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Show BROUGHT THEM TO TIME. Why Criticism of New York's Flnsst Hotels Suddenly stopped, "Some yeara ago I waa dining with a party of wealthy Westerners In Nee York City," aald Mr. Benjamin T. Leslie, of Montana, to a Washington Post reporter. "Among them wet Marcus Daly, Charlie Broadwater, ai-Gov. ai-Gov. llauscr, Hon. Tom Carter, Senator Sena-tor W. A. Clark, John W. Mack ay, "Lucky" Baldwin and E. K. Bonner. "It seems that no two of them were atopplng at the same hotol, and each had a grievance agalnat the hostelry where lie put up. One aald he meant to quit the Fifth Avenue; another Inveighed In-veighed against the Waldorf; a third thought that Delnionlco's waa terribly overrated, and ao on. Not one had a good word to aay of any of the taverns or eating housea of Gotham, and there waa special criticism of the food. "Finally, after there waa a Utile lull In the cboruaea of adverao crl'lclsm. old man Bonner burst Into a loud laugh. When asked the, cause of his merriment, Bonner aald: 'I've been listening to you fellows talk, and I tell you frankly, you give me a Pa. To hear auch a you 1 in down these swell eatabllshmenta In New York Is enough to make the angula weep. Why, It hasn't been ao many years since I've seen every one of you squatted on the graaa of the prairie, eating beans out of a frying pan wlta your fingers." "It waa the everlaslUa; truth, and the knocking of the hotela cesd right there." |