The San Francisco call., 1895-11-24

Reed, Quay, Mckinley, Allison, etc.; may
kill each other off, and fall back on narri-
son, with the two other duels OF the pai-
lots all over again" -,
New York was never more full Oh
strangers and visitors than it is at pres
enI And although New York has De.
come like Paris, metropolis, more OF
hotels and apartment houses than OF resi-
dences, these are insufficient to accommo-
date all incursionists on its hospital
| ity And yet nearly every block be-
tween Bleeeker Tor First) street and
! One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street,
upon one avenue or another, con-
| tains hotel or ten-story apartment
house. Some of these hotels are very
notable, and the popularity to them is
that each one seems to have an especial
local clientele Thus. old Bostonians rush
to the ancient Astor House, which IN
architecture is replica of their torn down
fremont, and the younger Bostonlan al
fects the Stewart Hotel-named after the
late A. T.-and now kept by the boniface
who last kept that same fremont. Phila-
delphians affect the Fifth-avenue Hotel;
Southerners the Hoffman; Westerners the
Waldorf, Holland House, Plaza and Savoy
or New Netherlands, or the Hotel Empire,
which is probably, the largest and most
and therefore well named. 1t is owned
and run by William Noble, who realizes
Pope's lines:
Who N oble is may laugh to scOrn
The man who is but nobly born.
+ Mr.. Noble is a man of great affairs, for
he has another hotel-more OF family one
named the Grenoble-a species of Incl
dental pun upon his own name, and is pro-
prietor of the one-eent daily newspaper, the
Mercury, which, since he bought it, has
trebled it's old Democratic circulation. And
there is even room yet for more hotels,
and especially for one that shall he open
all night, precisely as in the daytime,
for those guests who arrive by sleeping
cars, and who will find the halls lighted,
the elevator running, the supper-room
ready at call, with fresh night service,
whereby the arriving guest will lose that
wretched feeling which he has now when
he enters gloomy, dimly lighted corri-
can get neither bite nor drink, but must
go to bed hungry on ice water. Such
hotel that will turn night into day with
equal comforts can soon be made go,
Notwithstanding the present competition.
What enterprising outsider will try the
plan2
New York, like Paris is to Europe, has
become Worlds Fair in itself toward the
whole United States. 1t is the landing
place for Europeans, who are finding that
westward the star of tourist empire should
take its way; and therefore New I ork also
sustains West and South with traveller
food for all their joint subsequent profit.
The Western lakes and mountains, the
natural wonders thereabouIs displayed
grander than even Europe can boast-the
Pacific Coast, the Southern climate, the
enterprise of Western cities, are all attract
ing old country tourists, and in time will.
cure our own people of the glamor which
past ages and antiquity threw over attrac-
tions across the water.
The now land-renowned young Duke has
gone over the water. To this day survives
a Flemish and French song of the era OF
the first fighting Duke, known as begin
ming "Malbrook va teu guerre, and trans
lated into the English of the period and
then sung, along with "Rule Britannia,
in the theaters and coffee-houses of Lon
don, as "Malbrook has come over the
water" The tune survives to the merry
chorus heard at post-prandials, when the
sober and the tipsy join in bowling "For
he's a jolly good fellow, which nobody. can
deny" There is current at the Lotos Club
now parody of the original song, and the
parody is accredited to the pencil of Mem
ber Chandos Fulton, as traced on the back
of dinner menu, as follows:
Malbrook came over the water
To wed an heress grand
He captured Vanderbilt daughter
To take to his native land.
Reporters fed them with venom,
And sang with jealous ado
She only married for Bsenhelm
And he for million two"
MalbrOok has gone over the water,
Taking his duchess along:
so health to the Vanderbilt daughter"
Is the burden of my little song.
a4 A. OAKEY HALL.