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334 Their distinguishing features are that the greater part of their guests are travellers,but lodgers & boarders: & that they have one fixed charge for all of so many dollars a day. The dearest I have entered was the Fifth Avenue Hotel at New York, which charged five dollars a day: the board consisting of five such meals as no Hotel in England, or Europe, cd without supply without bankruptcy. They are enabled to do this, because they have to supply these meals for several hundred persons. And they have this number of unclear because multitudes of families, that may escape the expense & annoyances of housekeeping, live in the hotels: