Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1884-04-30
MORNING, APRIL 80. 1884.

lodging in the inn, and If you are there,
where you may be found. But suspect the
clerk finds the device more convenient than
any callers. It doubtless had police origin,
for fnd on the hotel regulations, printed In
Spanish, French and English, this interest
nouncement:
I'm conformity with an order from the
police, people coming 20 take lodgings into
this hotel are Obliged to let know their
names, tredes and countries, as well as the
places whence they do come and those which
they are bound to, so that the whole be in
scribed in book which ia kept for that pur
pose at the hotel Office
At times in Mexican history doubtless this
information has been demanded zsalously.
The regulation is now dead letter.
Turning creaking lock with rusty key
the key, like all door keys in this country.
not much less than six inches long, of solid
iron and stout enough for q slsdee-hammer-
You enter the room. The eye, perhaps,
overlooking the soanty furniture, falls on the
rules just referred to. The suggestive speci-
mems of choice English will attract attsn-
ton:
s'Should it happen that the Iodger paying
by the fortnight would leave his room or
apartment bsfors the FIRST anticipately paid
fortnight had elapsed, the manager in this
case will hquidate his account and settle it
according to the daily rate printed on the
tariff standing in the hotel Office.
In the amount Of the room rent, the in
ward room service and the candle for an
tightening it at night only included"
Here is something worth looking at A
candle for ''enhghtsning" room in q
frst-class hotel in great city must be Gu
riosity. There is certainly no other means
OF enlightenment" There is gas in the Of
fce-perhaps-but none in the rooms. Nor
are laT2Ps to be had. If one gets more than
t'ths candle" be is fortunate. My room at
the San Carlos enjoyed the luxury of two
candlSs-pessibly because two persons occu-
pied it-but in the Itarbide there was only
one. You can get an oil lamp eEly as a
special favor, or as an extra to be paid for,
They say that the little gas burned in this
city costs fifteen dollars thousand. This is
even more than the st. Louis Gss-Leht COM
pany charges. But have seen nobady here
who uses gas.
Another glance about the apartment will
show that the water stands in a cheap earth
en- pitcher. and that there is neither stove
nor Fireplace. Nobody in Mexico has ever
seen Fireplace or stove for heating pur-
poses There is in this city absolutely no
provision for warming apartments artificial
ly. Houses and hotels are alike. Summer
and winter people live in rooms of the natu-
raj temperature. The natives never suffer.
Foreigners long for a little fire during the
coldest weather. The Thermometer often
gets down to forty degrees the mean annu-
al temperature is about sixty degrees. Every
day In the year is warm, but in winter stran-
gers often safer some discomfort morning
and evening for the lack of little fire
jast to take off the chill" From an as
thetio standpoint, however, the absence of
stoves, frepiaces and chinneys Is not to be
regretted.
1 have seen only one hotel in the republic
provided with public pRrlor or sitting
room. That one is this same Iturbide,
which has long, narrow parlor on the
ground, on one side of the patio, with a
billiArd-room Wis avis. One must receive a
caller in his chamber, the bare corridor-or
out of doors. The cities are all alike in this
respect.