The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-20

with the street. except by way of the gen
eral corridors, into which all pass. The
bedsteads are all ''single" ones (ofter
three or four in a ROOM, with frame
work of brass iron or nickel, entirely
guiltless of springs, and with mat grasses
harder than Pharoah's heart, thrown ovel
the bare boards. At the head of every bee
stands a singular French continuance
Ia sort of skeleton table on a very
small scale, painted black, and put there
for the sole purpose of supporting youl
candlestick. Bureau or dresser, of course
there is none-nor wardrobe, nor sofa, nor
easy chairs. You are lucky to to get SC
much as a washbowl and pitcher, a wooden
chair and deal table, and q peg in the
wall upon which to hang your clothes.
these being considered luxuries enough to
satisfy any reasonable human being.
| The tourist who stops away from Mexico
on account of the descriptions he reads Of
its hotels makes
THE MISTAKE OF LIFETIME
in common with the man who thinks there
is nothing fit to eat outside of Lis own
country. You may be perfectly sure OF
one thing, even in the cosmopolitan capitol
OF the MeXicans-i. e., that your quarters
will not be palatial and that there will be a
conspicuous absence of most of the com
lOEIS anu luAuElSS, hIbiOuO hulCh SOu
would not remain an hour in any inn of the
United States. But there are advantages,
even here. You can make yourself
thoroughly sat home'' in any Mexican
hotel, and having once been assigned to
room, are thenceforth left severely alone
as long as you choose to stay.
In most places there is no
such thing as register. II you
insist upon it, the clerk sometimes writes
q h1anlyhna,.1 on ba Nuall nd
pays no further attention toit If cards are
left, or you have callers or kilograms,
ninety nine times out of a hundred nobody
about the hotels knows anything about you
or where to find you, and you are not found
at all Ii you order carriage to come at
certain hour, you must go down with the
porter and wait for it. Otherwise
THE DRIVER MAY WAIT TILL DooMsDAY
before anybody will notify you of its
arrival. If you want letters, select them
out of the general sack; if you want any
thing else, get it if you can. You have your
room, haven't you! What more can you
expect? | have remained weeks in one
hotel without ever seeing the proprietor or
manager, or learning who he was. A
blanketed servant generally shows you TO
room, and takes your money when really
to leave; and very frequently one old
woman is the only ''officiar' you will see
about the house, however long you stay.
The beds are never made up until the
guests arrive and take possession, so
you are sure of the freshest and whitest of
lined. Towels are sometimes furnished,
and occasionally candles with or without
extra charge, but never soap or matches.
Mexico possesses two rarei land incomparG-
things
GOOD CLIMATE AND GOOD MATCHES
The former free, but the latter you must
pay well for, All Mexican hotels are on
the European plan-you order what you
like and take what you can get. If you like
warm meal you will certainly not be dis
appointed so long as the pepper crop holds
out. One soon grows accustomed to the
Mexican cuisine, and learns to enjoy it.
chill and all. AS for trijOlcs (beans), the
universal accompaniment to every meal
Boston has its reputation, but the beans of
Mexico would make Bostonian deny his
town, at least from the bean standpoint
There is no butter in Mexico, that is, as
Americans understand it, a pale lubrica-
tor is occasionally served. made from goats
milk which is infinitely to be prefer e to
American oleOmargarine and other subSti-
tuteS. Coffee, being native to the country,
is generally pure and well made though
stronger than the average American can
well endure till seasoned" to it and the
red hot Chilli. Breakfast is universally
served at noon, dinner at six. or there
abouts, and some hotels also provide suppers
between 10 O'clock and midni ght Coffee is
brought TO your room in the morning, with
a roll if you desire it, for an added
charge of a real (shilling) or two
A hotel laundry is unknown: but
you can give your soiled raiment to the old
woman, or the blanketed Mexican who ap-
pears to be the only functionary about the
premises, and he or she gives them ont tn
some friend; and you may know to q GER
tainty that they will come back on time,
eXcellently ''done up" but be sure to slip
ulate the price before hand, or you may be
done up'' as well Hotel rates are cheap
in Mexico, t best being not more than a
dollar day for room, and 1meals four real
each. FANNIE B. WARD.