different streets
and out OF sight of each other, though near
enough to have shaken hands. / didn't dare
to turn around to look after the Major for fear
might find myself on another street or
worse yet, split up and on two different
streets at the same time. IL was trying sit
uation, but;I found the Parker House. There
is no bust of Senator Hoar in the corridors.
The Parker House is twenty years old and
used to be the hotel of Boston bnt several
others now eclipse it.
The Vendome, ON Commonwealth avenue,
is the most high toned. 1t cost a million
dollars and it looks as though million dol
lars built more hotel than Il e same sum in
the west. Perhaps western people lie little
about the cost of their buildings, in order to
initiate their credit, and perhaps the Bos-
tonese lie little in the other direction to
avoid too much taxation. At all events l
should think if the Hotel Vendome was
located-well-say in Minneapolis-it would
pass fora two million structure. tits 240x125
feet, eight stories high, but is quite remote
from business. Still that is not important
for the people who can afford to stop there
have no other business than to spend their
money and they don't want to be Mortified by
the sight of trade.
The Hotel Brunswick is another million
dollar ediflce which is the pride of the Bos-
tOnese. 1t is more eligibly located than the
Vendome, but still far enough away to pre-
vent any shock to the nerves of the guests by
the racket of business. These are the two
great hotels OF Boston but neither one has
half of the accomm odations of the Palmer
House, Chicago, or as great accommodations
for guests, in point of numbers, as will the
hotel which the president of the Cleveland
and Hendricks club is erecting in st. Paul.
The favorite house for the travelling bust
ness man is Young's Hotel. This
house has the popularity of having
its front door on back alley,
and you have to kick yourself around three
or four corners, and hunt for the ordinary
locality OF the kitchen entrance to find the
way into the office. The ladies' entrance
is upon the street and was verdant enough
to think Boston hotel ought to have Il front
door. l found ON entering that 1 was
ushered intoa gorgeous dining room or res
taurant and was directed to a remote
corner of the room, one hundred feet
from the street, for the passage
way to the Office. That door led
me into the ladies' ordinary and escap-
ing from that l found myself in a small cor
ridor with the bar room on my right and a
gentleman restaurant on the left. l have
heard of the injunction about turning neither
to the right or the left, but with such a pros
pectOn my right, of course got left or to the
left, and continuing my mad career plunged
through the public Mushroom into an open
corridor, where l landed in front
of the news stand, and in
the rear of the main stairway
and elevator. Then l felt 1 was nearing
civilization, or the hotel clerk, which means
the same thing. One more turn brought me
III bISuI VI buC llOItl OIiCC anu luc UdCh uOOT
On the alley, which is the front door OF that
hotel. 1 should have felt that had blazed
my way to the Office to little purpose save
that 1 met Daniel Basset, of
Minneapolis, and it did me good
to see somebody from the ''Rowdy west"
even though he hailed from Mr.. Bassett's
wild locality. 1t was a good hotel, but con-
oil 5oi fhaf tba I to
there / would 90 down the manhole of the
street sewer and see If 1 couldn't find a
straight chute to the kitchen as the most
convenient way of getting into the backside
OF the front door Of Boston caravansary.
1 discovered two things-that the Boston
hotels-I mean those that any one would
think of stopping at, are all high priced, and
fellow must accept sort Of five dollar
per day tournament if he wants to be
''first class.n Secondly, that they are all
famous for their ''club dinners.' 1 came to
the conclusion that the Bostonese don't have
anything else to do but to form them
selves into ''clubs," and have Sat
urday afternoon dinner parties at
the hotels. Every prominent hotel has GER
tain ''clubs'' on its string which have fes-
tiyal every Saturday afternoon, and then
they chink in what they call dinner parties
during the week. These entertainments are
very recherche, as we say in Boston, but l
didn't go. was only in Boston one Satur-
day, and so | sent around a note of regret
to each one OF the hotels to be read at all of the
''club dinners" 1 took that method to
avoid hurting any ones feelings by my alb
sence, and | have felt better ever since.
THE BACK BAY.
Next to Scollay square found the shib-
boleth "Back Bay on the street cars. To
those who visit Boston for the first time, as
did, and those who have been absent for ten
or fifteen years, this ''Back Bay'' business is
something of q wonder. II is simply re-
claiming the ''Back Bay from the ocean and
making room for more Of a city by filing up.
The ''Back Bay'' formerly came almost up
to the famous Common and formed swamp
or marsh which the tide overlooked. For
twenty years the work Of filing in has been
in progress until new city has been formed
including the land on which it stands. Il IS
now the aristOcratic portion of Boston, and
you can drive upon and down broad and
beautiful streets, amounting in the aggre-
gate to a ride Of miles, and all of Il on land
which has been reclaimed by filing in what
was supposed TO be a worthless swamp.
Commonwealth avenue is a mile and half
long, $50 feet wide, with park in the CEN
ter for its entire length, every foot of which
is made land. l went out TO the end
of the street, and still beyond saw the work
of filing in in progress. 1t is not near so
handsome as the Drexel boulevard in Chi
cago. but the Bostenese will tell you that Com
monwealth avenue, with IFS strip of park
through the center, is the handsomest boule-
ward in the world. 1t is beautiful, indeed,
though not entitled to quite SO extrayagant