New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-31
INNS OLD AND NEW.
yrv.yORK IS THE PARADISE or IAN-
TRN-KEEPERS.

:. hos otto, boan asserted that nothing "eho''9
49,. ro,,.,, and bi,sncss of a city more surely IMAM
che increase and size Of its hotels iHeie sen"
% he NJ reason to doubt this statement why. So
:, show that New-YOrk is. even III 'ne9e O"E' -
,ompara:ive Gulness. pushing rapidlF ""V'' IL -
la,lon ana ira le 1t NAV be sal" ''' Wv tI
,,ire mn of hotels is to prepare for the comiheT''
~, n, -, revival which will be confidently expect
:, ,,ti, I. .o,o.s But then how can one explain uhe
tact that al, ne ho.els are apparently doIhE soo
business irrcsuactvc OF the nunoer whII' 'l'e "a
o,. amos are erected the more are required. Inns
mid certainly seem to be tho case now ana -
49,, boor the case for years. When VIII ho'el-
h,u1ing case, When will the reaction beSh'
.Tbe business is overlone' has been declared again
and again: and still it goes on, after hearN '"'
,,nars of commercial inactivity almost u'P'oV7
den;ed. .., j.,
rrs, now Two new great hotels are proJectcd III
what is REGARDED as a downtown district a''hou9n
= u,tle while ago the region would have been 'aH'd
un.ovn Only the plans completed thus lar' p''
buIldinc operations will begin in the carry SPINS
One of these houses is 20 be Of fourteen stores
most spacious substantial structure at forF-Stc-
ond-st. and MadiSon-ave. to be coiH"0'e" ~ wv
proprietor cf the Windsor.
~. lo,l eo nrospcrous Of late years. had hard
s.rurrlo al the outset. 1t erected by a man
named John DAILY. a builder. some time before '"e
Sixth-ave elevated railroad was completed anu
seemed consequently too far uptown. lts iro"'"ee
the ENTERPRISE got into financial dihcuI''eS' "a 90
,,nsel- who is said 10 have lost $o"V" 'o''i'
tel suicide and the whole capital StooN ""
celed Afte; undergoing thorousn o,' a,tshod,
f.be elevated railroad had mean"hl'e "e." INC
the house which had never been 'loSe" "'N ~
tee.o,,. and has so continued eyer since" II j.
,. ar,irolv owned by Mrs. Gerry whose LOT June
is estimated at several millions Inc Nih"SoI =
.r,king example Of the peculiarities OF Ho'ei p'0P
erty ia. 90 .ho WILL
Tho other hotel Is to be on the site OF inc WI"
tom Aston mansion, at Fhth-aVe. anu i'iH
rrthet Immediately adjoining the Waldorf ana
80, savs II is to be called the Schermerhor"
- he maiden name of the "iuo" -. 'i'''.'
tor who will own the property II VIII pV la
% :, ,,,ntuous in every way, and Will SurpaSs III
the number Of latest improvements an"
the superb Waldorf itself
The two houses and the New-Netheriahd' AT
Fyfta-aye above Fifty-nnth-st. all peiohE' "S l.
wei kn )v-n to the Astor family, whose H'en'"e'S
AT soo1 tc erect some more new ana sp'eh"'"
=, Is +, the uptown district the sites OF when
h not vet been made public. Nothing can be more
6oa NJ Than the action of the Astors In putting
an, part of their money into hotels. They or theT
real o. ate managers. on whose advice they act III
variaA are thought to be exceptionally ds'u''
n, out , ,alty and they hold that hotels are among
q le.t investments Of the day. They have maue
a o.. no mistakes as to New-York realty in the
l sixty or seventy years They have made II an
a bling and incessant study.
Move Fiftv-ninth-st.. along and near the west
Ii { Of Central Park. any number OF hoteis oil tie
apartment and family kind has been erected WITHIN
a fsw wears and many more are now going up
Some are coInmo lious and luxurious houses on the
European plan like the Empire and Majestic tha'
have lett little TO be desired. Some OF these unite
the American with the European plan for the
benefit of those who still cling to the American
The European plan has gained ground remark
ably especially in the last twenty years Before the
CIVIL War rearly all the hotels were on an American
footing and could not have prospered otherwise Al
its close the change began, and made such prog
ress that the Fifth Avenue y now almost the ohiE
leading house that remains American. The Wind
sor has adopted both plans. and VIII In snort
time probably, have only one Boarders or guests
as IL is the fashion TO style them generally prefer
the European Many have learned to like II abroad
because u better. and then one can order
Just what wants. Landlords say that II saves
them much money; that under it their guests. if
they waste at all. waste their own substance. not
nine hosts. BY the American method people order
recklessly, and the surplus has to be thrown away
THE ORIGINAL DELMONICOS.
1t is not generally known that the first New-York
hote. - be con lucted the European plan was
DeImonico's. in what afterward called the
Stevens House Still standing. but long unoccuped
at No. y Broadway. just above Bowling Green
The landlord one OF the foIr original Demon
leo brothers native Swiss. from the Italian Canton
Tcino but they we're all interested in the house"
They have been dead for years ana would have
been forgotten bu. for the retention of the name
in the famous FIfth-ave. restaurant The pFopri-
etor's name was Crst. but It changed 20 Del
monico by Of the Legislature for the sake o!
the business ana to preserve its Old distinguished
reputation. Charles De.monico. the last % The fam
iy. bachelor pas fifty, ana while tempo
rary deranged. abb NJ ten years ago. escaped from
his and watcher in Madison Square wan
dered over TO New-Jersey fell into ditch and per
shei IN the night while the fashionable restaurant
all glitter gladness and gayety.
ne Metropolitan Hotel at Broadway and Prince
st is soon be torn down to give place TO bus
lock. Nibo's Theatre. the oides' in town Will
D. II SERVED. and will. In A way. keep the memory
OF tie old hostelry green II is than forty
y". sine, the Metropolitan offered TO take in
gers, and 1t esteemed a model house
81. Nicholas, in the block below. was rs i'm
ne ate rival and indeed much Shower. with gold
! II, big mirrors. hgh-colorei plush and gay
ngngs Il was capiially and most avishly kept
a ID it used TO b. SAL that Queen Victoria knew
II such luxury as was be found al the 81. Mich
As Several OF It's proprietors failed financially IN
first few years. but their Successors prOspcrcI.
Iel Hawk. a noted boniface gained fortune
and the las. man who had it. after il had
reduced IN size. made MONEY and greatly re-
Il that he could not stay lon2er tn" TIDE Of
lerce swept away the hotel a. it sweeps
; Ncw-York changes, When one mas reached
or thereabout having been born here. he APP
ltu 10 iihirri " i''iH ~ I'dSl Oh iopH'iIS
| q yard. Tn re- ls n,rk the citys progress
irst first r''.i~ay house the C.,y
/ . the ta5t So. Glow Liberty-st., whore
De ms stage n Is fast Visit. The Howard
4 sc. little farther up was the next caravan
szry. az Western reporters wont 10 designate
q they Dad ever seen one in the East they would
neW have Nkencd It TO American inn Of any
sort ana II met with much success ana cOrsldcra-
bic fame
Then rose the Astor-grlm ana gray. sober and
strong a. Has is buill Ter the original John Jacob
He watc.. cd its erection with sOlictu1e and wonder
ireql ntiy picking up the nails the carpenters
DROPPED q. anxious to II completed. The cOun-
Wy rang with its praises II was pattern pile
monopo!zed the reputation OF all the hotels IN
the land. Everybody who came from the prov
noes must put up once at the Astor. To break
lsst or cine there wa event. No Motel before !
or since was 50 bruited, described, 50 hOnorel
IL he!d us place for some years. and house Of
resort iof merchants stil does profitable business
ga John JACOB Astor ordered In his viii that IT
should never be used for anything else. II was |
sacred TO his egOtism II was a monument 10 his !
millions. o! which there are "a thousand more build