Mohave County miner., 1889-01-26
LONDON HOTEL CUSTOMS.
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Ring your hell In an American hotel stany
time and up CONES pitcher q iced water;
ring your bell OF morning In an English
hotel and up comes Q pitcher OF boiling
winter. IL being presumed that you desire 10
shave Instead Of iced water . pitcher of
hot water Is also brought to your room Inn
mcdintely on your arrival at an English
hotel; and this IL very grateful II you have
Just come, tired and dusty, from railway
Journey.
There are no such free and easy manners
20 be seen at English hotels as obtain In tho
States You may look in vain for the gaudy
barToom, with its glitter OF gIss and brass
and It's questionable II not objectionable
works Of art. Nor can strangers enter the
smoking and reading rooms TO lounge and
loaf at will There are usually two writing
rooms, In which order and quiet reign, and
ip one the sterner sex is not admitted. The
rooms are richly appointed, each desk having
a small electric lamp, and the finest station
cry Is furnished free to the privileged occu-
pants This remark applies only 70 hotels OF
the very first class--the Langham, for ex-
ample Yoa never hear the cry of 'front.'
pcr do you SEQ half a score OF "beli boys"
playing pranks in balls and entrances The
''oficc" Is place fitted up for the clerks and
bookkeepers, and is not used by outsiders
aud the public IN general for noisy rendez-
vonA
ROME LIKE AEp coMroRrABLK
To one accustomed TO the immense parlors
and public rooms OF an American hotel tho
drawing room" and other apartments OF an
English hotel scc;n small, hut there 10 q home
Ike and comfortable air about the English
house which American hotels seldom or
never possess. Even the public rooms Of the
Mrtropoic, a house which cost several millions
Of dollars, which covers an acre Of ground
nndcatertaiDs so people at ono time under its
roof, seems small compared with those Of our
leading hotels. The comfort OF guests, rather
than imposing size OF public rooms, h their
main consideration. Another special feature
,-lsn of first class house over here is the
fine cellars. The days Of your two bottle
mem may have departed, not 30 the love
that Englishrnen bear for good wine. The
Metropole Is owned by o company which has
its own vineyards In the champagne districts
Of France, and the ''Metropole extra dry" II
wiuc that will rank with the choicest
wines in the market One can readily inn
agine that wine Is n feature In London hotels
when IL IL understood that the stock Of wines
in tho Metropole cellars Ia valued at 225, 900
sterling, or si25.0o0
While most OF the hotels In London are
kept on the European plan, making sep
arate charge Tor each meal, there In notable
exception in the Windsor, q new hotel In
Victoria street, Westminster, which 10
kept after the American method You pay
here from So TO "a per day, according TO size
and location OF room. This sum entities you
70 bedroom, light, bath, breakfast, and din
ner at table d'hote. The Windsor hos .
handsome exterior; IL II well fitted up, and
has electric light, elevator, besides swim
ming, douche, needle and other baths. The
hotel Is conveniently situated, being within
few minutes walk OF the Victoria station,
the underground railway, the houses Of par
lament, government Offices, Horse Guards,
clubs, theatres, etc. II contains q we'll
planned coffee room and private dining 81
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, mono
which attract better class Of custom, nor
any one which is, ~ o whole, more richly ap
pointed. The present structure Is new, hav.
ing only been finished during the past sum-
me-, but the former Longs hotel stood on
the same site for two hundred years It's pa
tronago Is drawn from the English nobility,
and from Americans OF good taste who pre-
fer a comparatively small home like mansion
TO a 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 sparting scene, duck shoot
ing, fishing and the like, appetizingly sugges-
tive. But RS 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 ac-
knowledged merit.
You rarely see the proprietor of leading
hotel in any large European city-the pro-
prictcr 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 ono 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 "eight and sixlence." I"
| Forgetting for tho 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 (sLi2) must be paid, thece being
| threo persons. p" I'm Home Journal.