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September 5, 1868.] THE TOMAHA WK. 101
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CHOPS (TO JFOLLO W).
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parliament A standing when army a gene a...
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THE HOTEL QUESTION.
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whelmed Since London with correspondence...
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September 5, 1868.] The Tomaha Wk. 101
September 5 , 1868 . ] THE TOMAHA WK . 101
Chops (To Jfollo W).
CHOPS ( TO JFOLLO W ) .
Parliament A Standing When Army A Gene A...
parliament A standing when army a gene as ral election proclamation is demanded of peace : : look a sitting both like lying attempts to deceive some one or other . -X ¦ X- *
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motive motive po nower wer 11 have The to police give them are the , warning servants before of the long public . . I fear we shall * X- very very Justic much much e in alike alike a free . . So So country do do ssmoke moke and and and law steam steam in a , despotic but but one one land desc descends e look nds
in ntle blacks rain which of soil . all they touch , while the , other falls in a gemercy k- * : (¦ mending If hearts , and are the ever cement broken of , second the pie love ces will are ge often nerall make y worth the whole as strong as ever .
The Hotel Question.
THE HOTEL QUESTION .
Whelmed Since London With Correspondence...
whelmed Since London with correspondence has been on regarding its holiday the we have extortionate been over de- - mands of the hotel keepers , both at home and abroad . It is the not ge foll ne owing rally our letters cust so om thoroughly to insert s expose uch com the mun imposition ications , but to
Whelmed Since London With Correspondence...
for which once travellers departed on from the the Continent usual course are subjected : — , that we have To the Editor of the Tomahawk . Hotel , Jersey . charges Sir , — of Pray the g hotel ive your keepers aid in . putting I have a been stop to staying the extortionate for some time ^ "iiu in 1 x 1 this tiiu lovel xvj v for ^ - * -jr y island xoi . a- bill j . xvj . at cut , vjxav one find ^ of \ jl to the iu & principal jjx liiv horror ^ xi- 'cti . that establishments vat . auiioiiiiiV the / U \ . o ^ ,
for and on bed asking -roombreakfast my I dinnerand my coffee charge nearl and five my shillings spirits are a moderate day , . I must , but , this admit fact , that does the not prices nullif averages of y the the wines gross y th over at -charge in the for hotels board I and have lodging been , at which in B is righton scarcel , D superior over , and to other English sea-side places . I am , A Retired , & c , Lieutenant-Colonel .
Pension , Vevey , Switzerland . and Mr Vevey . Tomahawk and Montreux , —The are Lake deli of ghtful Geneva places is , a but lovely althoug spot h , they comfortable both abound house under pensions three , you francs cannot a-day get , taken while in the at best any hotels charge five or even six francs ; and for this they only p g laces ive you are four so meals full . I and suppose a bed-room it is . because I can ' the imag travelling ine why the ex-/ xii }^ from / xxl London ^ uxiuvxi are o * J . now pretty ? reasonable : can ^ ctii get a
penses return ^ v « o xxv ticket first class iiu about w j-xv * £ i- 6 i wajuiiauiv and second * you jrvs class u . x--. about 3 ^* . c * . particularl £ 4 . ; children y civil , half -price attentive . , If the and peop the , le fresh about mountain here were air not did able not agree cheating with for my another family , day I would . , not submit to such abomin-P ATERFAMILI AS . H 6 tel de , Burger-on-the-Rhine .
I I made heard Dear up th Tomahawk at my hotels mind were to , — spend I cheap am now my , but two enjoying , instead months my of on this annual the , I Rhine find holiday that , as . my hotel expenses , staying a week at each of the usual haltingp six laces shilling , have s been in English about two money thalers . This a-day , of , course which , , you include know s the , is to wine come of the here country because . the But travelling is it not monstrous expenses were ? I so was ridiculousl tempted y insi for gnificant the extortion ; but of \ I which TV need I JL not have € say been / that the bXX this victim is no compensation
1 VX lXI . \ s W ^ LVT * WVXA JM . A * l \* l . l XXA » V V * ILWWAJ . ^ V X * bJLAXJL . * Believe A me Government ,. & c , Clerk . Dinan , Cotes du Nord , France . of My the Irish dear and Tommy Scotch , — hotel People s have who evidently complain never of the travelled extortion in Brittany . Here I am at Dinan , attracted by the beauty of the neihbourhood which surrounds it I ( which they \> XX \* iDOtJ is the Jk most / 1 /
U ^ lgliUVUlUVUUi g VVX 1 LU 11 QUL 1 UUUUJ A . ^ VVXil ^ XX J say 1 J *> J ., V * XVJW houses healthy in ( an France English ) , and one my , and exp therefore enses at the one best of the and boarding dearest ) - have servants bee , a , s follows myself : — , wife , six children , a governess , and two Francs . For Mada one me month 150 francs ' s pension each for . Monsieur . and . 300 Ditto Ditto , ffor or six six , children children . . . . . . . . . . 350 3 « 5 o
Ditto month , , for each governess . and two . maids . , 75 francs . a- . 22 5 Wine , beer , & c ,, & c , about . . • 75 Now 950 francs is close on £ 40—^ 38 is the exact fi 950 . Who and can afford draw , down such their expens blinds es ? when No w the onder London people season stay gure is over ho . me Your devoted An admirer Irish Peer , .
bee Perhaps n writing it would to our be contemporaries an advantage regarding to those persons the extravagant who have e facts pric xception es given of , the it by wil hotels our l be correspondents ob in s our erved own , dat country e , their all of , letters to whom study fro , with carefully m the a single Con the - tinent . If English holiday-makers would compare their experiences Question would and profit be a matter by them of , the little solutio difficulty n o . f the great Hotel
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Tomahawk (1867-1870), Sept. 5, 1868, page 101, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_05091868/page/11/
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