Bismarck weekly tribune., 1888-12-28

10 one accustomed TO the immense parlOfS l
and public rooms Of an American hotel the |
drawing room" and other apartments Of an |
English hotel seem small, but there is a home !
like and comfortable air about the English |
house which American houels seldom or |
never possess. Even the public rooms of the !
Metropole, a house which cost several millions |
of dollars, which covers an acre of ground
and dentertains 500 people at one time under its
leading hotels. The comfort of guests rather
than imposing size of public rooms, is their
main consideration. Another special feature
also of first class house over here is the
wine cellars. The days of your 'stwo bottle
men, may have departed, not so the love
that Englishmen bear for good wine. The
Metropole is owned by company which has
its own vineyards in the champagne districts
of France, and the 'Metropole extra dry" is
a wine that will rank with the choicest
wines in the market. One can readily im-
agine that wine is a feature in London hotels
when It is understood that the stock of wines
In the Metropole cellars is valued at 925, 900
sterling, Or $125,O00
While most of the hotels iii London are
kept on the European plan; making sep
arate charge for each meal; there is q notable
Victoria street, Westminster, which is
kept after the American method. You pay
here from s3 to 81 per day, according to size
and location of room. This sum entities you
to bedroom, light, bath, breakfast, and din.
ner at table d'hote. The Windsor has
handsome exterior; it is well fitted UP, and
has electric light, elevator, besides SWIM
ming, douche, needle and other baths. The
10fo esr .iS.sL1
q few minutes walk of the Victoria station,
the underground railway, the houses of par
lament, government offices, Horse Guards,
clubs, theatres, etc. 1t contains a well
planned coffee room and private dining sa-
looms which overlook the gardens of Christ
church.
A TYPICAL FIRST CLASS HOTEL.
There are many larger hotels in London
than Longs, in New Bond street, but none
with snch an old established reputation, none
which attract a better class of custom, nor
any one which is, as whole, more richly ap-
pointed. The present structure is new, hav-
ing only been finished daring the past sum-
mer, but the former Longs hotel stood on
the same site for two hundred years. Its pa
tronage is drawn from the English nobility,
and from Americans of good taste who pre-
fer a comparatively small home like mansion
toa great caravansary. Longs accommodates
only 100 guests. The walls of the dining
room are wholly covered with Gobelin tapes
try, each panel containing skillfully exc
cuted picture-a sporting scene, duck shoot
ing, fishing and the like, appetizingly sugges-
tive But as for pictures, the walls of every
room in the house, even the bed rooms on the
top story, are hung with choice engravings
and paintings in oil by modern artists Of &C.
knowledged merit.
You rarely see the proprietor of leading
hotel in any large European city-the pro-
prietor and manager are both hard to find.
In London all the leading hotels are owned
by companies and managed by men; the Sec
ond rate hotels have women for managers
and clerks, and these are usually cross, maiden
ladies of an uncertain age. They still keep
up the old and bad habit of charging for
attendance" in English hotels, and the price
is usually one and sixpence each person. In
arranging for rooms at the Adelphi Hotel in
Liverpool, the writer was told that the price
for two rooms was sseight and sixpence."
Forgetting for the nonce about the charge
for attendance, he rendered this agreed upon
amount in settling his bill, but was at once
reminded that for each night four and six
pence more ($1. .l2) must be paid, there being
three persons. I'M p" in Home Journal.