The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-04
LONDON HOTELS GOING BACK
HIHk or THE MANN ATTAIN
Sos THiTS 80.
Hc Found Onr Place Positively shabby.
Despite IT. Reputation, on HIs
Hrrrnt "trip European IIosteIrles
Changed About Because of the auto.

" HawK. or 81 tho proprietors Of
III" Hotel Manhattan, who has just got
back fro'n a Eur"pSiu tour. thinks that
London LO' ols are not holding their wn
aS compared with the American instltu-
tiUn and .tNs that IN" hotel business on
IN" I"utir,r' hi- undergone q complete
chang, Nr.o. T." b .,i"vr. - b..!duc largely
g. N" gI'u."Jtlc
Anoui five vars ago tho London
hotels mad" Il Sudden spurt- said Mr.
Hawk Yesterday Several row hotels
had b'-.-n built and over there they began
"a awaken ~ IN" Importance OF entering
10 IN" tastes "f travelling Americans. who
form ~ barge portion 81 the paying
patroraR" "f ~" bigger london hotels.
Sine" that tim" many new hotels have
h'"n upcn'-i m New York. aud m" older
house, have b.. u compelled Ia keep pace
with improvements
b. N London fnrrd that the hotel
ks.. o,- hav" not gone ahead with tho
Ani"; ir.,us II the has ls"n any move
m"rt at all It has bc"n backward One
~ tn, fazhrpnabi" West End hotels I found
booking I,o -itIyclv shabby Another, one
1T the great snow plac.s Of London.
seems =" h" falling into neglect Hotels
ia tho Strand -..m nov too far away
from the th-atr.. district tor after th"ater
srpuors ard SUm" "th"Is have Como 10
catering =" "a" class that You find IN
s.binr famous iLf!Slan restaurants
In Frankfort th"'" arc half - dozen
good Lot"ls. -,rn" 80 them Among the
lirr~' "a Eur.pr. htt IN" automobiles
bIys Trough Frankfort uuvadavs on
their wav To- \hlIhoim 81 Carlsbad and
the hotel Prop, lotto. r"iis Ho benefit.
Formerly travellers Bs.-I to remain a
week. or two ~ Frankfort but the most
they d. nov ~ 20 -p'EI nigh and then
gu on - Switzerland or I, Nh."',u There
j. little permanent business.
-Bu' II cour~" ~" effect of tn" auto
m"h,l,' "n tie. country l'lIis has l".n mt
m" opIs~,i," I.lti" uut e tn" way placa-
that used io '' 81 the eaten Path are
faring better than ami Itioii- iu'.i. The
small hotels ar" getting all m" r.I-IneSs
they can innll'
1t 10 wupdrriul now Flroy" j. 81 anginR
IN PARIS the str''r,r fuat Americans uset
10 COnEidsr ideal arr. all torn up as badly
as the str'-.'S 81 \-~ York are PARIS
II not a." t'.aut. fll CITY 81 c'larru n used
To H.. The fact - mat the 'TtI'- ~ Eu-
rOI.. EaN" just h"gIu to r'aiI/" that they
must adaII Themselves tO modern con
dtIon- N"w York has long star -
them They are now gong through what
w. hav" ls-'n experiencing tor y"arS and
n - NV optimism that rnusi"rn New York
- going 70 h.. mon" nearly complete an ten
wears Than they. oar transition period
will hav" hs.'H passed. whereas Eurpcs
will still be- experiencing annOyancs-- and
inconvenience -iIch ~ w. are JiIst getting
over.
4 noticed that tlr. new Fishguard route
has made great difference m travel IN
England. for many who used 10 20 down
from IivertspOl through leamington and
the Shakespeare country now hurry
II raiRht to IDndpH Still the tourist
business ~ England haS assumed esor-
nous proport lone and every plac'' y
overrlun with Americans In fact the
only part Of Europe which I did not fr,d
20 contain an apparently 'aTgrr E".---
can than native population walS CohurR,
TO which I might perhaps add Gotha.
That was really lik" getting 10 foreign
CDuntry-