The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-09
FROM OTHER PENS
AN ARABIAN NIGHTS INN.

Up in Napanoch, which is in rural
New York. you will find hotel, or to
be more precise an inn, which VIII
bring you up gasping for the simple
reason that it combines the strange
magic of Hans Christian Andersen ana
Peter Grimm with the witchery of the
Arabian Nights. And the man behind
the inn, Frank Seaman, a wealthy New
Yorker, will remind you of the trail
blazers of the old days for he has
had the nerve to undertake something
that is absolutely new in the manage
ment of hoSteries. Here is the inn
where champagne costs the same as
, buttermilk, where you are asked to de-
part if you tip anyone of the staT'
where you have but to clap your hands
to have saddle horse brought with
out charge to the inn door, where you
may have your meals served in bed
without extra cost, where you can get
the chef on your bedroom phone and
order the sort of meal that would make
a gourmet stagger and millionaire
describe frenzied circles. Tennis courts,
golf links maSSeurS, manicure, seam
stresses, BARRIERS, bootblack, kinder
gartner, trained nurse, postage stamps,
magazines, newspapers-all and singu-
lar are at your disposal. Yes" Will
come the answer, you can get these
at any well-regulateo resort, but when
you leave you expect to be handed a
prodigious bill of extras. At the Yama
Farms Inn, which is the name of Mr..
Seamans venture. you don't receive
bill of extras. That's just the trick in
it. You pay IS, $40 or SIS a day for
your room-fiat! And that covers ev-
erything. If you want to drink ex-
pensive vintages every hour, it's all
right with the management-and the
bookkeeper. If you want to fatten on
buttermilk, ditto-nothing extra, moth
ing less. Hotel men the country over
are aghast at the experiment. They
say it VIII not pay and that it cannot
last. 1t has lasted several weeks al
ready. and it is running to capacity all
the time Guests are accepted only on
invitation, and the waiting list is said
to be lengthy one. If the plan being
tried at Napanoch is successful it may
revolutionize the hotel business.-At-
lanta Constitution.
DANGER OF CONTAMINAT
great fear has been relieved by
the agreement for the application of
the civil service laws and system to
the new army of employees made nee
esSary by the income tax provision of
the tariff bill The spoilsmen in con-
greSs were determined to fill the new
places with party henchmen and the
country experienced a pang of regret
If President Wilson were the means
or securing the agreement which will
avert this evil, thanks and credit arc
due him. But he must not stop there
The diplomatic and consular service is
threatened in a similar way and Secre-
tary Bryan is openly charged with ia
voring a departure from the system
which through the terms of Cleveland.
Roosevelt and Taft has operated TO
elevate this important branch of the
publ1c service to a high plane of eff
hciency and usefulness TO permit
this departure would be to cast an
ineffaceable blot upon the administra-
ton. If President Wilson arrested the
spokesman in congress surely he NAV
be expected to keep the contamination
out of the consular and diplomatic
service, regardless of the attitude Sec
rotary Bryan may take.-St Paul Dis
patch.