The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-01
AMERICAS RAPID STRIDES.
Bill Nye's Opinions Concerning
our Hotels.

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America has made many gigantic
strides, writes Bill Nye, in the New
York World, aside from those made a,
the battle of Bulls Run. and her .people
spend much of their time pointing with
pride to her remarkable progress, bu,
we are prone to dwell too much upon
our advantages as a summer resort and
our adroit methods of declining the
Presidency before we are asked ;-whils
we forget some of our important i'm
proveme ats. like the elevated railway
and the American hotel.
Let US. for La oment look at the
great changes that have been wrought
inVhptel. during the past century. How
marked has been the improvement
and how wonderful the advancement
Evsrything has been changed. Even
the towels have baen changed
Electric bells. consisting of a long
and alert wire, with an overcoat button
atone end and a reticent poy at,the
other have taken the place of tile
human voice and low bsowed. red elm
club. Where oncew were compelled
to fall down dark. narrow stairc-sa,
now We Can go down tnereeieYa or ,r
wander down the wrong stairway aud
lind ourselves in the laundry
Where once we were mortified by be-
ing compelled to rise st table, reach
nine feet and stab a porous pancank
with our fork, meantime wiping the
milk gravy out of large yellow bowl
with our coat tails now We can hire a
tall 1.-THE gentleman in full dress snit
to pass us the psncakes. -sna on !!
aEg"n the bar rooms of American ho-
t,ls are changed. Once the bar tender
wait"d till his customer ran all his re-
n arks into one long hosrse word. with
hiccough on the end, and then he
took him blythe collar and thrsw him
ont iAt0 the cold and chaotic niyht.
Now the bar tender gradually rises on
the price of drinks till bis customer is
frozen out. and while he is gone To the
reading-room To borrow some more
money, the chemist moves the bar some
Rhere else, and when the CUES. returns
be finds barber shop where he thought
be l-fs bar-room. issra
1t is very rare now, that we see a
United States Senator soaking two
vear-old Mambrino hair trunk up three
fights of stairs to his room in order to
secure the labor vote. Men. as well as
hotels and hotel SOAP. have changed
Where once cake of soap would only
last q few weeks, science has come in
and perfected style of pink soap.
favored with vanilla, that will last for
years AMI new slippery elm towel that
Is absolutely impervious to moisture.
Hand in hand this soap and towel go
gavlv down the corridors of time, well
coming the coming and speeding the
parting guest, jumping deftly out of
the hands of the arlstocracy into the
hands of receiver, but always calm,
smooth, and latherless. sE1l,51
2 A great many droll characters and
bright. shrewd men are met with
among hotel proprietors wherever you
go. 1.-The Fat Contributor" was lectur-
ing once in the State of Kentucky, and
had occasion to take dinner at a six
bit hotel. After the meal, Mr.. Girls
void stepped up to the counter. took
out bale of bank-notes. which he had
received for his lecture the evening be-
fore and asked what the damage was
Three dollars" said the blue grass
geutlem An, who had buttoned his col
lar with q ten penny nail, while he
iOOhCO dI 0ilo Will q pdtuCQ CApICo-
sion
> Eyes, bat man ought to be able to
board here week for $50 The whole
b use didl't cost more than $40 or $45.
What's your idea in charging me So for
a wad of hominy and piece of parched
pork"
: "WeN, sir" said the urbane land
lord. as be put out the ire at distance
of twenty feet by emptying his sail
var surplus on il - need the money"
The fran kness and open. candid man
uer of. tbs man won Mr.. Griswold. and
he asked him If ne thought So would be
euongr. The landlord said he could
set along with that. Then Griswold
opened his valise and took out large
brunette bottle OF linimsnt marked For
external USE" He passed it over to
the landlord and told hlba that This
stuff worked a. we'll on the inside as it
did on the outside. In few moments
the liiiiment of tne Fiat Contributor
and the lt1iment of the landlord had,
merged into each other, and afriendly
feeling sprangup between the two men
which time has never effaeed 1 have
often thought of this and wondered
Why it is that hotel men are not more
open and cordial with stheifT ghests.l
Manv a time l have paid a large bill
srudgingly when l would have done 1t
if the landlord had told me
he was in need.