The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-10
BEST HOTEL IN THE WORLD.
In Japan, This Briton Says. with a LucerI
 HosteiTy a Close Second.

In Japan, This Briton Says, with a Lucerne HosteiTy a Close Second.
 London Sunday Review
 If one excepts the Schweizer Hof at Lu- cerne which can not be approached by any rival in any country, the average English hotel is more luxuriously and tastefully fur nished than the average foreign hotel But unfortunately one can not lunch off saddle bag lounges or dine on alabaster pillars. The food supplied by these palaces which line the coasts of island is abominably bad.
 Some people there are. no doubt. who are accustomed to good cooking in their own homes. but who feel 1t a matter of patriot ism to put up with the garbage which Is served up under pretentious names: they think of the British Inn as a national in stitutior which must keep its tail up in the presence of foreigners.
 But why do the foreigners, who have no such motives to sustain their martyrdom. suffer the ordinary hotel manager and his menus? We'll. the number of French and German visitors in seaside hotels is small, and being in Q minority in country whose brutality they are honestly afraid of they do not like to make a row.
 The American tourists stick to the large towns. which absorb the best food in the country. The majoritylof the guests In the holiday hotels are drawn from the rich shopkeeper class.
 Abroad it is a very different story. Every DOQy Tn ana hpOut u LoFolhn Alobot ltOut tho head waiter down to the under cooks takes an interest and pride in his business. In a British hotel the servants seem ashamed of being caught ministoring to the creature comforts of others. and even the Germans and Italians catch over here the suriy. list less air of English cooks and walters. How sweet is the salle 6 manager of the foreign hotel with its parQuet floor. its Iong Franch windows. and its faint odor of fried butter and VNnillai
 France is the country of culinary ex- trsraas: there tha cooking is either very good or very bad. The idea that the humhtest French inn will produce an appe- tixtng dish ts . myth. We have had some of the most nauseous as well as some of the most exquisite meals In France: and outside the large towns q French hotel. unless 1t is in the way of receiving English and American visitors, will have sanitary ar rangements such as those described by Ar thur Young in the eighteenth century.
 Of the hotels in the United States 1t only remains to be said that they are four times as expensive as British hotels and In every point except that of service four times as good. The dollar goes almost exactly as far as the shilling. That Is to say. you pay eight dollars. i. C.. thirty-two shillinRs. for a room on the fourth floor of an American hotel, accommodation for which you would pay eight shillinEs day in this country.
 Attendance in the shape of getting your bell answered, hot water brought or, boots cleaned. Is simply non-existent in an Ameri- can hotel But in cities like New York. Chicago, Boston and even remote towns like Denver the cooking of the restaurants and the quality of the food as good as you would get in Paris The linen and the sani- tary arrangements of American hotels leave nothing to be desired.
 Unquestionably the worst hotels in the world are those in the East. in India, at Singapore. Hongkong and Shanghai.
 Having run over nearly the whole world we are of the opinion that the best hotel in which the fastidious traveller can hang up his hat Is the Oriental Palace at Yok"- hama.