A Few Words About New York Hotels

New York Correspondence. The profuse luxury of hotel life at the leading hotels on Broadway, New York is wellknown, especially to our merohants and travelers, whom occasion ofton calis to visit our "Modern Gotham." But it of ten puzzles one's inclination which, anioug the several best-kept and famously-known hotels, to choose. The choice seems not to be, particularly, in the table, the variety of food, or anything of that sort They are in this, as in the number of meals, about equal - and six luxurious meals every day, as are given at the Grand Centra!, should afford the ainplest opportunity for the most confirmed gourmet. At the best, the choice seems then to a mere faney, or probably a curiosity, to seo and enjoy the latest and grandest effort of the ambitious and opulent proprietors of theso splondid paloccs. And, apropos of this, many fresh decorations have just been added to the interior of the Grand Central Ilotel. The beautiful frescowork, especially, that adorns the principal halls, the riclüy furnished parlors, the grand diningroom, etc, under the hand of skilled artists, has been reudered more beautiful than ever. Other designs liave also beeen carried out, untü it would seem that the most reflned and liberal taste could hardly find room to auggeat a fresh iinprovemeut. After all, however, it may bo the price - an important item in theso panicy times - which fmally decides the matter pi selection. And on this point we must admit that, amoug the Broadway hotels, the Grand Central, being the largest, and the most lavishly furnished, is the most moderate of them all iu the ratio oí its charges. It furnishes the same, and better, accoramodations, by charging according to the location of the room, at from ono to two dollars per day less than other first-class hotels that rank with it in style and appointment. It seems that a keen study of tho wants of the traveling public, aided py a lavish purse and the courage to expend it, lias influenced Mr. Powers to effect, in a quiet but persistent way, this important and welcome change - a plan, we may add, well appreciated and enjoyed by those who soek there the Iuxuries of hotel life on Broodwny, New York.