The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-28
ment. Colonials and Americans l1&x&
 fondness for the Gordon hotels. T x Frederick hotels, the Russell and t(l) Great Central have hardly vet had fiHf1

Frederick hotels, the Russell and Ht&l(
 Great Central have hardly yet had fil6l
 to obtain peculiar stamp. SSs f Some very old hotels in West London
 untouched by modern invasion, letlG
 retain their aristocratic connections
 may truly be said Of them that Stla28l
 provide the least accommodation z{}
 the most money. They are small, r&l}{S
 shackle, without any up-to-date c61{;
 veniences. Their servants are of N A&
 most old-fashioned cut, their furntf5f is usually shabby and out of date. 1 their prices often exceed those of Ell
 best-known resorts. Yet their pAtf&1|k
 are the very best people. Old -fashtoS country families, who would reS<& Z
 even Claridge's with disdain, go to
 places like sheep. They know kl3 landlord and look on him as a Kind "
 family retainer. Ss x In the modern hotel prices have 3U1
 down alongside the improvement Of t&
 commodation. The old uncertain p9s "
 cd when you never knew what y0{1
 were going to pay unless you barH81l}Sg
 and chaffered with the clerk b6f6i
 hand, has now passed right away 4
 the up-to-date hotel you can test ey& <
 charge by the tariff, and even
 price of your bedroom is usually k
 corded on your room ticket or Tnax
 on the walls. of your room. There VI
 printed scale for everything. WiH2
 are still ridiculously high, and we n (&(
 yet to find the hotel-keeper who re&Gx / fruit as anything but pernicioue III $
 ury for which you must pay h&0VX
 extras. Even in the newest establi5l
 ments you may have dozen ts e631X
 dishes for your breakfast if you pi6&1
 without additional charge, but if Y<ll9| desire a cherry, a banana or an GHT4
 you will duly find 1t put down in4 1 bill In the up-to-date houses t0
 the general prices run: For Gilq
 bedroom, from six shilltngs; a suitx$6
 rooms. from twenty-five ehiliiX breakfast, three shillings sixp6n&f
 lunch, three shillings sixpenoe; dlfi 1s five shillings to ten shillings sixpent&
 Within the past few years the fa1tl| ion has very materially increased living altogether in hotels. ResideAti& hotels, mainly for permanent gueE(< are gradually being established amon s us. Queen Anne's Mansions, by 6ks| James park was the first, and 16 still the greatest of these. Every relE0 CT of Mrs. Lynn Linton's biography vri{ {t remember her grateful sigh of rS}f( when she threw of the burden of honG keeping and took residence in tlfeSS mansions St. Ernin's has recenti$ come to the fore. With new improvS ments, it has accommodation for twelv6s hundred guests and finds it's acconni6 dations too small. But besides theGe & large number of permanent g,Iests 4rS3 living in the bigger hotels. 9I{x
 A married couple with an income FIJI Y from eight hundred to a thpuG2 pounds & year can secure luxuriee I'll accommodations in hotel which W6, be impossible elsewhere. But tl have no home. However long yttf 7< 8 main in a hotel, you can never m @ your feet on your own nlantel, I0& your door and feel that you ara TIT ' your own castle. where the world CHIN not penetrate. In reply to questiofit IVY to whether and why permanent rG5IS@ dence is increasing, some of tho lS46eM < Ing managers have very kindly gt01 their experiences. MT. Judah, or IT ls tiptCi SCCtl, WIitcS. COHSita0r the principal reason why so many pSU pie are taking up their residence hotels is on account of the increASlfI # difficulty in obtaining domestio a1 vants." The manager of the Ho1E0 Viaduct Hotel writes: "The numb1r permanent residents in hotels Is et&& ly increasing every year. One ofS th1}8 main reasons is the gradual decreaSS 6 < 'eliable servants; another reason iSstl l1 # .otal absence of worry in hotels In c11 S ] man wishes to entertain his frfend6s s W. Autor, of the Carlton. writes: hS @ .xtent of the growth of permanent reSSzS < dents in hotels who formerly malxi*SA aimed their own homes undoubted1x 19 very large. We think the chief rea30Ii Y 3| lre that modern hotels are luxur1oi md comfortable to the highest d6or9 \ S#l with no cares of household or eo1& # ants: one can 50 and come w..ttss .ss VI - anxiety as to the care of the hcxo x tc." The managing director Of tli4 S8 Royal Palace Hotel. Kensington, any3 N The principal reason of the growth 0 Sss| permanent residence is the difficulty o( M obtaining servants Many other nun gers give the same son.--LondoN fail tst.a33 55Hs