The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-06-06
FORUMS SPECIAL
new YORK LETTER

New York, June Ito The Forum;
The time of year is now at hand when
native Gothamites and old residents OF
summer resort" True, they are pack
ing up, mailing up lower doors and
windows, hanging out burglary IN
suranCe signs, stopping the milk, Ice
and bread deliveries and fleeing by
train, bOa and auto to more saIubrlous
(supposed( climes, yet the are JUST
fed of events in their title for New
York. In June we have such an influx
of the newly-weds, in July Of the
early fall. buyers, that the city looks
as If it really was a modern mecca. The
subtle something that distinguishes
him or her from the sophisticated resi-
dent shows so perceptibly that the
saunterer on the thoroughfare says
under his breath, ohio, Missouri, or
Indiana" So the scene jeers and
tells the handyman: Get on to that?
Half of Tennessee and old Mississtpfs
put in front. Band better play Dixie
tonight" Every American seems to
have a feeling that he must see New
York sometime in his life and If pock-
etbook says you cant go In october"
Their he philosophically goes when he
can take his vacation, and trusts con-
fidingly to the Atlantic breezes to fav-
or him. If he is so unfortunate as to
strike one of those spells Of weather
which so surprise our supreme faklr-
the OluSSL ma ulldIlI, llSll lie IlCkE&
comes again until fortune smiles in
season and out. But frequently he is
justified and enjoys a fortnight's stay
and goes back refreshed by change of
great deal to do with his happy ex-
perience. 1t makes him spend his
money like a drunken sailor, but he
feels that it is just this once and
cheerfully let's go enough in two weeks
to keep him two months at home. Not
limo a0n another SoTihhler niKn VOIr
correspondent wrote of the bluff
which we American folk put up when
we attended opera in full dress, and
later took a taxi to some palace Of
Lobsteria for a repast of Lucullus, the
whole thing entirely out of keeping
with the normal financial condition of
most Of us. Did he not miss the point?
Is it bluff? Is 1t rather the grown up
desire of the child in fairy land? We
know what we'd like to be and with
our characteristic American belief in
our luck, we go just once in style and
trust to luck to be able to make 1t UP
by an economical future. Does it not
show that America is young? has it's
glorious youth, its confidence, It's hopes
all intact? In cold blood we are sure
that this Is all wrong but riotous youth
iaunts the conservation OF the older
economic nations. Youths day is so
short!
The hotel Is today a greater factor
than ever was the inn of the good old
days so we'll mourned in prose and
verse. It's comforts, it's equipment in
house furnishings and tableware set
ting the style m customs of the myr-
lad host that make America. All of
the art Of living in service and device
that the most of the travelling public
practise has been taught by the first
class hotel. Now it Is adding a new
factor-an educational factor. The
first hotel in the city to d a well
equipped library Is the Biltmore. This
property is considered a New York
Central undertaking for the funds to
the Vanderbilt money as its name indi-
Gates. 1t derives it's name from the
famous estate of George Washington
Vanderbilt in the Big Smoky noun
tains of North Carolina. The hotel is
connected by a subway passage at pre-
that the traveller can be in his room
five minutes from the time he hands
his bag to the porter but it will be
even a shorter time when this superb
railway terminal is fully finished. They
are now laying the tracks which will
run in a subway beneath the hotel and
all through passenger trains from the
west will stop at the Biltmore. before
entering the terminal proper.
AS a hotel 1t has many beautiful and
artistic features but the library seems
almost unreal. It is SO much a perfect
library that you feel 1t Is incongruous
with your fixed idea of a hotel. But he
who could not adjust this new adjunct
of public service to his liking would
be hard to please. 1t is designed after
the Tudor period, has large open fire
places, alcoves, sla11ting ceilings with
sides of flemish oak and shelves that
hold three thousand volumes. 1t is a
very restful room and Is as quiet
noise free--as liz you Were in some
sumptuous home in the midst of lawns.