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Show HE WANTS A FLOATING HOTEL. An Entbualaat'1 Yllon of mu Mld-uiuniiir Mld-uiuniiir Uuaritluc Mouse. "Now that anot her summer Is upon us," Baid the perennial crank, "let me urge . upon you newspaper men that you have an opportunity to do a great act of phi lan- I thropy for many hundreds of New York- ers whose luconiea will not allow them to spend the dog days out of the heated city, by persuading some capitalist to At up a big steamer for a hotel. There's money iu it. "Get ft big steamer, or, better still, butlfl oue with plenty of roomy staterooms, well ventilated, with ample dining, smoking and lounglug saloons, and wo or three devks for promenade and chairs. Charge the customary summer hotel rates, and let the steamer have a pier near the liattry. "Lei tier start from thai pier every evening eve-ning at the close of business and steam slowly out of the bay while her guest are at dinner. Then let her touch her pier auaiu In time for those who want to spend the evening on Hhore, After these people are lauded on the pier let the steamer put out from the shore and steam slowly about in the cool evening air, while her passengers passen-gers amuse themselves in her saloons and staterooms and on her decks just as people do in hotels. Just a lltllu before nudnbzht let the steamer steam up to her pier anil take on board those people who have beeu at the theaters, etc., and theu drop away down the bay again for the niht. "What refreshing and iuvigorat iug sleep a man could get in that salty air. Quiet and order could be preserved on board just as well as iu a hotel, ami in the moruiuR i passengers eould be landed fresh for busi-'. busi-'. nes, while those who had no business iu I the city could spend i he whole day on board j if thev liked. "There need be. Utile unpleasant bumping bump-ing and noi-e of machinery, as only enough Steam wouid ne.il i,o lie kept up to iuaure , Blee;a :e way No one would look for j Npeeil T'lu expanses would be as small as any ot her city hotel's, and I am certain j I thai people would just tumble over each ' other t o get quartern on the ship. On those I rare occasions when the water was too i I rou or the wind too boisterous the ship ueed not leave her pier at all, as the atmos-; atmos-; phere would be cool enough then down by t he Battery to render the niht agreeable. "Think of tho thousands of New Yorkers who must stay in the reeking hot city all summer. How they would jump at such a i boarding house! 1 tell you there's money in ! it for the first capitalist that takes it up."' j New York Tribune. |