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Un-american Names Of Hotels

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
November
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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There is room for a little healthy Americanism in the naming of New York hotels. The Victoria and the Brunswick have lately been closed. We have the Empire and an Imperial, but no Republic. We have the Windsor and St. James, but no White House, Monticello, Montpelier or Washington. There are Mt. Vernons in many cities, but they are generally of an inferior class. We have a Marie Antoinette, bijt no Martha Washington. We have a Holland House and Savoy, Vendóme and Normandie, and St. Cloud and Grenoble. In other American cities there are a few American, United States and Congress hóuses, but most cf them were named a great many years ago, and Washington houses are generally of the third class. Are traTelers go un-American that hotels must have foreign namee to attraot them f -

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register