Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1894 — Residential Hotel Life. [ARTICLE]

Residential Hotel Life.

Fifty years ago residential hotel life was comparatively unknown, says the Hotel Gazette. Servants abounded, rents were reasonable, political bosses gave kindly treatment to taxpayers, and housekeeping was ala mode. Hotel life half a century ago belonged to the tourist, the visitant and the bachelor who loved to take “mine ease in mine own inn.” Electric hells in hotels were as unknown as electric lights. He who has slept in New York’s luxurious hotel temples of to-day, who has patronized hostelries in the British. French and German capitals, and even battled with Egyptian fleas In the celebrated hotel at Cairo, and who has partaken of hotel hospitality in many other American cities, can sympathise heartily with the usually apathetic Briton who recently declared that even the second-rate hotels of New York surpass In comfort and menage any others In the world. She— “l wonder if he has a ghost of a show now.” He—“ Who?” She ■—“P. T. Barnum.”— Life.