The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-09
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
IMPOSITIONS HERE THAT EUR0~
PE.ANS WOULDN'F STAND. 90.


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Has ITS Good Hetel, and Iau Pay
only for what You Get-The American
! Too often Mt the Landlords Mercy.
, He might have posed as model for
Uncle Sam, 80 typically American was no
to the sight, and he was just AZ Amerioans
down to the core. Like other good Ameri-
cans. however, he enjoyed European ltfss
! had spent as much time as he could abroad
and made allowance for the best and tho
worst Of living in both placed.
| Il am compelled to admit, patriotic 40
| am" he said the other day, "tha&
! Europeans have far better facilitiea for
| getting through the summer than wa.
! That is due chiefly to the kind Of hotels
I they have there. In Germany, France
and Switzerland any place that makes
the slightest pref ,nce to pertaining guests
during the summer is provided with an
adequate hotel. In some of the most
popular resorts Of the United States there
are practically no hotels
Il will tell you story about a place
have just left 1t was seashors resort
on Long Island that has for the past ten
years grown more and more popular
There il q kind of sublimated boarding
house there with mattresses and little or
no attention. and you pay about G1 q
week for The poorest rooms.
For that price in any European hotel,
living there permanently or an pens'oa,
as it is called. could get about the hest
10 be had As 1t was. found the hotel
barely toe a BILE for the sake Of tho natural
beauties of the place. I stayed on thare,
not because OF the hotel, but In apite OF 1t.
There is another place in that village
the swell place. 1t is an old-fashioned.
Iow-ceilinged, stlNy, country house. to
which wing designed with the sans
architectural ideals in mind has been
added There is one parlor and narrow
piazza. Yet for room in that place tho
rate ia s5 day. II you stay thare for thses
months, the price remains the Aane, pn"
less you consent to take rooms for at tessa
two months you cannot get into the house
{ at all,
"There was a time when the maximum
price for everything III q New York hotel
was S5 day That was In the old days
before the European hotel had even been
heard Of Everything was included, and
the price was considered pretty high, al
that.
Think of such figure for board In a
Long Island boarding house with only
the advantage Of very good meals. OK
course, such a state Of affairs 10 to be ex-
planned only through the inordinate desirs
Of people to crowd into this little place
for two months of the year.
an Europe there would be good hotel
In that town with casino and metropolitan
comforts in the matter OF living. Five
dollars a day in boarding house would
not hold ont long in any European place
Of the kind.
40 this place came man and his wife.
who had agreed, as everybody must, to
take their two rooms for two months at
the rate of $40 week. They were ignorsns
Of the situation Of the house and they
found the room near the kitchen and tho
windows with no exposure that gave them
breeze. They decided to leave. and
began to parley with the landlord. They
wanted to compromise. on two weeks
board.
DO you suppose the proprietor let him
Off with any such compromised Not a Bit
of it. The defaulting guest paid for the
entire two months because the proprietor
said he had contracted to do that and that
the rooms would be useless to him as he
could never rent them 40 late in the season.
luckily this guest was rich enough to pay
and leave at the end OF the first week.
"He went one Monday morning. ThsS
same afternoon the rooms were taken by
new tenants. who had rented them for the
whole summer, So the proprietor is draw
ing double pay-and exorbitant pay ao
that-for them.
II went for the month Of July to hotel
on the Sound and, naturally, wal ted BATH
ing house The proprietor Of the hotel,
who also owned the bathing houses, rented
them only by the season. Tha: cost $50.
But you know that guests are coming
here for shorter periods ! said. How in
the world do you expect them to get bathing
housesT
lie didn't know anything about that.
All he seemed to be sire about was that ho
had 10 rent the houses for the season or he
would find himself with them on his hands.
Exactly the reverse was true. He had 80
few houses that there WINS a constant demard
for them. Several persons who had rented
houses for the summer because they had to
left while ] was still there. Their houses
were Immediately taken by other guests,
and in this wav the proprietor was able 10
get double rent
a friend of mine who went M to tho
Maine coast for only week had to take
his bathing house for a month at a cost Of
SO He went in the water once. and the
rest Of tho week il rained. So the one bath
coat him S.
Il heard Of another seeker for summer
retreat who wrote that he would stay for
month if he liked the place. He did nou
like il, Left after two days and wanted to-
nav for % week But the bill came up for
four For two days board at SIS a week
the proprietor wanted s72. Luckily ths
guest had kept the landlords answer 10
I.NtN u I.In in, inuy ~
this evidence, TO escape with the payments
of only 50 a day.
Now, there would be no such troubla
in European resort of the same kind. be~
cause the natives would not tolerate 1t.
There would be a hotel in such place TO
which prospective guests might go unit!
they were certain whether they wanted
to remain permanently There would be-
swift public revolt against such imposi-
tons as Eenting a hetbinE house for a
month 10 Use II once or paging an entrs
summer for rooms that hau ueen let to
another