Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1896 — Hotels at Home and Abroad. [ARTICLE]

Hotels at Home and Abroad.

Major Edgar A. De Bernals, editor and proprietor of the London Hotel World, who was recently in this country, has this to say of American hotels: “You can live at a Loudon or Paris hotel much more cheaply than at an American house, and get better quality and more quantity of food. You do not practice in this country the science of economy. Tons and tons of good, valuable meats and breads are dumped daily out of the back doors of hotels in America, while we in London or England waste pounds. You can get a better meal for 30 or 40 cents at a Paris restaurant than is served you at the leading American hotels for from $1 to .*1.50. The French know how not to waste.” Niebuhr, the historian, read with ease twenty different languages, and could converse in ten or twelve