The colored American., 1903-04-04

Without disparagement of any other
establishment in the city of New
York. which caters to the comfort and
thirst of the WayWOrn traveller, and
the fashionable and wealthy members
of the Home Guards, raise my voice
10 remark that John Nails magnifi-
cent saloon on sixth avenue, near 2Sth
street, is the best appointed and the
best ordered establishment for gentle
men in the entire city of Gotham, and
John Nail himself is one of the biggest
hearted level headedeSt and most
philosophical Bonifaces that ever ask
ed a customer What yours?" He runs
his business with the system, intelli-
gence, push, and enterprise that white
men who have made up their minds
to succeed, employ. He doesn't keep
ranch or a bagnio, for cheap bummers
or lOud-mOuthed and lOud-dreSSed
dudes of the $4.00 a week class. His
place stands at the head of the heap
aud the best class of Negro gentlemen
of the country know it as white men
know he Fifth Avenue Hotel, the
Hoffman House or the Waldorf
Astoria. II would not be a bad idea
if Jack Nail should keep a register of
the nOtabilities professional and poll
ucal, who journey to Sixth avenue and
2Sth street, to see him and that other
famous Man. The autographs of these
worthless would be worth preserving.
Up in 53rd street are some of the
best taurants managed by men of
the race TO be found anywhere in
New York. The Hotel Lett, and the
Hotel Maceo, rank first in the order of
excellence as to the appointment and
service. Here nightly gather the
beaux and bellies of the race to feed on
the good things of life prepared by the
expert chefs, who tickle the palates of
hungry men and women with tempting
and saYOry dishes, pleasant to taste
and smell. Sunday nights when st.
Marks aid the OliVet Baptist Churches
pour out their great crowds of Wor-
shippers, standing room is almost at
premium. At the Lett and MaceO the
Negro is a good feeder. The Hotel
Lett is one of the most beautifully
furnished houses in this quarter. The
prOprietOr's taste runs to the oriental,
and at night when business is brisk,
and the f1eet-fOOted and polite walters
glide hither and thither with trays of
steamiDg orders, the sight is a very
pretty one. The crowds at these two
places are always we'll dressed, and
they discover elements of culture and
refnoment-whether real or assumed
which IS satisfying and hopeful. These
are the show places of New York,
where a friend may take a stranger,
and with pardOnable pride become
"chesty." There are few places like
them managed by colored men in any
city. and colOred New Workers feel that
We lead the country in these re-
Spects." The accommodations at the
Hotel Lett and Maceo are f1rstclass in
every detail, and if one has the price
he may find in either of these places
anything he wishes for the personal
comfort of his kind. There are other
places, but these l know, and / very
gladly commend them to the favor of
ile public, because they are deserving
OF the most generous patronage, and
because cleanliness, and orderliness.
promptness and politenesS, character
lZe their conduct, and the proprietors
OF each of them realize that the public
COL AM-TEN. fwypyp
nave some rights among which is the
right to receive a guild pro quo for
ihelr money. The average Negro in
BUSINESS seems to think and act as
though his Negro patrons should pat
FonlZe him because he ais a Negro