Mohave County miner., 1889-06-01
LONDON HOTEL CUSTOMS.
iTEMs or INTEREST CLEANED FROM
A TOURISTS NOTE BOOK.

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spseiss Features Of the Isadoa Hotel.
A Typ~--Ths i'repri~sov.
Ring your bell la an American hotel at any
time and up comes a pitcher of iced water;
ring your bell " n,orDing in sn English
hot@i and up comes a pitcher OF boiling
water, II being presumed that you desire 10
shave Instead VI iced water pitcher OF
hot water Is also brought TO your room I'm
mediaiely on your arrival at an English
hotel, aud this ~ very grateful II you have
Just como. tired and dusty, from railway
1ourn~y.
Thrr. are no such free and easy manners
tobe seen az English hotels ~ obtain In the
States You may look In vain for the gandy
barroou,, with its glitter Of glass and brass
and It's Questionable II not Objectionable
works Of art. Nor can strangers enter the
smoking ard reading rooms 70 lounge and
loaf at viii There are usually two writing
roomS, In nhieh order aud quist reign. md
IN One the sierasr sex 10 not admitted The
rooms are richly appointed, each desk having
sn,lii electric lamp. and the finest station
cry IL Furnished free TO tho privileged occu-
pants This remark applies only 10 hotels OF
ths very first class--the IAugham, for ex.
ample. You never hear the cry of ''front,"
nor do yon SEQ half score OF ''bell boys
playing pranksin in balls and entrances The
office" Is a place fitted up for the clerks and
bcoskeefars, and Ia not used by outsiders
and the public VA general for noisy rendez-
voug
goxE LIKE ASD coxFoRTABLx-
To one accustomed tn the immense parlors
and public rooms Of an American hotel tho
drawing roo;:I" ani otlicr apartments 81 an
English tiosel s,cri small, but there is home
like and comfortable air about the English
house TiIC! A;Esric3n hotels soldom or
never posses Erefi the public rooms of tho
Metropolis, n i.s;1Se which cost several millions
OF dollars, UiIic:i covers aa acre of ground
mud eEtcrgai;'s Sv3 people az one time under It's
rouf, seci.is sniall compared with those Of our
leading hotels Tho comfort Of guests, rather
than imposing size Of public rooms, 10 their
main consideration Another special feature
Else Of o first class house over here is the
.sine cellars. The days Of your 'two bottle
men" may have departed, not 90 the love
tiat EnSiisinen betr for good wine. The
Metropolis Is owned by company which has
its own vineyards In the champagne districts
OF France, and tho "Metropole extra dry" is
q wine that will rank with the choicest
wines in the market. One can readily inn
agine that wine is feature I'm London hotels
when IL is understood that the stock of wines
in the Netropoie cellars Is valued at co, 900
sterling, or s125yO00
While most Of the hotels in London are
kept on tho European plan, making sep
To a<f,a frr ,.oi,,, tL.~s. su LII
exception I'm the Windsor. new hotel in
Victoria street, Westminster, which Is
kept after the American method You pay
here from 81 TO a per day, according to size
and location OF room. This sum entities you
20 bedroom, light, hath, breakfast, and din
ner at table d'hote. The Windsor has q
handsome exterior; IL Is well fitted up, and
has electric light, elevator, besides swim
ming, douche, needle and other baths The
hotel is conveniently situated, being within
Q 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 well
planned coffee room and private dining ga
looms which overlook the gardens Of Christ
church.
TYPICAL FIRST CLASS HOTEL.
Thsre are many larger hotels In London
than Longs, In New Bond street, but none
with snch an old established reputation, none
which attract . better class of custom, nor
any one which u, rs whole, more richly ap.
pointed. The present structure is now, hav.
Ing only been finished during the past sum-
raer, but the former Longs hotel stood on
the same sito for two hundred years Its pa
tronage Is drawn from the English nobility,
and from Americans Of good taste who pre-
fer comparatively small home like mansion
toa great caravansary Longs accommodates
only 100 guests The walls OF the dining
room are wholly covered with Gobslin tapes
try, each panel containing a skillfuliy exc
cuted picture--a sparting 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 cngrayings
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 6nd
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 croes, maiden
ladies' Of an uncertain age. They still keep
mp the old and bad habit Of charging for
Attendance" In English hotels, and the price
h usually one and sixpeuce each person. In
arranging for rooms at the Adelphi Hotel In
Liverpool, the writer was told that the price
for two rooms was ''eisht and sixpencen n
Forgetting for the nonee 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 (sl.12 must be paid, there being
three persons. IN F." In Home journal.