The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-10
VelOS, DieLOs and Gossip
From Gay NeW York

the establishment of a bar within
prescribed distance of a church
and the Hotel Gotham is within the
limit. Therefore the environs of the
inn have been perforce of a dryness
and aridity unknown at any of the
other big hotels in the city.
For three years the rumless cara
vansary has struggled along, vainly
attempting to make both ends meet
by disposing of food and lodging.
Failure most miserable marked the
effort, so it is said The expense &C.
count accumulated with all the dire
certainty of death and taxes, but the
profits were non-existent Only fru-
gal folk patronized the hotel and the
"spenders" avoided it as a dry and
dreary desert, since in all of it's twen-
ty-one stories there was not a place
set aside as sacred to Bacchus and
wherein the thirst that tortures the
inner man might be assuaged
The troubles of the Gotham are
used by managers of other hotels 10
point a very Immoral moral One
and all, they declare that the nutri-
men that IS 1bsornAd intC the hi.
man system by means of knife and
fork and spoon is disposed of at a
loss by the big hotels and that only
the alcoholic nournishment that is
drained from glasses or sucked
through straws affords a profit. Con-
sidering the staggering bill that fol
lows even the most casual acquaint
ance with the menu of any of the
aforesaid big hostelries such a state
ment appears to merit Shorter and
harsher" characterization than is per.
missible in newspaper literature; yet
the troubles of the Hotel Gotham
during a rumless regime seem to
prove the truth of the assertion.
In view of all the circumstances,
we who live in New York can only
lament the intemperance of the
strangers within our gates, who form
the large portion of hotel patrons,
and who are so abandoned and disso-
lutte that a Chafinized hotel has no
chance of existence Perhaps in
time. by the force of pure and holy
example we may bring these besotted
transients to realizing knowledge of
the evil of their ways Then, and
then only, will New York be redeem
ed from that unfortunate condition
which renders certain the failure of
any caravansary which does not pan
| der to the low appetites of people from
Pittsburg and other points west of
| Hoboken.
Harry Thaw-Again.
Harry Kendall Thaw, late of Pitts
burg and Matteawan, but now guest
of Sheriff Lane, of Worcester coun-
ty. may be expected to furnish ma
terial for the front page with all the
regularity of William Randolph
Hearst. William Jennings Bryan or
He Who Is in Washington. He is
scheduled to resume his accustom
ed position, first page, last column
on Monday, when n court convenes al
White Plains to sit ON mis- intellec
tual remains and attempt to discover
whether the machinery Is working
in a normal manner. In other words
Mr.. Thaw is tired of being considered
fit inmate for a foolish factory ant
has employed experts who will at
tempt to persuade the court that hi
brain storms have entirely subsidized
District Attorney Jerome, whil'
not directly interested in the COMING
hearing, will doubtless make his in
fluence felt. He has recently mad
the public assertion that Thaw is still
dangerous paranoiac and unfit Il
be at large, and that "a long pocket
book should not be allowed to defea
the ends of Justice" Justice Il
Thaw, Mr.. Jerome believes, consist
in keeping him safely in a snug pad
ded cell at Matteawan, among othe
|tcriminally inclined "bugs," as loni
IS he lives.