New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-25
MIR. O'RELL'S IDEAS.
HIS EXPERIENCES IN AMERICAN HOTELS

|
Americans in general This time it is our hotels that
he attacks, or, rather, the way in when they are
| conducted and the way in which the guests Oh
| these hotels conduct themselves The manners Oh
neither proprictOrs, guests nor servants sun MI
O'Rclls ideas OF the prophecies Of life; but then
nothing ever does suit Mr. ORell, apparently, any
where in the wide world. This is very hard Tor the
world The fact that Mr. ORell could consent 10
| sojoum many months among such outer oar
barans a the Americans is quite uneXplanaDie WIFI
anything like honor TO himself; but perhaps III IT,
calling the lectures delivered by him In many places
! in this dcspscd land lie comforts himself WIFI t'e
reflection that It's the jingns OF the guinea hcip'
the hurt that honor feels For guinea feao h'o
dollar gold piece
Mr. O'Rel begins rs usual by making statement
which he manages to contradict several times oeioo '
finishes his smart bit OF writing. lie tells Us III HIS
first sentence that the American hotels are All aiNo'
but wittily says in his second sentence some are
worse vet before We have taken in the length ana
breadth Of his TRADE find that he has named some
three or four where, to Use his own words one 10
| comfortably lodged and maShifcently led.' iho
first item in his account against us Is the lact VI
separate entrances for the sexes If Mr. OXEN
would like TO have his mother sister or vile cnIr
the puhlc door OF one OF our caravanseres
push her way through crowds Of men and register
her name in the Office book, his tastes are diereht
| from those OF most American husbands SOILS anu
brothers, II is sad 10 read the assurance from Nr'
| O'Re's own pen that he receives ho1 "oiu NV
| ,alutc-not smite Of welcome What can be the
reason
Mr. o'Rcll states It as n fact that "you Will have
| 10 be hungry from to o m, from to p m ana
from q to : D. m" doubt not that any one Kho"lhs
our distinguished critic by sight might have seen MN
on any day during his recent stay among U.s. III ''c
dining room OF hi, hotel after p. m making very
hearty meal Does Mr.. ORcll want to be eauhs al
the time! II 50 he must have acquired the habit III
this country for any one who has travelled or nVeo
in hi, own knows how nxcd the laws oil the Medes
are the Frenchmans hours for meals, ana ITO" III"
possible it H. in the houses that Americans mo't .o
qucnt to obtain even biscuit aitcr any par''"hi
meal is over generally because the shrewd 'ohhh!
Crapaud counts noscs7 in the most exact manner
asking commonly II Monsieur Madame VIII dlhe
at table d'hotc and We all know quite As well as Mr.
O'Ecll could tell H. il he would. that after the
exactly apporoncd food has been handed round the
table there remains not as much as would nourish
French fly.
As to Mr.. O'Rcrs statement that hotels contain
no smoking rooms / leave that to the scx who fire.
Qucnt such places to determine but am informed oy
credible witnesses that there TO be found sucl
Injuries A. smoking rooms. and that every comortaOie
reading room can be called smokingroom also, and
used q, such \, to the cellular system during the
night one cannot easily comprehend the nature o!
our critics complaint What does lie expect in bed
rooml \ number Of hnna, affixed to the walls Of the
room after the model of channel steamer, so that he
may share the room with other travellers and make
,ociablc night Of it, In America one usually prefers
his hotel bedroom to himself.
! remember seeing. years ago. an article IN lie
Figaro in which the writer avcrrcd tina; the Amen
can, mus, be a very unccauly people Uhe words are
a, nearly exact a, recall them at TINS space oil
timci because in the return, Of American industries
nothing wa, said about public baths II waS not
long before indignant Yankee had set the Journal
right with regard - this statement opening It's ewes
10 the fact that almost every floor OF every Amer
can city house there is a Injurious bath. 80 that his
larbarous compatrots find IL unnecessary to patronIe
the few public bath, that exist and that any such
cnterrrl,c except in a few instances where par
ucnlar Kind Of bath. such a Russian or mcdicihai
hath is needed would be losing speculation for us
promoter.
! remember going one morning in Paris at nv usual
hour 10 tahc my daily bath. Tie bath was stnl'en
near nv pension in a mall street close to the Chanp'
Flv.eo, ard finding that tie place was crowded ana
TIA. ,oud rot b, accommodated for an hour or
more. woudcrucly asked the reason N'Naih'
must pardon IT, oday.' was the reply All '"o
world j., here. q, tomorrow !, Ascension DaY'' 20
ONE -c,, that 900 Mr. "'Ecll', land the natives tiK'
their religion and their cleanliness in mixed doses.
T. IS fortunate for the lovers ol the dalN '1o '" '
do.c +, taken but = few tm', wear
NJ o..rll bring, the power Of his Wit To b'al
up.n the hotel accommodation, Of the small ""HN III
America II would be interesting TO know II II, IN,
eyer spent a night u he 'cl of one oi Ms own Sh'i
,ovr. one o.cn hears aid that Paris is France
,u, one is never 40 sure Of The truth of This saving a.
,vbcr no D., obliged to stop Unexpectedly at some
uuIe interior town. or even let H. say. good eLcd
one only not Paris. and spend the n'Eht MA WIN
, night | remember being obliged to stop on az
count of Illness At a town Of 4oooo ihhao't'hN'
yea. shovn from an interior court. mp an outs de par
- stairs. 70 my room. on the floor above the once
rbe r,ol Wa, snillc,, OF carpet except for dnhhu
,,,o ma, r.,cd between the inevitable table aud soft
A. I crossed tie door al narrowly escaped iaInS
into hole IN Ia, floor quite large enough to allow the
foot 70 cnter--carins away hungry rat winch it'c'
,,,Jc night hdcou, aud ghoStly by his wandering
rn,n Stepping upon the board which bounded the hoo
imam b, further side, its extreme end rose III the
r me , chilli. ttctcr' That board ana mole were
, constant menace to lie and limb during our horrible
enforced ,olourn IN the place our WlnuDM an"
,t~ ND IN balcOuy, or sort If ouitr gallery over
hanging hc court. where the eternal carriage WASH
uijiun We asked for better rooms. but there Wa
none +, be had. Of the bed the less ,ad Tue Detcr o
road that Mr. ORcU condcSccnds 10 commend our
he'd / smile ~ the conycncnceS so necessary III
cvorv we'll regulated household or motel IN NncIWa
here were none \ bath an unknown quahuty'
Possibly we might have found one outside III tnc
ccn,on Dav for instance but we ana not lnVestga,e.
We fled 10 the kindly conveyance OF tns tan pa anu ''e
hope Of a better aud brighter morn, III rafis' a ~
is to be hoped that such hotels are rare ~ any
country. Mr. O'Rcll stumbling across Such hlicous
ness i'm America. would ne IL ~ type. n frelelers
prone to do. .o.,, ,ri,, ,ho ho,d
Mr. O'Hcll seems much impressed Win the hean
waiter lie wonders why he himself may not wander
hthcr and thithcr in public dining rooms at Ms Own
sweet Will lie seems not To realize that iihIHeS
prrfcr their own society 10 that OF stranger French
man and wit though he be- lnt that we a. Il naton
are peculiar in the assignment OF certain seat III our
dining room, | have vet - discover. what doeS
Mr. O'RclI ~ay 10 that long row OF " turned doWh
chairs whirh ErcelS the eye p 81 1nee ea Any
one who ha, travelled the Continent VIII ca I
to mind how risdly the scat once assignee IS 40,
icrrd to unIe,s indeed some guest ut the head
Of the table departs ard then with wha' s solemn
and martial like prOprctv We are promoted ,ep H
ION until We too are the oldest nhabitant Mt. |
O'IcIl pays compliment, nunt'ht0nai tlongh !,
NAV be. lie states 10 ~ u fact th,t "oo NHcrU'n,s
make less noise i'm diningrO0m tiEn M! = fThCn
men, than dozen Germans, or tnah TWO Ie"ai,
There are several person, for TINS one may ne louIu
in the fact that though welibred Amerlcans tain'
cy respect proprey and the ears OF their nclglbOrs
and nl.n lhnt tlcir mod, ample ana satl,Nlhs.