Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-07-16

had enough he may shut it. If in good
health and not in the hands of DIR. Cheney
he is the sole and sovereign master of his
own temperature. The proposition stands
on both legs and seems as simple as
A, B, G.
But there is another side. In the first
place as the window is directly or nearly
opposite the party opening it he does not
get the full force of the incoming wind,
dust and cinders. These are blown back
by the forward motion of the car and
strike the party behind him full in the
face. This party should therefore be
primarily consulted. The small colored
boy probably neglected this precaution.
Moreover the forward side of the window
cannot be so very far from the back of the
neck of the party sitting Immediately in
front. He win have stiff neck If he be
capable of stiffening; He also would
Again, the sudden opening of a car win
dow undoubtedly has tendency to lower
the temperature of all the car back of the
window and to perceptably effect the
temperature forward. The act of opening
a window in an American car is therefore
public act in which all the occupants
have interest and against which they all
have right to protest. Now, how are these
two sides to be reconcileda They cannot
be. Reconciliation is impossible. The
peaceful individual will sit way back SO
that he can open his window with as little
inconvenience to others as possible. If he
be of the stuffy kind, let him sit far for
ward 30 that no window can be opened in
front of him, To ask the breakman or
the conductor to open the window for you
with the intent of throwing the RESPONSE
bility on the company is an unworthy
dodge and does not meet the question man
fully. .
The practice of the effete countries of
Europe in dividing cars into. compart-
ments meets the difficulty for the effete.
Those who object to air in blasts can ride
backwards. Those who don't can have
all the air they want without particularly
disturbing their opposite neighbors. Be-
sides, the fresh air party can flock by
themselves in one compartment, leaving
the hot and bad air party together in an
no copying the doings of effete foreigners.
The question is vast and unsolved. Sufici-
ent has been written to place it before the
public. Let the public grasp it, wrestle
with it and solve it. The trouble with the
American public is that it takes an earth
quake to excite it to the assertion of its
clearest, its most palpable and its most
valuable rights.
Between New Haven and Narragansett
one may stop over at Watch Hill, room
7x9, and smelly. On the floor an odorous
mating, furniture of the cheapest, walls
bare, orockery the toughest and scantiest.
The area of the towels combined would
not cover kitten. For supper fish broil
ed by the wholesale and kept standing till
wanted; chops ditto, ditto, sodden, half
cooked, tepid; eggs commercial, won't
poach; coffee boiled, bitter; cakes thick,
heavy, with impure bicarbinate of potash;
syrup glucose. For breakfast the next
morning the same layout is repeated. One
cooking probably does for both. Not a
shrub or a tree anywhere about.
Views, desolate and dreary, except
to the east, where the cottagers are
showing the charming combinations sea,
beach, shrubs, walks and posies can make
not written of any particular hotel at
Watch Hill, nor of Watch Hill hotels in
particular, but is generic. There is not one
American summer hotel in ten where you
are not fed as above; not one In a hundred
where anything Is done within, OF without,
to please the eye. If you dare to speak to
the landlord most mildly and gently about
anyone of these things, moved entirely by
regard for his interest, you will be told,
IN the uret lnStduce,duo Wltn b stll REeaUef
degree of mildness and gentleness, that 1t
is mono of your id business. He will
then remark that nothing will grow in
such soil, though all sorts of things are
growing in the same soil two hundred feet
away, and that the scason is too short any
way Yet it would be the safest of ven
lures that if a Schweitzerhoff from Lu-
cerne or Bernerhoff from Berne could be
transplanted to Watch Hill it would be
packed from May to November and all the
other hotels would have to initiate or shut
mp.
How odd that with all the talk and puff
ing of hotels on the European plan there
should not be in the United States or Can
ada a single hotel strictly on the plan
not one where there is a table-dhote din
ner or a table-d'hote breakfast, the special
features of European economic and civil
lied gsstronomy.
Americanhotels on the European plan are
nothing more than very expensive restau-
rants with rooms appended. A dinner at
anyone of them will cost at least three times
| as much as the same dinner would served
table d. hote. 'But the American public
would not put up with it," says mine host.
| At least twenty thousand of the American
| public experience IL every summer and re-
| turn to swell the number of those wonder
| ing why it is not introduced. If it be per
| fectly adapted to the exigencies of travel
| when hours are arbitrary and are controlled
| by time tables, there would be no friction
| in its accommodation to all the phases of
| American life. Now for Narragansett.
PERIANDER.