{"id":348,"date":"2023-07-24T06:49:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T10:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/?p=348"},"modified":"2023-07-24T06:49:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T10:49:42","slug":"19th-century-new-york-hotels-and-their-managers-published-apr-26-1885","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/19th-century-new-york-hotels-and-their-managers-published-apr-26-1885\/","title":{"rendered":"19th Century New York Hotels and Their Managers [published Apr. 26, 1885]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mansionhouse.jpg?resize=320%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mansionhouse.jpg?w=320&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mansionhouse.jpg?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mansion House Hotel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In old times the Hudson river and other steamboat and packet ship captains, whenever they got tired of the river, used to take to keepin\u2019 a hotel in New York. You see they liked an excitin\u2019 public life, and havin\u2019 had it on the water they took it on the land, just as retired actors and played-out pugilists generally take to keepin\u2019 sportin\u2019 houses. Old Captain Bunker, who commanded the <em>Kentucky<\/em>, the favorite passenger ship between New York and New Orleans, retired into keepin\u2019 the Mansion House; and Captain Benson and Captain Rodgers, after running the <em>North America<\/em> and <em>Albany<\/em> steamboats on the Hudson, settled down to keepin\u2019 the Carlton House, which in its time was the crack hotel of the metropolis, after the windin\u2019 up of old Washington Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Carlton House was on the southeast corner of Broadway and Leonard street, and kept up to the fore by reason of its wines, which were the very best that money could buy, and it took a good deal of money to buy \u2018em.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"245\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/carltonhouse.jpg?resize=320%2C245&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/carltonhouse.jpg?w=320&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/carltonhouse.jpg?resize=300%2C230&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Carlton House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; As for the Mansion House, old Captain Bunker didn&#8217;t run it so much as on its wines as on its \u201cfamily\u201d character, he bein\u2019 a family man himself. A lot of big family or state dinners were given from time to time at this Mansion House, and one of these deserve especial remembrance from its peculiar character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There had been a member of the numerous Coffin family of New England who had left Boston, gone to England, entered the British navy, and shown such skill and had such luck that he rose to bein\u2019 a baronet and an admiral, and had a handle to his name, bein\u2019 called Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin. Although he had then ceased to be an American, except by birth, and had become an Englishman in everythin\u2019 but birth, just like thousands of Americans nowadays, he always entertained the warmest kind of admiration for America (unlike these other Americans). He always spoke well of this country, wouldn&#8217;t fight against it, and visited it several times, durin\u2019 one of which visits he founded a school for seamen at Nantucket\u2013the Nantucket School\u2013an institution would still exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Well, the many friends and admirers of this American Englishman, durin\u2019 one of his visits to New York, gave him a big dinner at the old Mansion House, and there was an A No. 1 time, plenty of eatin\u2019 and drinkin\u2019 and speechmakin\u2019 at $5 a plate, which was big money in the olden time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; At this dinner there was the greatest exchange of international courtesies, the dinin\u2019 room was draped with the American and British flags, the lion and the eagle were displayed together, and there was as much good will from both sides of the Atlantic as the Irving banquet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Among other steamboat captains who took to hotel keepin\u2019 in New York were Captain Joe Comstock, who managed the New York Hotel a while, and Captain Acker, who for a while had an interest in the St. Nicholas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"380\" height=\"307\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/newyorkhotel.jpg?resize=380%2C307&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/newyorkhotel.jpg?w=380&amp;ssl=1 380w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/newyorkhotel.jpg?resize=300%2C242&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">New York Hotel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One bookseller in New York tried his hand at a hotel, and succeeded. This name was Dan Bixby (no relation of old Uncle Dan Bixby, who came after him, \u201cthe father of the blondes\u201d). He took a place at the corner of Park place and Broadway and called it after himself \u201cBixby&#8217;s,\u201d with a big drawin\u2019 room, like the Astor\u2019s, on the second floor, over General Hall&#8217;s music store, then the resort of female fashion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bein\u2019 a Yankee by birth and a publisher by trade, Bixby knew how to extract the dollars from the public, and extracting \u2018em accordin\u2019ly, givin\u2019, however, a fair equivalent. \u201cBixby&#8217;s\u201d soon became a sort of headquarters for book men and authors (whenever the authors had money). Bixby prided himself on his \u201cliterary celebrities,\u201d and one time gave a dinner which really beat in point of first-class literary people any author&#8217;s dinner that could be given, with all our fuss and blow, at any New York hotel today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; At this dinner there were present Fennimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bayard Taylor, N. P. Willis, George P Morris, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Fitz Green Hallock, Jackson, Fields, Cozzens, the Cary sisters and Dr. Griswold. \u201cAn author&#8217;s dinner\u201d truly, and I guess the writers ate all the more heartily when they thought they were eatin\u2019 at the expense of a publisher. They ate hard so as to get even!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bixby got rich at hotel keepin\u2019, and then went to live at the New York Hotel himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The New York Hotel was started by one of the old \u201cretired\u201d steamboat captains I spoke of about just now, Captain Joe Comstock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It is a suggestive fact in the local history of New York that every hotel of any account started in it was always regarded as the time as bein\u2019 too far \u201cuptown\u201d to make a success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When old Astor started the Astor House, people said that there was no need for a big hotel in that portion of the city. When the St. Nicholas opened, the venture was denounced as unwarranted by location, and when the Fifth Avenue Hotel was begun it was said that Eno would have to build a New York uptown to keep it a goin\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"272\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/stnicholas.jpg?resize=320%2C272&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/stnicholas.jpg?w=320&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/stnicholas.jpg?resize=300%2C255&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">St. Nicholas Hotel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In the same way old Captain Comstock was assured by well-meaning friends that the New York Hotel was too far uptown to pay, and for a while it looked so. Its openin\u2019 made a big stir, but didn&#8217;t make any big money. It was not till the Astor place riot that the New York Hotel really made a hit. At that time, bein\u2019 the nearest hotel to the scene of the riot, the Mayor of New York went there, and other high city officials. The Seventh Regiment officers quartered there, and the establishment got a lot of free advertisin\u2019 and a good \u201csend-off.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And then, Comstock givin\u2019 the hotel up, it passed into the hands of a Frenchman called Monnet, who was one of the first to introduce first-class French cookin\u2019 into New York. His cookin\u2019, more than any amount of newspaper stuff, gave the New York Hotel a boom which has carried it on to this day. There is no doubt that at one time the table at the old New York Hotel was the best in America. Monnet got rich off the hotel and had a splendid country place at Throgg\u2019s Neck, where he kept up big style and a big stable. He had set his heart on going back to his native France awhile, but just as he was startin\u2019 on his trip he died and never saw La Belle France again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hiram Cranston and Hildreth then took charge. Then Cranston retired and Hildreth took charge. Then Hildreth retired and Brockway and Kerley took charge, and at last they all retired and the Cranston&#8217;s, uncle and nephew, took hold and have had charge ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"251\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cranstonhiram.jpg?resize=251%2C303&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cranstonhiram.jpg?w=251&amp;ssl=1 251w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cranstonhiram.jpg?resize=249%2C300&amp;ssl=1 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hiram Cranston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Old Hiram Cranston was, like Col. Stetson of the old Astor, a hotel keeper and gentleman of the old school, treating his patrons more as his guests than merely his customers. He held a regular state, full-dress dinner every day at six o\u2019clock, where he presided as host with mingled grace and dignity. He kept up the reputation of the hotel for good cookin\u2019, and made it very popular with visitors from the South. Before long, the New York Hotel became the favorite resort for \u201cthe Southerners\u201d and has remained so ever since. Before the war, \u201cthe South kept Cranston,\u201d but durin\u2019 the war Cranston returned the compliment, and treated his impoverished Southern friends with the utmost kindness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Taken altogether no hotel in New York can boast of more distinguished guests than the New York Hotel. General Scott lived there for a while. Three presidents have stopped there\u2013Pierce, Tyler and Polk. Three first-class generals\u2013McClellan, Beauregard and Lee. Governor Seymour always stopped there. So did General Robinson and Colonel Jerome Bonaparte. Some of the big men of the Confederate government stayed there before the Confederacy. Jefferson Davis, Mason, Slidell, Admiral Semmes and Robert Toombs, and later on Sam Randall, George H. Pendleton and Thomas F. Bayard have partaken of its state dinners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hiram Cranston, like Monnet, made money and got a big farm near Stephenton, New York, where he lived in big style, and where, like Monnet, he died suddenly. He may be looked upon as the last of the old style hotel keepers of New York, who made it a point to know personally, and, as it were, to personally entertain their patrons. This class of hotel men have died out now. New York hotels have grown to be too big, and hotel guests are too many for any hotel-keeper now to take any personal interest in the customers, except to lodge \u2018em, feed \u2018em, and charge \u2018em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In old times the Hudson river and other steamboat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hotels","category-landmarks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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