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Show BROUGHT THEM TO TIME. Why Criticism of New York's Finest Hotels 8uddenly Stopped. "Somo years ago I was dining with a party of wealthy Westerners In New York City," Bald Mr. Dcnjamln T. Leslie, ot Montana, to a Washington Post reporter. "Among thera wero Marcus Daly, Charlie Droadwater, ox-Gov ox-Gov Hauser, Hon. Tom Carter, Bona-tor Bona-tor W. A. Clark, John W. Mackay, "Lucky" Daldwln and E. E. Uonner. "It seems that no two ot them wero stopping at tho samo hotel, and each had a grlevanco against tho hostolry whero ha put up. Ono said he meant to quit the Fifth Avenue; another Inveighed In-veighed against tho Waldorf; a third thought that Dolraonlco's was terribly overrated, and so on. Not ono bad a good word to say of any ot the taverns or eating houses ot dotham, and thero was special criticism ot the food. "Flually, after thero was a little lull In the choruses of adverse criticism, old man Donner burst Into a loud laugh. When asked the cause ot his merriment, Donner said; 'I've been listening to you fellows talk, and I tell you frankly, you glvo mo a pain. To hear such tit you i in down these well establishments la Now York Is enough to mako tho angels weep. Wfcj, It hasn't been so many years sine I'vo seen every ono ot jou squatted oa the grass ot tho pralr), eating beans out of a trying pan wltu your fingers." "It was the everlastlo truth, and the knocking of tho hotels ceased 1 right there." |