Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-06-16

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If I were asked what is one of the
newest and most -unlaue features in
New York life at present l should say
that 1t lays in the evolution Of Its
hotels, and In the character of their
guests or whatever you may choose to
call them. A dozen years ago New
York hotels were for merely transient
guests. You got bedroom and par
lor for your money. You stayed in the
hotel no longer than you could help.
Every man you met was stranger to
you, and somehow you thought he
looked upon you with suspicion. so
you did not go to hotel " you could
help it. II you were Interested In poll
tics and was Republican you might
drop In at the Fifth Avenue, for that
was a Republican headquarters. II
YOU were Democrat or sporting
man you would go to the hoiiman
House. If interested in finance you
could go to the Windsor on the then
upper Fifth avenue, and look at Jay
Gould or James X, Keene or Henry
Clews and others. But home life In a
hotel, no one thought OF 1t. This con-
dition has all changed. The Astors and
others have gone into the hotel busl-
ness on a scale known nowhere else in
the world. l have stopped at hotels In
London, Paris and elsewhere, ana they
are second class In every sense when
compared with the splendid hotels IN
New York. Ten yenrs ago New York
went crazy over flats and millions
were sunk in them. Hotels have the
call now. And 1t Is like visiting some
great reception or first night at the
opera to stroll through the corridors
or reception rooms of these hotels
Women dressed as only the. rich can
dress, be-diamoned and bedecked, come
and go. Men in full dress lounge about
in the reception rooms or in the cafes.
There is an air of social enjoyment
about ii all that is hard to describe. 1t
| is like the life that some of the Eng
| lish novels describe as obtaining at the
| English country houses of wealthy no
blemen, only on a far more magnif-
cent scale. Does 1t not cost money?
| of course It does. But there Is a class
/ of men and women In New YORK VINO
do not consider money where social en-
| joyment Is concerned. Whether this
/ passion for hotel life will last Is a
| question. But the fact that hard
headed business men are rushing. up
hotels at the upper end of New York
is significant. The old downtown
hotels are dead.
You have no doubt heard OF the Rev.
Thomas c. Dixon, Southern preacher
who has stirred up more sensation to
the square inch in the few years he
has been in New York than any Other
clergyman of his generation. He has
slashed about indiscriminately but
usually he has confined his sermons &c
n discussion of politics, of which what he
does not know Is an amazing quantity
He has smashed Tammany Hall more
times than one can remember HI
has hit the Republican party under
the fifth rib so hard and often that II
is wonder that the party is alive. He
has banged the constitution so that Il
is hard to see why anything is left. o.
1t, and yet, strange to say, he once go
himself arrested and heavily fined fol
shooting that peculiarly inoffcnsiV,
bird the robin-an offence strictly for
hidden by the law in New York. TIL
preacher had deliberately gone robii
hunting, and had a bag full of then
when he was arrested. Now the rev
erend gentleman has broken out In
new spot. He has jumped on New Yorl
| In a general way. He says IL ls
graveyard of Ideas and ideals. II
holds that 1t is the graveyard Of 1000
hopes and nearly that number OF mel
who once believed In an eternity. MI
Dixon intimates that IL the Angel Ga
briel came to New York, the effect Of
him would be such that he would b
pawning his wings for a drink insid
Of a week. This would be sad, II
were true but, as u matter OF fact,
Is not true, and Mr.. Dixon's statement
are the vcriest rot, New York Is no
n graveyard of hopes, any more tina
1t is q Garden Of Eden. 1t is q bis
haa1t1,ty vi o. pft uhpnt
ing robins be an ideal, It has not got i
But there never was n time when me
| and women were trying to live more 4
accordance with the golden rule tina
now There is a constant improvement
socially and morally, in the city. TIL
rich We're never more considerate 1
their treatment of the poor and veal
and 1t Is only in the yawps of socia
istic orators that the poor hate til
rich. New York Is a good deal bette
! city than 1t was, and 1t is improving
! As for IDEAS there are plenty of thei
and good ones in the big city, nor wa
: there ever time when good Ideas con
? manded as much money. Mr.. Dixon ha
! been talking through his ecclesiastical
a headgear.
: And now Mark Twain has set up
= new thing for men and women to tai
about and laugh over. A good deal
: NOR of Twain. 1t is some 90 years sine
+ Twain set the country laughing wit
), his verses at the expense of Philade
e phla. beginning
i, punch, conductor, punch with care;
I, Punch in the presence of the passei
gair."
d At that time on the street cars
1, Philadelphia you could not ride a mi
e In some directions without changir
d cars several times. Each time you ha
d to pay something extra, and you g
ID a new ticket, that had to be solemn
Il punched in your presence. There we
pink trip slips and blue trip slips uni
you became color blind. After Twain
satirical verses the system was dol
away with. His new advice to Amer
n cans is to
~ kick. brothers, kick with care"
and II is not bad idea at all. He do
e. not mean an absolute. physical kic
but moral one. His advice is tn
o when the lordly hotel clerk flashes i
., diamonds at You and coolly assigns "
iss to q room you don't want when t
VI railroad conductor refuses to give y,
ie a seat you have paid for, or when
iss policeman hauls you about for no go
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